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.
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 providing Re-Insurance clients with excellent business & technology Business Analysis services while at the same time contribute to delivering a major Global Reinsurance program. It will also entail developing strong customer relationship and be a ‘Go-To’ person that client wants to bring back for future engagements.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong experience in Reinsurance / General Insurance
- Extensive or expert level Reinsurance knowledge is must
- Knowledge / work experience across reinsurance value chain
- Performed Business Analysis roles on complex Business & Technology Transformation Programmes, within Insurance clients; assisting them achieve their business, technology, strategic and operational goals
- Lead program discovery and analysis workshops.
- Able to gather, prioritize, analyze, specify and validate requirements including the facilitation & co-ordination of user workshops
- Previous experience in effectively defining problem/scope, gathering/analyzing 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
- 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
Personal Attributes:
- A ‘best practice practitioner’ Business Analyst (BA), with outstanding full project lifecycle Business Analysis skills
- Able to work on simultaneous projects
- Comfortable working in a team, building strong relationships with clients and colleagues as well as on your own
- Stay aligned with Reinsurance business strategy, provide suggestions to improve solution, and assist with direction of roadmap.
- Comfortable facilitating workshops, e.g. to develop business requirements
- Organized and able to prioritize competing responsibilities
- Excellent engagement, communication skills (both written and verbal) and numeracy skills, able to deliver a concise message
- 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 analyze 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 recognized business professional qualification
- Willing to Travel to client sites across UK &I Mon-Friday
- Contribution to Development of Practice:
- Support practice management activities such as Proposition or Solution Development, Community & Communications, Sales & Operations Management
- Contribute to Insurance / Reinsurance Industry thought provoking ‘points of view’ or ‘white papers’
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Experience of working in Reinsurance COTS product like Sapiens or SAP
- 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
- Experience of working with SQL scripting and data analysis is desirable
Industry Experience:
Re insurance / General Insurance and corresponding functional domains.
La communauté Cognizant :
Nous sommes une équipe de professionnels dont les membres s'apprécient et se soutiennent mutuellement. Nos collaborateurs sont les garants d'un lieu de travail dynamique, collaboratif et inclusif où chacun peut s'épanouir.
- Cognizant est une communauté mondiale qui compte plus de 300 000+ collaborateurs dans le monde entier.
- Nous ne nous contentons pas de rêver de façons idéales, nous apportons des améliorations concrêtes
- Nous prenons soin de nos collaborateurs, de nos clients, de notre entreprise, de nos communautés et du climat, en faisant ce qui est juste.
- Nous favorisons un environnement innovant où vous pouvez construire le plan de carrière qui vous convient.
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.
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