London-based wealth management firm

Global wealth management firm with £1 billion AUA headquartered in London

This London-Based Wealth Management firm (LBWM) had created an in-house back-office operations team. When a key senior member with a desirable, yet unusual, combination of IT and operations skills left the company LBWM found itself scrambling to back-fill this individuals’ skills.

With more than £1 billion in assets under management, it needed a solution that included use of the existing infrastructure with its current processes and procedures. The firm had invested in the Advent PortfolioManagement System (APX) and optimized its infrastructure with several other applications.

Therefore, there was a desire to maintain the technology already in place. LBWM also needed to ensure it had dependable, knowledgeable and highly experienced resources to optimize, monitor and support systems. It had to achieve this while:

• Increasing operations staff to ensure better operational redundancy
• Keeping costs in line with current budget

Empaxis was selected over services from the software provider itself, together with other outsourcing options. This was due to:

• LBWM’s ability to keep its existing infrastructure and configurations
• LBWM’s ability to use and manage its infrastructure but outsource production with significantly favorable pricing

Hiring individuals with specific combinations of skills would be difficult, and it would take time to complete candidate searches. After identifying a candidate, training would take additional time. Also vacation, sick time and employee turnover, once employed, would further impact productivity and efficiency.

Middle- and Back-Office Outsourcing

After three weeks of preparation, advisement, and observation, Empaxis had fully transitioned to managing the over-night data feeds and daily production support.

Duties include ensuring successful receipt and download of data from custodial banks on a daily basis. Empaxis also tunes and maintains the firm’s critical systems to ensure high availability and performance. It provides experienced resources for on-demand support.