Sandton: Systems Analyst (Forex) – Contract posted by Be Different Recruitment

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Systems Analyst (Forex) to join our team in Sandton, South Africa. As a Contract role, you will be working with a leading financial institution to analyze and design new functionalities or upgrades for their Forex IT infrastructure. The successful candidate will have a strong background in systems analysis, payments industry domain experience, and a solid understanding of the ISO20022 payments message standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the analysis and design of new functionalities or upgrades that are more complex and require expertise (e.g. complex projects, projects that cut across multiple teams, major enhancements to existing systems and general maintenance of existing systems)
• Leading and facilitating functional and system design sessions to produce functional and system specifications. Ensure that functional / systems requirements represents a common view among end-users
• Assist with the identification of risks and issues within the project(s) and mitigation strategies
• Analyse and design integration files or messages (e.g. web service definitions, XML schemas, business functions, flat file or delimited files, APIs)
• Write SQL queries, interrogate database tables for analysis purposes and assist in designing database structures
• Examine and analyse current system process flows and document changes that may be required on affected systems
• Guide suggestions for appropriate solutions taking into account cost, risk, delivery and feasibility
• Modelling system designs to meet business objectives. These will include behavioural and structural UML diagrams (like use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, timing and state machine diagrams, component diagrams, as well as ERD diagrams and interface diagrams, as needed)

Requirements

• Degree or Diploma and/or CBAP Certification
• 7 years or more relevant systems analysis experience
• 4 to 5 years Payments and Forex industry domain experience
• Strong working knowledge of Use Cases and UML
• Exposure to the system or applications being developed would be an added advantage
• All elements that make up the Forex IT infrastructure

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications (Bachelor’s, LLB, Matric, etc.)

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