Business Analyst - Payroll & Pension Systems

About Us

Kumaran Systems: Engineering Future-Ready Transformations Since 1992, Kumaran Systems has been helping enterprises bridge the past and the future, reimagining legacy systems and embracing AI-led possibilities. With over 34 years of delivery excellence, we specialise in re-engineering core applications, driving cloud transformation, and building automation-first, GenAI-enabled ecosystems across the Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, and Automotive sectors. We help organisations not just upgrade their systems but reimagine what's possible.

Why Kumaran

We blend engineering discipline with AI innovation, helping clients modernise with confidence, automate with clarity, and scale with purpose. Our global delivery model ensures agility, responsiveness, and seamless collaboration, with clients always at the heart of every engagement. At Kumaran, we don't just solve problems, we engineer future-ready transformations.

Experience: 5+ years

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with strong domain knowledge in Payroll and Pension systems to support business requirements analysis and legacy application modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements for payroll and pension applications.
• Understand payroll processing, salary calculations, deductions, taxation, pension contributions, benefits, and disbursements.
• Analyze existing application/system functionality, business rules, workflows, and exception scenarios.
• Work with business stakeholders and SMEs to document functional requirements and process flows.
• Prepare BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to ensure accurate implementation of business requirements.
• Support functional testing, UAT, defect resolution, and business validation.
• Assist in mapping legacy Oracle Forms functionality to the new Python/Django application.
  
  

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of Payroll and Pension business processes.
• Experience in business requirements gathering, functional analysis, and process documentation.
• Ability to analyze complex business rules and legacy application workflows.
• Experience with SQL and database analysis is preferred.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, Jira, and UAT processes.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
  
  

Preferred

• Experience in payroll or pension system implementation, enhancement, or migration projects.
• Experience working with Oracle Forms applications and legacy system modernization.