Altus Consulting is a leading specialist Financial Services management consultancy. We work with platforms, retail and private banks, life companies, wealth managers, asset managers, distributors, and technology suppliers across the globe. We're passionate about what we do and the quality of our work. As Head of Retirement Strategy, I advise firms considering bringing new pension and savings propositions to market on the size of the opportunity and the most efficient way to produce the new services to clients. I’ve helped Altus clients to:• select a technology and process outsource service provider to operate a tier-1 life company’s new SIPP business;• define the proposition features, structure, pricing and advice model for a tier-1 retail bank to bring a new SIPP product to market, including selection of advice technology;• produce a market strategy and detailed gap analysis report to help a major outsource services supplier scale up their life and pension outsource operation in the UK;• analyse the workplace pension digital portal for an Irish pension provider, detailing gaps between their current offering and global best practice and prioritizing the development roadmap;• perform technical and operational due diligence on a retail investment platform for a potential bidder, to enable our client to decide whether to make a formal bid;• define the Target Operating Model for a major wealth management business, as part of a team supporting their multi-million-pound project to transform the firm through a Business Process Outsource (BPO) deal.• produce a digitisation strategy for a tier 1 financial planning and discretionary wealth management providerWe help our clients solve key Business and IT challenges, delivering engagements such as:• detailed market assessments;• future business models and target operating models;• capability maturity assessments and gap analysis;• technology and service tenders and RfPs;• due diligence of suppliers and for take-over and merger targets;• delivery of business transformation programmes. Our detailed models provide a blueprint for the structure, integration and operation of a financial services organisation, and are continuously updated to reflect latest industry understanding, regulation and market context.Please contact: jon.dean@altus.co.ukPlease visit: http://www.altus.co.uk