Our long standing, extensive knowledge and proven experience within the Financial Services arena distinguish the DST Global Solutions Investment Management (IMS) Professional Services team in the marketplace. With a client list featuring some of the most impressive and influential organisations in the investment management industry, our Professional Services team have a successful track record in assisting firms the world over to become more efficient and competitive.
Clients benefiting from our solutions include large Third Party Administration firms, each with their own impressive client lists. We also have a strong record of successes with prominent investment management companies who carry out the full lifecycle of fund management, analytics, reporting and portfolio administration. Our clients have successfully optimised their investment businesses using a combination of our software products with our Professional Services offering. We are fully cognisant with current industry best practices throughout the investment management cycle. Engagement with DST Global Solutions’ Investment Management (IMS) Professional Services teams has proven to be a sound strategic choice for many of our clients.
All Investment Management firms strive to compete and win in a constantly changing market place. Internal and external drivers propel the need for ongoing transformation. Organisations that show a flexible and swift response to change pressures will thrive in this business environment. The DST Global Solutions’ IMS Professional Services team understands the challenges of optimising the use of scarce resources engaged in the day-to-day business process when the need for change surfaces. We offer you the expertise of our professional consultants who demonstrate past success in creating tangible advantage in similar situations, drawing on our own substantial knowledge and experience of the design and implementation of change. We will assist you in achieving your goals, by limiting risk and in enabling you to focus your valuable internal resource where it can be most efficiently and effectively utilised.
The IMS Professional Services team specialises in providing functional and technical expertise in the business continuum from the middle office functions through to the back office. We offer a comprehensive range of services to complement your internal teams in assignments including:
- Business operational reviews
- Business Process Transformation
- Project management
- System analysis and development
- Technical configuration work
- Integration to upstream/downstream systems within a business process
Importantly, we have long-standing expertise in Business Process Transformation and a large client base that relies every day on the benefits delivered by our expertise in this area.
Your desired outcomes
Focused accountability for results and careful realisation of agreed benefits are crucial deliverables to our clients. To this end we engage early in the change process to capture the details of the desirable change outcomes, the risks, the benefits, and to help shape and make the right planning decisions to deliver our services successfully. Once the way forward has been jointly agreed, we then undertake each project according to a well proven governance and project management methodology.
Our Experience
Our Professional Services team is over one hundred strong across our various global offices. Our consultants claim a combined 500 plus years of experience in designing, developing and implementing the core applications and processes that are integral to an efficient back and middle office. We have completed scores of projects within the Financial Services industry including portfolio accounting systems, data warehouse design and implementation, and reference data repositories. We also specialise in performance and attribution measurement implementations, risk management systems, and the enhancement of back and middle office operations through straight through processing.
Over the years we have been careful to recruit a team of seasoned professionals with first-hand experience in the industries in which our clients operate. During the course of an engagement we will match the required skills from our experienced pool of consultants to the required tasks within each project phase. We will also build in opportunities for skills and knowledge transfer to client teams enabling them to operate efficiently once the engagement has been completed.
A Team Approach
At DST Global Solutions, we take an approach that is collaborative, results driven and accountable. We pride ourselves on our ability to integrate with our clients’ Business and IT project teams. Whether or not we lead the projects, IMS Professional Services personnel become trusted advisers, and assume ownership for our agreed project scope. The flexibility to draw upon such a pool of expertise cost-effectively through an established and credible market name, helps enable our clients to excel. It is this trusted relationship that sets apart DST Global Solutions from other firms that claim to provide similar service expertise.
