About the role

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be a key member of several Scrum teams, contributing to the building and development process of several products at the same time. You will be responsible for understanding and documenting business requirements and processes, supporting Product Owners and Scrum teams in creating and delivering solutions, and for the capture and maintenance of product epics and features.

You will also play an important role in sharing knowledge of the processes and products you look after to other teams which will be critical to Apexx's continued growth.

Responsibilities

Building up knowledge of our unique solutions by evaluating and gathering product requirements

Provide further design documentation such as Interface Specifications/Data Dictionaries, Reporting Specifications and graphical representations such as UML diagrams

Work with Scrum Masters, architects and developers to create and refine stories, allowing them to plan and start work

Review (grooming) of backlogs with Product Owners and Scrum teams, ensuring backlog requirements are managed and reflect the Product Owner’s order of priorities

Lead a small team in support of implementations from ideation through to go-live (including support of testing and associated bugs)

Analytical review existing internal processes to suggest optimisations and improvements

Write tests against service interfaces using tools like Postman

Review functional test requirements written by test team

Requirements

Minimum 5-6 years of experience in a similar role in the financial services industry (ideally in payments)

Experienced in capturing and documenting requirements with a variety of techniques including BDD style specifications, user stories and user cases

Able to manage backlogs and prioritise tasks in partnership with the Product Owner 

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across different disciplines

Enjoy collaborating and working in cross-functional environments

Excited by building innovative cloud-native payment solutions

BSc/ BA in computer science, engineering or relevant field; MSc/ MA will be preferred

Able to build relationships across the business and happy to engage with remote working colleagues

Compassionate, autonomous, creative, curious, self-motivated, and independent and not afraid to challenge the status-quo

Benefits & Perks

Aside from the opportunity to work for a tech-scale up, having great responsibility and varied tasks every day, other benefits includes:

Joining bonus, Continuity bonus, and Annual bonus

Health Insurance (Employee, spouse, and two children) optional cover for parents or in-laws

13 personal days per year, 1 extra day off on your Birthday, 1 extra day off for volunteering and the 9 bank holidays for a total of 24 days off

Enrichment: Learning and development training, with a yearly budget, to strengthen your career and progression, leadership in house training and monthly lunch and learn, where you eat lunch and learn with our guest presenter

Social: Monthly team outings & incentives. Some of our recent ones include: Yoga, Break Out Rooms, APEXX Quizzes, Wine Tasting, Afternoon Tea's, Golf Tournaments 

About APEXX

APEXX is a dynamic Fintech scale-up founded in 2016 with the goal of creating cutting-edge payment technology. Our vision is to be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider. Through our platform a merchant can connect via a simple API connection to the world's payment ecosystem, increasing conversion at lower cost and satisfying their entire payments needs. We excel at bringing transparency, efficiency, and competition to the payments market. What's more, we won the 'Most Disruptive Payment Technology' award in 2018 for the second consecutive year. No other company has ever retained this award and it demonstrates that APEXX is at the forefront of what can be achieved in Payments Technology.

The team is incredibly committed and enthusiastic about what we are building - top of the class payments solutions and a valuable business. This is infectious and creates a wonderful office atmosphere. We have a supportive, relaxed yet high-performing, and high trust culture.

Apexx is an equal opportunities employer committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our employees and eliminating discrimination.

We do not accept speculative CVs or candidate profiles from Recruitment Agencies.