Senior Fixed-Income Advisory & Transformation Lead

Cognizant; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Consulting Manager - Fixed Income Subject Matter Expert to guide debt-security administration, ownership and recordkeeping, and servicing operations across government securities and related instruments.

You will partner with program leadership, drive requirements and process improvements, translating complex needs into clear business requirements for both business and technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in fixed income, securities servicing, transfer agency operations, trust operations, government securities or related capital-markets functions.
• Strong understanding of debt-security administration and servicing lifecycles, including registration, ownership maintenance, transfers, redemption processing, reconciliation, reporting, recordkeeping and customer servicing.
• Experience supporting government-issued securities, public-sector debt instruments or related fixed-income servicing environments.
• Demonstrated knowledge of registered transfer agency operations and associated ownership, recordkeeping and servicing responsibilities.
• Experience with trust, custody, securities administration or ownership-based financial-product servicing.
• Experience with operational controls, reconciliation processes, exception management and risk-mitigation practices.
• Working knowledge of regulatory and compliance considerations affecting securities servicing and ownership administration.
• Ability to advise business and project stakeholders on operational requirements, business impacts, servicing obligations and industry practices.
• Experience facilitating business requirements, reviewing process flows and validating proposed operational or technology solutions.
• Experience partnering with business and technology teams on modernization, transformation, or process-improvement initiatives.
• Experience supporting operational testing, user acceptance testing or business-solution validation.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise across fixed-income, securities servicing, transfer agency, trust operations and related capital-markets functions.
• Advise program leadership and project teams on servicing requirements, ownership administration and industry practices.
• Serve as a trusted adviser on fixed-income servicing operations and related processes.
• Support discovery, assessment, modernization and transformation initiatives with operational expertise.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate current-state processes and identify opportunities for improvement and modernization.
• Provide guidance on registration, ownership maintenance, transfers, redemption processing, reconciliation and reporting.
• Apply expertise across administration and servicing lifecycles of government securities and other fixed-income products.
• Translate complex operational needs into clear business requirements, workflows and solution considerations.
• Assist with interpretation and application of regulatory and servicing requirements.
• Support requirements reviews, process assessments and validation efforts for alignment with needs.
• Review project deliverables for consistency with industry practices and obligations.
• Advise on controls, exception management, reconciliation, and risk-mitigation practices.
• Support user acceptance testing through scenario reviews and business-readiness activities.
• Use SQL to support data analysis, reconciliation and validation when required.
• Contribute to stakeholder meetings and client discussions with practical insights.
• Communicate complex concepts to business and technical audiences.
• Work independently while collaborating with program leadership and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate Cognizant Way through client focus, collaboration and delivery excellence.

Skills

Fixed income

SQL

Stakeholder management

Client advisory

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Four-year degree in Business, Finance, Technology, Engineering or a related discipline

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Consulting Manager - Fixed Income Subject Matter Expert to guide debt-security administration, ownership and recordkeeping, and servicing operations across government securities and related instruments.

You will partner with program leadership, drive requirements and process improvements, translating complex needs into clear business requirements for both business and technical stakeholders.