Cognizant - Fraud Business Analyst

Location - Preferably Pune or PAN India

Business Analyst in Fraud Risk Management

Level : Con & S Con

Location : Preferably Pune or PAN India

Education : BE/ MBA

Responsibilities :

- Gather detailed, specific, accurate, unambiguous business requirements and functional specifications

- Ensure Business analysis, Impact analysis, Gap analysis and System analysis are done to a high standard on defined projects and continuous improvement initiatives

- End to end delivery of book of work within the assigned project(s)/work stream(s). This requires involvement in all the phases of Agile.

- This involves, but is not limited to, analyzing problem at hand, writing Stories and other documents, taking walkthrough for Development and testing team, assisting business in UAT and act as a single point of contact for all the stakeholders

- Work with other business analysts on firm wide initiatives and participate in the Front to Back User testing / regression testing. Conducting walkthrough for Dev & QA team

- Assist with production support activities, when necessary, to help identify and resolve escalated production issues

Essential Competencies:

- Experience in the fraud risk management area in banking and finance domain

- Knowledge and experience of working in anti-fraud programs/products/solutions

- Ability to work with investigations, operations, technology, risk management and data and analytics teams to identify opportunities to enhance anti-fraud solutions

- Input Data analysis, data exploration, data mapping experience from Fraud perspective

- Ability to communicate anti-fraud roadmap and enhancements to key business partners to positively influence behavior

- Excellent business & data analysis skills with hand-on experience of conducting workshops with business, operations and technology stakeholders to author requirement specifications, user stories and impact assessment.

- Experience of executing engagements in large cross functional technology heavy initiatives.

- Data analysis using SQL/MS Excel is required

Qualifications and relevant experience:

Relevant experience of 4-8 years

Preferred Educational Qualification - MBA, BE, etc.

Preferred professional certification like CAMS, CAMI, SAFe PO/PM, CSM, CSPO

SDLC/Agile and IT BA experience is mandatory

Experience of working in products like Actimize, Mantas is a plus

Behavioral Competencies :

- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management and an ability to take ownership and independently deliver Structured, methodical thinker.

- Strong analytical capability, problem-solving skills

- Candidate must be diligent and proactive

- Good Team player

- Ability and drive to learn quickly and independently

- Self-motivated and proven ability to work with little supervision

- Effective time management able to work under pressure and meet deadlines for both project related and non-project related tasks