Lead Business Systems Analyst - Financial Services / SWIFT at OpenText in Cork, IRL

Job description

• As a Lead Business Systems Analyst in – Financial Services / SWIFT, you will play a critical role in helping financial institutions optimize and modernize their payment, treasury, and financial messaging operations. Working with some of the world's leading banks and enterprises, you will act as a trusted advisor, translating complex business requirements into effective technology solutions that deliver real business value.
• You will partner closely with clients and cross-functional teams throughout the entire solution lifecycle, from discovery and requirements analysis through implementation and production support. Leveraging your expertise in SWIFT, ISO 20022, and financial services processes, you will help shape solutions that sit at the heart of global financial transaction processing. As a senior member of the team, you will also mentor colleagues, influence best practices, and contribute to the growth of our Financial Services business across Europe and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities for complex SWIFT, payments, treasury, and financial services initiatives.
• Partner directly with clients to understand business challenges, define requirements, and recommend solution approaches.
• Work across the full solution lifecycle, including analysis, design, testing, implementation, and production support.
• Collaborate with Product, Development, QA, Sales, Pre-Sales, and Support teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Support and help evolve OpenText's SWIFT Service Bureau offering and broader Financial Hub platform capabilities.
• Mentor team members, drive best practices, and contribute to continuous improvement across the Business Analysis function.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Business Analysis experience within financial services, banking, payments, treasury, or fintech environments.
• Strong knowledge of SWIFT messaging, including SWIFT MT, ISO 20022, and related financial messaging processes.
• Proven experience engaging directly with clients and managing requirements across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into clear functional specifications, user stories, and process documentation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments; SWIFT certification and payments or treasury domain expertise are highly desirable.

Skills

Required

• Business Analysis
• SWIFT messaging (MT, ISO 20022)
• Client engagement
• Requirements management
• Analytical skills
• Problem-solving
• Communication
• Presentation
• Stakeholder management
• Agile delivery

Preferred

• SWIFT certification
• Payments domain expertise
• Treasury domain expertise