Cognizant - Business Solutions - BFSI/BPO

Cognizant is one of the fastest growing tier one IT/ITES organizations. The Banking and Financial services BPO division within Cognizant has grown at a CAGR of 50% plus since its inception in 2007. We are looking for experienced candidates to join our presales team based in Hyderabad.

Designation: Business Solutions Manager / Senior Business Analyst / Business Analyst

Job Description:-

RFI/RFP responses:

- Understands the client context and owns the creation of RFI/RFP response and proposal documents

- Plays the roles of solution architect and bid manager to ensure high quality and timely submissions

- Manages relationships with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure inflow of required inputs

- Acts as the single point of contact for the onsite sales / account management teams

- Assists in building the financial / pricing models

Customer visits:

- Anchors the customer / prospect visits by owning content preparation and logistics readiness

Collateral preparation:

- Creates offering brochures, capability presentations, case studies and points of view

Special assignments:

- Engages in special and short term projects from time to time on a need basis – onsite due diligence, transition support, industry / market / competition research, account mining, process consulting, program management support

Team management:

- Motivates and manages the direct reports

- Ensures career planning and progression of the direct reports

Skill set / Profile (Must):

- 2 to 8 years of experience in presales / sales support activities (mentioned above) in the outsourcing industry

- Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills

- Exposure to either BFS vertical or BPO horizontal

- Ability to simulateneously work on multiple assignments when required

- Willingness to stretch beyond regular hours when required

Skill set / Profile (Preferred):

- MBA from one of the top 25 Indian business schools

- Exposure to one or more of the following sub-domains – Mortgage, cards & payments, retail banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, wealth management

- Exposure to onsite due diligence and transition assignments

- People from the BFS BPO presales teams of one of the following competing organizations – TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Mahindra Satyam, Genpact, WNS global, First Source, Accenture, IBM, CSC, Capgemini


- Candidates with 2 to 4 years of relevant experience are requested to send the profiles to the Email ID tulasi.alapati@cognizant.com with the subject line as "BA/SBA - BFS BPO presales"

- Candidates with 5 to 8 years of relevant experience are requested to send the profiles to the Email ID tulasi.alapati@cognizant.com with the subject line as "BSM - BFS BPO presales".