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Our Firm

We Deliver Rapid Change

We are a specialist consulting firm whose core mission is to work with organisations to deliver rapid change.

We combine a deep technical understanding of the problem whether it is a business, finance, risk, operations or technology issue, with a professional and structured project management approach. Our expertise is primarily Financial Sector focused, where we have worked with many of the world’s leading organisations across their global network. We have also executed a number of highly technical programmes of change in other market sectors, most notably working with leading companies in the Government, Property, Transport, Logistics and Pharmaceutical sectors.

This is achieved through a highly professional approach, building strong client working relationships with outstanding and clear communication; our people bringing real and demonstrable technical skills and knowledge to solve our clients’ issues; our ability to integrate our teams with those of our clients; and our focus on delivery, advising our clients on the best route to success.

Our Services

We Are Here For You

Our service offering is built around those areas where we excel.

As a result, the Firm has delivered high value service offerings across many areas, delivered to clients both within and outside the Financial Sector on a global basis, namely:

Finance & Internal Control

Including Finance Transformation, Balance Sheet Substantiation and Attestation and new accounting standards implementations

Risk & Regulatory Change

Including implementations required by new regulations or upgrades to existing Regulatory Approvals as well as areas such as Risk Policy and Process improvements

Customer Complaint Resolution

Assisting clients with complex customer complaint programmes, such as alleged product mis-selling or mis-conduct, including complaint resolution and market-leading consequential loss expertise

Performance Improvement

Including Revenue Enhancement, Cost Reduction and Process Improvement

Environmental, Social & Governance

Assisting organisations building for the future

Operations & Technology

Including implementation of General Ledgers, Data Architectures and Treasury Systems

Corporate Change

Including supporting Business Mergers, Divestments and Reorganisations

Our Track Record

Since its formation in 2002, NBW Partners has built lasting relationships with many of the world’s largest financial sector institutions, as well as leading organisations in other market sectors.

We have worked with each of these organisations to achieve some exceptional results. Examples are:

Global Investment Banks

Regulatory approval of and upgrades to complex regulatory capital models

Global Commercial Bank

Assisted with the implementation of a new industry leading General Ledger

Global commercial bank

Global transformation of the finance function of a core division

Commercial Bank

Led two highly complex customer remediation programmes one of alleged product mis-selling, the other of alleged customer mis-treatment. We designed the solution, implemented it and then executed the process

Global investment banks

Design and global implementation of a general ledger account ownership and substantiation solution

Leading UK commercial bank

Rapid conversion of the bank’s accounting basis to international accounting standards within the mandated timeline

Global logistics

Post merger integration of the two treasury functions of a global logistics company

Our People

Critical to the Firm’s service delivery is the team of consultants who work on each client engagement. NBW has a team of exceptional people enabling us to build client engagement teams possessing the right skills, knowledge and ability to meet each client’s objectives.

The skill-sets NBW deploys to projects include:

Former ‘Big 4’ partners with significant experience of delivering change across Risk, Finance, Treasury and Operations, including an in-depth understanding of financial regulation and the regulatory interface


Finance professionals, ranging from former CFO’s to recently qualified ‘Big 4’ Chartered Accountants all with significant project expertise of building and transforming robust control environments and of running finance functions


Project Managers, Change Managers and Business Analysts who have delivered a wide range of change projects and technology implementations


Operations experts who have built and run operational processes across many industry sectors

Investment banking specialists at all seniority levels with in-depth understanding of all investment banking trading products, their control, valuation, reporting and risk management, including CAD2 model compliant regulatory implementations


Data and MI experts who have built and operated robust data integrity architectures and processes across all aspects of data and reporting including customer, market, instrument, and all other aspects of reference data


Credit and Market Risk professionals with significant experience of delivering regulatory compliant solutions across both the commercial and investment banking sectors

Why NBW?

We Deliver On Our Clients’ Expectations

Our Delivery

We deliver explicitly to our clients’ requirements

Our People

It is our passion to deploy the best, most qualified and highly experienced team to every assignment. This is achieved through real personal knowledge of each team member’s skills, values and experience

Our Approach

We integrate our consulting resources with our clients’ own teams, forming joint teams working to deliver the outcomes required

Our Technical Skills

We have outstanding business technical skills, whether it be complex financial and regulatory risk projects, supporting technical accounting changes or analysing complex processes to drive cost reduction and efficiency

Our cost structure

Our business model enables us to deliver change more cost effectively than most of our competitors

We provide the right opinions and insight on every project we lead, enabling our clients to reach their goal faster, more efficiently and cost effectively

Services
Finance and Internal Control

We will help you:

  • Build a more effective finance function, providing the business with the insights they require
  • Implementing a balance sheet account ownership programme that provides the assurance and management information required
  • Support Finance Directors with their change agendas
  • Implement complex new Accounting Standards
  • Improve the global finance process and control environment
Risk and Regulatory Change

We will help you:

  • Implement regulator required changes across all risk classes
  • Improve relationships with regulatory stakeholders
  • Improve the risk reporting framework’s data integrity processes
  • Upgrade the risk policy framework and supporting policy
  • Meet the demands of Governmental competition commissioners
Customer Complaint Resolution

We will help you:

  • Design the principles to resolve the customer issues they face
  • Develop a robust governance structure
  • Implement an effective remediation process
  • Align and communicate strongly with stakeholders
  • Cost effective execution of the process in a customer centric way
Performance Improvement

We will help you:

  • Transform the Firm’s data architecture, ensuring a single data source, with supporting strong data integrity metrics and processes
  • Deliver robust and insightful Management Information
  • Remove inefficient and duplicate processes
  • Establish processes to ensure lost revenues are recovered
  • Establish a robust project management process across a global change programme
  • Implement a process to deliver significant cost savings
Environmental, Social and Governance

We will help you:

  • Design your organisation for the future
  • Help you develop the right measurement tools
  • Build robust reporting frameworks, controls and processes
  • Empower and educate your people
  • Communicate effectively with all key stakeholders
Operations and Technology

We will help you:

  • Improve the effectiveness of an Operations function
  • Select and implement a new General Ledger, which will add real value to the business
  • Review an IT function to ensure that it has the capabilities to deliver to the business’s requirement
  • Implement a trading system from an Operations, Finance and Risk perspective
  • Improve the working relationship across functions such as Operations and Risk Management
Corporate Change

We will help you:

  • Integrate an acquired business
  • Provide the management depth to support the sale of a business
  • Provide expert management support to a recently acquired business
  • Identify the reasons for a business’ under performance and providing the key actions to resolve
  • Establish a global world class function such as Finance, Risk or Operations