Senior Consultant London Market Insurance in South West London - Cognizant

The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) 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 160,000 employees as of March 31, 2013. 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
Cognizants 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 Lloyds & 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 &IMon-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.

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