Consulting Analyst

**Business Analyst, Cognizant Consulting**

**Banking & Financial Services**

**Location: Canada or Mexico**

**ABOUT US**

**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 **Business Analysts** who can deliver within **Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence**: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Business Analyst, 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 PeopleCare initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

**Responsibilities**
- Work closely with Product Owners to understand requirements, drive the creation of user stories
- Communicate, translate, and simplify business requirements to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders
- Ensure knowledge transition to the development team and act as functional expert to clarify any functional doubts
- Evaluate business processes, gathering detailed requirements and uncovering areas for improvement.
- Create detailed user stories and use cases.
- Document and communicate the results of the efforts to development team and upper management.
- Serve as a liaison between stakeholders and developers.
- Demonstrate newly developed features and enhancements to stakeholders.
- Assess change-proposals and define solutions to help the organization achieve its goals
- Discover, organize, and clarify business needs and review/produce specifications for change
- Work with the Technical Analyst and development team to ensure that they understand the specifications.
- Conduct business process modeling and generate applicable scenarios for the technology functionality testing team.
- Knowledge of proper requirements specification and development, such as process/functional requirements definition methods, JAD/RAD sessions, use case development, process flow diagrams
- Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience business system analysis experience.
- Proven experience as a BA in IT project and supporting development and testing teams using Agile SDLC
- B2B Integration experience involving multiple systems
- System Analyst background
- Hands on experience working with:

- creating XML/JSON Samples
- Posting XML/JSON Requests
- Receiving XML/JSON Responses
- Acknowledgment (ACK) Messages
- Negative Acknowledgment (NACK) Messages
- Status Messages
- Writing B2B System to System Scenario Flows

**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.)