Senior Consultant - London Market Insurance

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Description
The Company

Cognizant 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 350,000 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

Cognizant's 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 & European 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 Business Analysis roles on complex Business & Technology Transformation Programmes, within Insurance clients; assisting them achieve their business, technology, strategic and operational goals
• Able to gather, prioritise, analyse, specify and validate requirements including the facilitation & co-ordination of user workshops
• Previous experience in effectively defining problem/scope, gathering/analysing data, and structuring recommendations, creating presentations, and making compelling recommendations to clients
• 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; with hands on experience in agile (Scrum)
• Experience of working in matrix environment and able to provide examples of proactively building and winning trust of relevant business/IT stakeholders
• Previous experience of working in a similar capacity in other Consultancy or Insurance Industry
• Excellent knowledge in London Market insurance covering both Lloyd's & Company market, up to date with Blueprint-2 market initiative, London Market messages, ACORD, ECF2, Subscription risk processing, Premium management, Premium & Claims settlements, Delegated Authority business, Prop & Non-Prop Treaty processing, Statutory Reporting.

Personal Attributes:

• A 'best practice practitioner' Business Analyst (BA), with outstanding full project lifecycle Business Analysis skills
• Able to work on simultaneous projects
• Comfortable working in a team, building strong relationships with clients and colleagues as well as on your own
• Comfortable facilitating workshops, e.g. to develop business requirements
• Organised and able to prioritise competing responsibilities
• Excellent engagement, communication skills (both written and verbal) and numeracy skills, able to deliver a concise messages
• Proficient in use of MS Visio and MS office suite, specifically excel
• Self-motivated, actively seeks responsibility and driven to achieve results
• Ability to challenge the status quo and disrupt thinking, suggesting viable alternatives
• Creative thinker, able to quickly analyse complex problems and identify appropriate solutions underpinned by logic and analytic approach
• Open-minded and pragmatic, willing to work with the tools available on assignment, or build them from scratch if required
• Demonstrable accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and ensure successful delivery of assigned tasks
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Degree educated or have a recognised business professional qualification
• Willing to Travel to client sites across UK &I Mon-Friday

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 of working within Agile delivery environments
• Experience of working in global delivery environment and with distributed teams
• Experience in configuring off the shelf system and integration with the existing applications
• Formal Business Analysis (ISEB), Insurance domain accreditation

Industry Experience:

• Deep experience of working within the London Market Insurance and corresponding functional domains.