Job Description
Company Description:
JDX was formed in 2012 in the belief our clients need an intelligent, outcomes-focused, business partner committed to delivering exceptional client satisfaction. Today our strategy and culture remain true to that entrepreneurial spirit. Our purpose is to create opportunities for our clients, and our people, by providing high-value, hands-on integrated, strategic and practical consultancy services to the financial global markets.
Our desire to succeed is fuelled by the knowledge, energy, enthusiasm, and integrity of our staff and under-scored by a proactive equal opportunity approach. Focused recruitment, training and mentorship ensures that JDXers not only have the technical expertise our clients would expect from a global consultancy but great communication skills and the trade mark JDX 'can do' attitude.
Our ability to resolve the most complex of strategic business challenges and also quickly provide skilled support for large-scale tactical operations enables us to serve the entire financial service ecosystem - from corporate and investment banks, to fund managers and insurers through to capital market intermediaries and the breakthrough fintechs.
Headquartered in London, with seven offices across Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, JDX employs over 650 people and most recently was recognised by The Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track as one of UK's fastest growing companies.
JDX values were established and are lived by JDXers. The JDX Values drive our unique culture and support our strategy. They are:
- Communication
- Honesty and Integrity
- Learning
- Entrepreneurship
Role Description:
This is an opportunity to work within a high growth team, where you will play a key role in the support and development of JDX Consulting Services - Payments practice. Progression opportunities exist for motivated and exceptional performers, and all successful candidates will be provided with professional development enabling them to meet the requirements of this responsive and fast paced role. This is an opportunity to work within a growing team, in our Consulting Services division. You will be taking a lead role in working with top tier investment banks and infrastructure providers to provide a wide range of consulting services.
Our Payments arm is an experience-led consulting practice that focuses on understanding our client's business and needs, then supporting them in effecting change. We aim to solve real business problems and create tangible value for our clients by developing forward thinking, outcomes focused solutions through practical and innovative methods.
The way in which consumers and organisations conduct business is rapidly changing. To support these changes, the payments ecosystem is also rapidly evolving.This is being driven by increasing pressure from regulators, intense competition from new entrants and by customers who now expect payments to be instant and frictionless. Financial Services participants are rethinking their traditional business models and increasing their spend on client engagement through the investment in omni channel payment capabilities, analytics, and value-added services. JDX helps companies meet these new challenges.
Requirements
Role Requirements:
Applicants should ideally have most or all of the following:
Senior Business Analyst with Payments, SWIFT, ISO 20022 experience who can work alongside their clients to perform various activities from ISO 20022 gap analysis & translation, program delivery, support business benefit cases to what clients should be doing with the enhanced data. You will have:
• Expert understanding of correspondent banking and domestic/cross border payment messaging (including but not limited to SWIFT MT/pacs/camt, SEPA, Faster Payments, ISO 20022, CBPR+, HVPS)
• Demonstrable experience as a hands-on analyst within payments, alongside sound and relevant knowledge across the payments domain, including non-technical and technical responsibilities
• Collaborate with product specialists and various application delivery teams to help develop solutions that fully integrate with existing IT systems and solve complex business problems
• Lead workshops with business and technology stakeholders to review, develop, validate and finalise requirements for the delivery of ISO compliance across the business
• Experience of the Agile software delivery methodology and tools/skills including 'specification by example' and writing acceptance criteria
• Ensure all agreed outputs and decisions are suitably well documented in the agreed tools, throughout the requirements lifecycle, from initial capture through various stages of refinement and through to testing and implementation
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with business stakeholders and gain their trust in order guide them
