Sr. Consulting Manager, Investment & Client Data and Information Delivery, Banking & Finance Consulting

Location: Needham, Massachusetts
Industry: Asset Management / Investment Management

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

As a Senior Consulting Manager, Senior Business System Analyst Investment & Client Data and Information Delivery, you will make an impact by providing strategic and operational leadership across investment data, client reporting, and information-delivery capabilities for a leading asset management client.

You will own the end-to-end delivery of timely, accurate, controlled, and client-ready investment information while advancing data governance, operating-model improvements, reporting scalability, and platform modernization. You will collaborate with Investments, Client Service, Operations, Data, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and external service providers to improve data quality, strengthen controls, and enhance the overall client experience.

• Lead the strategy, operating model, and day-to-day delivery of investment data, client reporting, and information services across institutional and intermediary channels, ensuring deliverables meet contractual, regulatory, quality, and timeliness requirements.
• Oversee the sourcing, validation, enrichment, governance, and distribution of securities, holdings, transactions, benchmarks, performance, attribution, exposures, portfolio accounting, and client data.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to define future-state data and reporting architecture, business requirements, implementation priorities, and transformation roadmaps involving data platforms, reporting tools, workflow automation, self-service capabilities, and client portals.
• Strengthen enterprise data governance by establishing clear data ownership, lineage, metadata, data-quality rules, reconciliations, approval standards, service-level agreements, issue-management practices, capacity plans, and management metrics.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and strategic vendors, manage complex delivery issues and escalations, drive root-cause analysis and sustainable improvements, and provide executive reporting on service performance, risks, incidents, demand, and transformation progress.

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3-4 days per week in the office in Needham, Massachusetts
. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

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

• 12-15 years of progressive experience in investment data, client reporting, information delivery, investment operations, or related asset management functions, including significant experience leading teams and enterprise-scale transformation programs.
• Deep understanding of asset management data and processes, including securities, holdings, transactions, benchmarks, performance, attribution, exposures, portfolio accounting, and…