Investment management technology teams, built where the work needs to be.
Since 2016 HBN has built specialist teams for demanding technology environments, and much of that experience was built here: order management, portfolio management, risk, performance, reporting and the data platforms underneath them. It remains a specialist practice.
Tell us what you needYou cannot staff this domain from a job description.
Implementations run for months, sometimes years. Clients are regulated. Users are experienced and unforgiving. Data lineage matters, reconciliation breaks are real incidents, and a consultant who has seen a similar migration is worth several who have not.
Assessing candidates for this work requires more than matching experience to a job description. It requires people who understand the work. That capability sits inside HBN.
Investment technology software vendors
Implementation and support capacity is what limits how many clients you can take on. HBN builds implementation consultants, support specialists, developers and project managers into your own delivery organisation — including in regions where you need working hours but not an office.
Asset and wealth managers
Technology and operations teams inside investment firms need the same specialists, usually in ones and twos, and usually for a programme with a defined start. HBN builds that capability without adding permanent local infrastructure.
Investment technology is our heritage, not our ceiling.
The reason this practice transfers is that the difficulty was never the asset class. It was building small, senior, integrated teams for demanding technical work in places where the client had no presence. Cybersecurity, SaaS, fintech and specialist professional-services companies bring us the same problem.
What we mean by complex work →Background reading.
Four tests for whether work can be handed to a provider — context, judgement, continuity, collaboration — and what we turn down.
Cost per head is where everyone starts and rarely what decides the outcome. The five factors that do.