What We Do
Financial Services Transformation
Data
Controls
Regulatory Reporting
Turning data into control and certainty across the financial services landscape.
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Delivering High-Stakes Change with Confidence
We help banks deliver transformational change across the most critical areas of their operations: data architecture, control frameworks, and operating models. Our work spans Front Office, Operations, Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting — ensuring seamless integration across every function.
Our approach is built on three fundamental principles: pragmatic delivery that fits your organisational reality, audit-ready evidence that stands up to regulatory scrutiny, and fewer breaks between systems and teams. We don't just design solutions — we deliver them with you, ensuring sustainable change that becomes embedded in how your organisation works.
The Challenge: Complexity Without Clarity
Data Fragmentation
Critical financial data scattered across legacy systems, creating reconciliation breaks and regulatory risk. Teams struggle to establish a single source of truth.
Control Gaps
Preventative and detective controls that looked robust on paper fail under operational pressure. Break management becomes reactive rather than predictive.
Reporting Uncertainty
When front-office positions don't reconcile with Finance or Risk, confidence erodes. Auditors ask for lineage — and the trail goes cold between systems.
These aren't isolated technical problems. They're symptoms of misaligned architecture, unclear ownership, and insufficient traceability. The result: mounting regulatory pressure, operational inefficiency, and strategic paralysis when change is needed most.
Our Capabilities
We bring deep expertise across the critical pillars of financial services transformation. Each capability is designed to work independently or as part of an integrated programme, depending on where you need the greatest impact.
Data Platforms & Operating Models
Greenfield builds and legacy modernisation
Control Engineering & Observability
Controls that hold under pressure
Traceable Reporting & Alignment
Front-to-back lineage and audit readiness
Data Platforms and Operating Models
We design and deliver data platforms that turn financial complexity into something the business can actually read: clear domains, clear contracts, clear ownership. Whether you're building greenfield or modernising legacy infrastructure, we don't just build the technical components — we build the pipelines, models, and operating model together.
The goal is simple: create a stable language that teams across the organisation can ship on. That means establishing semantic clarity, defining data ownership at the domain level, implementing quality gates that prevent bad data from propagating, and ensuring the platform becomes a strategic asset rather than a cost centre.
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Domain Definition
Establish clear data domains with defined ownership and accountability
02
Contract Design
Create explicit interfaces and service-level agreements between domains
03
Pipeline Engineering
Build resilient data flows with quality gates and monitoring
04
Operating Model
Embed governance, support structures and continuous improvement
The result is a platform that scales with your business, adapts to regulatory change, and gives teams the confidence to make decisions based on trusted data.
Control Engineering and Observability
We build controls that hold under pressure: preventative and detective checks, reconciliations, break management, monitoring and evidence. The aim is simple — if a number moves, you can explain it; if a process fails, you see it early; if an auditor asks, you can prove what happened.
Our approach combines engineering discipline with operational reality. We design control frameworks that embed directly into your processes, not alongside them. That includes automated reconciliation engines, exception management workflows, and observability tooling that gives you real-time visibility into control effectiveness.
Preventative Controls
  • Input validation and business rule enforcement
  • Pre-processing quality gates
  • Automated limit checking
Detective Controls
  • Automated reconciliations across systems
  • Statistical variance detection
  • Pattern-based anomaly identification
Break Management
  • Exception workflow automation
  • Root cause analysis frameworks
  • Resolution tracking and reporting
Audit Evidence
  • Immutable control execution logs
  • Test results and validation records
  • Lineage documentation for all checks
The outcome: controls become predictive rather than reactive, and audit preparation becomes continuous rather than a quarterly scramble.
Traceable Reporting and Front-to-Back Alignment
We make reporting defensible by aligning the front-office story with the Operations, Finance and Risk truth — and recording lineage end-to-end. When your front-office positions reconcile seamlessly with your financial accounts and risk reports, you gain confidence. When every figure carries a traceable path back to source, you gain audit readiness.
This capability becomes especially critical during multi-system migrations and remediation programmes. We specialise in mapping semantics across legacy and target systems, managing cutover risk through parallel running and validation, and ensuring the new estate produces the same answers — or better, with full explanatory power when differences emerge.
Front Office
Trading positions and P&L
Operations
Settlement and confirmations
Finance
General ledger and accounts
Risk
Regulatory and capital reporting
Regulatory Reporting
Capital adequacy and compliance reporting
Our approach ensures that when data moves between these domains, the transformation is explicit, validated, and fully documented. Semantic drift — where the same term means different things in different systems — is identified and resolved. The result is a reporting estate you can defend with confidence.
Why Lineage Advisory
Pragmatic Delivery
We work within your constraints — legacy systems, regulatory timelines, budget realities. Our solutions are designed to land successfully in the real world, not just on architecture diagrams.
Audit-Ready Evidence
Everything we build includes the documentation, testing records, and lineage trails that auditors and regulators demand. Compliance isn't an afterthought — it's engineered in from day one.
Seamless Integration
Fewer breaks between systems and teams. We bridge silos, align operating models, and ensure that technical solutions support organisational effectiveness.
Our team combines deep financial services domain expertise with hands-on delivery capability. We've been in your seat — facing the same regulatory pressures, the same legacy constraints, the same need to deliver transformation whilst keeping the lights on. That experience shapes how we work: partnering with your teams, transferring knowledge as we go, and leaving behind sustainable capability rather than just documentation.
"Do not sleep until your debits equal your credits."
– Luca Pacioli, Father of Accounting
For over five centuries, this principle has guided financial integrity. In today's complex, multi-system banking environment, the challenge isn't just balancing debits and credits — it's proving the lineage of every figure, reconciling across dozens of platforms, and maintaining that integrity through continuous change.
At Lineage Advisory, we honour this foundational principle whilst applying modern engineering discipline. Data must balance. Controls must hold. Reports must be defensible. Everything else is built on that foundation.
Get in Touch
Whether you're planning a major transformation programme, need to remediate control gaps, or want to discuss how to make your reporting estate more defensible, we'd welcome the conversation.
We work with senior banking executives and programme leads across data, controls and regulatory reporting — helping translate strategic ambition into operational reality.
London (Remote/Hybrid)
Phone: +44 775 111 6044
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Restoring explainability in regulated data systems.
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