Junior Business Analyst - Early Career Program

Are you ready to make an impact and discover your best self as a Junior Business Analyst at Rabobank?

Junior Business Analyst - Early Career Program

The role

During our Early Career Program at Rabobank, you will work on your career by joining a dynamic team responsible for keeping the critical payment processing of retail and corporate clients up and running at all times. You will start in a junior position, paired with a senior business analyst, and quickly gain practical experience in an agile scrum environment.

The team that you will be joining is the SEPA team. In this team you will learn about payment flows, including ISO formats, SEPA credit and debits, direct debits and clearing and settlement concepts. Our SEPA payment processing solution is based on a vendor-bought application that runs in our on-premise data centers. It interacts with other banks via our CSM, and has many integrations with other applications within Rabobank. So as member of this team you also interact with a lot of other teams, business analysts, architects and other stakeholders.

While you are part of this team, you will participate in the ECP program, 1 day a week. You will participate in workshops and training modules and spend most Fridays in training sessions at our Utrecht offices or online.

After completing the program, you will be ready to continue your journey with us as a Junior Business Analyst, equipped with valuable skills and a strong network within the bank. You will have the opportunity to specialise or explore areas you enjoy most, contributing to both your personal growth and Rabobank’s mission to grow a better world together.

Tribe Account & Payment Factory

The SEPA team is part of the Tribe Account & Payment Factory at Rabobank. We are responsible for processing millions of payment transactions a day for our customers, and other services related to that purpose. In the Area of Transaction Processing, we deliver fast, reliable, and efficient transaction processing 24/7. For us it is all about keeping our services available, compliant, scalable and adaptable. To ensure this we are also renewing our ‘payment factory’, simplifying our payment landscape, decommissioning legacy systems, and migrating to new tech stacks and technologies.

Practical examples

As a Junior Business Analyst, you know the secrets of payment processing, collaborate in agile scrum teams, and support the implementation of business or private client requirements.

You will:

• Refine and break down business requirements into actionable user stories under the guidance of a senior Business Analyst.
• Prepare detailed documentation including use cases and process diagrams specific to payment products.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and quality engineers to deliver new functionalities.
• Align with our software vendor and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in the development and execution of test plans to ensure payment solutions meet business needs.
• Provide support in case of production incidents.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements within the payment processing workflow and recommend solutions.
• Participate in regular team meetings and agile scrum ceremonies.
• Contribute to a positive team atmosphere and open work culture.
• Take initiative in organising and improving team processes.

You and your future

During our Early Career Program, you’ll develop your career over 18 months by becoming an expert in your field. Throughout the program, you’ll stay with one team and receive training to enhance your hard skills. You’ll be paired with a buddy who will guide you in navigating the bank. For your personal development, you and your fellow starters will follow the Early Career Program and receive guidance from a Development Consultant.

Your development as a young professional

Within this program, you will have the opportunity to get to know yourself, the field, and Rabobank. You will start in a junior position within one team, participate in workshops and training modules with other juniors, and quickly gain practical experience.

Together with the Business Analyst community there is room for creativity and initiative to organize events, training sessions, and knowledge-sharing sessions. This way, we continuously improve the program and ourselves! You will easily build a large and valuable network within the bank.

You & your talent

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in (Technical) Business Administration, Information/Data/Computer Science, or Economics/Finance
• Maximum of 2 years of working experience
• Eligible to work in the Netherlands
• Fluent in Dutch and English
• Results-driven, strong communication skills, proactive in finding answers/solutions, and eager to learn from colleagues
• Quality Engineering mind-set
• Demonstrate a proactive attitude by anticipating challenges and opportunities and actively seek collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders to create the best solutions for our customers
• Experience in or affinity with payment processing and the financial sector
• Experience managing a complex stakeholder environment
• Thrive in a high-impact, dynamic and high-paced environment