Job Description

Cognizant Business Consulting   Cognizant Business Consulting (CBC) is a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 3,400 consultants worldwide, Cognizant Business Consulting (CBC) 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 CBC team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner.    Cognizant Banking & Financial Services (BFS)   We help financial services firms improve their performance by supporting major transformation initiatives combining business, operation and technology solutions that drive differentiation, efficiency, effectiveness, innovation and virtualization.  When you choose Cognizant, you benefit from deep industry expertise to help manage risk, comply with regulations, enhance products and services and deliver on your business transformation challenges.  Our BFS clients include six of the top 10 U.S. banks and four of the top 10 European banks.    We offer our clients the full spectrum of transformation consulting services including strategy, business and domain consulting, industry best practices and transformation planning including process engineering, target operating models, technology platform rationalization, application development, maintenance, business process services, outsourcing  as well as our global delivery expertise, from front office to back office Cognizant BFS group specializes in supporting the following banking and financial services industry segments investment banking, broker dealers, asset management, investment management, asset servicing, private banking, wealth management, retail banking, institutional banking, and cards and payments. -------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Role: Business Analyst Consultant, Axiom Location: Greater Toronto Area   Qualifications Our main focus for this project are the following:   Preferred Qualifications - MBA, MS in finance, CFA, or relevant Post-Graduate/University degree University from reputed institution - 3 or  more years of proven consulting experience gathering and analyzing business requirements, and drafting functional designs to deliver  large-scale enterprise software implementation(s) in Capital Markets, Risk Management - Excellent understanding of Capital Market/Risk Management business process - Practical experience in capturing client requirements, mapping processes, conducting hypotheses based analysis, creating business cases, evaluating and presenting solutions - Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment, and manage multiple task assignments - Ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary - Ability to develop client relationships and comfortably interact with senior level clients - Strong work ethic with a commitment to client service excellence - Strong project management, presentation, and facilitation skills - Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment - Axiom knowledge along with the usual BA and Regulatory Skillset   Who we are looking for? - Motivated self-starter who has natural curiosity. Collaborative Problem Solver. - IT Business Analyst background, 5-7 years with experience around Finance systems, Regulatory reporting a Plus - Experience with Finance Reporting projects with multi-platform, big data. - Technical skills required, ability to write intermediate to advanced queries using SQL, Python to assist team in retrieving data for relevant analysis - Background/Exposure to Capital Markets and Finance. - Techno-functional skills in business requirements and data analysis - Medium to large project experience interacting with client teams, consultants, and vendors - Excellent verbal, written and inter-personal communication skills   Role and Responsibilities You will play an important role with responsibilities that range from analyzing a client's issues/objectives and interviewing key client stakeholders to developing recommendations and authoring presentations.  You will participate and lead teams in both strategic advisory and transformation projects.    Responsibilities include: - Work directly with our clients providing consulting services designed to help them solve their most complex business and technology issues - Deliver outstanding client results, direct client personnel, prepare work plans, facilitate client teams to implement recommendations - Draw conclusions from the market /industry trends, client issues and support go to market initiatives for Cognizant - Contribute to research, design and writing of articles/whitepapers and participate as a team member in collateral development - Support business development activities in the form of gathering best practices for RFI/RFP responses and writing proposals - Proactively support team building and on boarding efforts via mentoring - Help strengthen client's confidence in Cognizant and Cognizant's ability to deliver   At Cognizant, we are continually looking to add star-quality talent to our Team.  Please see our website at www.cognizant.com for project credentials and additional information.   Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Cognizant is committed to ensuring that all current and prospective associates are afforded equal opportunities and treatment and a work environment free of harassment.