Paul Traynor is based in Dublin and is a Partner in EY’s global wealth and asset management (WAM) practice where he leads Ireland’s WAM Consulting team. Paul has been working in or advising the wealth and asset management industries for more than 25 years. He has a B.Comm from University College Dublin, he is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and sits on a number of industry committees.

Paul has worked with many leading firms to deliver strategic change initiatives across the front, middle and back offices of wealth and asset managers, custodians, depositaries, fund administrators and transfer agents. Paul’s experience includes: operating model design and transformation; customer; digital; post-merger acquisition integration; outsourcing and remediation & restitution of control. He has 13 years of industry experience at a global investment services and investment management firm and 15 years in WAM consulting and audit.

Paul has delivered a wide range of projects including:

• Profit Improvement/ Cost Reduction,
• Market Entry Strategies, including BREXIT preparedness,
• Operating Model Redesign,
• Systems Selection & Replacements,
• Service provider selections/ Outsourcing/ Lift-outs,
• Offshoring/ Near-shoring,
• Remediation & Restitution of Control.