Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies transforming client's business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based consultative approach helps global leaders envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the US , Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

Optimum Share Price,     Fundamental Value,     Career Acceleration!

The Reason

Our Investor Relations group is the face of our company to the Capital Markets.  It is a critical partner to our C-Suite to articulate  and manage the investor landscape and the factors that drive value over the long term.

this is a remote role with a requirement for attendance at quarterly meetings in NYC.

The Role

Offered due to a promotion, this is a key role with an attractive career path to communicate the company strategy, long-term value, and competitive advantage as you build strong transparent relationships with investors and members of cross-functional teams in an invigorating global organization.

Specifically:

• You will be a critical member of small but highly visible investor relations team;


• You get to create and manage a strong reputation by demonstrating consistent and clear communication between internal and external parties;


• There is critical management of equity research and investor relationships to be mastered;


• You will develop the annual investor relations strategy including identifying optimal institutional investor targets, executing an engagement strategy, and analyzing the shareholder base;


• You optimize competitive intelligence to ensure that we are identifying key differentiators from an IR perspective;


• Your day will include the analyzing of sell-side analyst reports and the tracking of consensus estimates;


• As well you will manage the quarterly earnings process including cross-functional, business review, and related meetings;


• Your expertise will be called upon for the development of external materials including earnings releases, scripts, presentations, Q&A, supporting documents, C-Suite preparations and executive briefing materials for investor meetings conferences and road shows;


• Your process optimizations skills and abilities in data excellence will emerge to manage interesting and relevant content on our IR website.

You Bring

• A minimum of eight years of experience, preferably with 4 years of IR/sell-side within Investor Relations in an in -house corporate role or a role within Equity Research or Investment Banking or other relevant Investor Relations role;


• Deep knowledge and understanding of the capital markets as well as a thorough understanding of key metrics for companies in the industry and a strong understanding of SEC laws and securities disclosure and filing requirements;


• Deeply skilled with financial modeling techniques and valuation methods used by analysts and investors coupled with strong experience analyzing financial statements and competitive benchmarking;


• Super user of MS Excel and PowerPoint;  experience with FactSet and Nasdaq IR;


• University Degree preferred; MBA and / or CFA highly desirable.