Product / Service
Performance Benchmarking
Gauge
Practice Overview: Optimizing Financial and Operational Performance with Data-Driven Insights
Gauge provides the Banking industry with the data, insights, and strategic analysis they need to enhance profitability and efficiency. Through our proprietary benchmarking and analytics, we assess both the Front-Office and Infrastructure Functions, delivering fact-based solutions tailored to our client's unique needs allowing firms to compare their performance against industry peers.
- Front Office Benchmarking - Assessing revenue, expense, capital, and headcount productivity across business lines, including risk-adjusted returns.
- Infrastructure Functions Analysis - Evaluating cost structures and workforce efficiency across Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, and other key areas.
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50+
Financial Institutions with General Ledger data
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300+
Financial institutions with Employee Headcount Data
Our core services include:
Whether optimizing costs, improving workforce productivity, or refining compensation strategies, Gauge provides the insights that help investment banks stay competitive in an evolving landscape.
Our analysis is built on key insights, including:
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Revenue and Capital Efficiency
Uncover the financial performance of your business/product lines and their capital productivity, including returns on capital deployed. Identify product exit/entry opportunities and pinpoint under resourced areas.
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Workforce Analytics
Improve workforce productivity by delving into Enterprise Functions and Front Office and sales team headcount, showing producer vs non-producer breakdowns, country analysis and location strategy, and corporate title and grade structure analysis.
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Cost Analysis
Define key opportunities for cost management, assess compensation and non-compensation costs and identify your relative cost positioning with detailed Expense-line analysis.
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Performance & Reward Analytics
Establish the link between compensation and revenue generation to inform talent strategies.
Aon job assessment and leveling methods are integrated to enable flexibility by regional requirements and business needs.
Why Work with Aon
Our clients use our insights to optimize business models, refine resource allocation, and drive financial performance.
- Unmatched Industry Data - Our proprietary dataset, collates annual general ledger and headcount submissions from major global banks, enabling us to conduct granular peer-group analysis and provide insightful performance intelligence across a range of different issues facing the industry.
- Flexible, Customizable Insights - Clients can commission Enterprise Function-specific, front-office, or firm-wide reports tailored to their business needs. Given differences in location strategies and business mixes, clients have the flexibility to define bespoke peer groups to benchmark and tailor the analysis to specific business / products levels within the Front Office and Infrastructure.
- Fact-Based Decision Making - We equip senior leaders with actionable intelligence to drive efficiency and profitability.
