ForwardThink Group Outlines Expanded Capabilities in Financial Services Industry

Fast-growing business and technology consultancy lays out its plans for continued vertical and horizontal expansion

NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--ForwardThink Group, one of the fastest-growing management and IT consultancies in the NYC area, has laid out a strategic roadmap for its work in the financial services space. The company, which works with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, has developed defined practices around the vertical markets of banking, capital markets, asset management, and wealth management.

“When our clients hire ForwardThink for a project, they’re not just getting consultants on-site to help with their problem”

Within each of these markets, ForwardThink is providing a holistic approach to service offerings that touch the major issues that financial institutions are facing today, and will face in the future.

“In working with our customers in the financial services industry, we have identified common needs and challenges, and core skill sets that are consistently in high demand,” said Sanjay Balan, senior partner at ForwardThink. “We’ve structured our offerings to address the demands of the financial services industry today, with an eye on the challenges our customers will encounter over the next few years.”

Specific ForwardThink service offerings for the financial services industry include: Program Management, Requirements Management, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence, Relationship Management, Compliance, Technical Architecture and Finance Transformation.

Balan continued, “The team at ForwardThink has decades of experience in both financial services and technology. We have a really solid stable of case studies from projects that we’ve executed for our clients in these practice areas. Now, we’re taking advantage of that vast pool of expertise by continuing to build out these verticals and horizontals, productizing our offerings within those horizontals, and building new case studies.”

The expansion and enhancement of these practice areas will allow ForwardThink to further reduce implementation times and corresponding budgets for customer projects, by taking advantage of existing solutions and collateral in various areas including Current State/Future State Roadmaps, Vendor Evaluations, Business Intelligence Assessments, Client Onboarding, Portfolio Accounting/Performance Measurement and Corporate Finance Transformation programs.

“When our clients hire ForwardThink for a project, they’re not just getting consultants on-site to help with their problem,” said Robert Shinbrot, chief executive officer of ForwardThink. “What they’re really getting is a virtual think tank of experts using their collective experience and brainpower, and continually collaborating to establish best practices and collateral, instead of reinventing the wheel for each customer and each project.”

ABOUT FORWARDTHINK GROUP

ForwardThink Group is a management and IT consulting firm that provides business and application technology solutions to banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies and wealth management firms. ForwardThink combines deep industry expertise with proven solution models to expedite business application implementations. For more information, please visit www.forwardthinkgroup.com, or contact the company at 646-873-6530.