Business Analyst or Product Owner - Lending focus, Banking & Financial Services Consulting

Business Analyst – Consultant, Banking & Financial Services ConsultingLocations: Chicago, Irving, Dallas - Texas, Cleveland, Columbus - Ohio

ABOUT USCognizant 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 CONSULTINGWithin 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 are growing!The RoleOur Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Consulting practice is looking for Business Analyst/s to join our team while we work on an exciting platform modernization engagement. This role is on-site at a client location.

We’re looking for a Consultant who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a senior consultant, this means creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership (with supervision) of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in People Care initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. 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!

ResponsibilitiesBusiness requirement gathering as experienced BA Developing Product management’s vision into use cases, features, and user stories for IT implementation · Collaborate with cross-functional team and partner with the Product owner/Product management teams to create the project roadmap and backlog of user stories· Independently research and conduct analysis on functional requirements including data mapping. Perform impact analysis on sub modules and also external systems wherever applicable·Groom and refine user stories with the help of Product owner and scrum team and document user stories in JIRA· Support development and testing team with progressive elaboration of specifications and acceptance criteria that are documented in user stories through regular grooming sessions· Leverage Daily team Stand up meetings for close co-ordination with development and QA team and ensure all impediments around requirements are addressed in timely manner to facilitate Factory Model execution· Review Test cases and identify gaps in test script for manual and automated testing· Support team in triaging issues found during testing· Support Line of Business users for User Acceptance Testing

QualificationBachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience BSA, BA OR Product Owner with 6 -10 years’ experience and deep domain expertise in Lending (retail commercial) in Banking & Financial Services is mandatoryExperience with JIRA, Confluence, Strong SQL skills, Data Analysis skills, Agile Experience (Epics, Stories, Working in Scrum/Sprint), Python (good to have)Loan IQ, ACBS platform experience is highly preferred Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical detailsDemonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratchExperience with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery modelAbility to handle ambiguity and white space.Demonstrated examples of building and launching productsThe 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 be on-site or at the client location or cognizant location as needed

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.)