Senior Consultant Role
(Designation: Manager-Consulting)
Banking & Financial Services Advisory Consulting Practice
[Hybrid: New York City – Tri-State area]
About Us
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!
At Cognizant Consulting, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry-leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate technology products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences.
Responsibilities
- Understand business needs from the users; document the analysis using business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, tasks and workflow.
- Generate requirements from users; use Foundational and advanced problem-solving techniques (both diagnostic and prognostic) to analyze the problem and generate requirements with the users and document those.
- Schedule and lead design discussions with Architecture, Infrastructure and different technical teams of all levels throughout the company including executives
- Innovate on out of the box solution that leverages the holistic knowledge of variety of use cases.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts and developers to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
- Perform query and reporting analysis; document data sources and mappings to support reporting and other data requirements
- Be a liaison between the Business Users, Application development team, Architecture and other technology teams (infrastructure, info security etc.) and project and relationship managers
- Manage and ensure requirements are met not only through the entire SDLC process by participating in design discussions, QA, UAT and deployment, but also all aspect of regulatory requirements
- Work with the project team to translate Business requirements into a solution, help the team for Technical design documentation and analyze tradeoffs between effort and return on value. Socialize these tradeoffs with the project team and stakeholders
- Actively work to resolve issues users when requirements clarification is needed or to facilitate sign off on test cases
Professional Qualifications And Skills
- 8-12 years of experience functioning as a business analyst within a mid to large organization
- Wealth Management Experience or Investment Asset Management experience preferred or Financial Industry experience and understanding the broker-dealer business model, various financial asset classes (Equity , Mutual funds , Fixed Income, Annuity), various industry standard applications and tools used by financial advisors in the areas such as Account Opening , Move Money , Account aggregation, Account Transfer, Reporting , Trading etc.
- Experience in Working on Merger and Acquisition Conversion project is good to have
- Expert experience with requirements capturing and management in Agile and Waterfall project approaches. Detail oriented and critical thinker.
- Experience in non-functional requirements gathering, traceability and UAT coordination and support.
- Good Product acumen, can easily fit into Product owner’s role to deliver the product, must have worked on building / integrating products on various Fintech platforms
- Demonstrable facilitation and leadership skills in requirements solicitation and review (user interviews)
- Adept at SQL queries, report writing and presenting findings
- Working knowledge of JIRA, TFS, HPQC, Aha! and similar other project management tools
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously. Must be comfortable in rapidly changing and sometimes ambiguous work situations.
- Comfortable working independently, adapting to shifting priorities, demands and timelines in a fast paced environment
- Keen attention to detail and complex problem-solving abilities from operational and technical perspective. Ability to work independently and engage other team members as needed
- Ability to handle full workload and meet proposed deadlines
- Demonstrated understanding of data structures, data modeling, db schema is required. Knowledge of technologies including SQL, XML and web application concepts.
- Expert written and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse groups, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
- Exposure to enterprise integration tools, and extract/transform/load (ETL) tools.
- Experience in Agile development methodology/Scrum is preferred
Salary And Other Compensation
Applications will be accepted until
November 22nd, 2024.
The annual salary for this position is between
$98,853.00 – $182,500.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Work Authorization
- Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
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