Remote Consulting Manager, Horizon Banking Analyst

Cognizant; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 110,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager – Horizon Business Analyst to translate banking needs into clear functional requirements for Horizon Core Banking implementations. You will lead analysis activities, facilitate workshops, and act as a liaison between business and technical teams in a remote US setting.

Applicants should have 7+ years in banking/financial services BA, with Horizon platform experience and strong facilitation, documentation, and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in Business Analysis within banking or financial services.
• Hands‑on working and/or implementation experience with the FIS Horizon Core Banking platform.
• Strong Business Analysis experience, including requirements elicitation, documentation, process analysis, gap analysis, and functional requirements definition.
• Strong knowledge of retail and commercial banking processes, products, and core banking operations, with experience supporting core banking implementations, transformations, upgrades, enhancements, or modernization programs.
• Excellent client‑facing, facilitation, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex business needs into clear, actionable requirements and manage competing priorities independently.

Responsibilities

• Lead Business Analysis activities for core banking transformation, modernization, enhancement, and implementation initiatives involving the FIS Horizon Core Banking platform.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, and discovery sessions, and translate business needs into detailed functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, BRDs, FRDs, and functional specifications.
• Analyze current-state banking processes, define future-state processes, and perform gap analysis between client requirements and Horizon platform capabilities.
• Serve as the functional liaison between client business teams and technical delivery teams, supporting requirements validation, functional design reviews, testing, defect resolution, and implementation readiness throughout the project lifecycle.
• Apply strong retail and commercial banking domain knowledge to guide project teams, mentor Business Analysts, and ensure consistency and quality across deliverables.

Skills

Banking domain knowledge

FIS Horizon Core Banking

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Documentation

Process analysis

Gap analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Client-facing skills

Communication

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager – Horizon Business Analyst to translate banking needs into clear functional requirements for Horizon Core Banking implementations. You will lead analysis activities, facilitate workshops, and act as a liaison between business and technical teams in a remote US setting.

Applicants should have 7+ years in banking/financial services BA, with Horizon platform experience and strong facilitation, documentation, and communication skills.