Are you an experienced Business Analyst who can bring structure to complex data and business challenges? Cognizant is looking for a Lead Business Analyst to lead business discovery for a strategically important Party Master Data Management initiative within financial services. You will work closely with business areas, group functions, data specialists, architects, and governance stakeholders to translate enterprise needs into validated requirements and practical target processes.
What you will do
Plan, lead, and facilitate discovery workshops across business areas and group functions.
Translate business objectives and stakeholder needs into clear requirements, use cases, business rules, and target processes.
Define ownership, decision rights, and governance requirements for Party and Customer master data.
Assess current processes, identify gaps, dependencies, and improvement opportunities, and help shape the future-state operating model.
Drive prioritisation, requirements traceability, validation, and formal stakeholder sign-off.
Produce clear, decision-ready documentation and ensure alignment between business, data, architecture, and delivery teams.
Support roadmap development, implementation planning, and business-case inputs.
What you bring
8+ years of experience in business analysis, preferably within complex enterprise transformation programs.
Strong experience with Party or Customer Master Data Management, customer-data initiatives, or related data-governance programs.
Solid banking or broader financial-services experience, including work in regulated environments.
Proven ability to lead workshops, manage senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and build consensus across functions.
Excellent requirements, process-modelling, traceability, and documentation skills.
A structured and pragmatic mindset, with the ability to turn ambiguity into clear decisions and actionable outcomes.
Availability to work on-site in Stockholm as required.
About Cognizant
Cognizant is a global technology and professional services company helping leading organizations modernize technology, reimagine processes, and transform experiences. In Sweden, we combine local market understanding with global expertise across financial services, data, cloud, engineering, and AI to help clients address complex challenges and create measurable value.
Why join us?
Play a leading role in a high-visibility enterprise data transformation.
Work with experienced colleagues across business consulting, data, architecture, and technology.
Gain exposure to complex banking challenges where your analysis will directly influence decisions, governance, and delivery.
Develop your career in a collaborative international organization that values teamwork, ownership, integrity, innovation, and continuous learning.
Combine Cognizant’s global capabilities with close collaboration alongside Nordic clients and stakeholders.
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: 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.
- Inclusion: 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.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap 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, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
