Consultant - Business Analyst (P&C commercial Lines, Policy Systems Administration)

Location: Hartford, CT

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 atwww.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 fora Business Analyst, Insurance Consultingwho 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.

Responsibilities:

• Strong documentation capability and adept to design process flows depicting the future state based on current pain points.
• Review the quality of documented stories and assess the Acceptance criteria to ensure they are meeting the guidelines.
• Work with the BA team and Tech Leads to ensure requirements are clear.
• Work with BA team to ensure they are owning the demo of the system to business users during Sprint demo, UAT.
• Work with technical team to triage the defects and help in root cause analysis. Streamline process to minimize defects due to missed requirements.
• Ability to support account team to publish multiple reports to keep Cognizant leadership informed.
• Ability to think out of box and generate new ideas to do things better.

Qualifications:

• Around 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst Including demonstrated experience in business and functional requirements elicitation, translation, and documentation.
• Should possess Policy systems admin experience with P&C commercial lines and middle market segment
• Should have consulting skills, including effective communication, expectation management, and results delivery.
• Proven ability to be a "servant leader" in a non-hierarchical environment, adopting an Agile attitude that evolves with thebusiness.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Information Systems or similar field.
• Background in Management Education - Master's degree preferred.

Location: Hartford, CT

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.)

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : May 14 2024

About Cognizant

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