About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is the consulting arm of Cognizant, comprising 6,000+ experts globally who help Fortune 500 clients reimagine their businesses. The practice blends industry insight, technology advisory, and transformation expertise to deliver innovative solutions across sectors such as Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Energy, Utilities, Retail.
About the Role
As a Credit Risk Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in bridging business and technology for leading financial institutions. You will collaborate with stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams to design and deliver solutions that enhance credit risk reporting and regulatory compliance. This role demands strong domain expertise in Credit Risk models (LGD, PD, EAD), hands-on experience with LEF and SCCL reporting, and a solid understanding of AIRB/FIRB frameworks.
Location: Chennai
Notice Period: Immediate to 60 days
Years of Experience: 4 to 14 Years
Job Description
• Credit Risk knowledge – hands on experience in Credit Risk reporting like LEF , SCCL. understanding AIRB / FIRB models
• IT BA experience
• Hands on SQL
• Agile project execution
• Good presentation and communication skills
Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree. Specialization in Business, Finance, Engineering, Math or Sciences is desirable.
- Experience in financial risk management , credit risk , credit risk model (LGD,PD,EAD) – hands on experience in LEF, ESN, and SCCL
- Experience in identifying and assessing key business processes , understanding of data ingestion from FO especially in EOD c format
- Experience in Basel regulation
- Experience working in Agile projects, using Jira, creating user stories, and overall knowledge of the Agile Framework.
Skills and Competencies:
- Ability to quickly learn organizational structure, business strategies and processes
- Good knowledge of Capital Markets, Risk Management and reporting
- Should have sound understanding of financial instruments basics- loans , deposits , repos , seclending
- Specific Domain skills : Finance & Risk Experience in Functional analysis on Liquidity reporting / Credit Risk credit risk model (LGD,PD,EAD)
- AIRB models – credit exposure calculation
- Lead discussions on detailed requirement phases identifying, tracking, escalating and/or resolving business systems issues
- Knowledgeable on business process modeling, process mapping
- Knowledge of IT delivery methodologies: Agile, Iterative Waterfall and Waterfall
- Write clear and well-structured business requirements documents, User stories if required.
- Advanced ability to resolve minor conflicts/issues using different tactics for prior to escalation
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Attributes:
- Business acumen
- Able to deal with ambiguity
- Analytical thinker, detailed-oriented with good problem solving skills
- Results oriented
- Organized with strong time management skills
- Ability to work independently
If you are interested, please share your updated resume with [email protected].
Subject Line: Credit Risk Business Analyst, BFS Consulting
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
