Institutional Client Report Automation
Trading Insights Automation
Post – M & A Strategy for Asset Management Company
Offshore Infrastructure / Application Support Operation Cente
Asset Management and Trading Platform
Institutional Client Report Automation
Client type: Global Investment Firm in Japan
Diagnostic: High client account vulnerability due to erroneous reports caused by the manual nature of data input, ineffective processes and insufficient controls.
Recommended Solution: Automate report creation by re-engineering the processes and workflow in line with a newly created database solution.
Implementation: Aligned the key IT and reporting team resources via a project working group to lead the project in line with the specific business requirements. Successfully completed in six months.
Results: Significantly reduced reporting errors improving client satisfaction. Decreased workload by 25%. Repurposed two headcounts to growing areas in operations. Enhanced future scalability and profitability as new accounts did not
increase headcount costs. Estimate all-in cost savings of $200,000 per headcount.
Trading Insights Automation
Client type: Hedge Fund in the US
Diagnostic: Due to the quantitative nature and sheer volume of Japanese equities in their strategies, Analysts were tasked to manually apply the entire index of securities to trading models. This index-tracking process was operationally intensive, prone to errors, a misallocation of expensive resources and not value add to the investment process.
Recommended Solution: Improve the index tracking process via a technology solution that would reduce workload and better utilize the Analyst`s time to optimize the trading models and add value to the investment process.
Implementation: Worked with the internal client team to lead a project to design and implement an automated process for tracking the Topix index. Reduced the tracking process from six hours to fifteen minutes. 90% of the process was automated with a 100% hit ratio.
Post – M & A Strategy for Asset Management Company
Client type: Global Investment Firm in Japan
Diagnostic: Business strategy not aligned with a global organization, siloed business units, legacy technology infrastructure and processes, skillset and resourcing gaps.
Recommended Solution: Review and re-tool business strategy, identify which siloed business units impact productivity most. Create an integrated Biz-Tech solution strategy to modernize infrastructure and business processes, introduce a holistic training program and resource business with purpose.
Implementation: Re-aligned business growth strategy to reflect organizational reality, identified key cross-functional business units to break down silos, proposed strategy and plan to modernize IT infrastructure and business processes, hired key people to
fill skill gaps in line with business goals and strategy.
Results: Implemented a localized multi-asset distribution platform aligned with the global strategy that enabled the business to grow AUM by 29% and the number of new accounts by 115% within a three-year period.
Offshore Infrastructure / Application Support Operation Center
Client type: Payment Gateway Provider in Japan
Diagnostic: Loss of business and high operational costs. The existing data-center infrastructure model lacked effective monitoring and maintenance functions leading to reactive troubleshooting processes when servers went down.
Recommended Solution: Improve their model by off-loading non-core activities and reducing workload burden on in-house staff through a partnership with an external provider with dedicated resources and an established cost-effective support model in place.
Implementation: Hired to monitor and maintain their data center infrastructure. Implemented SLA procedural monitoring system, increased staff utilization effectiveness, improved turn-around time and reduced business impact of incidents
by timely resolution.
Results: Realized cost reduction of 30%, ROI within six months and 45% increase in IT staff productivity
Asset Management and Trading Platform
Client type: Global Investment Firm in Japan
Diagnostic: High risk of client reporting errors due to manual non-standard data inputs into legacy fund performance and holdings system, inefficient operational processes
and a lack of effective controls.
Recommended Solution: Automate data entry by streamlining the uploading and data processes and modernizing the technology infrastructure.
Implementation: In conjunction with key stakeholders performed analysis, designed and created new technology infrastructure including uploading functionality and
standardized the timing and process for uploading files.
Results: Significantly reduced resourcing costs, re-purposed staff to other more strategic activities, provided data in real-time and reduced data consistency issues.
Footnote: These are examples of actual projects completed by Anextere K.K. Advisors and Partners in previous roles.