The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 340,000 employees as of January 2024. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
Cognizant Insurance Consulting
Cognizant’s Insurance Consulting unit is seeking talented consultants with extensive business analysis and consultative experience of executing large scale business change and IT solutions for General Insurance UK & European Insurance clients. This role provides an opportunity to join a rapidly growing, high energy and entrepreneurial team working with leading UK & Europe based Insurance clients.
Purpose of the Role:
- Proven delivery track record across Insurance (Commercial, Personal lines), and be driven to build steady relationships across to provide value to our current and new clients. Work within a high energy and entrepreneurial Business & Technology Consulting Practice providing end to end Business Analysis services to UK & Ireland based Insurance clients.
- The role will focus on leading consulting and business analysis activities and providing Insurance clients with excellent business & technology Analysis services while at the same time contribute to the growth and vitality of both the local and global Insurance practices.
- It will also entail developing strong customer relationship and be a ‘Go-To’ person that client wants to bring back for future engagements.
Contribution to Development of Practice:
- Lead general Insurance accounts activities such as Domain Consulting, Business analysis and work closely with the Product owners.
- Support practice management activities such as Proposition or Solution Development, Community & Communications, Sales & Operations Management
- Contribute to Insurance Industry thought provoking ‘points of view’ or ‘white papers’
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Excellent understanding of the General Insurance Market in UK and Ireland and broking segments
- Ability to advance, communicate and deploy a clear vision, strategy, and approach.
- Strong years of experience in General Insurance and leading a team of business analysts
- Performed Business Analysis lead roles on complex Business & Technology Transformation Programmes, within Insurance clients; assisting them achieve their business, technology, strategic and operational goals
- Able to gather, prioritise, analyse, specify and validate requirements including the facilitation & co-ordination of user workshops
- Previous experience in effectively defining problem/scope, gathering/analysing data, and structuring recommendations, creating presentations, and making compelling recommendations to clients
- An appreciation for both business and technical requirements and the ability to bridge the gap between the two
- Continuous improvement mindset and proven ability to drive change initiatives and get things done.
- Full project life-cycle experience Business Analysis experience - with demonstrable knowledge of different project life cycles: waterfall, agile; with hands on experience in agile (Scrum)
- Experience of working in matrix environment and able to provide examples of proactively building and winning trust of relevant business/IT stakeholders
- Previous experience of working in a similar capacity in other Consultancy or Insurance Industry
- Excellent knowledge in General Insurance (Property & Casualty) Insurance concepts
- Robust understanding of industry drivers, technology, challenges, and market trends in the insurance industry.
- Ability to build relationships and act as a trusted advisor to clients, providing guidance on relevant market segments.
Personal Attributes:
- Self-motivated, proactive learner with a passion for driving new developments
- Ability and willingness to coach and mentor junior colleagues and foster their professional growth
- A ‘best practice practitioner’ Business Analyst (BA), with outstanding full project lifecycle Business Analysis skills
- Able to work on simultaneous projects
- Comfortable leading team, building strong relationships with clients and colleagues as well as on your own
- Comfortable facilitating workshops, e.g. to develop business requirements
- Organised and able to prioritise competing responsibilities
- Excellent engagement, communication skills (both written and verbal) and numeracy skills, able to deliver a concise messages
- Proficient in use of MS Visio and MS office suite, specifically excel
- Self-motivated, actively seeks responsibility and driven to achieve results
- Ability to challenge the status quo and disrupt thinking, suggesting viable alternatives
- Creative thinker, able to quickly analyse complex problems and identify appropriate solutions underpinned by logic and analytic approach
- Open-minded and pragmatic, willing to work with the tools available on assignment, or build them from scratch if required
- Demonstrable accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and ensure successful delivery of assigned tasks
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Degree educated or have a recognised business professional qualification
- Willing to Travel to client sites across UK &I Mon-Friday
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Experience of working within Agile delivery environments
- Experience of working in global delivery environment and with distributed teams
- Experience in configuring off the shelf system and integration with the existing applications
- Formal Business Analysis (ISEB), Insurance domain accreditation
Industry Experience:
General Insurance and corresponding functional domains.
Ce que nous offrons
- La possibilité d’avoir une carrière avec un impact. Ici, vous avez la possibilité de partager vos idées transformatrices pour aider notre entreprise et nos clients à améliorer le quotidien de tous.
- Prenez votre carrière en main grâce à notre écosystème d'apprentissage et de développement. Et lorsque vos ambitions changent ou que nous vous offrons de nouvelles occasions, nous vous aidons à pivoter en vous proposant des formations et des conseils pour trouver des postes qui pourraient mieux vous convenir.
- L’occasion de s'épanouir au sein d’une communauté diversifiée. Nous célébrons les expériences et perspectives d’autrui et encourageons un sentiment d'appartenance à travers nos groupes d'affinité et nos initiatives en matière de diversité et d'inclusion.
- Rémunération compétitive qui comprend un salaire concurrentiel et une pension avec des contributions équivalentes.
- Des prestations de soins de santé et financières flexibles pour vous soutenir, ainsi que vos personnes à charge admissibles, dès le premier jour au travail.
- Une vraie conciliation travail-vie personnelle. Nous offrons des vacances, des modalités de travail flexibles, des occasions de bénévolat, des événements sociaux et bien d’autres afin que vous puissiez être au mieux.
Cognizant est un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Votre candidature et votre dossier ne seront pas examinés en fonction de la race, de la couleur, du sexe, de la religion, des croyances, de l'orientation sexuelle, de l'identité de genre, de l'origine nationale, du handicap, de l'information génétique, de la grossesse, du statut d'ancien combattant ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée telle que décrite par les lois fédérales, provinciales ou locales.
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À propos de nous
Cognizant est l’un des leaders mondiaux des services professionnels. Nous transformons les modèles commerciaux, opérationnels et technologiques de nos clients pour les adapter à l’ère numérique. Notre approche consultative, basée sur une connaissance sectorielle, aide nos clients à concevoir, développer et gérer des entreprises plus innovantes et plus efficaces. Basée aux États-Unis, Cognizant (membre du NASDAQ-100 et l’un des meilleurs employeurs du monde en 2024 selon Forbes) figure régulièrement parmi les entreprises les plus admirées au monde. Découvrez comment Cognizant aide ses clients à garder une longueur d’avance grâce au numérique sur le site www.cognizant.com.