Symmetry provide revenue assurance and billing solutions consultancy, development, support, managed services and training. Developing tariff and reference data assurance solutions for telcos based on our Symmetria platform, which ensures that billing & product catalogue reference data is governed, managed, audited, tracked and is 100% accurate and up-to-date.Our pro-active and forensic approach aims to stop billing errors, ensuring consistency, completeness and correctness of reference data across multiple systems and network platforms.

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AssuringBusiness provides Business Assurance solutions and services, all delivered with impeccable business common sense. Although we concentrate on the Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, Receivables Management and Security domains, much of our work also drives more general business improvement as these practices necessarily interact with many other business areas. We like to think of ourselves as thought leaders and our consultancy services and products portfolio are unique in their innovative approach to Business Assurance problems. Our developing Knowledge Network aims to share some of this thinking amongst our clients and promote discussions that will move the discipline steps forward. Please check our website to get an insight into what Assuring Business can offer.

Solution Design Consultant with O2 working on Revenue Assurance and Reference Data Assurance projects.Principal Design Consultant for Tariff Reference Data Audit project which reads tariff data from a range of billing systems, conforms data from various schema to a standard model, maps system values to a master data set and reconciles and reports inconsistencies. This project before completion had already realised benefits far in excess of its cost.Design consultant for Customer Data Audit project - compares customer data across billing and network elements reporting inconsistency in presence, products, service access, service facilities, subscriber configuration, billing packages and options. This project has realised benefits 10+ times its cost.Solution design for End-to-End reconciliation system introduction.Various high profile revenue assurance investigations leading to considerable leakage reduction across interconnect, prepay, data/ip and postpay systems. Billing, BSS, OSS, HLR, VPN, SMSC, imode, MMSC, GPRS, Billing Broker, Convergys Geneva/Infinys, DISE, Interconnect, TAP, Prepay, Interact, Comptel, Ventraq.

A&K specialise in Revenue Assurance and related disciplines such as Access Cost Management, Product and Customer Profitability, Control Audits and Dashboards, Information Strategy, Data Quality audits, Data Mining, Sales-To-Cash and Purchase-To-Pay process audits for fixed, mobile, data/IP carriers across Western Europe and beyond. Nev conducted assessment project for mobile opertor on RA and Billing controls and team structure, preparation of RFI for RA software tender, detailed Prepay CDR audit identifying mutli-million pound discrepancies, coordination of fix activities for leakage issues, preparation of business cases and top level design documents for multi-million pound projects to improve controls architecture. Lead solution designer for innovative reference data audit system.

GSM Central provided reduced cost landline to mobile through GSM gateways and VoIP termination and integration services. Company was venture capital funded.

Project lead for billing turnaround project for Energis Ireland. Included billing & meditation platform stabilisation, platform consolidation and migrations, decommissioning of network elements, revenue assurance activities leading to substantial revenue recovery, solution design for national code changes and introduction of MNP, resolution of major customer queries and debt settlement, integration of function with Energis UK parent organisation.

Managed a lively team of billing specialists and credit controllers. Stabilised billing for customers post billing system migrations. Primarily major multi-national companies with data and voice services. Ensured dramatic turnaround in billing accuracy, and considerable reduction in outstanding and bad debts.

Assisted mostly small business clients to save money by negotiating new gas and electricity and subsequently telecoms (fixed and mobile) contracts by taking advantage of growing deregulation in these industries.Served on Small Business Committee of local Chamber of Commerce.

UK lead for billing systems migration and data cleanse project for multi-national telco. Managed team of 13 consultants drawn from across Europe. Revenue assurance aspects resulted in recovery of multi-million pound sums.Billing Action Team member reveiwing Nordics division system architecture and mapping transition to corporate systems, also specification and outsourcing of carrier billing systems.

Team of 50+ IT development staff. Introduction of Oracle as development platform, selection and deployment of Oracle HR, deployment of time recording and project costing systems for 1000+ professional staff, development of property management systems & schools admissions system, deployment of CAD and GIS.

Reorganising postal duty rostas and working practices to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and streamline operations. Quality Management projects with engineering and cleaning divisions.