Strand Associates is a 3-year-old Belgian recruitment consulting firm with about 20 consultants specializing in IT banking roles. The document provides details on Strand Associates' divisions, competencies in areas like payments and core banking, profiles they recruit for, and processes for training, supporting consultants, and ensuring quality.

1. Strand Associates Consulting
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IT Banking Division
January 2012 – Version 1.4
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2. Fact & Figures
Strand Associates is:
• Belgian Company
• Privately held by Sr persons in the recruitment
• 3 years old
• +/- 20 Recruitment Consultants
• Constant growth
• 3 Approaches
• 6 Departments
• +/- 240 different clients
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3. Who are we?
Strand Associates Consulting is a Belgian, independently owned
recruitment company offering Contracting and Permanent positions
in the Mid European market.
Our reputation is based upon our ability to deliver outstanding
results and exceptional levels of service.
Strand's priority is putting candidates and clients first; building
effective partnerships to achieve outstanding results.
CONTRACT RESOURCING RECRUITMENT & SELECTION
Specialist Knowledge & Competencies Permanent staffing
WE OFFER PREMIUM
on a project or solution of specialists
RECRUITMENT SERVICES
consultancy base. in various sectors
Flexibility and Continuity Flexibility and Continuity
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4. Specialities & Knowledge competencies
To ensure a professional service towards our customers and a high level of competence
for our Consultants, Strand Associates Consulting is working based on a Vertical Market
Approach
Our 6 Recruitment Competence Centres are:
Technical functions Payment, Cards, Core Banking
Operational and Managerial profiles Any Management profiles
Junior & Senior Finance functions High level engineers within industry
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5. IT Banking Strategy
Payment Cards Core Banking
Main Focus SEPA, SWIFT, … Debit & Credit Cards Thaler, T24, ...
• Architects
• Analysts
Type of profiles
• Program / Portfolio / Project / Product Managers
• Tester / Test Manager
• Banks
• Clearing houses
Type of clients 1
• Payment back office Specialists
• IT companies active in the Banking sector
Type of clients 2 • Big corporate companies (with high volume of invoicing)
• Staffing of Freelancers
Short term vision
• Staffing of own employees
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6. IT Banking Competence Centre
Pool of
Freelance
Specialists
Pool of internal
Specialists Info Flow
Institutional Info Flow
+ Clients
Actors Candidates’ supply
Know How
Catalisor Info Flow
Business
Partners
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7. Profiles’ Quality Guarantee
How do we guarantee quality:
• 100% dedication in job description understanding
• Necessary time investment to find the matching candidate
• Strict selection of relevant profiles
• Recruiter specialized in your domain
• Proactive network working for us
• Constant cross reference check
• Qualification by some Business Partners
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8. IT Banking Career Plan
Why it’s important to plan the career:
• Without a clear plan its difficult to achieve clear results
• More efficiently & effectively achieve goals
• The motivation to achieve the objective
• Which activities meet the collaborator goals and which activities do not
• Identify the career goals towards the expectations of the division
Junior
Medior Senior
• Training & Certification • Full membership 9 – 15 •Program Level
3-5
• Coached thru Fellowships Fellowships • International experience
• Able to be independent • Coach multiple lower levels •Master in conflict
• Communication skilled • Nearshore / offshore
• Full risk management • Guide steering committees management cooperation's
assessment • Manage multiple Projects & • Advise on strategy
Environments
Senior
Junior Expert
Medior
0-2 > 16
6-8
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9. Training
Strand Associates Consulting strives for workplace learning to improve
training and development.
Our trainer uses the tools, equipment, documents or materials that
trainees will use when fully trained, we categorize as:
on-the-job (Takes place in a normal working situation by means of the teach the teacher approach)
• Payment and Cards Processes
• UML (Unified Modelling Language)
• PMI and/or Prince2
• Quality & Risk Management
• People Mgt
• CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration)
off-the-job (Takes place away from normal working situation)
• Competence Centres
• Bi-weekly workgroups
• Events
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10. Internal Support Group
Strand Associates Consulting Support Group members provide each
other with various types of help:
• Godfather Concept (Every Consultant will be supported by a godfather)
• providing and evaluating relevant information
• relating personal experience
• providing sympathetic understanding
• establishing a network
Customer / Partner Strand Associates Consulting
• Governance Model
Strategic/Business Reviews
Business Mgt Goals & Objectives - Evaluation Business Manager
QUARTERLY
Project Reviews
Project Mgt Business Manager
Issue/Risk/Change Mgt
Consultant
BI-MONTHLY
Project/Functional Interactions
Project Mgt Consultant
DAILY – AS REQUIRED
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11. Office Location:
De Keyserlei 5 bus 30
B - 2018 Antwerpen
Belgium
Tel.: +32 (0)3 206 51 20
Fax.: +32 (0)3 206 51 21
www.strandassociates.be
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