Senior Asset Management Data Reporting & Analytics Consultant

Cognizant; Needham Heights (MA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 116,000; 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 Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a Senior Consultant, Asset Management Data Reporting, to blend hands-on data analysis with Agile delivery for an enterprise reporting platform in a hybrid role based in Needham, MA.

The role emphasizes data wrangling, reporting optimization, and coordinating releases in a collaborative client-facing environment. Strong SQL and Jira/ServiceNow experience are required, with a focus on asset management data domains.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Investment Reporting, or Data Delivery.
• Strong understanding of investment data and data models across holdings, transactions, accounts and risk.
• Strong SQL experience with MySQL/PL/SQL; query legacy databases and validate datasets.
• Experience translating business reporting and data requirements into actionable platform enhancements and delivery requirements.
• Hands-on Agile experience facilitating sprint ceremonies and managing Jira backlogs, priorities, capacity, dependencies, and sprint commitments for an analyst or technology delivery team.
• Experience with release and change management processes, including ServiceNow change requests, approvals, testing, validation, and release coordination.
• Ability to balance hands-on Business/Data Analysis responsibilities with Scrum facilitation and release coordination.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to prioritize competing business requests and communicate system and reporting changes clearly.
• Ability to operate as a peer leader, guiding analysts through facilitation and influence without formal people-management authority.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, profile, reconcile, and wrangle investment data across holdings, transactions, accounts and security reference data, using SQL to deliver accurate and consistent reporting and platform enhancements.
• Partner with business stakeholders to assess, prioritize, and route reporting and data requests, including facilitating the weekly Salesforce request intake process and supporting transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Facilitate sprint readiness, planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, backlog management, prioritization, and team capacity planning in Jira while continuing to contribute directly to analysis and delivery work.
• Coordinate ServiceNow change and release management activities, including change requests, approvals, bi‑weekly releases, QA smoke testing, analyst validation, stakeholder communications, and IT process documentation.
• Support the Cognizant lead and client teams with PI planning preparation, monthly reporting, ad hoc analysis, platform enhancements, and delivery coordination across business and technology teams.

Skills

Business Analysis

Data Analysis

Investment Reporting

Data Delivery

SQL

MySQL

PL/SQL

Jira

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Agile

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Business/IS

Tools

VS Code

MCP server integrations

Jira

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks a Senior Consultant, Asset Management Data Reporting, to blend hands-on data analysis with Agile delivery for an enterprise reporting platform in a hybrid role based in Needham, MA.

The role emphasizes data wrangling, reporting optimization, and coordinating releases in a collaborative client-facing environment. Strong SQL and Jira/ServiceNow experience are required, with a focus on asset management data domains.