Strategy Advisor Transformations

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work?

The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful.

About Cognizant Enterprise Platform Services

As part of our growth strategy in EMEA, we are hiring several top-class Management Consultants in Benelux, Nordics and Germany, with a strong track record and expertise in Finance and/or HR Transformation. Experienced in areas such as Change Management, HR Transformation, Finance Transformation, and Business Process Improvement. You will be part of our European virtual team, covering our main geographies UK, Germany, Nordics, Benelux and Central Europe.

Your role

As Strategy Advisor Transformations you have the responsibility to guide our customers from a strategic (digital) Business, HR and Finance perspective, providing expert advice, leading engagements and workstreams. You also have a significant contribution to practice development and to the coaching of customers and colleagues in their jobs. As a Strategy Advisor Transformations, you will receive coaching and direct guidance from our Senior Advisory leadership, as well as work from a self-starting perspective, whilst providing exemplary customer service to internal and external stakeholders. This includes customers, sales teams, consulting teams, engagement managers, and the Cognizant leadership team.

Responsibilities:

• Consulting Leadership – act in a lead capacity on Digital Business Transformation engagements, including leading assessments and meetings, developing deliverables, providing guidance and direction to other Advisory team members, and delivering trusted business advisor support to clients.
• Organizational Strategy - partner with senior executives to understand organizational perspectives and recommend best-fit methods to execute business functional strategies (Finance, HR, IT), improve operations and performance, and optimize roles and responsibilities.
• Strategic Change - partner with senior executives to define the strategy, business initiatives, and organizational changes needed to gain leadership alignment, enable change leadership, promote stakeholder and employee engagement, enable further organizational change programs and plans.
• Technology Adoption – work with clients to understand the people issues associated with business application and new technology implementations, (e.g. AI, Workday, SAP, Oracle) and ancillary systems. Including but not limited to role re-definition, skill gaps, and change readiness.
• Technology Implementation – partner with senior executives and program managers to understand an organization's