Job Business Analyst in Toronto

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.

Qualifications

• 4 to 6 years business analysis experience, supporting medium to large size projects
• 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
• Proven experience and subject matter expertise in business/systems analysis in any 1 of the following functions – Market Risk, Trading Credit Risk, BCAR reporting, Finance / P&L attribution, FRTB
• Excellent understanding of Capital Market/Risk Management business process
• MBA, MS in finance, CFA, or relevant Post-Graduate/University degree University from reputed institution

Strong knowledge of:

• Software design principles and development best practices in the full life cycle Standard business analysis tools, diagrams, and methodology
• Time management and the successful engagement of multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Superior troubleshooting, problem-solving and communication skills and detail oriented work ethic
• Ability to help manage software releases, and schedules, and to work closely with other Business Analysts and Project Managers to create the appropriate documentation that captures and moves Business needs forwards
• Superior troubleshooting, problem solving, communication (spoken and written), and management skills
• Sound knowledge and understanding of data structures, XML and Relational databases. Ability to write basic SQL queries required to analyze large volumes of data.

Consulting Skills Required

Consulting experience in the following areas:

• 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
• Attention to details and quality of deliverables

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Experience managing teams is a plus
• Master’s level degree in Business/Management highly preferred