Manager (Business Analyst OR Product) - 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

Our Banking & Financial Services Consulting group is looking for a Manager Consulting to join our journey.

We’re looking for Consulting Managers 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. As a Manager, Consulting (which is a Senior Manager level position) this means a client-facing engagement, managing escalations, and serving as a the owner of a workstream; maintaining expertise in your domain; meaningfully contributing to the sales process through a mix of RPI development, client presentations, financial modeling, pricing strategy, and flawless delivery; creating service offerings and/or client partner training materials; and contributing to People Care initiatives, recruiting, and mentoring. 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

• 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
• 10 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.)