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Strand Associates Consulting -

IT Banking Division

January 2012 – Version 1.4

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Fact & Figures


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


Specialities & Knowledge competencies


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


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


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


• 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


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


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


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

http://www.strandassociates.be/

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