Consumer Lending Consultant, BFS Consulting
Location: Chennai, Pune, Bangalore
ABOUT US
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program, and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we are growing!
The Role
Our Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Consulting practice is looking for Consultant / Senior Consultant to join our Consumer Lending group.
We’re looking for a Consultant / Senior Consultant who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a senior consultant, this means creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership (with supervision) of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in People Care initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times.
Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Define the vision for the team’s product
• Create a product roadmap based on this vision
• Manage the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
• Oversee all stages of product creation including design and development
• Develop user stories
• Monitor and evaluate product progress at each stage of the process
• Liaise with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
• Participate in Scrum meetings and product sprints
• Perform data analysis and create source-to-target mapping documents
• Lead functional testing efforts and coordinate/support User Testing for project release
• Drive user training, release communications and product rollout efforts in collaboration with business and technology teams
• Work with the program manager to create project health status updates
Qualification
• B.E/B.Tech or Master’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience
• Experience in banking or financial industry
• 8 -12 years of product management experience
• 5- 6 years of mortgage originations or servicing industry experience in Business Analyst and/or Product Owner roles
• Hands-on experience in POS, LOS, AUS and other key mortgage integrations is preferred
• Experience working in an Agile environment and lean methodology
• Experience in data mapping and vendor integrations is preferred
• Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical details
• Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch
• Experience with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model
• Ability to handle ambiguity and white space.
• Demonstrated examples of building and launching products
• The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Work as one, raise the bar, dare to innovate, do the right thing, own it
• Ability to be on-site or at the client location or cognizant location as needed
Interested candidates please feel free to share your updated resume to AthiAravinthkumar.Selvappandi@cognizant.com
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We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. 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 protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
Disclaimer:
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