Project Management - Payroll Senior Analyst - (1 Year Fixed Term)
Employer · Citi
Business analyst
Systems analystSoftware testerTemporaryBudapest
Join Citi's Payroll Team in Budapest and make your own progress in a supportive and friendly environment. We are seeking a highly analytical and results-driven Transformation Analyst (C12) to drive critical enterprise business analysis, system integration, quality assurance, and digital transformation initiatives.
Tasks
- Apply structured analytical frameworks and root-cause analysis to translate complex, ambiguous business problems into clear functional and technical requirements.
- Analyze current-state operating models, identify process bottlenecks and data discrepancies, and engineer optimized future-state workflows.
- Proactively identify edge cases, failure scenarios, and data dependencies across multi-tier systems.
- Lead and govern end-to-end User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and business verification activities across project phases.
- Develop comprehensive business test strategies, high-coverage test matrices, and detailed test scenarios.
- Direct Parallel System / Payroll Run reconciliations, ensuring complete data accuracy, variance resolution, and zero calculation leakage.
- Drive defect triage and lifecycle management in Jira
- Manage operational readiness verification, regression testing, and cutover sign-offs.
- Author and maintain industry-standard, audit-compliant transformation artifacts
- Maintain centralized, living documentation repositories in Confluence and Jira.
- Understand and map system-to-system integrations, including APIs, batch processes, ETL pipelines, and message-driven data exchanges.
- Define interface requirements, field mappings, and interface control documents (ICDs) between core platforms.
- Validate end-to-end integration flows and troubleshoot data payload, mapping, and latency issues across connected platforms.
- Champion the practical adoption of enterprise AI and productivity tools to accelerate delivery.
- Manage projects across the full SDLC lifecycle within Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and hybrid delivery models.
- Create executive-level presentations, dashboards, and steerco updates using structured business storytelling techniques.
Conditions & benefits
Cafeteria ProgramHome Office Allowancefor colleagues working in hybrid work modelsPaid Parental Leave Programmaternity and paternity leavePrivate Medical Care Programand onsite medical rooms at our officesPension Plan Cont
Requirements
- Analytical & Logical Thinking: Strong capability in problem decomposition, data-driven analysis, and critical reasoning.
- Testing & QA Experience: Proven track record leading UAT cycles, designing complex test scenarios, managing defect triage, and executing parallel run reconciliations.
- Documentation Artifacts: Extensive experience drafting comprehensive BRDs, FRDs, process flowcharts, user stories, and traceability matrices.
- System Integration Knowledge: Solid understanding of data flows, APIs, batch/ETL processing, data mapping, and interface validation.
- AI & Modern Productivity Tools: Hands-on experience utilizing Generative AI tools (Copilot, LLMs) and project platforms (Jira, Confluence, Visio, advanced Excel, PowerPoint).
- SDLC & Agile Expertise: In-depth knowledge of SDLC lifecycle stages and Agile delivery frameworks.
- Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with experience engaging executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Prior experience in Payroll Operations, Human Capital Management (HCM), or Financial Systems Transformation.
- Functional familiarity with Workday Payroll and/or PeopleSoft Payroll modules.
- Experience operating in regulated environments (Banking / Financial Services) with exposure to SOX compliance and audit standards.