StratAlign is a specialist consulting practice delivering business analysis, product strategy, and integration expertise to regulated industries, scaling businesses, and enterprise programmes across the UK, EMEA, and the Americas.
10+ Years · 8+ Industries · UK, EMEA & Americas
StratAlign is a specialist consulting practice with a team of senior BAs, product consultants, and integration specialists. We work with organisations who need results — not layers of process or inflated day rates.
StratAlign was built on one belief: that deep, cross-industry consulting expertise should be accessible to any organisation willing to solve hard problems — not just those with the budget for a Big 4 engagement. Our team has delivered across investment banking and capital markets, major retail banking transformation, global technology partner payment platforms, multi-country fintech and payments integration, telecoms security compliance, public health sector digital programmes, legal services modernisation, insurance fraud analytics, and enterprise cybersecurity.
Our consultants have operated at the intersection of business, technology, and regulation across the UK, Europe, and internationally — running workshops, shaping product decisions, evaluating vendors, defining controls, and delivering evidence to regulators. We offer two core capability tracks: Business Analysis & Delivery and Product & Strategy Consulting — applied individually or together depending on what your programme needs.
Our core practice. Senior BAs embedded into your programme to translate complexity into clear, executable requirements — bridging business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and regulators.
Advisory-level support for organisations making product decisions, evaluating technology, or shaping programme strategy. We bring structured thinking and independent perspective to high-stakes choices.
Delivered as standalone engagements or as part of a broader programme. Always by senior consultants.
Structured elicitation, documentation, and traceability of business, functional, and non-functional requirements. Written to be testable, implementation-ready, and aligned to regulatory or product objectives.
Translating complex legislation into clear, implementable requirements and evidence-based delivery plans. Includes regulator evidence preparation, submission coordination, compliance gap analysis, and vendor accountability governance across domains.
Specialist BA support for organisations navigating the EU AI Act and crypto-asset regulatory frameworks. We translate rapidly evolving legislation into structured delivery plans — mapping your obligations, defining controls, and preparing evidence across compliance domains before enforcement deadlines hit.
EU AI Act — Full high-risk obligations August 2026. Fines up to €35m or 7% global turnover. Applies to UK firms selling into EU.
MiCA — Full EU enforcement July 2026. CASP authorisation, AML/CFT, Travel Rule, transaction monitoring, capital requirements.
DORA — Digital Operational Resilience Act. In force January 2025. Applies to all financial entities including MiCA-licensed crypto firms.
CARF / AMLA — Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework & new EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority launching 2026.
End-to-end advisory for organisations evaluating AI-driven fraud detection or analytics platforms. Vendor workshops, competitive evaluation scorecards, POC design, MVP vs full-build decision support, and integration scoping.
Integration BA across payment gateways, third-party APIs, ERP systems, and enterprise platforms. Multi-country, multi-currency implementations. Integration mapping, data flow documentation, and technical requirement definition.
Product discovery, roadmap shaping, and agile delivery support. Backlog management, sprint facilitation, acceptance criteria, and cross-functional coordination. From MVP definition through to go-live and iteration.
Independent vendor evaluation from RFI/RFP design through to scoring, POC facilitation, and recommendation. Evaluation scorecards, structured workshops, and decision support with no vendor allegiances.
BA leadership across complex transformation programmes — current-state assessment, business case development, delivery oversight, change management, and post-implementation review. Scaled to your programme size.
As-is and to-be process documentation, user journey mapping, and operating model design for new products, compliance programmes, or organisational change. Includes evidence lifecycle and governance design.
BA support for RBAC, MFA, asset management, monitoring, logging, and virtualisation projects. Translates complex security requirements into deliverable workstreams with clearly defined controls and audit evidence.
Senior-level facilitation of business and technical workshops — extracting clarity from ambiguity and conflicting views. Outputs include documented requirements, decisions, action logs, and traceable artefacts.
Specialist BA capability across payment flows, omnichannel product design, and multi-market payment type integration. Deep experience in regulated environments across Europe, the UK, and internationally.
Identifying compliance gaps, defining control expectations, and designing governance frameworks. Includes control definitions for logging, monitoring, access tracking, and evidence repositories aligned to regulatory standards.
Our team has run competitive vendor evaluations for enterprise-grade fraud analytics platforms — designing evaluation frameworks, facilitating vendor workshops, building scoring matrices, and supporting POC-to-MVP decision making. We understand both the business and technical dimensions of fraud tooling selection and integration.
Hands-on delivery experience across major telecommunications security legislation and financial regulatory frameworks. Our team has translated regulation into structured requirements, coordinated cross-domain evidence, managed vendor compliance obligations, and supported regulator submissions — from initial gap analysis through to formal evidence submission.
End-to-end BA delivery for complex payment integrations across multiple markets, currencies, and regulatory environments. Experience spans omnichannel payment product design, partner payment programme operations, and integrating multiple payment types into unified platforms — with full compliance alignment.
BA and analytical delivery across investment banking, retail and commercial banking, and fund operations. Experience includes front-to-back process analysis in trading and capital markets environments, fund data and reporting requirements, and large-scale banking transformation programmes.
No bait-and-switch. No junior delivery after sign-off. Every StratAlign engagement is delivered by experienced, senior-level consultants who have worked in your industry before — not graduates learning on the job at your expense.
We bridge the gap between strategy and delivery. Our team brings business analysis depth, product thinking, and technical fluency — so we can operate at every layer of your programme without losing context or adding handoff risk.
Our models flex to your reality. Whether you need a two-week discovery sprint, a BA embedded into a regulated programme, or a product strategy advisor at steering level — StratAlign scales without the overhead of a large firm.
Investment banking, retail & commercial banking, fund analytics, capital markets
Digital wallets, sports betting, omnichannel payment products, multi-country integration
Network operations, telecoms security legislation, cybersecurity compliance delivery
Global partner payment platforms, marketing technology, cross-border operations
Fraud detection platform evaluation, analytics integration, vendor selection & POC
Digital transformation, clinical process redesign, system procurement delivery
Process modernisation, case management systems, client journey & compliance
Discovery sprints, MVP scoping, product architecture, agile delivery setup
A focused 2–4 week engagement to define requirements, evaluate a vendor, map processes, or assess a specific business problem. Ideal for quick clarity before committing to a larger programme.
Full BA or product consulting support from requirements through to UAT and go-live. Defined scope, agreed milestones, structured artefacts, and regular stakeholder reporting throughout.
A flexible retainer for organisations needing consistent senior support — backlog management, vendor oversight, compliance analysis, or product advisory — without the cost of a full-time hire.
Whether you have a defined brief or are still exploring options, we’d welcome a conversation. Most engagements begin with a no-obligation 30-minute discovery call.
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