Job Description
Functional Analyst
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Working Model: 50% Onsite / 50% Remote
Contract: 6-month initial contract
Day Rate: €600 per day
Language: English mandatory; French mandatory; Dutch basic
The Role
We are supporting BNP Paribas in recruiting an experienced Functional Analyst to join the Brussels-based Tribe International Payments team.
The team is working on the development and maintenance of IT technologies supporting international payments, with a focus on innovative payment technologies and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).
Working within a multicultural and empowered Agile squad, you will be responsible for analysing business requirements, designing functional solutions and supporting their development, testing, integration and deployment into production.
You will act as a key link between business stakeholders, Business Analysts, Product Owners, architects and technical teams, ensuring requirements are clearly understood and translated into effective functional and technical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements & Solution Preparation
- Work closely with Business Analysts, clients and Product Owners to understand and refine business requirements.
- Propose appropriate solution options aligned with enterprise architecture, security standards and overall strategy.
- Assess potential solutions based on cost and benefit.
- Work with architects to define the solution architecture.
- Translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical requirements, Features and User Stories.
- Coordinate with involved IT and asset teams to ensure a consistent understanding of requirements.
Functional Analysis & Solution Design
- Lead the functional elaboration of selected solutions.
- Translate business requirements into detailed specifications and analysis for Developers and Test Engineers.
- Define the functional responsibilities of different application and technical teams.
- Analyse the impact of proposed solutions across application components.
- Work with technical teams to define and document their requirements.
- Identify the data, processes and application components required to support the solution.
Development, Testing & Delivery
- Follow the development and testing process to ensure the delivered solution aligns with functional and technical specifications.
- Provide technical definitions for components supported by different teams.
- Support suppliers during development, integration and assembly testing.
- Support the implementation and ongoing improvement of APIs.
- Document solutions and functional specifications.
- Assist Test Engineers with test sets and test scenarios.
- Analyse defects and support the resolution of complex issues.
- Support release and deployment teams across different environments.
- Collaborate with other squads within Tribe International Payments and across the wider BNP Paribas Group.
Production Support
- Support operational teams and helpdesks once solutions are deployed into production.
- Analyse production incidents and coordinate their resolution.
- Maintain and update technical and functional documentation.
- Support continuous improvements following production feedback and incidents.
Essential Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of experience as a Functional Analyst.
- Strong functional and technical knowledge of IT systems.
- Experience working with banking and payment products.
- Experience analysing payment requirements and processes.
- Strong knowledge of analysis methodologies.
- Practical experience working within Agile/Scrum environments.
- Knowledge and experience in building Swagger APIs.
- Ability to translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications.
- Experience working with multiple technical teams, stakeholders and suppliers.
- Strong documentation and analytical skills.
- Experience working in complex, multicultural environments.
Agile Experience
The successful candidate should demonstrate a strong Agile mindset, including:
- Positive and pragmatic approach.
- Willingness to learn, adapt and share knowledge.
- Strong focus on team success and collaboration.
- Ability to use feedback to continuously improve.
- Willingness to contribute beyond the primary analyst role when required to achieve sprint objectives.
- Practical experience with Scrum.
Soft Skills
- Highly analytical with the ability to absorb and process information quickly.
- Able to document analysis clearly and precisely.
- Well organised with strong prioritisation skills.
- Customer and stakeholder focused.
- Strong team player who promotes communication between internal and external stakeholders.
- Results-oriented and pragmatic.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Proactive, self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic and multicultural environment.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Comfortable giving and receiving feedback.