Business Analyst - Banking & Financial Services

Business Analyst, Cognizant Consulting

Banking & Financial Services

Coppell, TX

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. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. 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 Business Analyst to join our journey. We’re looking for someone who is responsible for leading discrete projects that are focused on creating efficiency within the organization through process improvement or enhancing technology systems.

We’re looking for Business Analysts who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Business Analyst, this means creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership (with supervision) of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in PeopleCare initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. 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

• Work with the departmental managers to understand the current processes and systems.
• Conduct time-in-motion studies and facilitate focus group sessions to identify areas within the process or system that require improvement.
• Recommend process changes/system modifications to streamline and automate a business process.
• Work with the development team to design, test, implement, and maintain updates within company databases and applications necessary to streamline/automate a business process.
• Define high-level goals and road map associated with their project.
• Identify and analyze the risks associated with achieving the milestones for a project. Develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Work with Deployment Manager to organize and execute pre-deployment user acceptance testing that is specific to the project.
• Assist the corporate training group in the creation of training documentation and programs that are focused on building consistency and proficiency within a process.
• Facilitate/present the initial training sessions for a particular process.
• Ensure the management and training for a particular process is effectively transitioned back to the business after the completion of a project.
• Communicate status of the project to senior management.
• Serve as the single point of contact for project related issues that need to be escalated to senior management for resolution.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 5 years of business analysis experience.
• Must have Mortgage Originations experience as a BA in IT projects and supporting development and testing teams using Agile SDLC.
• Ability to work from Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, TX based client office.
• Proficiency in defining business problems and proposing solutions.
• Product, Process and Industry Knowledge.
• Experience on Microsoft VSTS or Jira tools
• Expert skills in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to utilize the following functions: V-Lookup, H-Lookup, Concatenating formulas, Conditional formatting, and Pivot Tables.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business or related field a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be proactive and solutions oriented business professional with the ability to interface with all levels of management across business units and functions.
• Must have document management and modeling skills.
  
  

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.)