About us.

Provience was founded in 2016 with the aim of helping our clients to realise more value from their change programmes, and help drive an industry-wide embrace of innovative approaches and cutting edge technologies.

We aim to reduce the risk and increase the reward for being bold in a challenging market.

Over 15 Years in the Making

Over the last 15 years we have established a broad network of talented project delivery consultants with extensive experience and a strong track record of delivery.  

​We have carefully grown our associate network of trusted individuals who know what it takes to deliver projects - we know each other, we trust each other and we work well together.

Our Goal

We aim to use our experience and expertise to help our clients maximise value from projects.  We can increase pace and quality, whilst reducing the overall cost of delivery.

Change can be hard - we are committed to making sure projects are sustainable and fully embedded within the organisation.  Too many projects fail to deliver their full potential value due to insufficient business support or focus on BAU adoption.

Our Team

Billy Donegan
Director

I have over 15 years experience across consulting and investment banking, specialising in risk and regulatory transformation.  My experience of the full project lifecycle across a wide range of clients has focused on the implementation and enhancement of risk systems and processes, particularly for counterparty exposure across a spectrum of vendor and bespoke implementations.  I have successfully supported regulatory change from Basel II up to and including FRTB, and the wider current agenda.

My mathematics background together with my financial engineering and development experience have allowed me to play a key role in detailed scope definition and validation of methodologies.  I am a strong believer in continuous learning and as well as being qualified in quantitative finance and machine learning, I have focused my recent projects to gain experience in python, Restful APIs and agile delivery (Scrum and Kanban).

Mark Shortt
Director

I have extensive experience delivering large-scale change programmes across Investment, Retail, Insurance and Commercial Banking clients.  Specialising in delivering transformative business and technology change projects, my experience includes major market and credit risk analytics programmes (e.g. Basel II / CRD4, FRTB), regulatory operational risk (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley, BCBS239) and enterprise big data covering data management, quality and control, governance and workflow, metadata management and data visualisation.
 
Working across technology strategy, solution design and implementation, I have held leadership roles in project / programme management, product ownership and business / technical analysis, and have spent over 15 years cultivating relationships with a broad network of financial and technology professionals.

We're Here for You

We are committed to ensuring your project is a success.  We provide high-calibre experts for critical roles across your programme, or spin up high performing teams of like-minded professionals who can significantly reduce your delivery risk.

Our leadership team provides oversight and support across all projects to resolve issues, facilitate and enable delivery and uplift delivery teams.

Our consultants can also run brown bag sessions or formal workshops for your team on-site to help your project team and stakeholders with a range of value-add topics designed to increase the efficiency and value of delivery.
 
These can cover a range of topics including:​

• Risk factor simulation
• Exposure calculation & aggregation
• Machine learning
• The evolution of the financial services regulatory landscape
• Agile team working & collaboration
• Data quality & operational control
• Maximising value from JIRA

Our consultants bring content to life in engaging sessions that include real war stories, working prototypes and simulation games.