Consulting Manager, ACBS Lending

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision

Life Insurance

PTO & Holidays

401(k)

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager for ACBS Lending to translate business needs into clear functional specifications for commercial lending and loan servicing projects. You will collaborate with business users, technology teams, QA, vendors, and clients to ensure alignment with requirements and timelines.

Responsibilities include gathering and documenting requirements, creating BRDs and user stories, supporting UAT, mapping ACBS data structures, and guiding ACBS implementations

Qualifications

• Strong experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Strong understanding of commercial lending and loan servicing processes and systems.
• Experience translating business requirements into functional specifications, process flows, use cases, BRDs, FSDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience facilitating requirement walkthroughs and collaborating across business, technology, QA, and external vendor teams.
• Experience supporting UAT planning, test case validation, and defect triage.
• Ability to analyze current-state processes and identify requirements for system or process improvements.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience ensuring project deliverables align with business objectives, compliance requirements, and delivery timelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business users to gather, analyze, and document detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements for commercial lending and loan servicing initiatives.
• Analyze current-state processes and systems and translate business needs into clear specifications, process flows, use cases, and system requirements.
• Develop BRDs, FSDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and facilitate requirement walkthroughs and review sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Support UAT planning, test case validation, defect triage, and cross-functional coordination to ensure solutions align with business goals, compliance requirements, and project timelines.
• Support ACBS-related initiatives, including documenting ACBS data structures, screens, and loan accounting functionality, mapping legacy platforms such as AFS to ACBS, and validating configurations and parameters against business requirements.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

UAT planning

Tools

ACBS

AFS

Job description

About Cognizant Consulting

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

About the role

As a Consulting Manager, ACBS Lending , you will make an impact by gathering, analyzing, and translating business requirements into clear functional specifications and solutions supporting commercial lending and loan servicing processes. You will be a valued member of the project team and work collaboratively with business users, technology teams, QA teams, external vendors, and clients.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with business users to gather, analyze, and document detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements for commercial lending and loan servicing initiatives.
• Analyze current-state processes and systems and translate business needs into clear specifications, process flows, use cases, and system requirements.
• Develop BRDs, FSDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and facilitate requirement walkthroughs and review sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Support UAT planning, test case validation, defect triage, and cross-functional coordination to ensure solutions align with business goals, compliance requirements, and project timelines.
• Support ACBS-related initiatives, including documenting ACBS data structures, screens, and loan accounting functionality, mapping legacy platforms such as AFS to ACBS, and validating configurations and parameters against business requirements.

Work model

The specific work arrangement for this role was not included in the requirements provided and should be defined based on business and client requirements.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you must have to be considered

• Strong experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Strong understanding of commercial lending and loan servicing processes and systems.
• Experience translating business requirements into functional specifications, process flows, use cases, BRDs, FSDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience facilitating requirement walkthroughs and collaborating across business, technology, QA, and external vendor teams.
• Experience supporting UAT planning, test case validation, and defect triage.
• Ability to analyze current-state processes and identify requirements for system or process improvements.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience ensuring project deliverables align with business objectives, compliance requirements, and delivery timelines.

These will help you succeed

• Hands-on knowledge of ACBS , including its data structures, screens, and loan accounting features.
• Experience mapping legacy lending systems, such as AFS, to ACBS for data conversion or integration.
• Experience validating ACBS configurations and parameter settings against business requirements.
• Previous experience supporting or leading an ACBS implementation in a Project Manager capacity.
• Experience coordinating commercial lending technology initiatives across business and technical stakeholders.

Salary and Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until 11/27/2026

The annual salary for this position is between $125,000 - $146,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.