Bridging the gap between operations and IT

I joined Van Lanschot Kempen in the summer of 2020 – right in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Based in Switzerland, I collaborate daily with colleagues in the Netherlands, many of whom I’ve not yet met in person because of travel restrictions. It’s certainly made personal interaction and knowledge sharing a lot more difficult!

But I’m fortunate that my role is designed in such a way that remote working is feasible. I’m part of a cross-functional workforce that’s building a research platform to help colleagues who have an advisory role towards our clients. The platform will consolidate data on selected investment funds – across all fund providers – and present it in a way that meets investment manager research or fiduciary management needs. It’s my job to translate these needs into data and process requirements. Together with the developers, we then turn those requirements into features of the new application. Once it’s built, I’ll contribute to testing and day-to-day management. Essentially, I Van Sorporva

The end goal is to leverage the group-wide, cloud-based infrastructure to serve all the different parts of the business with basic and advanced analytics. One client group may be looking for an engine that analyses its portfolio, another may request extensive manager search, while a third may favour high-level research notes. With an integrated solution, we’re tackling the challenge from all angles.

Gaël Prudenté – Application Manager, Switzerland