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Senior Vice President

AllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, individuals and private clients in major markets around the world. AllianceBernstein employs more than 500 investment professionals with expertise in growth equities, value equities, fixed income securities, blend strategies and alternative investments and, through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, operates in more than 20 countries.

Senior leader with software development background. Known for driving continuous improvement of technology, business processes, leverage, and costs. Leadership of 230 technology experts in 7 key locations delivering services to global user base and broad-spectrum business with ≈ $724B AUM. Experienced in senior stakeholder management and negotiation of multi $M contracts with software vendors, out-sourcing firms, and off-shore providers. Drives service improvements across department responsible for portfolio accounting / IBOR, performance returns and attribution, SWIFT and settlements, reconciliation, data warehousing, market data, pricing, SRM, and global client and regulatory reporting. Identifies opportunities and delivers multi $M recurring savings by replacing and rationalising legacy technology, upgrading in-house applications, selecting and onboarding vendor solutions, and eliminating organisational barriers to efficiency. Builds high achieving, diverse teams partnering with insurance, institutional, retail, and private wealth businesses. Experienced in senior talent recruitment and development. D&I advocate. Results focused. Defines, communicates, delivers strategy. Passionate motivator, hands-on. Retains technical input for enterprise architecture. Specialisms: vendor management, portfolio accounting, restructuring, contracts, M&A, leadership of globally distributed teams, alignment of technology to changing business requirements, Agile, governance, cyber security, cloud.