Senior Consultant - P&C Insurance Domain - Cognizant Technology Solutions

Senior Consultant – Senior Business Analyst, P&C Insurance Domain

Remote

Insurance Consulting

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 ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and 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’re growing!

The Role

We’re looking for a SeniorConsultant, Insurance Consulting who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, you will analyze our insurance clients' business and technology challenges and build creative solutions to drive transformation. You will be responsible for participating in the requirements analysis process, developing strong working relationships with clients and team members, and building industry and domain expertise. Specifically, as a Business Analyst, you have the opportunity to deliver immediate value to clients by working with a project-based team of consultants.

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!

This role is for a Senior Business Analyst who will partner with our customers to assess and document business requirements, functional specifications and is knowledgeable in P&C insurance domain and can work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Exercise responsibility for one or more components of a consulting engagement for a client.

• Support or drive data-driven identification and analysis of solution requirement.

• Facilitate workshops with clients to elicit requirements as the basis for creating business requirements documents and user stories.

• Will independently ensure that the quality of a developed product has met the acceptance criteria for client delivery by providing in-depth knowledge of approved business and testing requirements, P&C Insurance domain.

• Monitor solution quality compliance to standards and conduct or facilitate structured solution walkthroughs.

• Conduct user acceptance testing and issue tracking / resolution.

• Support solution change or enhancement requests.

• Prepare and deliver solution training workshops and collateral for clients.

• Perform other project tasks as needed, such as competitive research, storyline development, and report preparation (e.g., acceptance, QA). 

• Develop a profound understanding of the Cognizant way, productive project collaboration skills and practice deliverables, collegial support and information-sharing practices, and exquisite client sensibilities.

• Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group to include executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

• Lead meetings with stakeholders to determine priorities and critical path items necessary to achieve defined objectives according to plan.

• Ability to lead daily stand-up meetings for BA/Tech/QA team members if team size requires.

• Ability to provide expert guidance in the understanding of the insurance product and business needs of the customer.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to generate and deliver informative and well-organized presentations.

• Ability to collaborate with a cross-geo business and technical team when nonstandard requirements / customization requests are identified to provide alternative business solutions and work arounds to meet the client’s needs.

• Ability to assist with program management activities such as Identification of project risks and collaborate with the team to implement mitigation plans that follow through to risk closure.

• Collaborate with team members (business, technical, quality) to ensure clarity and understanding of the business requirements, success criteria and outcomes desired by the client.

Qualifications

•        Bachelor’s Degree or 5+ years of related work experience.

•        Experience in technology consulting, professional services, or solution development projects within the Insurance industry.

•        Previous work experience within an Agile or similarly organized environment

•      Experience with a range of business process modeling and improvement, quality assurance, software development life cycle (SDLC),  and agile project management (JIRA) tools.

•        Business Analysis skills – user story creation etc.,

•        Insurance Domain knowledge – P&C 

•        Hands on experience to build process maps and functional requirements.

•        Ability to work with a team of BAs across shores and manage the requirements delivery.

•        Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way.

•       Travel Required: Yes
•       Location: Remote

 

Work Authorization

·   Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

Salary and Other Compensation:  

Applications will be accepted until 5/17/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between $95,000.00 to $130,000.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. 

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans. 

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:  

•    Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

•    Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off 

•    401(k) plan and contributions 

•    Long-term/Short-term Disability 

•    Paid Parental Leave 

•    Employee Stock Purchase Plan 

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.        

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Apr 09 2024

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) 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 is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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