Dara Lyne

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About Dara Lyne

IT, Market Data and Procurement professional with over 30 years’ extensive experience in Financial Services. Commercially astute, results-oriented and a versatile senior manager with strong organisational skills managing large teams. Proven ability to nurture strategic relationships, engage stakeholders and communicate at all levels of organization and with external 3rd parties. Specific industry expertise in Financial Services, IT, Market Data and Procurement. Key Capabilities/ Strengths - Team management and leadership - Stakeholder and vendor relationship management - Innovative and strategic commercial thinker - Market data subject matter expert - Cross functional collaboration and team leadership - Strong time and project management skills - Detailed Transitional Service Agreement management skills Key Achievements - Successfully managed the Transitional Services Agreement on behalf of TAL the buyer with TAL acquisition of Suncorp life insurance business Asteron Life. Integration project between 2019 and 2021- Developed comprehensive strategy to renegotiate global AT & T managed services agreement for Telecommunications (2017) which delivered a complete new operating model and annual savings of multiple millions of dollars- Directed implementation of numerous strategic global master service agreements with key Macquarie vendors which have collectively resulted in savings of multiple millions of dollars (Factset, Thomson Reuters, S&P Global, big 4 Professional Services firms)- Resolved numerous complex license disputes with several key software and data vendors (Microsoft, SAP, Thomson Reuters, S&P Global Platts, Pega Systems) resulting in the management of license compliance exposure to Macquarie- Transformed global market data operating model with the implementation of industry leading market data inventory and cost allocation platform (FITS) managing a significant dollar value of market data inventory- Headed IT stream of commercial and contract negotiations with Blackrock for hosted asset management Aladdin platform (2017) which has transformed the global operating model for Macquarie Asset Management. Value of this contract was tens of millions of dollars