Project delivery · United Kingdom
Fifteen years running regulatory, compliance and technology transformation inside tier-one banks and wealth managers. The same delivery discipline, available to firms of any size.
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What I do
Engagements run from a two-week diagnostic through to multi-year project leadership. Most start with a conversation about what is actually stuck.
Taking a project from a slide deck to something that ships. Governance people actually attend, a plan the sponsor can read in sixty seconds, and risks raised early enough to do something about them. Regulated environments and mixed agile-waterfall estates included.
Working out which parts of the operating model are worth changing, in what order, and what it will cost you to leave them alone. Platform selection, migration planning, and the unglamorous integration work between the systems you already own.
Where an off-the-shelf product does not fit, a small team builds the thing that does. Scoped tightly, delivered in increments you can see, and handed over with documentation rather than a dependency on the people who built it.
Not everything needs a programme behind it. If you want a website that can actually be found, a process untangled, or a system two people can use without a manual, that is worth a conversation too. Same approach, scaled to what you need.
How it works
Programmes fail in predictable places: unclear scope, governance nobody respects, and a handover that never happens. The sequence below is built to close those gaps in order.
Interviews with the people doing the work, not just the people sponsoring it. What the scope actually is, who has to say yes, where the real dependencies sit, and an honest read on whether the deadline is achievable.
The plan on a page, the RAID log, and a governance forum sized to the decision it has to make. Roles named, budget tracked, and a reporting pack that fits on one side before the first sprint starts.
Running the delivery day to day. Milestones tracked against the baseline, blockers escalated the week they appear rather than the month they bite, and a status report the sponsor can act on without a briefing call.
The part most engagements skip. Run books written, the receiving team trained, benefits measured against what was promised at the start, and a clean exit rather than an open-ended retainer.
Track record
A selection of engagements across regulatory reporting, financial crime, wealth platforms and HR systems.
Led a large anti-money-laundering and compliance transformation programme, managing a team of project managers and reporting to C-suite stakeholders including the CTO for Europe. Included compliance data feeds built on Seeburger managed file transfer.
Project manager across the client-facing platform estate, spanning Objectway Eximius, MyBrewin, BITA Risk and WealthPilot. Delivered as responsive web, integrated with backend wealth platforms, authentication services and market data feeds.
Regulatory reporting change at a tier-one investment bank, covering COREP and FINREP submissions. The grounding in prudential reporting that makes later regulatory work considerably faster to scope.
UK-scope migration to Workday HCM, covering user acceptance testing, the ADP payroll interface and the decommissioning of SuccessFactors. Delivered alongside enablement of the wider target operating model framework.
Engagements listed were delivered on a contract basis. Firm names describe where the work was performed and are used for identification only; no endorsement is implied.
How the work actually runs
Short silent walkthroughs of the operating processes behind the engagements above. Each runs about thirty seconds and builds up the full picture, with the regulatory control points marked as they appear.
These describe generic industry process, not any client's implementation. No confidential material, system detail or client data is shown.
Who you would be working with
AgileBiz Solutions Ltd is led by Chris Patten-Walker, a senior project manager with more than fifteen years in UK financial services and a specialism in regulatory, compliance and technology transformation. You get the person who ran the work, not a pitch team followed by a graduate. Where a build team is needed, one is assembled around the work and disbanded when it is done.
Get in touch
A first conversation is thirty minutes and costs nothing. If it is not a fit, you will get an honest answer and, where possible, a pointer to someone better placed.
Would rather pick a time? Book a 30 minute intro call straight into the diary. Free, and no preparation needed.