Business Analyst - Capital Markets/ Wealth Management, Banking & Financial Services Consulting

Business Analyst - Consultant, Banking & Financial Services Consulting (Hybrid/ 3 days in office)

Locations: Fort Mill, South Carolina

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. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at .

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 increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we are growing!

The Role

Our Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Consulting practice is looking for Business Analyst/s to join our team while we work on an exciting platform modernization engagement. This role is on-site at a client location.

We're looking for a Consultant who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a senior consultant, this means creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership (with supervision) of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in People Care initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Responsibilities

* Efficiently lead the conversation, and gather requirements from Business, understand the concerns, identify the risk, and communicate it in timely fashion.

* Ensure document the application system by following multiple cross functional requirements (e.g., Security, Quality, cross-functional Business, Legal

* Perform, evaluate, and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development.

* Determine and develop user requirements for systems in production, to ensure maximum usability.

* Partner with stakeholders across business units (ex: sales, finance, security, compliance) to develop analyses and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams.

* Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.

* Ability to make quick informed decision and understand the clear priority and escalate as needed

* Must be creative to deliver innovative solutions to address critical business needs. Highly agile, and ability to quickly pivot the plan and execute.

Qualification

• Bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum 5 years of Business Analyst experience in Capital Markets/ Wealth Management/ Banking & Financial Services is mandatory
• Model based trading experience, worked on integration with fintech firms ( Bloomberg, beta, MSCI like financial institutions).
• Should be able to coordinate well with business and product and independently work to analyze and propose the solutions.
• Excellent experience with large integration systems
• SQL is key as he/she needs to query a lot to discover and analyze data.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Strong SQL skills, Data Analysis skills, Agile Experience (Epics, Stories, Working in Scrum/Sprint), Python (good to have)
• Experience in banking or financial industry
• Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical details
• Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch
• Experience with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model
• Ability to handle ambiguity and white space.
• Demonstrated examples of building and launching products
• The embodiment of Cognizant's Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way

* Ability to be on-site or at the client location or cognizant location as needed

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.)

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Mar 22 2024

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) 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 is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at or follow us

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