Case Study

Risk reporting reduced from 3 days to 4 Hours

How a financial services firm replaced manual reporting with a real-time risk intelligence platform.

Industry
Financial Services
Challenge
3-day manual risk reporting cycle
Solution
Data Intelligence
Timeline
10 weeks
The Challenge

The Situation Before Sync4Tech

A mid-market financial services firm was compiling its risk dashboard by hand analysts pulling data from six disconnected systems, reconciling figures in Excel, and spending three full working days each month preparing a report that was already outdated by the time it reached the board.

The process was error-prone, heavily dependent on two key individuals, and provided no intra-month visibility. When a market event required rapid risk assessment, the firm had no way to get a current picture without another multi-day manual exercise.

Leadership needed real-time risk visibility, automated regulatory reporting, and the ability to drill down from board-level metrics to individual trade level without adding headcount.

Our Approach

How We Solved It

01

Data Source Audit

We mapped all six data sources trading platform, CRM, finance system, compliance tool, and two legacy databases assessing data quality and integration feasibility.

02

Warehouse Architecture

We designed and built a Snowflake data warehouse with automated Fivetran pipelines pulling from all six sources on a 15-minute refresh cycle.

03

dbt Transformation Layer

We built a dbt modelling layer that cleaned, joined, and transformed raw data into reliable risk metrics with data quality tests on every model.

04

Power BI Dashboard

We built a role-specific Power BI dashboard suite: executive risk summary, analyst drill-down, and automated regulatory report generation.

The Results

Measurable Impact

18x
Faster Reporting

From 3 days of manual effort to a dashboard refreshed every 15 minutes.

4 hrs
Monthly Close Time

Down from 3 full working days analysts now validate rather than compile.

100%
Data Accuracy

Automated pipelines with quality checks eliminated manual reconciliation errors.

"We went from dreading month-end to having real-time visibility every single day. Our analysts now spend their time on analysis, not data wrangling."
Head of Risk, Financial Services Firm
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