Senior Consultant – Corporate Banking Permanent

Job Description:
Role: Senior Consultant – Corporate Banking
Base Location: Singapore
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) 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 is ranked 185 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 or follow
The Cognizant Difference – Helping our Clients Win In Digital
At Cognizant Consulting, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game-across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge. Our strategy is built around elevating business and industry understanding of the aspirations and unique abilities of our clients and by building these relationships based on trust and value.
Role Responsibilities

• Working on client’s business operations and IT initiatives
• Organizing and participating stakeholder discussions / workshops for carrying out business analysis, defining solution alternatives, building consensus and obtaining sign-off.
• Documenting client discussions, analysis findings and the recommended solution in clear and concise manner
• Own the squad functionally to ensure functional completeness of requirements
• Supporting the engagement team during functional validation and deployment of the solution
• Effectively interacting with stakeholders across various business, operations, and IT teams
• Independently managing assigned work streams and ensure high quality deliverables
• Developing strong working relationships with clients and ensure positive client feedback
• Supporting system integration testing and user acceptance testing cycles for cash management projects

Skills and Experience

• About 6-8 years of experience as a business analyst, preferably in a consulting or IT services vendor firm with exposure to methodologies and frameworks for business analysis
• Hands-on experience in process documentation, business analysis, management consulting
• At least 4 years of experience in corporate banking / financial services is must; more the better
• Payments or Cash management, lending experience preferred
• Post graduate qualification (Master’s) in Finance / IT or an MBA from a reputed Institution
• Expert in corporate banking in any of the domains like Payments, Trade Finance, Lending
• Proficient in requirements management, requirements gathering techniques, interviews, workshops, document analysis, surveys, business process mapping/ modeling, use cases, user stories, scenarios, gap analysis, business entity models, data analysis, mock-ups, workflow analysis, functionality drilldown, non-functional requirements (NFR) analysis and solution definition
• Knowledge of SDLC (Waterfall / Agile), UML diagrams, typical BRD/ functional specs templates
• Experience in User story writing
• Ability to conduct well-structured discussions with business, operations and IT stakeholders
• Ability to independently plan, carry out and track assigned tasks and ensure their timely completion
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office suite, including Visio and MS Project
• Ability to perform in challenging deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and strong analytical skills
• Experience in digitalization projects in banking/financial services preferred
• Ability to lead a team.