Regulatory Change.
We understand the myriad of regulations, financial reporting and how to structure and govern data effectively.
Enhanced Risk Management & Compliance.
Helping you gain confidence in meeting regulators expectations and delivering solutions that stand-up to scrutiny.
Financial Reporting done right.
With a deep understanding of financial reporting standards coupled with experienced change management.
Effective Data Management.
Through robust data governance and controls to ensure clear accountabilities and data quality management.
Regulatory
We understand the challenges faced by our Financial Services clients in responding to the myriad of regulatory compliance and reporting requirements.
Compliance and regulatory reporting requirements change constantly, and the data needed to satisfy them is managed across numerous different systems, making it challenging – and potentially risky – to aggregate.
Competition for resources often leave firms struggling to keep up and the consequences of failure – financial, reputational, and even personal – are grave.
The complexity of organisations’ structures adds to the problem, as it’s often unclear who’s responsible for reporting different aspects of the business.
We have shaped and delivered numerous client engagements to define and implement the system, process and policy changes required to ensure compliance while providing experienced, specialist consultants to augment client capabilities. We believe our collaborative approach to augment clients’ technical and delivery capability results in increased confidence that your systems and data management decisions meets regulators’ expectations and withstands their serious scrutiny.
What our clients say
BGS has helped us focus our efforts on shaping and realising an effective data governance agenda.
Director, Governance & Quality
Regulations
Regulatory services
Risk and Compliance
Understanding the implications and requirements of new regulations and implementing appropriate systems, process and data solution’s.
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Financial Reporting
ldentifying and delivering efficient data provisioning, data aggregation and reconciliation’s as well as making the most of appropriate technology.
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Data Governance
Establishing appropriate data governance frameworks and data policies to enable robust, effective accountabilities. controls and data quality monitoring.
Learn moreMeet the team
Eddie Curran
Consulting Director, Technology
Eddie is an experienced Financial Services programme management and technology professional with over 20 years industry experience gained across Banking, Insurance and Investments. A specialist in strategy execution and change management, having managed various new-product developments, regulatory changes and remediation projects spanning Finance, Risk, Operations and IT functions. A strong leader with good communication skills and a focus on linking change delivery with strategic goals – on a measurable and tangible basis.
Eddie Curran
Shonagh McCarter
Principal Consultant
Shonagh is a business design and transformation leader with a strong track record of programme generation, management and delivery.
Shonagh has over 18 years of experience delivering a number of large scale payments transformation programmes across Retail Banking and the Utilities sectors in the UK and Ireland. Calm, controlled and collaborative management style with excellent stakeholder management skills and an innate ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Shonagh McCarter
Paul Fensom
Senior Consultant
Paul is a senior project manager with over 16 years experience of delivering multi-million pound data and IT based projects across Financial Services, Commercial and the Public sector. A strong analytical and customer focussed professional with superb focus and attention to detail. Confident communicator whether reporting to board members, working within the team or presenting at conferences. Ability to quickly identify and understand problems, then lead all parties and stakeholders to achieve on time, on budget and to a high level of quality.
Paul Fensom
Roddy Fergusson
Senior Consultant
Roddy is a highly-experienced change professional with deep-seated skills and expertise in establishing and running programme office functions. Roddy has established and led PMO teams for large-scale transformation programmes for over 17 years across a variety of IT and Business functions, Roddy has an excellent reputation in this field for building effective PMO teams and embedding improved standards and capabilities, by developing, coaching and mentoring internal resources. Roddy has a collaborative and pragmatic approach and is able to operate at all levels with internal and external stakeholders.
Roddy Fergusson
Stephen Verrecchia
Consulting Director, Digital
Stephen is an experienced programme director with over 25 years experience gained across Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Transportation. A digital leader capable of designing a delivery model to suit individual clients needs. Comfortable operating at all levels through to senior Executives with a proven strength in the delivery of pragmatic outcomes.
Stephen Verrecchia
Richard Hannay
Principal Consultant
Richard is an experienced project management and technology professional with over 19 years industry experience within the Banking and Utilities sectors. An expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules and principles, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment. A strong leader with first-class stakeholder management skills and a proven ability to deliver large budget, high profile projects.
Richard Hannay
Grahame Hogg
Senior Consultant
Grahame is an experienced technology professional with over 13 years industry experience within Financial Services, covering Banking, Life and Pensions and Investments. An IT specialist who has played a leading role in the delivery of scalable enterprise solutions with specific expertise in the integration of software systems across the enterprise. Strong technically across the IT spectrum with the ability to communicate complex solutions and problems to engineering teams, whilst possessing the ability to provide a clear and articulate view to Senior Stakeholders.
Grahame Hogg
Iain Beggs
Consulting Director, Risk & Regulation
Iain is an experienced programme manager and business transformation manager with over 25 years with Banking, Insurance and Asset Management. A qualified accountant (FCCA), Iain has successfully delivered many complex regulatory, financial reporting and data programmes and projects. Iain possesses excellent stakeholder management skills, a strong and collaborative leadership style and is a confident communicator at senior management and executive level.
Iain Beggs
Tracy Clark
Principal Consultant
A Senior Leader with 34 years financial services experience, the last ten years focusing on Strategic Business, Risk, Resilience and Change Management accountabilities.
A proven thought leader with the ability to assess business and customer priorities, identify risks, measure exposure, formulate and communicate decisions and deliver efficiency enhancements.
Very experienced in leading global projects, developing virtual teams of 50+ employees/consultants aimed at delivering complex business transformation programmes across multiple business functions.
Tracy Clark
Julia Skinner
Senior Consultant
Julia is an experienced Project, Change and Continuous Improvement Manager with over 30 years experience in both Retail and Commercial Financial Services. A qualified Lean and 6 Sigma Blackbelt with a track record of delivering Transformation, Continuous Improvement, Process Management & Regulatory Change projects to a very high standard. She takes complex requirements to build clear, comprehensive models and solutions. She is a strategic thinker experienced at designing and delivering Target Operating Models for new organisations and those undergoing organisational change.
Julia Skinner
Chris Clark
Principal Consultant
Chris is a business design and transformation leader with over 30 years experience in operational and programme delivery within Financial Services.
As a qualified Lean and 6 Sigma professional, Chris has extensive expertise in delivering operational process design and improvements.
Latterly, Chris has been working with start-up Banks developing, validating and delivering target operating models and leading quality assurance activity.
Chris Clark
Roy Rennie
Consultant
An experienced Finance and PMO professional with over 15 years’ experience gained across Financial Services, Energy and Utility sectors.
An expert in analysing and modelling complex data sets and transforming them into accurate and relevant information for decision making.
Roy Rennie
Kevin Withers
Principal Consultant, Transformation
A highly experienced change leader with over 25 years experience in the Financial Services industry. An expert in shaping solutions and designing successful delivery models with a customer centric focus to achieve business outcomes. A successful track record of delivering transformation programmes across a broad range of areas from digital self- serve and payments, to systems integration and simplification through to regulatory and mandatory change, utilising a mix of waterfall/hybrid/agile techniques.
