Cognizant - Product Manager - Payments - Corporate Banking Segment

- Working on client's business operations and IT initiatives

- Organizing and participating in stakeholder discussions/workshops for carrying out business analysis, defining solution alternatives, building consensus, and obtaining sign-off.

- Documenting client discussions, analysis findings, and the recommended solution in a clear and concise manner

- Supporting the engagement team during functional validation and deployment of the solution

- Effectively interacting with stakeholders across various business, operations, and IT teams

- Independently managing assigned work streams and ensuring high quality deliverables

- Develop strong working relationships with clients and ensure positive client feedback

- Assisting client onboarding for cross-functional applications.

- Supporting system integration testing and user acceptance testing cycles for cash management projects

- Supporting practice deliveries like RFPs and domain collaterals

Skills :

- Proficient in requirements management, requirements gathering techniques, interviews, workshops, document analysis, surveys, business process mapping/ modeling, use cases, user stories, scenarios, gap analysis, business entity models, data analysis, mock-ups, workflow analysis, functionality drill down, non-functional requirements (NFR) analysis, and solution definition

- Knowledge of SDLC (Waterfall / Agile), UML diagrams, typical BRD/ functional specs templates

- Ability to conduct well-structured discussions with business, operations, and IT stakeholders

- Ability to independently plan, carry out and track assigned tasks and ensure their timely completion

- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite, including Visio and MS Project

- Ability to perform under challenging deadlines

- Excellent Stakeholder Management skills and interpersonal skills

- Strong attention to detail and strong analytical skills

- Experience in digitalization projects in banking/financial services.

- Experience in client presentations with hands-on experience on RFP and RFI's preferred.

Work experience :

- Experience as a business analyst, preferably in a consulting or IT services vendor firm with exposure to methodologies and frameworks for business analysis

- Hands-on experience in process documentation, business analysis, and management consulting

- At least 8 years of experience in banking / financial services is a must; the more the better

- Good understanding of the corporate payments landscape.

- Well-versed with payment workflows. Understanding of ISO file formats for payments and cash management is preferred.