Project Management - Payroll Senior Analyst - (1 Year Fixed Term) at Citigroup

Job description

Transformation Analyst (One-Year Fixed Term) Join Citi’s Payroll Team in Budapest and make your own progress in a supportive and friendly environment. Role Overview 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. In this role, you will act as the key liaison between business operations and technology engineering teams. You will be responsible for applying structured analytical thinking to unpack complex business problems, authoring high-standard documentation artifacts, governing end-to-end testing cycles (UAT and parallel runs), aligning multi-system integrations, and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and automation tools to deliver scalable solutions. What you’ll do Analytical Problem Solving & Process Transformation 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. Testing Governance & Quality Assurance 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—identifying root causes, setting severity levels, and partnering with technology teams for resolution. Manage operational readiness verification, regression testing, and cutover sign-offs. Documentation Artifacts & Requirements Engineering Author and maintain industry-standard, audit-compliant transformation artifacts, including: Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs) As-Is and To-Be Process Maps (BPMN 2.0 / Swimlane diagrams in Visio/Lucidchart) Agile Epics, Features, and User Stories with rigorous Acceptance Criteria (Gherkin / Given-When-Then syntax) Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) linking business requirements directly to test validation Business Cases, Use Cases, Gap Analysis Matrices, and Data Dictionaries Maintain centralized, living documentation repositories in Confluence and Jira. System Integration & Architecture Alignment 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 (e.g., Workday, PeopleSoft, Time & Attendance, Financial Ledgers). Validate end-to-end integration flows and troubleshoot data payload, mapping, and latency issues across connected platforms. AI Tool Adoption & Process Automation Champion the practical adoption of enterprise AI and productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, enterprise LLMs, advanced Excel Power Query) to accelerate delivery. Leverage AI tools to optimize requirements drafting, test case generation, meeting synthesis, and large-scale data reconciliation. Identify and support automation opportunities (RPA, workflow automation) to streamline manual operational touchpoints. SDLC Delivery & Stakeholder Communication Manage projects across the full SDLC lifecycle within Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and hybrid delivery models. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, track sprint burndowns, manage backlogs, and resolve delivery blockers. Create executive-level presentations, dashboards, and steerco updates using structured business storytelling techniques. What we’ll need from you Analytical & Logical Thinking: Strong capability in problem decom