Payments / Financial Messaging Analyst (Early Career)

Payments / Financial Messaging Analyst (Early Career)

2-Year Fixed-Term Contract | London-based | Hybrid working | Competitive salary aligned to early-career experience, recognising relevant financial services and financial messaging exposure.

Start Your Career as a Payments & Financial Messaging Analyst

At Projective Group, we partner with leading financial institutions to solve complex challenges across payments, data, transformation, and risk. Founded in Belgium in 2006, we’ve grown to over 1,000 employees across Europe, with around 200 in the UK.

We’re known for giving people real responsibility early, creating an environment where curiosity is encouraged, ideas are welcomed, and careers accelerate quickly.

We’re supporting one of the most influential organisations in global financial services, working at the core of how financial messages move across the world.

This is a 2-year fixed-term opportunity designed to give you hands-on experience at the centre of global financial messaging, while building specialist expertise early in your career.

Bring Your Expertise to Life at Projective Group; imagine a day where you:

• Work with financial messaging concepts, supporting the definition, documentation, and use of structured data across global financial systems.

• Analyse how financial institutions exchange information across payments, securities, and trade flows, helping shape how these processes evolve.

• Translate industry and business requirements into clear, structured documentation and messaging definitions.

• Support the development and refinement of financial messaging standards used across the global financial ecosystem.

• Contribute to impact assessments, understanding how changes in messaging standards affect systems, processes, and clients.

• Collaborate with international stakeholders, gaining exposure to real-world financial infrastructure challenges.

• Develop the ability to break down complex financial and technical concepts into clear, practical outputs.