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Advisory

Ideas into action.

We help business, operations and risk leaders turn complex challenges into simpler operations, stronger controls and practical results.

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Where we help

Recognise the challenge.
Find a way forward.

Start with the outcome you need. Explore practical engagements to build momentum, improve how work gets done and strengthen confidence in the business.

Ambition isn’t translating into results

Turn strategy, investment and ideas into measurable outcomes with clear accountability.

The way we work is holding us back

Reduce complexity and manual effort, and build operations that perform and scale.

We need greater confidence in the business

Make performance, risk and controls visible, reliable and actionable.

Experience behind the work

Practical experience.
Relevant to your challenge.

Leadership across operations, technology, risk and assurance, drawn from Don Farineau’s executive and consulting roles.

London Stock Exchange Group

Risk, Resiliency, and Anti-Financial Crime Utilities

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Led third-party assurance, operational resilience, business continuity, customer assurance and anti-financial crime capabilities. Implemented a non-financial control assurance function and brought together customer-centred operating models, control utilities, governance, automation and transformation delivery.

Connecting service delivery, resilience, controls and change.

Moody’s Ratings

IT, Cyber and AI Risk Governance

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Developed the ICT Risk Management Policy and Standard to support DORA compliance. Provided second-line oversight of technology, information security, data risk and artificial intelligence use cases.

Policy, standards and oversight grounded in the operating environment.

Deutsche Bank

Technology Risk & Control and GRC Implementation

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Led global technology risk and controls and served as Chief Technology Officer for the Americas. Drove large-scale regulatory remediation. Combined dynamic application risk scoring, integrated governance and control automation to prioritise remediation and give leaders a clearer view of technology risk.

Risk intelligence that supports targeted action and technology stability.

Fannie Mae

Operations and Technology's Risk, Controls & CISO

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Led first-line operational and technology risk, controls, business continuity, disaster recovery, software quality and cybersecurity. Introduced continuous control testing and monitoring, a cybersecurity improvement roadmap and a risk-based approach to software delivery.

Connecting operational resilience, controls and technology delivery.

Fannie Mae

Information Technology Audit & Data Analytics

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Led a 30-person technology audit function covering IT, cybersecurity, data and major implementations. Introduced continuous monitoring and dynamic audit planning, reporting emerging risks and audit results to executive leadership and the Audit Committee.

Risk-based assurance focused on emerging risks and clear accountability.

KPMG

Information Risk Management Audit and Advisory

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As a partner, built and led multidisciplinary technology audit, cybersecurity, privacy, business continuity and risk advisory engagements across the public and private sectors. Helped develop continuous-monitoring methods and technology implementation approaches.

Multidisciplinary assurance and advisory leadership.

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Our capabilities

Simplify complexity.
Strengthen execution.

We bring together business design, technology, governance and resilience to help organisations build, fix, transform and scale, with clear accountability and evidence of progress.

Business & operating models

Connect strategy to how the business works.

  • Operating model design
  • Process and service redesign
  • Capability building
Explore this capability: Business & operating models

Connect strategy to how the business works. We redesign processes, responsibilities and delivery capabilities around customer needs, helping organisations improve performance and build capacity for growth.

  • Operating model design: Align people, processes, technology and ownership around business outcomes.
  • Process and service redesign: Simplify customer journeys, remove unnecessary handoffs and improve service delivery.
  • Capability building: Establish shared services, operational utilities and delivery teams with clear responsibilities.
  • Transformation execution: Translate ambition into prioritised roadmaps, coordinated delivery and measurable benefits.
  • Change and adoption: Equip teams with the skills, ways of working and accountability to sustain improvements.

Technology, automation & AI

Turn technology opportunities into practical improvements.

  • Opportunity assessment
  • Workflow and automation
  • AI-enabled operations
Explore this capability: Technology, automation & AI

Turn technology opportunities into practical improvements. We help organisations identify where digital tools, automation and AI can reduce effort, improve decisions and create better customer and employee experiences.

  • Opportunity assessment: Identify valuable use cases, assess feasibility and build a clear investment case.
  • Workflow and automation: Replace manual coordination and repetitive tasks with connected, traceable processes.
  • AI-enabled operations: Apply AI to support analysis, knowledge work and service delivery, with appropriate human oversight.
  • Data and insight: Define the information and measures needed to understand performance and act earlier.
  • Pilot and adoption: Test solutions in practice, verify their value and establish the foundations for wider use.

Governance, risk & controls

Make accountability clear and control part of how work gets done.

  • Governance and accountability
  • Risk-informed decisions
  • Control engineering
Explore this capability: Governance, risk & controls

Make accountability clear and control part of how work gets done. We help organisations manage material risks, simplify assurance and give leaders reliable evidence for decisions.

  • Governance and accountability: Clarify decision rights, ownership, escalation and management oversight.
  • Risk-informed decisions: Build proportionate risk assessment into strategy, investment, products and change.
  • Control engineering: Embed preventive and detective controls into processes and technology.
  • Testing and management assurance: Establish practical ways to evaluate effectiveness, capture evidence and report with confidence.
  • Sustainable remediation: Address root causes, strengthen issue ownership and verify that corrective changes work.

Resilience & trust

Build confidence in the ability to deliver—through everyday operations, growth and disruption.

  • Critical services and dependencies
  • Continuity and recovery
  • Scenario testing
Explore this capability: Resilience & trust

Build confidence in the ability to deliver—through everyday operations, growth and disruption. We help organisations understand critical services and dependencies, prepare for disruption and demonstrate that commitments can be met.

  • Critical services and dependencies: Understand what matters most and the people, technology and suppliers it relies on.
  • Continuity and recovery: Develop practical arrangements to maintain services and restore operations.
  • Scenario testing: Test assumptions, expose vulnerabilities and turn lessons into improvements.
  • Third-party resilience: Strengthen oversight of suppliers and partners that support critical delivery.
  • Service confidence: Connect commitments, performance evidence and incident learning to improve reliability and stakeholder trust.

Our approach in practice

From the problem
to a solution that works.

The same continuous-improvement cycle we use across Beanstalk, applied to your challenge. Product-led thinking keeps the work focused on the people, the problem and the outcome.

Built to
Thrive
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Understand

Start with the people using and operating the service. Examine the evidence, clarify the problem and agree what a better outcome would mean for customers and the business.

How we work with you

The right support for the task.

Let’s work through it.

Tell us the challenge, the outcome you need and where support would make the most difference.

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