SRA’s consultants compass the hidden opportunities in businesses in BFS sector on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives.

Banking Process Consultancy

SRA's process consulting services for BFS helps in achieving high-performance by taking an end-to-end, process-based approach to address their key business challenges.

• Review of existing processes
• Gap analysis
  
• Revision of existing processes
• Development of new processes
• Implementation of modified/ new processes

Benefits:

• Better processes
• Globally standard practices
• Adequate internal controls
• Compliance facilitation
• Achieving the market and business goals/ drivers
• Alignment of IT strategy with business strategy

Quality Management System (QMS)

With QMS, SRA enables the organizations to identify, measure, control and improve the various core business processes that will ultimately lead to improved business performance.

• Training Programs
• General
• Specific as per requirement
• Consultancy on specific areas like
• Review of existing processes
• Gap analysis
• Revision of existing processes
• Development of new processes
• Implementation of modified/ new processes
• Metrics management
• Corrective and Preventive actions
• Quality Manual preparation
• Development of policies, procedures and guidelines
• Internal Audit and External Audit coordination
• Implementation facilitation till certification like CMMi, ISO 9001-2000, etc

• Integrated Quality Management System, meeting the requirements of world class quality models
• Provide ample space for flexibility and creativity
• Adherence to SLA to ensure RoI
• Greater degree of predictability through processes and reuse
• Continuous improvements through better QMS and Breakthrough improvements through Six Sigma

IT Governance

SRA's effective IT Governance model will be the one that is carefully planned keeping in view the international best practices as well as the organizational requirements and implemented.

• Review of existing Governance Model or defining a new one keeping in view the international best practices and the specific needs of the organization
• Conducting the Gap analysis
• Revision of existing model
• Development of new processes/guidelines to address the gaps
• Implementation of modified/ new processes
• Keeping in place a monitoring mechanism

• Enable the monitoring and strategic development of the IT Governance Models for optimum and most secure usage of IT
• Provide for better monitoring of and compliance with Contractual, legal and operational risk requirements
• Alignment of IT strategy with business strategy

Information Security Management System (ISMS)

Protecting Information is the most critical function as it is the most valuable asset of the organizations. Whether it is customer data, software or hardware or the networks used apart from the physical assets and all important people (employees), careful planning and systems are required to ensure their availability, integrity and confidentiality (depending upon the nature of the asset).

ISMS will ensure the above, once it is planned in tune with the international best practices and the organizational needs.

• Review of existing policies, procedures etc that take care of Information Security and comparing with the international standards and the organizational needs
• Gap analysis
• Revision of existing policies/procedures or defining new ones
• Implementation of the same
• Institutionalising mechanism to monitor, evaluate and review the same periodically
• Facilitation to the organization for complying with and getting certified for ISO 27001

• Better processes
• Globally standard practices
• Adequate internal controls
• Compliance facilitation
• Achieving the market and business goals/ drivers
• Alignment of IT strategy with business strategy

ISO 9001/ 27001/ BS25999 Implementation

SRA offers facilitation services for enabling the organizations to get certified under International Standards in Quality, Information Security and Business Continuity. Our consultants will help the organizations to understand the standards, map the organization’s requirements to the standards and define/refine policies/processes to ensure that they comply with all the requirements of the standard.

We will hand-hold your employees in the implementation process and enable them to successfully face the certification audits leading to certifications in the respective systems.

• Review of existing processes
• Gap analysis
• Revision of existing processes
• Development of new processes
• Implementation of modified/ new processes

• Better processes
• Globally standard practices
• Adequate internal controls
• Compliance facilitation
• Achieving the market and business goals/ drivers
Alignment of IT strategy with business strategy

Risk Assessment and Mitigation

In the current pace of technological development in Information Technology, new threats are being constantly faced by organization to their information assets with a potential risk of losing or compromising on information assets which may lead to different losses including possible closure of business.

SRA offers a comprehensive range of services that will help organizations in identifying potential risks and also recommends necessary mitigation measures to reduce the risks.

• Asset Identification and analysis
• Identification of threats and vulnerabilities through series of studies/tests
• Assessment of Risks
• Measure the risks and evolve the risk matrix
• Provide expert guidance on ways to mitigate the risks

• Proactively identifying the risks and taking steps to mitigate them
• Reduction in losses
• Comfort to the management on the much needed Risk Management
• Compliance to client/regulatory requirements

RFP management

SRA specializes in procurement management, which is the key for ensuring obtention of required products/ services at an optimum ToC and not compromising on the quality.

• RFx preparation with detailed functional and technical requirements and including global bidding standards
• Evaluation of vendors with scientific approach considering various parameters and weights
• Managing vendors
• Conducting UAT
• Procurement Audit

• External professional services in the procurement
• Service augmentation at the need of the hour
• Professional and unbiased approach