Nandeep Blagun
London
Summary
Senior Manager in strategy and technology consulting, specialising in M&A transactions and enterprise transformation within Financial Services. Breaks down complexity for CIOs and CTOs, translating strategic business motives into actionable technology roadmaps that align with corporate direction. Leads engagements across the full deal lifecycle—from due diligence through post-merger integration and carve-out execution—advising private equity firms, banks, insurers, and corporates on creating, protecting, and realizing deal value. Combines enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and IT operating model expertise with commercial acumen to drive digital transformation across complex estates while maintaining audit readiness and regulatory compliance.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Strategy Consulting Senior Manager
PwC
London
2025.11 - Current
- Tech Deal Advisory - Leading operational and technology due diligence for manufacturing M&A transactions, assessing target technology estates, applications, and IT cost structures to quantify deal impact and inform investment decisions for private equity and corporate acquirers.
- Value Creation Carve Out - Driving post-acquisition value creation for a major insurance company, conducting maturity assessments across a federated technology estate to identify capability gaps, rationalisation opportunities, and investment priorities following a portfolio acquisition strategy.
- Enterprise Architecture - Designing the IT Target Operating Model including enterprise architecture governance, platform consolidation roadmaps, and the integration of Agentic AI capabilities to drive operational efficiency, intelligent automation, and scalable decision-making across the combined entity.
- Operating Model Design - Leading IT operating model design for a healthcare organisation carve-out, defining the future-state technology function structure, service delivery model, sourcing strategy, and governance framework to enable standalone operations and accelerate value creation post-separation.
Strategy & Consulting Senior Manager
Accenture
London, UK
2021.06 - 2025.11
- Enterprise Transformation - Advising Financial Services CISOs and Tech Leaders, helping them define their strategy to digitally transform their organizations for the digital age, including how to re-structure large technology ecosystems to meet objectives including cloud computing, cybersecurity and audit readiness.
- Strategy & CX Operating Model - Designing and implementing a 2 year Cyber Security PAM Target Operating Model (TOM), considering all aspects of a modern architecture including migration of user accounts, policies, safes, permissions, vendor management resulting in a 40% improvement in audit readiness.
- Solutions Architect & Design - Led the strategy and design for implementing second-instance architecture to support business goals. Used ArchiMate to model the transition process and integration within current systems.
- Data Analytics - Developed and implemented automated SQL queries to monitor system activities, user behaviors and privileged access, enabling proactive identification of anomalous activities and compliance violations.
- Internal Audit Governance - Establishing an audit governance structure that integrates seamlessly with organisational risk management and IT strategies, providing clear reporting lines to senior leadership to enhance transparency on remediation efforts.
- Cloud Adoption – Led the discovery workshops, assessing the variables required for cloud native solutions including moving applications and data onto hyperscale, GCP. Business Requirements funding case created for Senior Leadership including ROI.
- Consulting Proficiencies - Supporting the strengthening of Practice Development & identifying new business opportunities. Skilled in RFP creation, designed security vendor offerings for FS clients generating additional revenue for consulting engagements and nurturing junior consultants.
Regulatory Change Business Analyst (Contractor)
AJNC Advisory Ltd (UBS, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)
London
2015.05 - 2020.03
- Business Analysis - Led the in depth gap-analysis of the impacted process flow from various business needs and technical solutions including new regulatory requirements driven by legal reform to produce detailed artifacts such as end-to-end Business Requirements Documentation (BRD) and confluence page creation.
- Project Management - Standardize project governance and reporting by following the lifecycle and roadmap of a project to manage a portfolio of regulatory change book of works including MiFID II & EMIR.
- Target Operating Model (TOM) - Contributed towards robust target operating model for exceptions management teams by standardizing BAU reporting with key operating procedures and cross training.
- Testing Development and Architecture - Define the testing strategy, architecture and execution of UAT/regression test scripting. Planning and scheduling testing activity to include the end-to-end reporting of trade lifecycle through internal proprietary systems architecture, defining the success criteria.
- Remediation & Initiative – Holistic ownership and understanding of regulatory reporting exceptions, investigating and implementing corrective actions to past process failures, back-reported trades into their respective central repositories.
- BAU Automation – Manual upload and reporting of exceptions for Credit asset class which arise in trade amendments not supported by STP solution from internal booking systems out to external Trade Repositories.
GTO Rotation Graduate Analyst
Deutsche Bank
Birmingham
2014.07 - 2015.03
- Controlled quality assurance inspections of trade lifecycle events, ensuring timeliness, accuracy and completeness aligned with DTCC requirements across asset classes.
- Examined and resolved non-acknowledged trades (NACKS) in compliance with Dodd Frank and EMIR legislation, performing root cause analysis on reporting issues.
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Imperial College London
London 2026.01 - 2029.01
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Economics and Finance
University Of Keele
3 A Levels - Math’s, Economics, Finance
Queen Mary’s Grammar School
Skills
Data Engineering: SQL, Alteryx, Excel VBA, ETL
Visualization: Tableau, Power BI
Storytelling: Minto Pyramid, MECE principle, Issue Tree, Maslow Hierarchy
Strategy: Wardley Mapping, Value Creation, Customer Journey Mapping, SWOT, Ishikawa Diagram, Porter Five Forces, Benchmarking, Market analysis
Architect & Design - ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, Wireframes, Lucidchart, Visio
Delivery: SAFe, Agile, Lean, Kaizen, DMAIC, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
Stakeholder Management: RACI Matrix, KPI, OKR
Project management: Gantt Charts, Atlassian JIRA, RAID
Value Chain & Transformation Focus: TOGAF, SIPOC, BPM, Value Stream
Management: Intent Based Leadership
Languages
English
Projects Delivered
- Security Engineering – Driving the modernization to overhaul PAM infrastructure as a result of Audit findings.
- Cloud Transformation – Leading security application migrations to GCP.
- MiFID II Regulation - Impacted by derivatives trades subject to clearing.
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nandeep-blagun-3982a075/
References
Available upon request
Hobbies and Interests
- Muay Thai
- Travel
- Photography
Timeline
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Imperial College London
2026.01 - 2029.01
Strategy Consulting Senior Manager
PwC
2025.11 - Current
Strategy & Consulting Senior Manager
Accenture
2021.06 - 2025.11
Regulatory Change Business Analyst (Contractor)
AJNC Advisory Ltd (UBS, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America)
2015.05 - 2020.03
GTO Rotation Graduate Analyst
Deutsche Bank
2014.07 - 2015.03
3 A Levels - Math’s, Economics, Finance
Queen Mary’s Grammar School
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Economics and Finance
University Of Keele