Category Archives: Business Analysis

Business Process Analyst | Financial Services

SITUATION – The client was a fully integrated Fund and Corporate financial services provider, aligned to international private equity & infrastructure houses, real estate firms, private debt managers, multinationals, capital markets issuers and high net-worth private clients, headquartered in Luxembourg. The technology deployed in the business meant that they were largely in a low risk […]

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Recommendations

A few comments received from clients we have worked with recently, (taken from my LinkedIn profile). “Mike did a great business analysis job for us (magic circle law firm) on GDPR, a very calm and competent individual”. – Jayne Adams, Senior Business Consultant, CC LLP, Canary Wharf. “Michael worked for me on GDPR focused business […]

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Business Analyst | Scorecard | Metrics

SITUATION – The client was the new PMO team for a leading national building service company showing rapid growth through acquisition. They were attempting to streamline project management with a new Enterprise Level PMO sitting above all independent satellite PMOs but lacked a structured approach for measuring their and others performance. SOLUTION – We were […]

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Business Process Analyst | Investment Banking

SITUATION – The investment banking client with 60+ systems managing trading lifecycle functions for various lines of business, was carrying regulatory risks due to incomplete Sarbanes Oxley (segregation of duties) related procedures. There were a number of possible problems in play which might have facilitated fraudulent activity or enabled trades to be approved by an […]

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Business Analyst | Workflow Design

SITUATION 1 – The client was a hedge fund management firm looking to replace manual process work arounds with some workflow automation to enable faster decision making and reduce the re-keying of transactional data. SOLUTION 1 – Engaged to design and develop a demonstration application for a K2 Black Pearl Technical Partner. Designed and built […]

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Business Analyst | Process Automation Banking

SITUATION – The client was a national banking group under competitive pressure to automate processes handling new commercial account opening requests made from their web-site. They were using an IBM BPM process management application to handle personal account opening requests and needed to stretch its functionality to also meet the commercial banking requirements. SOLUTION – […]

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Business Analyst | Mobile Applications

SITUATION – The client provided smart-phone based security devices and services with 10,000 UK customers. Their field maintenance team was growing in numbers quickly but struggled with paper-based admin procedures. As the team grew, HQ and field admin became unreliable and laborious causing delays in parts ordering, customer invoicing and month end reporting. SOLUTION – […]

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Business Case Studies

Here’s a selection of assignments we’ve worked on. You can click on the links below or use the dropdown menu above to read about them in more detail. Process Improvement Analysis – Financial Services Firm Luxembourg Process & Data Analysis – Magic Circle Law Firm London Process & Systems Analysis (GDPR) – Private Construction & […]

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Business Analysis Services | Consultancy

Business analysis identifies a company’s changing business needs and formulates workable solutions to identified business problems. New business needs may surface through external pressure from competitors, or from management’s recognition of internal pain points and desire to increase productivity and reduce costs. The tools/ methods listed below have been applied on a wide range of […]

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