Banking Operations – Transaction Based Pricing for Productivity

Case study discusses how we helped a bank in Identifying operational and customer imperatives, standardized business inputs and outputs, direct/ indirect cost elements attributed to each transaction and build cost allocation framework.

Business problem:

  • Develop a transaction pricing model for current and future back-office operations and benchmark transactional price
  • Drive behavior to improve productivity

Solution Approach:

  • Identify exclusive work items; based on operational and customer imperatives
  • Identify standardized business inputs and outputs, process  duration and repeatability
  • Identify direct/ indirect cost elements attributed to each transaction and build cost allocation framework.
  • Baseline volumes, productivity, resource requirements and service levels and build cost element apportionment framework (fixed and variable cost)
  • Cost element allocation to transaction type/s
  • Define rate cards, dead bands and volume/ SLA adjustment mechanisms
  • Create comprehensive model to build transaction pricing

 

Key Outcome and benefits:

  • Working model for transaction pricing with clearly defined inputs, outputs and  assumptions
  • Mechanism for identifying areas where improvement and cost take-out can be achieved