15+ years delivering complex transformation
Experience across global banking, financial services, PE-backed technology businesses and international organisations.
Experience includes:
J.P. Morgan | Barclays | UBS | IFAD | Avalara | Thredd
WHAT I DO
M&A
Pre-deal separation, carve-out and PMI support across Finance, Technology and operating models.
Finance & Treasury Transformation
Hands-on transformation across Finance and Treasury systems, processes, controls and operating models.
Cash Visibility
See what cash is coming in, where revenue is getting stuck and what the next 13 weeks look like.
Service Delivery
Connect Sales, Delivery and Finance so client progress converts into retention, referrals and repeat revenue.
Senior delivery capacity around transactions and value creation.
For Operating Partners, portfolio CFOs and management teams: pre-deal separation, Day 1, carve-out, integration, Finance and Treasury transformation, programme recovery and stabilisation.
Selected Works
Pre-Deal Carve-Out & Separation
Confidential transaction
Supporting pre-deal separation assessment across Finance and Technology, identifying what the future organisation will require to operate independently. The work considers CRM and ERP dependencies, Lead-to-Order and Order-to-Cash processes, application and licence separation, Day 1 requirements, standalone operating models, TSA dependencies, separation complexity and transition costs.
Pre-deal → Day 1 → Standalone
Post-Merger Technology Integration
Global Financial Institution
Led transformation within a global Treasury and custody environment following acquisition-led growth. The work included rationalising legacy technology, replatforming a 20-year-old custody processing environment onto a strategic global platform, and coordinating change across regions alongside major post-financial-crisis regulatory reform.
Integration → Simplification → Strategic Platform
Regulatory Separation & Legal-Entity Change
Global Bank
Led complex regulatory transformation spanning legal-entity separation, technology stand-up, client migration, operating-model change, regulatory readiness, cutover and go-live. Experience includes UK ring-fencing and Brexit-driven legal-entity transformation across Treasury and Credit businesses.
Separation → Migration → Go-Live
Treasury Transformation
International Development Organisation
Led a multi-stream Treasury and Finance transformation spanning technology, operating model, governance, business processes and organisational adoption, moving the programme from transformation design through implementation, go-live and stabilisation.
Transformation → Implementation → Adoption
The Retention OSTM
A signature model that fixes churn and drives retention. It guides businesses through five retention priorities: Roadmap, Routine, Rave, Revenue, and Rescue.
Access the Retention Scorecard here
The Customer Growth MatrixTM
A matrix that maps the full customer journey into six phases — from Awareness to Re-engagement — helping businesses identify bottlenecks, track key metrics, and unlock revenue at every stage.
Access the Growth Scorecard here
The SCALE ExitTM
A signature framework for scaling sustainably and preparing for exit — whether that’s a cash exit or freeing the founder from day-to-day operations.
Access the Exit Scorecard here
Great service delivery should create the next commercial outcome.
The Service Delivery Roadmap is a practical framework for designing the client journey so that visible progress during delivery creates the conditions for stronger retention, referrals and repeat revenue.
BRIDGE: Baseline → Roadmap → Implement → Deepen → Gather → Embed
Client Progress → Retention → Referrals → Repeat Revenue
Stay in the Room
A practical note on Retention-Led Growth & Revenue Protection — what’s working this month in the boardroom.
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You Don’t Lose Clients to Competitors – You Lose Them to Underuse
Ideas for building organisations that do not lose value every time something changes.
Continuity by Design is my channel and newsletter exploring how organisations preserve customer relationships, knowledge, capability and commercial momentum through growth, transformation and transition.
It brings together practical operating experience, selected research and the ideas behind the Service Delivery Roadmap.
Transformation Operator | Finance, Treasury & M&A
I’m Yemi Oluseun, founder of The Change Hive. For more than 15 years, I’ve worked across complex Finance, Treasury, Technology and operating-model transformation — from global banks and international organisations to PE-backed technology businesses.
My work sits where strategy becomes execution: translating complex change into operating models, systems, processes and decisions that people can actually use.
I also created Continuity by Design, my ongoing work on how organisations preserve customer value, knowledge and capability through change. My doctoral research interest adds depth to this work, while client delivery remains focused on transformation.
The Change Hive is a founder-led practice. I lead client work personally and bring in trusted specialist associates where a mandate requires additional capacity.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a complex transformation to deliver?
Whether you are separating a business, integrating an acquisition, modernising Finance or Treasury, or recovering a transformation that has lost momentum, start with the problem you need to solve.
Results
See how our strategies helped clients stabilize…
Recently IPO’ed Enterprise Software SaaS Company Seeks to Expand into Chinese Market
We designed a streamlined, optimised business process model that helped our client outsourcing its Chinese Operations to strategic partners in a way that is scalable.
Recently VC Funded PayTech Company Seeks to Expand into the MENA Markets
We helped our PayTech client obtain regulatory approvals quickly and efficiently. On receipt of the regulatory approvals, our client was able to implement their international…
Cybersecurity Roundtable: 30 Days to Pipeline Wins
A cybersecurity scale-up client had a strong presence in the US and EU and wanted to deepen enterprise engagement in EMEA. We hosted a private, trust-led roundtable that delivered immediate and strategic wins.
