Junior System Analyst

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Junior System Analyst for a European fintech company. The role involves system analysis in digital payments, money transfers, and lifestyle financial solutions.

The customer is a European fintech company that provides international money transfers, currency exchange, payment cards, online payment solutions, and event ticketing. Operating in over 100 countries with hundreds of employees, it processes billions of euros in transactions annually and aims to evolve into a financial “super-app” combining payments and lifestyle services.

The project is focused on enhancing and expanding digital financial services, including online payments, money transfers, finance management, and lifestyle solutions.

Responsibilities

• Translating requirements into functional and non-functional specifications with unambiguous, testable acceptance criteria in Jira/Confluence using Gherkin where applicable.
• Breaking down epics/features into right-sized user stories with DoR.
• Leveraging AI assistants for drafting/validating specifications, generating test cases, impact analysis, and documentation consistency checks.
• Modeling system behavior with UML/BPMN (use case, sequence, state, activity) for key flows across user actions, integrations, and transactions using draw.io or similar services, utilizing AI tools for diagram generation, validation, and consistency checks.
• Specifying APIs and contracts by producing versioned OpenAPI/Swagger specs, example payloads, and error models; validate with Postman and mock servers before development.
• Designing cross-system integrations (REST/gRPC/event streaming) with data mappings, idempotency, and retry/backoff; document constraints (rate limits, p95 latency targets) using Kafka/RabbitMQ, JSON/Protobuf.
• Defining non-functional requirements for performance, availability, security, and observability (e.g., p95 < 500 ms, 99.9% uptime, time-to-detect < 5 min), tracked as explicit stories in Jira.
• Ensuring regulatory alignment by mapping PSD2, PCI DSS, AML/KYC, GDPR, DAC, SEPA, SWIFT CSP/OpenBanking.
• Maintaining documentation quality by keeping Swagger, Confluence, and data dictionaries consistent.
• Driving delivery via refinement, planning, and estimation; facilitate workshops, clarify edge cases, and unblock teams.

Requirements

• Experience in IT as a Business Analyst for 3+ years and as a System Analyst for 1+ year in multi-system environments.
• Hands-on experience in at least 1 domain (Transfers & Payments, Accounting/Ledger, Card Processing, KYC/AML, Loans/Deposits, eCommerce/Payment Gateways, or similar fintech).
• Experience delivering artifacts using UML/BPMN (use case/sequence/state/activity) for 3+ years.
• Demonstrated ability to define SLOs (e.g., p95 latency, throughput, rate limits, HA targets) and embed them into stories.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, draw.io, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, SQL (SELECT/JOIN/window functions).
• Practical experience and active daily usage of AI tools, models, and assistants to empower personal performance and productivity.
• Level of English – from Intermediate+ and above.

Desired skills

• Payment standards: ISO 20022, SEPA Instant, SWIFT MT/MX exposure.
• Practical experience mapping PSD2, GDPR, AML or KYC, or PCI-DSS controls to system behavior.
• Scheme integrations (Visa/Mastercard), PCI DSS audit support experience.
• Working with microservices and modular monoliths, patterns such as CQRS/event sourcing.
• End-to-end integrations across REST/gRPC/event streaming with OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman for 1+ year.
• Familiarity with Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Experience using Graylog/Grafana/Sentry to support troubleshooting and define log/metric needs.
• Experience with ER modeling and SQL performance tuning for analytical queries.
• Certifications: IREB or IIBA or ISTQB, or BPMN 2.0 Practitioner, or Data Modeling/ERD (completed or in progress).

Reasons to join us

• Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Reuter Gruppe, T-Systems, TUI, Ryanair, Johnson & Johnson, etc. This project is just your beginning here – working with us means reliability and prospects.
• We have been strengthening our expertise since 2007. During this time, we have formed an excellent BA & SA team with streamlined processes, which now consists of more than 200 qualified analysts.
• We welcome specialists from every part of the world.
• Salaries at Andersen are pegged to the USD, and our employees are provided with a benefit package and an extensive set of bonuses.
• We give our employees an opportunity to attend and participate in the company’s BA meetups, as well as offer a compensation program for international professional certificates.
• There are many different ways to grow and develop at our company. You can improve as a tech specialist or a resource manager, and all your activities will be decently rewarded.
• You will have an opportunity to take on the role of a mentor and help a group of BA/SA beginners grow.
• Our employees have access to Andersen Knowledge Base, where they can take courses in a variety of areas: the art of negotiation, PreSale & Discovery, Agile essentials, product ownership, microservice architecture, API design, SQL, AWS, GDPR, UX/UI, people management, and more.

Join us!