Two ways De Havilands can solve your Excel problem — permanently.

Whether you need a specific solution built, or ongoing Excel development capacity for your team, we have a service designed for it. Both are delivered by senior Excel specialists with deep financial services experience.

Real World Successes

What's possible when Excel is done properly:

  • Fixed Income Data Organizer (FiDO) – Delivered an £11 million P&L improvement.
  • Monthly Performance Report – Achieved a 631% ROI, saving 48 labour days a year.

Two ways to work with De Havilands

Whether you need ongoing Excel development capacity or a specific project delivered, we have a service designed for it.

Excel on Tap

Ongoing Excel development capacity — like having your own Excel team, without the hiring overhead.

  • Reserved access to senior Excel developers who understand your environment and priorities
  • Continuous automation and improvement of your spreadsheet processes — not reactive firefighting
  • Predictable monthly investment with no project scoping, no hourly billing, no surprises
  • Work is prioritised collaboratively — the highest-value improvements happen first
  • Led by a Microsoft Excel MVP with 25 years of financial services experience
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Bespoke Development

A specific Excel problem to solve? We scope it, quote it, and deliver it at a fixed price.

  • Tailor-made Excel solutions built to your exact requirements
  • Automate manual processes that currently take hours or days
  • Reduce operational risk with reliable, documented, maintainable solutions
  • Fixed-price delivery — you know the cost before we start
  • ROI of 631% and 99.8% time saving achieved for one London asset manager
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Which Service is Right for You?

Excel on Tap

Bespoke Development

Purpose

  • Ongoing Excel development capacity
  • Single project with defined deliverables

Scope

  • Continuous improvement across your Excel environment
  • One scoped project with a fixed outcome

Billing

  • Fixed monthly investment
  • Fixed price or 10-hour blocks

Best for

  • Firms with ongoing Excel development needs
  • Firms with a specific Excel problem to solve

Commitment

  • Month to month — cancel any time
  • Project duration only

If you're thinking:

We've got Excel processes that are too manual, too slow, or too dependent on one person — and we need someone to take ownership of improving them continuously, not just fix one thing and disappear.

Then Excel on Tap is for you.

It's like having your own in-house Excel development team — reserved, proactive, and deeply familiar with your business and your spreadsheets.

If you're thinking:

We've got a specific Excel project in mind — a reconciliation tool, a risk model, a reporting pack, a quoting system — we just need someone to scope it, build it, and deliver it at a fixed price.

Then Bespoke Development is for you.

This is ideal for well-defined projects with clear deliverables and measurable outcomes.

Not sure which one fits best?

This isn’t a sales call—it’s a discovery session. 

We’ll review your current Excel setup and highlight where the opportunities to save time, reduce risk, and improve performance exist.

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See What's Possible: 30+ Real Excel Projects for Financial Services Firms

From automated reporting packs to risk model rebuilds, this portfolio shows the kind of work we do and the results it delivers — including ROI gains of up to 631% and time savings of over 99%. 

Download it to see real examples from firms like yours.

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