Consulting Manager, Banking & Financial Services Consulting Practice

$98,853 - $182,500/Yr

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Teaneck, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Teaneck, NJ

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Consulting Manager in the Banking & Financial Services Consulting Practice at Cognizant is responsible for leading consulting engagements, understanding business needs, and translating them into actionable requirements. This role involves collaboration with various stakeholders, including business users and technical teams, to ensure successful project delivery and compliance with regulatory requirements. The position requires a strong background in financial services, particularly in wealth management or investment asset management, and expertise in both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.

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 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 and project and relationship managers.
• Manage and ensure requirements are met through the entire SDLC process by participating in design discussions, QA, UAT and deployment, and all aspects 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.
• Actively work to resolve issues users when requirements clarification is needed or to facilitate sign off on test cases.

Requirements

• 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.
• Expert experience with requirements capturing and management in Agile and Waterfall project approaches.
• 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.
• Demonstrable facilitation and leadership skills in requirements solicitation and review.
• Adept at SQL queries, report writing and presenting findings.
• Working knowledge of JIRA, TFS, HPQC, Aha! and similar other project management tools.
• Keen attention to detail and complex problem-solving abilities from operational and technical perspective.
• Ability to handle full workload and meet proposed deadlines.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Working on Merger and Acquisition Conversion project is good to have.
• Exposure to enterprise integration tools, and extract/transform/load (ETL) tools.
• Experience in Agile development methodology/Scrum is preferred.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan