Chris McDonough
Chris McDonough is a Senior Consultant at F2 Strategy with more than 25 years of experience in financial services operations, business analysis, and system conversions. She specializes in corporate actions, income, fees, and proxy processing, helping organizations improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, and navigate complex business and technology transformations.
Before joining F2 Strategy, Chris spent more than two decades at SEI. Throughout her career, she has led global teams, redesigned operating models and workflows, developed business and functional requirements, and supported large-scale technology initiatives. She brings deep expertise in Trust 3000, SWP, corporate actions operations, and platform conversions.
At F2, Chris has partnered with clients across the wealth and investment management industry on a range of strategic and operational transformation initiatives. Her work has included leading business requirements gathering, workflow design, UI/UX development, and CRM integration for a digital prospecting, onboarding, and account-opening platform built for a global IT services firm. She also developed an automated account fee validation tool to support a system conversion for a global asset manager and created the procedures and workflows that support fee processing. In addition,
Chris helped a global transfer agency navigate a major platform migration by assessing organizational impacts, analyzing staffing needs, and developing interim tracking and operational tools that increased capacity while reducing risk during the transition.
Outside of work, Chris enjoys exploring new countries and is an avid reader. She is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- SEI Investments
- ZA Consulting
What would you tell someone starting out in the industry?
Get comfortable with ambiguity. The best analysts ask the right questions and keep digging until the picture makes sense.
What does "Do Good with Tech" mean to you?
It means building solutions that make processes and people’s jobs easier and safer.
Three words that describe how you do your job:
Thorough, dependable, adaptable
Chris McDonough
Chris McDonough is a Senior Consultant at F2 Strategy with more than 25 years of experience in financial services operations, business analysis, and system conversions. She specializes in corporate actions, income, fees, and proxy processing, helping organizations improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, and navigate complex business and technology transformations.
Before joining F2 Strategy, Chris spent more than two decades at SEI. Throughout her career, she has led global teams, redesigned operating models and workflows, developed business and functional requirements, and supported large-scale technology initiatives. She brings deep expertise in Trust 3000, SWP, corporate actions operations, and platform conversions.
At F2, Chris has partnered with clients across the wealth and investment management industry on a range of strategic and operational transformation initiatives. Her work has included leading business requirements gathering, workflow design, UI/UX development, and CRM integration for a digital prospecting, onboarding, and account-opening platform built for a global IT services firm. She also developed an automated account fee validation tool to support a system conversion for a global asset manager and created the procedures and workflows that support fee processing. In addition,
Chris helped a global transfer agency navigate a major platform migration by assessing organizational impacts, analyzing staffing needs, and developing interim tracking and operational tools that increased capacity while reducing risk during the transition.
Outside of work, Chris enjoys exploring new countries and is an avid reader. She is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- SEI Investments
- ZA Consulting
What would you tell someone starting out in the industry?
Get comfortable with ambiguity. The best analysts ask the right questions and keep digging until the picture makes sense.
What does "Do Good with Tech" mean to you?
It means building solutions that make processes and people’s jobs easier and safer.
Three words that describe how you do your job:
Thorough, dependable, adaptable
