(Senior) Business Analyst with German for Banking Industry (all genders)

Job description

**Your Tasks** - Analyze, elicit and document, business and functional requirements for our banking clients, particularly in the context of transformation programs, regulatory initiatives and system migrations. - Act as the bridge between business and IT, translating business needs into clear, structured and implementable requirements. - Model and optimize banking processes, identifying improvement opportunities and supporting the design of future-state business processes. - Create and maintain requirements specifications, user stories, process documentation and functional concepts, ensuring end-to-end traceability throughout the project lifecycle. - Coordinate requirements across multiple stakeholders, facilitate workshops and drive alignment between business units, project teams and technology partners. - Support implementation and change initiatives from requirements definition through business acceptance, making sure delivered solutions meet business objectives. - Safeguard quality by defining and validating business test scenarios and supporting functional, integration, end-to-end (E2E) and user acceptance testing (UAT). - Leverage AI-assisted tools (e.g., Microsoft 365 Copilot, GenAI-based documentation and analysis assistants) in day-to-day work to accelerate requirements engineering, improve documentation quality and enhance decision-making - always with a critical, quality-first mindset. - Contribute to the continuous improvement of our requirements engineering methods, business analysis standards and banking process frameworks, while sharing knowledge with colleagues and clients. - Collaborate closely with business and IT colleagues to develop innovative solutions for complex banking challenges, building on existing platforms and technologies where appropriate. - Build trusted relationships with clients, management and project teams to ensure successful delivery and sustainable project outcomes. **Your Profile** - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Banking & Finance, Business Administration, Business Informatics, Economics or a related field. - 3+ years of hands-on experience in requirements engineering and business analysis, ideally in large-scale transformation, implementation or migration projects within financial services. - Solid understanding of banking products, financial services processes and regulatory requirements, with experience in core banking domains such as lending, customer and account management, payments and/or related banking processes. - Strong expertise in requirements engineering methodologies, business process analysis and requirements lifecycle management. - Experience eliciting, documenting and managing business and functional requirements using industry-standard tools and delivery approaches (Agile, Waterfall or hybrid). - Proven ability to analyze and optimize banking processes and translate business needs into implementable functional specifications. - Experience supporting implementation projects, including defining and validating business test scenarios and supporting functional, integration, E2E and UAT testing. - Familiarity with common project management frameworks and delivery approaches. - Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder communication across business and IT. - Interest and first hands-on experience with AI-assisted business analysis and requirements engineering — for example, using GenAI tools to draft user stories, structure documentation, analyze processes or accelerate research — combined with a clear understanding of when a human expert needs to stay in the lead. - A certification in Requirements Engineering (e.g., IREB CPRE) is a plus. - A customer-oriented, proactive, structured and solution-driven mindset. - Fluent business German (C1 or higher) and a good command of English are mandatory for this role. - Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites within the DACH region. **Your Benefits** - **Career model:** For us, a career that is individually tailored to your needs means individual development opportunities in line with your vision and at your pace. Our PERSONAL GROWTH MODEL supports you in this, whether as an expert or entrepreneur - **Continuing education:**Let's grow together! Stay up to date with over 200 training days per year in our Academy, or continue your education through certification courses - **German classes:** We encourage you to learn a new language, as it will be useful for you in your career development - **Leadership culture:** Respect, appreciation, and the highest level of expertise are the key elements of our "Coaching & Leading" leadership model. This means that your individual goals and Wavestone corporate goals are perfectly aligned - **Mobile Work:** Flexible, mobile working is part of our DNA. With our Mobile Work Policy, we offer you the right framework to work remotely. Plus, via our offices, we offer attractive contact points for personal exchange - **Me-Time:** We provide tailored vacation days, that will be increased every year (max. 30 days) based on your seniority within the company, as well as flexible working hours. Because life next to Wavestone also counts for us - **Private Health Insurance:** You are important to us; such is your health. We provide you with the appropriate framework that covers the essential health benefits needed to maintain your health - **Multi-benefits Platform:** As flexibility is in our DNA, it also translates into our benefits. You have the option to decide how to spend funds allocated for monthly benefits depending on your needs (meal tickets, gift vouchers, cultural vouchers, holiday vouchers and even subscriptions to sports clubs) - **Mindfulness & Health:** The Mindfulness Community offers mindfulness training and regular exchange - **Events:** Numerous events for networking and celebrating are simply part of our Wavestone life Business Analysis | Banking / Financial Services | Stakeholder Management | Requirements Engineering