We are looking for a clever, productive, and collegial person with the right experience to join us in Nepal as a Lead IT Business Analyst. This role reports to our CEO and works closely with the entire executive team. The job is to coordinate and manage all aspects of process-innovation including coordinating with all of Stonestep IT-based development in all countrywide implementation, and design of new solutions using new technologies. This hands-on role needs to produce detailed business requirements and keep multiple projects on track simultaneously.

This position provides a unique opportunity in a growth-stage company with an experienced team working in exciting places on exciting topics. The right candidate will have the right technical experience to document business and IT requirements for and even to prototype IT solutions coupled with the necessary entrepreneurial drive to get things done. The role requires a self-starter attitude and confidence in iterative work with our internal partnership management colleagues and external partner’s IT resources to reach a successful IT implementation at the end.

• Turn great ideas into business requirements, actionable prototypes, and then into scalable business solutions by working with leaders across the business
• Analyses and leads all IT technical requirements and documentation such as BRD, Project Plan, Partner Integration, Workflows, and Process
• Manage resources, budget, and timelines to implement a core platform in multiple countries in Asia
• Represent IT in discussions with major partners such as mobile network operators, mobile money providers, insurers, and non-bank financial institutions
• Manage contracting with vendors
• Manage inter-dependencies including oversight of any risks and issues arising
• Basic financial management activities, including budget management, reporting
• Hire, train and oversee delivery against objectives of dedicated staff
• Handles overall Project Management: Product, Process and Technical Design, System integration, Infrastructure Set up, API connectivity (Vendors and Merchants), UAT testing and deployment
• Assist and provide inputs to the business case
• Plan and monitor system development 

• Understand, write and organize system requirements 

• Write and perform test scripts and analyze test result
• Coordinate test and bug fixes actions with developers
• Write and perform test scripts and analyze test result
• Write business requirements
• Manage, organize and communicate business requirements
• Analyze business requirement translating it to system requirements 

• Define configuration specifications
• Perform quality assurance and system tests
• Define reports and alerts requirements 

• Own and develop a relationship with Stonestep partners, working with them to optimize and enhance our integration
• Support map, design, document and maintain system processes 
Report on common sources of technical issues or questions and make 
recommendations to product team
• Communicate key insights and findings to operations and product team
• Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve monitoring, discover issues and 
deliver better value to the customer