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.
A comunidade Cognizant:
Somos uma equipe de alto calibre que aprecia e apoia uns aos outros. Nosso pessoal defende um local de trabalho enérgico, colaborativo e inclusivo, onde todos possam prosperar.
- A Cognizant é uma comunidade global com mais de 300,000 funcionários em todo o mundo.
- Não sonhamos apenas com um caminho melhor – nós fazemos acontecer.
- Cuidamos de nossas pessoas, clientes, empresa, comunidades e clima fazendo o que é certo.
- Promovemos um ambiente inovador onde você pode construir o plano de carreira certo para você.
Quem somos:
A Cognizant é uma das principais empresas de serviços profissionais do mundo, transformando os modelos de negócios, operação e tecnologia dos clientes para a era digital. Nossa abordagem consultiva exclusiva baseada no setor ajuda os clientes a visualizar, construir e administrar negócios mais inovadores e eficientes. Com sede nos EUA, a Cognizant (membro do NASDAQ-100 e uma das Melhores Empregadoras do Mundo da Forbes 2024) é consistentemente listada entre as empresas mais admiradas do mundo. Saiba como a Cognizant ajuda os clientes a liderar com o digital em nosso site.
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Disclaimer:
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