The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees as of January 2024. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
Cognizant’s Banking & Financial Services (BFS) Consulting team is seeking talented consultants with business analysis and digital change delivery experience to work with our ecosystem of clients, alliances, start-ups, and design agencies to deliver the next generation of banking products and experiences. This role provides an opportunity to join a rapidly growing, high energy and entrepreneurial team working with leading Europe based clients.
Location: Geneva
Skills & Experience:
Minimum 7 years of experience in Core Banking & Platforms within Banking & Financial Services
SME of Core Banking Platform Avaloq, preferably with certification
Preferably played IT BA/Domain Consultant roles in Core Banking domain for Banks - with demonstrable technical knowledge in agile delivery approaches (scrum, kanban)
SME of the Core Banking and Client Data domain to demonstrate nature of data to address Business goals
Experience in Avaloq or other core banking systems functional knowledge is highly required
Previous experience of Business Analysis/ Consultancy in modelling Business process operations in Core banking for Avaloq changes/ projects; helping Business to deliver strategic targets
Experience in documenting User stories together with the business users and Avaloq developers/solution architects for the allocated Avaloq changes/ projects
Ability to review solution design documents drafted by Avaloq and ensure that it is in line with the bank’s requirements.
Expert in assessing the Impacts of overlapping changes (Core Banking Platform, Digital Disruption) within BFS to translate Business requirements into IT User stories to enable end-to-end traceability
Manage execution of User Acceptance Testing / Non-Regression Testing for the major releases, monthly update level and major projects; test case writing, test case execution, defects handling support end user testing.
Go Live support / End User Training / Post Go-Live Production support
Ability to apply a customer centric approach to the definition of minimum viable propositions, relevant acceptance criteria and feature / backlog prioritisation. Additional experience in customer research welcomed.
Success in collaborating with not only team members but also all stakeholders involving senior management for communication, risk management involving Program Roadmap.
Personal Attributes:
Build strong relationships with clients and colleagues as well as on your own. A team player, able to work collaboratively with colleagues across different disciplines, geographies, cultures, and skill sets
Excellent communicator able to deliver a concise message either verbally, or in writing to senior internal and external stakeholders
Creative thinker, able to quickly analyse problems and identify appropriate solutions
Open-minded and proactive attitude toward delivery ownership
Flexible and enthusiastic about gaining new experiences across different clients and adapting to different, challenging environments
Industry Experience:
Direct experience of working in Core Banking Platform domain through a bank, fintech or building society or industry aligned consulting, agency or software vendor experience.
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