Senior Consultant, General Insurance
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
Cognizants 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 & 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.
Essential Skills & Experience:
* Performed Senior Business Analysis/ Functional Consultant roles on complex Business & Technology Transformation Programmes, with Insurance clients; assisting them achieve their business, technology, strategic and operational goals.
* Previous experience of working in a similar capacity in other Consultancy or Insurance Industry.
* 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.
* Experience of managing a small to medium sized teams to execute mid-size program of work or of leading work streams within a larger program of work.
* Ability to develop creative strategic solutions to solve our clients business problems, and create accompanying execution roadmaps to implement the changes.
* Has worked in a global delivery environment and with distributed teams.
Personal Attributes:
* Ability to build strong relationships with clients and colleagues as well as on your own.
* Excellent communicator able to deliver a concise message either verbally, or in writing to senior internal and external stakeholders.
* Creative thinker, able to quickly analyse problems and identify appropriate solutions.
* Open-minded and pragmatic, with ability to guide teams to build customized tools/ templates for the engagements.
* Flexible and enthusiastic about gaining new experiences across different clients and adapting to different, challenging environments.
Contribution to Development of Practice:
* Contribute to practice activities such as Capability Development, Knowledge Management, Proposition or Solution Development.
* Develop focused industry points of view or white papers.
* Coach and Mentor members of the team.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
* Experience on industry specific solutions such as Guidewire, Duck Creek, Acturis.
* Formal Business Analysis (ISEB), Insurance domain accreditation.
Industry Experience:Deep experience of working within the Insurance industry or Insurance consulting, preferably within the General Insurance sector.
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 Worlds Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.
What we offer
* The chance to work with impact. Here, youre empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
* Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
* The opportunity to thrive on a high-calibre team with heart. We celebrate each others experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
* A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and pension plan with matching contributions.
* Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependentsfrom day one.
* True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.