About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is where curious minds come together to solve complex challenges and create meaningful impact. Blending industry insight, technology expertise, and the power of AI, we partner with leading organizations to transform the way they work, serve customers, and grow.
About the role
As a Senior Consultant - General Insurance, you will make an impact by providing end-to-end Consulting and Business Analysis services to UK and Ireland based Insurance clients, helping them achieve their business, technology, strategic and operational goals while contributing to the growth and vitality of the wider Insurance practice. You will be a valued member of the Business and Technology Consulting Practice team and work collaboratively with business and IT stakeholders, practice colleagues, and clients.
In this role, you will
- Perform Business Analysis on complex Business and Technology Transformation programmes within Insurance clients, gathering, prioritising, analysing, specifying and validating requirements including facilitating and co-ordinating user workshops
- Build strong, constructive relationships with stakeholders, communicating clearly, managing expectations, and becoming a trusted 'Go-To' person clients want to bring back for future engagements
- Translate business problems into clear, compelling narratives and recommendations for diverse audiences, bridging the gap between business and technical requirements
- Define problem and scope, gather and analyse data, structure recommendations, and create and deliver compelling presentations to clients
- Support practice development activities such as proposition or solution development, community and communications, and sales and operations management, contributing thought-provoking points of view to the Insurance practice
Work model
At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2 to 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in London, United Kingdom. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
What you must have to be considered
- Excellent knowledge of General Insurance, with at least 5+ years of experience and corresponding functional domain expertise
- Full project life-cycle Business Analysis experience, with demonstrable knowledge of waterfall and agile and hands-on experience in agile (Scrum)
- Ability to gather, prioritise, analyse, specify and validate requirements, including facilitating and co-ordinating user workshops, and to bridge business and technical requirements
- Proven experience working in a matrix environment, proactively building and winning the trust of business and IT stakeholders, with previous experience in Consultancy or the Insurance industry
- Experience using AI tools across the life cycle to improve productivity and efficiency; degree educated or a recognised business professional qualification
These will help you succeed
- Experience of working within Agile delivery environments
- Experience of working in a global delivery environment and with distributed teams
- Experience configuring off-the-shelf systems and integrating with existing applications
- Formal Business Analysis (ISEB) or Insurance domain accreditation
- Proficiency with MS Visio and the MS Office suite
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
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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.
