Remote Horizon Core Banking Consulting Manager

Cognizant

Jackson (MS)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 127,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus PTO

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Consulting Manager – Horizon Business Analyst to translate complex banking needs into actionable requirements for Horizon Core Banking implementations in a remote US-based role. You will partner with clients, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure successful transformation and modernization projects.

Required 7+ years in Banking BA, experience with FIS Horizon, and strong facilitation 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.