Business Analyst Lead, Payments, TDS Operations

at  TD Bank

Work Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:
37.5
Line of Business:
Product Management
Pay Details:
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Job Description:
TD Securities (TDS) is one of the world’s leading financial institutions. It provides a full suite of products and services to corporate, retail, and institutional clients. TD employees are unique individuals whose varied talents and experiences bring value to the way they deliver for the franchise. Whether you are analytical or creative, business savvy or a people person, TD provides an ideal opportunity to succeed.
The Payment and Data Product Excellence team, part of the Global Operations and Business Services unit, is responsible for the strategy and execution of Global Payments, with a focus on initiatives that create business value while building toward our Payments Platform target state vision. The team is charged with ownership of the Payments Platform and associated capabilities that can be leveraged across all lines of business, in all of the markets that TD participates in (Global Markets, Corporate and Investment Banking, Global Transaction Banking, Commercial and Business Banking, and Retail Banking).
We are seeking a highly experienced, innovative Payments Testing Practice Lead. You will drive efforts related to both improving and developing functional testing processes for Payments products including transforming the testing practice to use modern tools and technologies to minimize risk and maximize early. You will work closely with senior leadership, manage multiple workstreams, and employ your expertise in ensuring that our Payments platform is effective and efficient and able to achieve business results while also staying at the highest levels of compliance. You will work with other TD groups to help build innovative scalable AML/compliance systems, policies and internal controls.
Job Description :
Transform Functional Testing practice in the Payments Platform to use best practices including Shift Left techniques, in-sprint testing, automation of testing at all stages, development
Support new product launches and cross-functional initiatives driven by Regulatory requirements and payment platform initiatives, by: i) Understanding product risks and regulatory requirements ii) Defining controls requirements to mitigate the risk ii) Driving the controls implementation through collaboration with partners across product, tech, QA, Compliance, Data and Operations teams to build effective AML process/rules across payments products.
End-to-end business analysis over project lifecycle, developing user stories, acceptance and exit criteria, test cases, business capability maps and implementation roadmaps
Identify and document stakeholder requirements to meet or exceed critical product SLAs while meeting our rigorous risk and compliance standards.
Clearly summarize, document, and communicate findings and recommended action items in a timely manner to compliance management and/or other internal stakeholders when appropriate.
Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes and sound infrastructure an in alignment with risk appetite.
Work closely with subject matter experts, engineering, and additional stakeholders to own the Sanctions and AML products beginning to end: vision, rollout, and backlog.
Partner with multiple teams in an agile delivery environment, including Channels, Payments, Core Banking, and Data product teams.
Manage engagement of key stakeholders and drive adoption of recommendations and solutions
Deliver quality deliverables and manage to aggressive timelines, managing concurrent priorities and projects.
Be part of a high performing team and drive successful implementations.
Job Requirements :
Bachelor’s degree or work experience equivalent to Bachelor’s degree required
7+ years’ experience required.
Knowledge and understating of the complete life cycle of payment rails, e.g., SWIFT wire payments, CHIPs, FED, ACH, inclusive and not limited to many payment rails and the inter-related components e.g., SWIFT; risk/compliance, data modelling, analytics/metrics, ISO20022 Standard etc.
Experience as a senior BA in an Agile Software Development Methodology with end-to-end experience over a project lifecycle, including creating high level requirements, business process maps, business capability maps, user stories, acceptance and exit criteria, test cases and test data
Detailed experience with modern functional testing practices, processes, tools.
Working knowledge of product development architecture
Ability to prioritize effectively
Excellent analytical skills in assessing risk, issues and challenging the status quo
Exceptional written and verbal communications with experience influencing senior stakeholders.
Experience executing projects requiring cross-organizational alignment and prioritization.

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