Case Study #4

Cost Optimization at a premier US based Financial Services organization 

 

Background

  • A premier US based Retail & Commercial Mortgage player
  • Intent to rapidly globalize presence

Issue

  • High Opex per transaction resulting in significantly reduced operational margins in the Commercial Business
  • Need for a cost model to replicate globally

Strategy

  • Unit Cost Optimization of the complete Commercial Mortgages Business

MQ Approach

  • Setup of PMO for management of end-to-end project
  • Process Mapping of the complete Commercial Business
  • Identification of Processes with high impact on costs
  • Cost- Optimization of each process area in phases, across the business, resulting in newly designed processes
  • Rapid implementation of new processes in each phase, in a cascade form
  • Institutionalization support till the stabilization of its new processes

Key Benefit Over 15% reduction in Unit Cost Base for the Commercial Mortgage Business