1. CASE STUDY
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Challenge
A multinational financial services
giant, under increasing regulatory
scrutiny over client privacy and
internal controls and fearing failure
of another audit, committed to
modernizing the firm’s complex
Corporate & Investment Bank’s
Identity and Access Management
(CIB IAM) environment.
A comprehensive global access
management program was
designed with the primary
objectives of:
• Ensuring all compliance and
regulatory controls are met
• Assuring logical access risks to
Corporate & Investment Bank’s
multiple applications, all internal
to the client’s lines of business
(customer interfaces, trading
platforms, internal applications)
• Effectively executing databases
and platform
• Driving efficiencies and
standardization through an
extensive set of proprietary tools
Effective execution of the program
required a human capital partner
capable of:
• Providing highly skilled
resources able to gain access to
warehouse applications, assisting
in manipulating codes and
consolidating over 3,400 internal
applications across multiple
cities within the United States
• Ensuring efficiencies and
standardization driven through a
comprehensive set of tools
The client’s goal was to procure
and enhance end-user identity
and systems access details, loading
the data into a central repository.
The resource team would also
support the overall scope of large
system integration efforts (data
migrations related to the strategic
entitlements and automated access
procurement).
This multi-year access initiative,
driven by the CIO, would allow
the client’s proprietary toolset to
automate and enhance the firm’s
ability to maintain controls over
sensitive client data.
Solution
Realizing the depth of complexity
surrounding the project, Kforce
committed to fully understanding
the project and the desired
business objectives by deploying
two senior associates to travel
across the country for a face-to-
face meeting with the CIB Chief
Information Security Officer (CISO)
and the IAM Director Project
Manager.
The working session enabled a clear
understanding of the scope and
scale of the initiative and set the
foundation for the overall success
of the project. Kforce’s customer-
centric solution committed to:
Fast Facts
Customer Profile: A multinational
banking and financial services
holding firm with global operations,
nearly 6,000 branches nationwide,
and approximately 247,000
employees
Annual Revenue: $96.6 billion
Challenge: Increasing regulatory
scrutiny over client privacy and
internal controls escalated the need
to modernize the firm’s complex
global Corporate and Investment
Bank’s IAM (Identity and Access
Management) environment
Solution: Two experienced Kforce
senior associates traveled to
download with hiring manager to
not only prove our investment on
the project but also recommend a
customer-centric solution to deliver
an Integration Management Team
Outcome: Kforce filled all 11
positions in less than three weeks,
including 10 Integration Managers
and one Project Coordinator,
working in three different cities:
Tampa, Brooklyn and Chicago
Modernization of Complex
‘Corporate & Investment Bank Identity
and Access Management’Environment
In less than three weeks,
Kforce delivered a
large-scale Integration
ManagementTeam,
facilitating the success
of a critical multi-year
global compliance
initiative

2. CASE STUDY
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• Providing a single point of contact allowing for streamlined and fully coordinated communication
• Creating and fully managing the resource onboarding process from start to finish while offering
24/7 support
• Ensuring the retention of talent through a comprehensive program focused on regularly scheduled
communication with client and consultants, team and culture building activities; in addition to the
creation of a LinkedIn user group to encourage networking and mentorship of team members,
regardless of geographical disbursement
• Enabling the conversion from consultant to full-time-employee of talent resources, when desired
Outcome
The successful completion of the CIB IAM program significantly enhanced the organization’s
capabilities to deliver on global compliance mandates while simultaneously improving:
• Stability of client’s operating environment
• Confidentiality of information
• Mitigation of fraud risk
• Enforcement of cross border and information barrier restrictions
Kforce proved a valuable partner in providing speed to market resources and was awarded the
exclusive vendor for this on-going project; all 11 positions were effectively filled in less than three
weeks, including 10 Integration Managers.
Since September 2014, Kforce has been working in the CIB IAM platform acquiring and aggregating
end-user system access details across hundreds of mission critical applications around the world.