Lead Business Functional Analyst - Assistant Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Lead Business Functional Analyst

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

Location Cary, NC

Who we are:

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.

Overview

The High Value Payments Team is looking for an experienced Business Functional Analyst to work on a complex, mission-critical payments system. The ideal Assistant Vice President will have extensive hands-on experience within the Payments domain. This is a good opportunity to gain meaningful experience transforming a critical high-volume application.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• A commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift, and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for managing functional requirements in partnership and collaboration with Business stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts, Operations, Architecture, and delivery leads

• Understand the product vision and ensure development activities reflect that vision into the product

• Work in an Agile environment to support the design and conceptualization of new business solutions, identifying risks and impacts

• Research and collaborate to provide needed clarifications on requirements to team members, making sure that items in the Product Backlog meet the Definition of Done and are ready for sprint teams to work on

• Define testing requirements and work with engineers to prioritize, troubleshoot, and resolve reported bugs and issues

• Drive data discovery, sourcing, modelling, and analytics to support the creation of data flows and models. This includes researching and profiling data sources in data categories of expertise

Skills You’ll Need

• Extensive experience as a hands-on Business Functional Analyst in the Payments domain within a similar sized financial services organization

• Thorough understanding of and experience in Payments e.g. domestic/cross border payment processing, ISO20022 and/or MT, and T2/EBA clearing systems

• Self-motivated and flexibility to work autonomously coupled with ability to work in virtual teams and matrix/global organizations including appreciation of different cultures during collaborating and sharing

• Experience organizing and leading workshops focused on requirements gathering, analysis and refinement

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Actively seek to reduce complexity, foster excellence, and do the right thing even when it is more difficult than the easy thing

• Team player always looking to bring out the best in yourself and others

• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship, and problem-solving skills; creatively solve complex problems and take ownership of the solution until its completion

• A desire to help people understand the Business reason for the engineering work we do

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable ac