Senior Consultant

2 weeks ago

ChicagoIL N laSalleSt, United States Cognizant Full time

Senior Consultant

Banking & Financial Services Consulting

location: Chicago/ Richmond/ Virginia/Remote

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 Senior Consultant to join our journey.

We’re looking for Senior Consultants 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 Senior Consultant 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

  • Working with clients to define and execute product roadmaps and implementation roadmaps
  • Working with clients on driving end to end transformation or launch of payment capabilities for core payment rails including (one or more of the below)
    • ACH
    • RTP – TCH/ FedNow
    • Zelle
    • SWIFT
    • FedWire

  • Effectively manage engagement deliverables, risks and issues
  • Develop & document policies for managing digital content for clients
  • Ability to apply deep subject knowledge in the internal banking policy-making environment
  • Familiarity with Intranet / internet technologies and the related policy environments
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to convey trends and data analysis in verbal and visual mediums
  • Polished business writing skills; Abily to articulate thoughts into words; Familiar with policy documentation

· Act as a trusted resource who understands client objectives, manages project, and leads team to deliver superior results

· Identify and support areas to build practice capabilities and presence, support service line development and case studies through the gathering of industry best practices and self-knowledge

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience, with additional certifications preferred, but not mandatory

  • 10+ years of business analysis experience in experience in the banking / financial services industry with focus on payment card network

· Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch.

  • Strong understanding of enterprise payment platform architecture , protocols (ISO 20022, NACHA, MX ), fraud management and security standards.
  • Strong understanding of payment clearing and settlement processes for gross and net settlements
  • Knowledge of cross border payment processing and associated AML checks, sanction screening , fraud management etc
  • Experience on one or more of the leading enterprise payment hubs or core payment products – Dovetail, GPP, Volante, TPH, ACI MTS, ACI Enterprise payment hub
  • It would be advantageous to have experience in managing large-scale payments payment transformation programs e.g.
    • Payment Platform modernization (Cloud migration, re-architecture or platform migration) supporting ACH, Wires or Real time payments
    • MT to MX conversion or ISO20022 adoption
    • Launching Zelle, FedNow or RTP-TCH for large banks
  • Knowledge of Automated AP and AR payment processing is good to have
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to anticipate future trends and adapt network strategies accordingly.
  • Excellent relationship management skills,
  • Leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and guide cross-functional teams towards a common goal.

· Personal leadership and a 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.

· Ability to travel if needed for business requirements

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.)

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

  • 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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.


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