Senior Manager (Payments) - Banking & Financial Consulting Services

Senior Manager Consulting (payments), Cognizant Consulting

Banking & Financial Services 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. 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

The ideal candidate will leverage their extensive domain expertise to drive impactful consulting projects ensuring client satisfaction and contributing to the company's growth. This role requires a strategic thinker who can translate complex financial concepts into actionable insights.

We're looking for Senior Consulting Managers 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. At the Senior Manager / Associate Director Level, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

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!

Responsibilities

* Lead consulting projects in Finance and Accounting ensuring timely and successful delivery, Oversee the development and implementation of financial strategies for clients, Provide expert advice on financial planning analysis and reporting.

* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with client objectives, develop and maintain strong client relationships to understand their financial needs.

* Conduct thorough financial assessments and identify areas for improvement, design and implement financial controls and processes to enhance efficiency.

* Monitor industry trends and incorporate best practices into consulting engagements, Prepare detailed financial reports and presentations for clients.

* Ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations and standards, Mentor and guide junior consultants to foster their professional growth.

* Utilize data analytics to provide actionable financial insights, drive continuous improvement initiatives within the consulting practice.

• Serve as the Engagement Lead and manage teams of Consultants, Senior Consultants, and Managers for one or more commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, well-aligned solution-delivery-to-plan, clear engagement governance accountabilities, profitability, and overall client satisfaction

* Enrich client partnering and anticipate client needs based on a solid understanding of emerging industry requirements and/or technological breakthroughs in Banking & Financial Consulting Services

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* Ensures the appropriate alignment and collaboration of consulting teams and individuals to support project requirements and activities in the focus area and within larger Cognizant and client ecosystems;

• Serve as a people leader, supporting the recruitment, onboarding, upskilling, and mentorship of your colleagues in Consulting; participate in people development and community-building activities
• Guide development, provide feedback, and conduct performance reviews;
• Develop and manage the capture, communication, and sharing of intellectual property (IP) and project artifacts for a focus area, domain area, or practice management area;
• Exercise leadership in the development of Consulting service offerings;
• Leverage collegial networks across Cognizant (e.g., sales, service line community, offshore delivery) and externs partners to innovate solutioning or resolve issues; and
• Support and contribute to the establishment of thought leadership in the industry, to promote Cognizant's brand and to drive additional opportunities for Cognizant.

Qualifications

• 15 + years of consulting, professional services, digital strategy development, advisory, or transformation programs operating in a client-facing capacity serving and leading external client engagements
• A proven track record in a client-facing role with at least 2 of which (though ideally more) are leading digital technology team

* Experience in successfully developing and leading consultant teams in consultant tasks (e.g., planning, task structuring, analysis, solution delivery)

* Works with Cognizant account stakeholders (e.g., CPs, CRMs), technology partners (e.g., Amazon) and other business allies to identify consulting opportunities or develop winning proposals

* Contingent on experience and expertise, demystify emerging technologies, and translates innovations (e.g., computer-aided medical diagnostic, AI, Machine Learning, hybrid cloud) into the business impact benefits clients can understand

* Regularly contribute to the practice by developing practice initiatives, research on industry trends, knowledge repositories; develop reusable consultative strategies and solutioning approaches in support of business development and expansion activities

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant business or technical discipline; MBA or Master's or advanced business degree preferred
• Travel as needed

* Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes

* The embodiment of Cognizant's Core Values of: Work as one, Raise the bar, Dare to innovate, Do the right thing, Own it

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.)