senior consultant

2 months ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Cognizant Full time

Senior Consultant - Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) administration

Banking & Financial Services Consulting

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
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 is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner.
And we're growing

The Role

The Capital Markets Practice of our Banking and Financial Services Consulting Group is looking for Senior Consultant to join our journey.
We're looking for someone who.

This includes having the capabilities to deliver business process and re-engineering solutions by effectively defining problem/scope, gathering/analyzing data, and structuring recommendations, creating presentations, and making compelling recommendations to clients.

We're looking for Senior Consultants 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 Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.
g.
, Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects.
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


• A Hands-on development and documentation of business requirements for system enhancements and operational changes.


• Analyze current ETF administration processes and identify areas for improvement and efficiency.


• Assist in developing and managing product roadmap, driving prioritization of features while balancing customer and business impacts.


• Collaborate with IT and operational teams to implement process improvements and automation solutions.


• Support the strategic initiatives of the client's ETF product offerings.


• Requirements documentation and modeling operational processes in detail.


• 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.


• Able to design functional flow and data flow diagrams to articulate requirements.


• Clearly communicate business priorities to partners in tech, design, and controls


• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with all stakeholders.

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


• Minimum 7 years of business analysis experience in Capital markets, trading applications, securities lending, securities finance within banking and financial services industry


• Experience of working in programs involving US ETF Administration - daily operations of Exchange traded fund (ETF) products, index funds, investment funds, including order processing, trade settlements, and reconciliations, creation and redemption processes


• Familiarity with processes involving coordination with NSCC, custodians, fund accountants, and transfer agents to maintain operational efficiency.


• Proficient in Agile methodologies


• Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch.


• Experience with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model.


• Ability to handle ambiguity and white space


• Chicago preferred but open to other locations on case-to-case basis


• Ability to travel when needed for a project .



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