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Case Study 04 · Banking & financial services

Scaled a regional bank's
risk and finance bench.

One of Latin America's largest retail banks, tens of millions of customers across the region. Urudex embedded risk analysts, compliance officers, and finance leads to carry a regional expansion and a regulatory overhaul at the same time.

2 yrs
Engagement, still running
14
Professionals embedded
3
Markets supported in parallel
72h
From brief to first shortlist
The brief

Two mandates. One bench.

The bank was expanding into two new markets and absorbing a regulatory overhaul in its home one, at the same time. Internal hiring couldn't carry both. They needed senior, vetted professionals across banking and financial services, risk and compliance, accounting and finance, and legal, fast, and to a standard a regulator would accept.

Urudex returned the first shortlist in 72 hours. Every profile had been background-checked and reference-called before the bank saw it.

How it ran

Inside the bank's own controls.

Regulated work can't be handed to an outside team. So the professionals didn't operate as one.

Risk analysts worked inside the bank's models and committees. Compliance officers reported into the bank's own compliance leadership. Finance leads owned line items in the consolidated reporting. Legal counsel reviewed the same contracts the in-house team did. Same controls, same audit trail, same accountability.

What began as cover for two mandates became the bank's go-to bench for anything that needed senior capacity at short notice. Two years in, the relationship has carried three market launches and two regulatory cycles, and several of the original placements now lead functions of their own.

This is staffing that a regulator, an auditor, and a board can all sign off on.

Urudex placements are not project-based contractors. They are professionals who join your team, learn your product, and grow with your organization. Some engagements start with one person and become a team of ten. Some start with a defined scope and evolve into something much larger as the relationship builds trust.

The professionals in our network choose this model deliberately. They want long engagements with companies worth working for. They want to go deep, not wide. That's what makes them different from a freelancer marketplace, and it's what makes the quality of their work compound over time.

You're not renting talent. You're building a team.

How the relationship works
Results, two years in

Cover for a crunch became a standing bench.

The engagement was scoped to get the bank through two mandates. It's now the team they call for any function that needs senior, audit-ready capacity, across three markets and counting.

3
Market launches and two regulatory cycles carried by the same bench.
4
Functions covered: banking & financial services, risk & compliance, finance, and legal.
100%
Audit-ready, every placement inside the bank's own controls and accountability.

How a global marketplace
built its LATAM bench.

A cross-functional team embedded into a LATAM expansion. Four months scoped. Two-plus years and still going.

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