Manager - Consulting, Crypto Currency Specialist

Manager, Banking & Financial Services Consulting

Crypto & Digital Asset Solutions Consultant

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. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. 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

Our Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Consulting practice is looking for a Crypto & Digital Asset Solutions Consultant to join our growing practice. BFS Consulting is looking for Management Consulting Professionals who to bring a unique mix of business and technology expertise to help our clients develop strategic plans that define how we can create value for an organization. If you join us, you’ll be part of our growth story as we help build expertise across ones of our most to the industry. We’re looking for leaders who have depth in subject matter and evolving trends and have the consulting abilities to develop innovative solutions and lead clients through that transformation.

Specifically, we are seeking a Solution or Product Development Consulting professional adept at leveraging their business, operations, and technology experience in Banking, Asset or Wealth Management, and Capital Markets to study the emergence of crypto currencies and emerging digital assets innovations in traditional finance across the business value-chains. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in an agile environment where shaping practical solutions for client speed-to-market needs, operating model capabilities. and introduction of value through key partnerships will be crucial for success. This role requires a multi-faceted perspective where rapidly evolving topics around clients' crypto and digital asset needs can be studied and solutioned from business, markets, regulatory, technology and social perspectives.

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 embrace complexity and 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

• Serve as an Engagement Manager and Crypto / Digital Domain Expert; apply knowledge to identify, assess, and solve business problems for Front Office exposure FO Trade Support roles for Banking & Financial Services clients
• Lead the development of solution approach, plan, roadmap, conceptual architecture, Target Operating Models and Standard Operating Procedures for implementing technology in banks.
• Drive and support the development of our crypto service offerings, value-added solutions for clients, marketing and our operating model capabilities.
• Given the nascent stage of crypt/digital assets, clients' needs are expected to range from strategy formulation, market landscape / ecosystem rationalization and validation, and solution implementations and ongoing evolutions. These efforts are against a backdrop of highly uncertain regulatory expectations which will require being familiar with market participants registration status, impacts from evolving crypto/digital asset regulations, and emergence of new technology innovations / vendors.
• Must be comfortable getting deep into the content of new digital asset regulations, technologies and solutions.
• Will be working with BFS leaders across capital markets, wealth/investment mgmt. and banking as well as industry solutions leaders to develop crypto / digital asset service offerings which range across the full gamut of client needs from strategy to implementation.
• Ability to translate core domain ideas in the space around complex and technical concepts and present executive level narratives for both client facing, go-to-market and internal campaigns in developing an operating model of capabilities to support our clients crypto/digital assets needs across key segments (retail direct, wealth advisory and institutional client needs).

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a Consulting, Banking, or a Professional Services organization, at least 8 of which include driving engagements for clients.
• Experience within the financial services industry across banking and capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance or private equity supporting either retail or institutional businesses; or experience working with crypto-native organizations.
• Demonstrated personal leadership and the ability to manage multiple assignments and direct teams on major engagements within the financial services domain; the ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary.
• Technical knowledge paired with a collaborative approach and the ability to work with diverse teams across multiple client engagements in the F2000 to help drive successful business outcomes
• The ability to sell client work as part of your role in the practice
• A Bachelors or master’s degree in a field that supports the pursuit of above
• Ability to travel when needed for client engagements; while travel has currently decreased, there may be future needs to travel up to 75%
• The ability to create consulting work-product, including demonstrated proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Knowledge of Data Visualization tools (Tableau, Microsoft Power BI etc.), and SQL as an intermediate skilled user

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.)