Consultant (Business Analyst OR Product OR Project Management) - (Capital Markets, securities lending, securities finance, or custody), Cognizant Banking & Financial Services Consulting
location: Chicago
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 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 increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!
The Role
We're looking for BA or Product or Project Manager at Consultant level who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development.
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
Developing Product management's vision into use cases, features, and user stories for IT implementation
Modeling operational process flows by working with stakeholders from Front office trading, and back office operations
Analyze impacts, provide recommendations, and review options based on roadmap directional changes due to change in priorities
Assist in developing and managing product roadmap, driving prioritization of features while balancing customer and business impacts
Collaborate with other analysts, product owners, technology specialists in a multi-vendor environment to work towards issue resolution
Understand business requirements and perform data analysis and compile data gaps and review with business
Clearly communicate business priorities to partners in tech, design, and controls
Leverage data to understand user behavior and assist in product roadmap revision
Build and maintain strong collaborative relationship with all stakeholders. Location
Ability to be on-site at the client location in Chicago at least 3 days each week for the duration of the project
Qualifications
Bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience, with additional certifications such as CFA/ FRM preferred, but not mandatory
Min 5 years of business analysis or product owner or product manager experience in Capital markets, securities lending, securities finance, or custody withing banking and financial services industry
Understanding of securities lending processes, data models, and functional flows to translate product vision into vertically sliced stories to develop the product iteratively in Agile methodologies to dive into the technical details at logical level
Experience problem solving and developing products from scratch with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model to handle ambiguity and white space
Desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; 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.
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.)