FinEdge Capital · Financial Services · 2024
Technology Strategy & Compliance Roadmap
A 6-week assessment and 18-month roadmap that redeployed 27% of IT spend, remediated security gaps, and cleared the path to SOC 2 certification.
27%
IT spend redeployed
SOC 2
Certified on schedule
14
Redundant tools retired
01 / The Challenge
FinEdge's technology budget had doubled in three years across overlapping tools, shadow IT, and unmanaged vendor contracts while an upcoming institutional client demanded SOC 2 within a year.
02 / Our Approach
The thinking behind the build
Assessments are only as good as the data underneath them, so we refused to work from org charts and vendor lists alone. We inventoried actual usage login analytics, spend records, data flows which is how fourteen redundant tools and three unmanaged shadow-IT systems surfaced. Findings were pressure-tested in workshops with the people who used each system before anything went in the report.
The roadmap was built backward from two fixed points: the SOC 2 audit date and the board's budget cycle. Every initiative was sized, costed, and sequenced so the CFO could fund it quarter by quarter which is why it actually got executed.
03 / The Solution
What we built
Our consultants inventoried every system, contract, and data flow; benchmarked spend; and ran leadership workshops to align technology with the firm's growth strategy. The resulting roadmap sequenced consolidation, security remediation, and SOC 2 preparation into fundable quarters with our advisors supporting execution.
“The assessment paid for itself before it was finished. For the first time, our board sees technology as an investment portfolio instead of a cost center.”
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