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Cognizant · 1 day ago

Consulting Manager, Banking & Financial Services Consulting Practice

Teaneck, NJ

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$99K/yr - $182K/yr

8+ years exp

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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

Qualification

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Business AnalysisWealth ManagementInvestment Asset ManagementAgile MethodologySQLJIRAUAT CoordinationData ModelingETL ToolsProject Management Tools

Required

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.

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.