Standard offerings
Business and technology strategy for business transformation
- Ascent consultants are experts in providing end-to-end business transformation services.
- Consulting services aimed at improving the long-term strategic health of a company. These services include future state visioning, strategic assessment, business and target operating model design.
Financial Services and Banking
- Financial services industries and banking institutions remain the core focus of Ascent.
- We help traditional and non-traditional financial service institutions successfully develop and deliver their products and services, in a cost-effective manner that meets client requirements.
- We do this by providing deep subject matter expertise and deep-domain experience in the financial services industry.
Improve operational excellence
- Ascent helps clients improve operational excellence by adopting best practice to improve our clients’ business practices and management.
- Implementing content-rich projects that support the move to new practices.
- Consulting services focused on the use of tools and practices to support ongoing business improvement. These services include business architecture, business diagnosis and metrics definition, process re-engineering (Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma), and business analysis (Waterfall and Agile).
- Effective information and data management – we meet real-time demands across compliance, operations, and client to allow for informed management decisions across all banking channels/areas
Systems delivery
- You can trust Ascent with your systems delivery projects of a large scale or small scale; for single-capability change or multi-capability; and for implementation over single or multiple countries.
- We define and implement future-state business and IT solutions and roadmaps to align people, process, and technologies to business objectives.
- We offer complex IT systems delivery management and optimisation, large-scale program management and systems integration capability.
- We have extensive experience in implementing core banking, product, and payment systems across multiple geographies in Africa.
Finance, risk and compliance
- Ascent offers an integrated approach to managing regulatory-driven change.
- Regulatory compliance – every stage of implementation, from readiness assessments to data processes and technical solution implementation.
- Operational risk – a business-focused enterprise-wide program driving value by identifying, quantifying, managing and enhancing compliance.
- Finance – from general ledger definition and optimisation to suspense account reconciliation, optimisation, and management. We do all this and everything in between.
Payments transformation
- Our payments transformation expertise is a comprehensive consulting capability that provides a range of services that include payment health checks, business strategy formulation, target operating model design, and large-scale technology implementations, testing and roll-out.
- Business strategy development – business strategy development, client segmentation, market entry strategy, new product proposition.
- Product design – pricing and revenue capture review.
- Target operating model design and review – includes organisational transformation and IT transformation (IT architecture and roadmap).
- Operational excellence – includes payment health checks and operational transformation activities (process optimisation utilising a Lean Six Sigma approach and a sourcing model evaluation).
- Regulatory requirements – end to end approach that spans from regulatory/legislative change analysis to systems and business/process change design and implementation.
- Africa Payments – detailed subject matter expertise and experience in evaluating payments capabilities in various African countries, and assisting in the design, re-architecture, and implementation of core payments processing within those environments.
Average years in financial services
Tier 1 institutions
Individuals trained on payments
Project categories
African countries
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