it banking (paymen & cards) 2012
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Strand Associates Consulting -
IT Banking Division
January 2012 – Version 1.4
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Fact & Figures
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Strand Associates is:
• Belgian Company • Privately held by Sr persons in the recruitment • 3 years old • +/- 20 Recruitment Consultants • Constant growth • 3 Approaches • 6 Departments • +/- 240 different clients
Who are we?
Strand Associates Consulting is a Belgian, independently owned recruitment company offering Contracting and Permanent positions in the Mid European market. Our reputation is based upon our ability to deliver outstanding results and exceptional levels of service. Strand's priority is putting candidates and clients first; building effective partnerships to achieve outstanding results.
WE OFFER PREMIUM RECRUITMENT SERVICES
CONTRACT RESOURCING
Specialist Knowledge & Competencies on a project or
consultancy base.
Flexibility and Continuity
RECRUITMENT & SELECTION
Permanent staffing solution of specialists
in various sectors
Flexibility and Continuity
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Specialities & Knowledge competencies
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Any Management profiles
To ensure a professional service towards our customers and a high level of competence for our Consultants, Strand Associates Consulting is working based on a Vertical Market Approach Our 6 Recruitment Competence Centres are:
Technical functions Payment, Cards, Core Banking
Operational and Managerial profiles
Junior & Senior Finance functions High level engineers within industry
IT Banking Strategy
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Payment Cards Core Banking
Main Focus SEPA, SWIFT, … Debit & Credit Cards Thaler, T24, ...
Type of profiles
• Architects
• Analysts
• Program / Portfolio / Project / Product Managers
• Tester / Test Manager
Type of clients 1
• Banks
• Clearing houses
• Payment back office Specialists
• IT companies active in the Banking sector
Type of clients 2 • Big corporate companies (with high volume of invoicing)
Short term vision • Staffing of Freelancers
• Staffing of own employees
IT Banking Competence Centre
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Pool of internal Specialists
+ Know How Catalisor
Pool of Freelance Specialists
Business Partners
Clients Candidates’ supply
Info Flow
Info Flow
Institutional Actors
Info Flow
Profiles’ Quality Guarantee
How do we guarantee quality: • 100% dedication in job description understanding • Necessary time investment to find the matching candidate • Strict selection of relevant profiles • Recruiter specialized in your domain • Proactive network working for us • Constant cross reference check • Qualification by some Business Partners
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IT Banking Career Plan
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• Training & Certification
• Coached thru Fellowships
• Communication skilled
Junior
0 - 2
• Able to be independent
• Full risk management assessment
Junior Medior
3 - 5 • Full membership Fellowships
• Coach multiple lower levels
• Guide steering committees
Senior Medior
6 - 8
•Master in conflict management
• Manage multiple Projects & Environments
Senior 9 – 15 •Program Level
• International experience
• Nearshore / offshore cooperation's
• Advise on strategy
Expert > 16
Why it’s important to plan the career: • Without a clear plan its difficult to achieve clear results • More efficiently & effectively achieve goals • The motivation to achieve the objective • Which activities meet the collaborator goals and which activities do not • Identify the career goals towards the expectations of the division
Training
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Strand Associates Consulting strives for workplace learning to improve training and development. Our trainer uses the tools, equipment, documents or materials that trainees will use when fully trained, we categorize as: on-the-job (Takes place in a normal working situation by means of the teach the teacher approach)
• Payment and Cards Processes • UML (Unified Modelling Language)
• PMI and/or Prince2 • Quality & Risk Management • People Mgt • CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration)
off-the-job (Takes place away from normal working situation)
• Competence Centres • Bi-weekly workgroups • Events
Internal Support Group
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Strand Associates Consulting Support Group members provide each other with various types of help: • Godfather Concept (Every Consultant will be supported by a godfather)
• providing and evaluating relevant information • relating personal experience • providing sympathetic understanding • establishing a network
• Governance Model
Project/Functional Interactions
DAILY – AS REQUIRED
Project Reviews
Issue/Risk/Change Mgt
BI-MONTHLY
Strategic/Business Reviews
Goals & Objectives - Evaluation
QUARTERLY
Customer / Partner Strand Associates Consulting
Consultant
Business Manager Consultant
Business Manager
Project Mgt
Project Mgt
Business Mgt
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Office Location: De Keyserlei 5 bus 30 B - 2018 Antwerpen Belgium Tel.: +32 (0)3 206 51 20 Fax.: +32 (0)3 206 51 21 www.strandassociates.be