Business Analyst - Financial Messaging, Banking - this is a long term contract opportunity for our Basel based client in the Banking sector.

Your tasks:

• Provide business and technical subject matter expertise in financial messaging and related integration topics.


• Coordinate initiatives supporting the evolution of financial messaging and its integration with trading applications.


• Support the development of business cases for Service Bureau and/or SaaS migration.


• Assist with the preparation of ITT and RFP materials for financial messaging solutions.


• Support vendor selection, system evaluation and service provider assessments.


• Coordinate user testing, manage product changes and help ensure delivery milestones, budgets and targets are met.


• Analyse and design business processes and translate business needs into clear technical and business specifications.


• Contribute to automation test strategy design for financial messaging systems.

Your experience/knowledge:

• Experience as a Business Analyst supporting financial messaging applications in a banking environment.


• Proven experience with Service Bureau migration, outsourcing and/or insourcing.


• Strong track record of contributing to large business-critical projects and producing business cases for major initiatives.


• Good understanding of post-trade lifecycle processes, with a focus on Back Office operations.


• Familiarity with Swift infrastructure and services; knowledge of financial messaging standards is an advantage.


• Language skills: English

Your soft skills:

• Strong stakeholder communication and customer orientation.


• Collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively in a small team and across functions.


• Ability to embrace change, challenge assumptions and translate complexity into concise requirements.

Location: Basel, Switzerland
Work setting: Hybrid
Sector: Banking
Start: ASAP
Duration: 12 months +
Workload: 100%
Ref.Nr.: BH 24527

Take the next step and send us your resume along with a daytime phone number where we can reach you.

Due to Swiss work permit restrictions, we can only consider applications from Swiss nationals, EU citizens, and current work-permit holders for Switzerland.

We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, age groups, sexual orientations, personal expressions, ethnic backgrounds, and religious beliefs. Therefore, there is no requirement to provide gender information or a photo in your application.

As per client requirements, we need information about your marital status, nationality, date of birth, and a valid Swiss work permit. For applicants with disabilities, we are happy to explore potential solutions with our end client.

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