Cognizant - Senior Consultant - BFS Sector

If you are like us, you have big ideas. At Cognizant Consulting, we are 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.

Cognizant's BFS Consulting team has open opportunities for Senior Consultant designations in its Capital Market and Banking consulting practice. We are a team of advisory consultants & product managers providing solutions on various financial services to create significant business values for our customers. The team leverages their technology savviness, functional expertise to lead and execute digital transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

- Act as a key point of contact to the Business Transformation Services, Business Analysis, and Functional Architecture and Solution Architecture groups throughout the implementation

- Interface with business stakeholders to determine key design/process decisions and contribute to overall delivery plan.

- Proven excellence at gathering requirements and translating it to functional documents like BRD, FRD and user stories

- Deliver assigned tasks complete and on time as designated by the Programme Office to ensure smooth progress of the implementation.

- Contribute and take ownership for various project related tasks / planning activities as the programme evolves

- Knowledge and Practical experience of Project Management methodologies - ability to configure delivery work stream frameworks to progress timelines and delivery milestones

- Demonstrate ability in planning consulting/functional work & ownership of project outcomes

Professional Qualifications and Skills

- Full time MBA from any top tier B School (preferably in Finance/ IT/ Systems/ Ops)

- 5+ years of work experiences

Must Have:

- Strong understanding and experience across various parts of capital market domain especially in Securitization and/ or other back-office areas like invoicing, trade financing, payment etc.

- Good understanding of securitization and related products

- Strong experience in IT consulting and business analysis - business process definition, business process consulting, requirements gathering, Functional designs and specifications, product solution design, proficiency in writing complex BRD, FSD, user stories, As-Is/To Be Analysis, Product design and product roadmap

- A know how of digital themes/ technologies in the context of digital transformation consulting projects

Big Plus

- Knowledge of trade life cycle in Commodity trading domain (Energy, Agri, metals, concentrates)

Location: Mumbai, Pune, Chennai