Business Analyst - Banking & Financial Services Consulting

Business Analyst/ Business Systems Analyst - Consultant, Banking & Financial Services Consulting

Locations: Onsite at Dallas, Cleveland, Pittsburgh

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 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 Business Analyst, 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 PeopleCare 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

• Collaborate with cross-functional team and partner with the Product owner/Product management teams to create the project roadmap and backlog of user stories

• Independently research and conduct analysis on functional requirements including data mapping. Perform impact analysis on sub modules and also external systems wherever applicable

• Closely work with Product teams and support prioritization for future development

• Groom and refine user stories with the help of Product owner and scrum team and document user stories in JIRA

• Support development and testing team with progressive elaboration of specifications and acceptance criteria that are documented in user stories through regular grooming sessions

• Leverage Daily team Stand up meetings for close co-ordination with development and QA team and ensure all impediments around requirements are addressed in timely manner to facilitate Factory Model execution

• Review Test cases and identify gaps in test script for manual and automated testing

• Support team in triaging issues found during testing

• Support Line of Business users for User Acceptance Testing

Qualification

• Bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience

• Business System Analyst/ Business Analyst with min 5+ years' experience and deep domain expertise in Banking & Financial Services with lending mandatory

• Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical details

• Experience working with UML, API based architecture and using Swagger

• Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch

• Experience in banking or financial industry

• Ability to handle ambiguity and white space.

• 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

• 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.)