Nasspay
Payments Business Systems Analyst
- Erbil
- Full time
- 9 hours ago
- Salary
- Not stated
- Deadline
- Dec 9, 2026
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Business Analyst · Erbil
NASS is hiring a Payments Business Systems Analyst in Erbil to bridge business, IT, banks, and regulators by gathering and documenting functional payment-system requirements. The on-site role suits professionals experienced in transaction processing, card systems, or fintech integration.
About the job
The Payments Business Systems Analyst is responsible for translating regulatory, banking, business, operational, and vendor requirements into clear and implementable payment-system requirements. The role serves as the bridge between NASS business teams, IT, the Central Bank of Iraq, banks, card schemes, technology vendors, and developers. The analyst ensures that all payment requirements are properly understood, documented, traced, tested, and accepted throughout the complete project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Collect, analyze, and document requirements from the Central Bank of Iraq, partner banks, business teams, operations, product teams, technology vendors, card schemes, and internal IT teams.
- Translate high-level business and regulatory requirements into detailed functional and system requirements.
- Prepare Business Requirement Documents and System Requirement Specifications where required.
- Document end-to-end payment transaction flows.
- Create sequence diagrams showing interaction between all relevant systems and participants.
- Create transaction matrices covering different transaction types and scenarios.
- Prepare interface and field-mapping documents and document request/response message requirements.
- Define business rules, validations, limits, conditions, and exception handling.
- Document normal, negative, exception, reversal, timeout, retry, duplicate, partial-failure, settlement-failure, and reconciliation-mismatch scenarios.
- Analyze impacts of new requirements on existing payment systems.
- Identify dependencies between payment channels, card-management systems, acquiring systems, switches, external banks, and CBI.
- Maintain requirements traceability throughout requirement gathering, design, implementation, testing, certification, and acceptance.
- Ensure each requirement is linked to relevant test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
- Define clear acceptance criteria for vendor deliverables.
- Review vendor functional specifications and solution documents.
- Identify gaps, ambiguities, and conflicting requirements before implementation.
- Coordinate requirement clarification between NASS and external vendors.
- Maintain open-question registers, decision logs, assumption logs, dependency registers, and requirement-change logs.
- Participate in workshops with CBI, banks, schemes, vendors, business teams, and IT.
- Support QA teams in understanding expected transaction behavior and support UAT by ensuring that business requirements are reflected in test cases.
- Support defect analysis by comparing implemented behavior with approved requirements.
- Assist project managers in identifying requirement-related risks and scope changes.
- Maintain current documentation throughout the project lifecycle and ensure final implemented functionality matches approved requirements.
Requirements
- Strong analytical and requirements-gathering skills.
- Good understanding of payment systems, transaction processing, issuing, acquiring, authorization, clearing, and settlement.
- Ability to understand technical interfaces, APIs, payment messages, and field mappings.
- Ability to create sequence diagrams, process flows, and structured requirement documents.
- Strong documentation, stakeholder-management, communication, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Ability to identify requirement gaps, conflicts, and inconsistencies.
- Experience within a payment service provider, bank, fintech, processor, card issuer, or acquirer.
- Experience working with payment switches or card-management systems.
- Experience interacting with banks, regulators, card schemes, or technology vendors.
- Experience with payment-system implementation or integration projects.
- Experience preparing technical and functional requirements for vendors.
Skills
- Requirements gathering
- Payment systems
- APIs
- Sequence diagrams
- Process flow documentation
- Stakeholder management
Details
- Profession
- Business Analyst
- Category
- Administration & Office