Enterprise Risk · Cybersecurity · Transformation · AI
Most organizations learn what is wrong from one firm and what to do about it from another. Avant brings both into a single engagement — practitioners who have run risk and control functions inside global banks, and led the transformation programs that changed how those banks operate.
Outcomes our practitioners have delivered in prior roles at global banks, regulated fintechs and consulting firms
90%
Reduction in outstanding system vulnerabilities following a firmwide cybersecurity and enterprise architecture review at a global systemically important bank.
$17M+
Cost takeout through operating model redesign at a global asset servicing firm, including a new offshore center of excellence and 200+ roles transitioned.
Level 5
Highest rating on the NIST Capability Maturity Model, achieved by an information security organization supported by a cybersecurity-focused audit strategy.
$5.6M
Quarter-over-quarter revenue uplift for a global bank through pricing optimization, billing discipline and cost leakage analysis.
$2M
Operating savings over three years at a regulated fintech through audit automation, continuous auditing and AI/ML-enabled risk monitoring.
20+
AI use cases assessed and sequenced in an enterprise AI transformation strategy for a global bank, spanning five business domains.
Working with us
Avant is a specialist practice. Engagements are staffed by senior practitioners who have held the roles our clients are filling, scoped in writing, and priced before they start.
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The person who scopes your engagement is the person who delivers it. There is no handoff to junior staff after the kickoff meeting.
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Every engagement has a defined deliverable, a fixed fee and an end date, agreed in writing before work begins.
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Most assessments end with a report. We also manage the program that closes the findings, when you want us to.
Services
Seven practice areas across commercial and federal engagements. Most clients start in one and draw on others as the work develops.
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Fractional security leadership, regulatory security programs, certification readiness and privacy.
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Enterprise risk frameworks, regulatory examination readiness, and the compliance programs examiners expect to find.
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Governance frameworks, model inventories and control testing for AI systems, grounded in regulated model risk practice.
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Building the capability, not only governing it. Data platforms, analytics, and applied AI delivered with risk and control designed in from the start.
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Operating model redesign, revenue and cost performance, and the governance that keeps large change programs on course.
06 — Public sector
Authorization, compliance and program support for federal agencies and their prime contractors.
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Internal audit function build, co-sourcing and execution, SOX 404 programs, and control design and testing.
Getting started
Every engagement starts with a 90-minute consultation at no charge, followed by a short written assessment you keep whether or not you engage us.
Credentials
Certifications held by Avant's practice leadership. The firm is registered and eligible for federal contracting.
CISA
Certified Information Systems Auditor
ISACA
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
ISC2
PMP
Project Management Professional
PMI
MIT
Certificate, AI and Machine Learning for Data Science Solutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experience
Avant's practitioners have led risk, cybersecurity, transformation and control functions inside some of the largest financial institutions in the world, advised them from top-tier consulting firms, and delivered authorization and security work under federal contract.
Financial institutions
Enterprise risk, cybersecurity, control and transformation leadership at Fortune 500 banks, global markets businesses and government-sponsored enterprises.
Consulting & financial technology
Advisory and executive leadership roles at global consulting firms and publicly traded financial technology companies.
Federal engagements
Authorization packages, ISSO support and security governance delivered under federal contract as a subcontractor to prime contractors.
The financial institutions, fintech and consulting organizations named above are prior employers of Avant's practitioners, listed as a record of professional experience rather than as clients of the firm. Federal engagements were delivered by Avant Enterprises under subcontract to federal prime contractors.
Government
Authorization packages, ISSO support and security governance delivered for civilian agencies as a subcontractor to federal prime contractors. Outcomes below are stated as measured.
100%
ISSO across a portfolio of customer-facing applications. Directed control assessments, authored system security plans, achieved a new ATO for a ServiceNow-based system and maintained continuous authorization.
80%
Security governance for a Drupal environment built from the ground up — policy and SOP set authored from nothing, vulnerability management led end to end.
Accepted
Assessed a platform's FedRAMP authorization against the agency baseline and developed the complete internal ATO package, delivered and accepted for authorizing official review.
Contact
Tell us what you are working on — an upcoming examination, an authorization deadline, a SOX program, a board question about AI. We will respond within one business day.