Consulting

Our Consulting Capabilities

We provide our clients with a range of services across the entire project lifecycle, aligned to our outcomes-centered approach. We focus on the post-trade operations and technology sector and have unique experience and expertise in specialist areas such as Regulatory Reporting, Securities, Financial Market Infrastructure and Industry Initiatives.

Discover

MI | Data Recommendations

The process of modelling data with the goal of discovering useful information, and supporting decision-making. This does not include Data Science activities

Scorecard | Key Findings | Perspective

‘Voice of the Customer’ exercises typically involve interviewing a number of a client's major customers to understand opinions, needs or interests

Roadmap | Key Findings | Actions

A strategy encompasses plans, actions and goals that outlines how a business will compete in a particular market(s), with a product or number of products or services. This can relate to the overall business, for a specific product, or for an organisation’s Data and Technology usage

BRD

Business Analysis is the practice of introducing, enabling and managing change in an organisation. This is achieved by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders

The process of inspecting and analysing a regulatory text or release to gain an understanding of the impact on transaction reporting for industry participants and clients

Recommendations

Existing Project Healthcheck is the process of assessing whether a current project is set for success and whether there are gaps that need addressing to ensure a successful outcome

Recommendations

An impact assessment is the process for considering the implications of proposed actions while there is still an opportunity to modify the proposals. It is applied at all levels of decision-making, from policies to specific projects

Recommendations | Traceability | Scorecard

Scorecard

Performance diagnosis is a method that identifies actual and desired organisational, and individual performance levels. Benchmarking is a way to measure these performance levels

Scorecard | Key Findings | Perspective

‘Voice of the Customer’ exercises typically involve interviewing a number of a client’s major customers to understand opinions, needs or interests

Roadmap | Key Findings | Actions

A strategy encompasses plans, actions and goals that outlines how a business will compete in a particular market(s), with a product or number of products or services. This can relate to the overall business, for a specific product, or for an organisation’s Data and Technology usage

Scorecard

Performance diagnosis is a method that identifies actual and desired organisational, and individual performance levels. Benchmarking is a way to measure these performance levels

Recommendations

The process of inspecting and analysing a regulatory text or release to gain an understanding of the impact on transaction reporting for industry participants and clients

Recommendations

Existing Project Healthcheck is the process of assessing whether a current project is set for success and whether there are gaps that need addressing to ensure a successful outcome

Recommendations | Traceability | Scorecard

An impact assessment is the process for considering the implications of proposed actions while there is still an opportunity to modify the proposals. It is applied at all levels of decision-making, from policies to specific projects

BRD

Business Analysis is the practice of introducing, enabling and managing change in an organisation. This is achieved by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders

MI | Data Recommendations

The process of modelling data with the goal of discovering useful information, and supporting decision-making. This does not include Data Science activities

Design

Roadmap | Functional Model | Org Chart

This is the activity of defining the blueprint of an organisation's vision that aligns processes & objectives and provides an overview of core business capabilities, organisational & functional structure, and technology resources

Control Framework | Gap Analysis | MI

A control framework is the conceptual basis for formulating a set of controls for an organisation. This set of controls is intended to minimise risk through the use of practices and procedures in a coordinated manner

The target architecture is the master plan for an organisation, based on business vision in the organisation's strategic plan. It is the high level plan for the relation between business & application systems, business & information and business & technologies

Architecture Model | Tech Blueprints | Roadmap

A business case provides justification for undertaking a project or programme, evaluating options and providing a rationale for the preferred solution. Development of the business case analyses how its fulfilment will implement the corporate strategy

Business Case | MI

Roadmap | Target Op Model | Process Framework

Business Process Design is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current process may be analysed. Business Process Re-engineering is the activity of analysing and redesigning workflows and processes within an organisation

Roadmap | Functional Model | Org Chart

This is the activity of defining the blueprint of an organisation’s vision that aligns processes & objectives and provides an overview of core business capabilities, organisational & functional structure, and technology resources

Control Framework | Gap Analysis | MI

A control framework is the conceptual basis for formulating a set of controls for an organisation. This set of controls is intended to minimise risk through the use of practices and procedures in a coordinated manner

Architecture Model | Tech Blueprints | Roadmap

The target architecture is the master plan for an organisation, based on business vision in the organisation’s strategic plan. It is the high level plan for the relation between business & application systems, business & information and business & technologies

Business Case | MI

A business case provides justification for undertaking a project or programme, evaluating options and providing a rationale for the preferred solution. Development of the business case analyses how its fulfilment will implement the corporate strategy

Roadmap | Target Op Model | Process Framework

Business Process Design is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current process may be analysed. Business Process Re-engineering is the activity of analysing and redesigning workflows and processes within an organisation

Deliver

Selection Process | Scoring Methods | Selection Tools

Vendor selection criteria varies between organizations. The criteria for vendor selection can include an ability of the contractor to procure all required items within desired delivery dates, Quality and Cost of the procurement services, and Past performance

PM Artefacts | Project Governance | Change Strategy

PMO is a group/individual that defines and maintains standards for project management. This includes change management, when a company implements change within its internal and external processes. This involves supporting employees, establishing steps for change, effective project management and monitoring activities

Project QA is when a project's performance in terms of overall effectiveness is evaluated and deficiencies identified are fixed to enable the project to be brought back on track. Remediation is the provision of a process, resources, and MI to assist with the resolution of a problem outside of BAU activity

Healthcheck | Governance Framework | Plans

Implementation is the process of putting a decision or plan into use, thereby executing a project or piece of work. Integration is the end result of the process of putting in place a component(s) or application(s) into an environment

Execution | Plans

Managing a process to communicate with end clients around a change, manage procedure, coordinate communication, produce MI, manage the workflow across multiple client functions, and assist both the end clients and the Quorsus client throughout

Metrics | Impact Assessment | Plans

Test Strategy | Execution M’ment | Test Plans

Testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of a product or service, providing an objective view in order to allow for a justified decision by the client

Selection Process | Scoring Methods | Selection Tools

Vendor selection criteria varies between organizations. The criteria for vendor selection can include an ability of the contractor to procure all required items within desired delivery dates, Quality and Cost of the procurement services, and Past performance

PM Artefacts | Project Governance | Change Strategy

PMO is a group/individual that defines and maintains standards for project management. This includes change management, when a company implements change within its internal and external processes. This involves supporting employees, establishing steps for change, effective project management and monitoring activities

Healthcheck | Governance Framework | Plans

Project QA is when a project’s performance in terms of overall effectiveness is evaluated and deficiencies identified are fixed to enable the project to be brought back on track. Remediation is the provision of a process, resources, and MI to assist with the resolution of a problem outside of BAU activity

Execution | Plans

Implementation is the process of putting a decision or plan into use, thereby executing a project or piece of work. Integration is the end result of the process of putting in place a component(s) or application(s) into an environment

Metrics | Impact Assessment | Plans

Managing a process to communicate with end clients around a change, manage procedure, coordinate communication, produce MI, manage the workflow across multiple client functions, and assist both the end clients and the Quorsus client throughout

Test Strategy | Execution M’ment | Test Plans

Testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of a product or service, providing an objective view in order to allow for a justified decision by the client

Our Delivery Capabilities

Combining the four pillars of our people, processes, tools and templates, we believe we have the ability to deliver  expert-led projects, using adaptable and rigorous processes based on customizable tools, utilising tested templates to ensure consistent and quality delivery outcomes

Our structured project management methodology is nimble enough that it can be tailored to clients’ needs, allowing us to support agile, waterfall and hybrid project management methods whilst performing activities ranging from project management and business analysis to TOM reviews etc

We have a catalogue of standardised project templates and approaches ensuring a consistent delivery quality across all our client engagements and acting as accelerators so teams can add value on client site from project inception

We utilise a cloud-based platform to manage our projects, creating a single source of information that can be used to streamline production of project plans, associated tasks and Gantt charts We have created a customizable testing tool to record real-time testing progress, issue tracking and to provide daily reporting

We are an expert-led company and our people have in depth financial services experience spanning both industry and consulting, meaning we are uniquely placed to help our clients with their most pressing challenges in this space

Our structured project management methodology is nimble enough that it can be tailored to clients’ needs, allowing us to support agile, waterfall and hybrid project management methods whilst performing activities ranging from project management and business analysis to TOM reviews etc

We have a catalogue of standardised project templates and approaches ensuring a consistent delivery quality across all our client engagements and acting as accelerators so teams can add value on client site from project inception

We utilise a cloud-based platform to manage our projects, creating a single source of information that can be used to streamline production of project plans, associated tasks and Gantt charts We have created a customizable testing tool to record real-time testing progress, issue tracking and to provide daily reporting

We are an expert-led company and our people have in depth financial services experience spanning both industry and consulting, meaning we are uniquely placed to help our clients with their most pressing challenges in this space