Payments / Financial Messaging Analyst (Early Career)

A 2-year fixed-term contract based in London with hybrid working. Competitive salary aligned to early-career experience, recognising relevant financial services and financial messaging exposure.

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.

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

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Is this you?

• You’re early in your career and looking to build real expertise in a niche, high-value area of financial services.
• Around 1–3 years’ experience within financial services, ideally with exposure to financial messaging, payments infrastructure, or transaction processing environments.
• A working understanding of how financial messages flow between institutions, whether across payments, securities, or trade finance.
• Exposure to structured financial data, message formats, or transaction flows within a banking or financial systems environment.
• Strong analytical thinking, comfortable working with complex information and translating it into clear, structured outputs.
• Clear communication skills, both written and verbal, with the confidence to contribute to team discussions.
• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.

What could set you apart?

• Exposure to financial messaging standards such as SWIFT MT/MX or ISO 20022.
• Experience supporting documentation, business analysis, or process improvement in a technical or regulated environment.
• An interest in how global financial infrastructure operates behind the scenes.

What can you expect?

• This is a 2-year fixed-term opportunity designed to provide hands-on experience within a leading financial services environment, with a strong focus on learning, development, and building specialist expertise.
• Real responsibility from the start, working on meaningful projects with a leading financial institution.
• The opportunity to build specialist expertise in financial messaging is a highly sought-after area within financial services.
• Structured learning environment with ongoing support from experienced consultants.
• Generous annual training budget to support your development.
• A collaborative culture where people share knowledge and support each other’s growth.
• Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, pension, and generous holiday.

We’d love to hear from you if you’re looking to build a career where you can combine analytical thinking, financial services knowledge, and real-world impact. This is an opportunity to join a company that invests in your development and gives you the platform to grow quickly in a highly specialised area of financial services.