Chris Steele Email & Phone Number

Providing full life-cycle IT activities within the asset management industry, leading UK and global IT teams in delivering and supporting bespoke and third-party solutions such as Argus and Yardi Voyager.Specialties: Programme Management; Business & Systems Analysis; IT Strategy; IT Governance; Portfolio Modeling and Risk Analysis; Team Management & Recruitment; Key Supplier Management; Real Estate.

Listed skills include It Strategy, Business Analysis, Project Management, Portfolio Management, and 17 others.

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  Head Of Solutions Analysis And Support

  M&G Real Estate

  Jul 1996 - Present - City Of London

  M&G Real Estate is a top 20 global property fund manager. We form part of the M&G Group of companies which is the asset management arm of M&G PLC. Personally responsible for:- Leading experienced teams of Project Managers, Senior Business Analysts & Analyst/Developers.- Recruitment of permanent and contract talent and on-going objective setting, appraisal & development.- Agreement & delivery of the IT Roadmap, managing a programme of multiple projects.- Oversight of global support for in-house and third-party software used in our UK, European and APAC offices - including Yardi Voyager and Argus Enterprise.- Vendor relationship management - including contract negotiation, procurement and licensing of core third-party software and services - including Yardi Voyager and Altus Argus Enterprise.- Project initiation, analysis, development, software procurement, delivery and support of all front and back-office systems for Fund & Asset Management; purchase/sale processing; Valuations; Property Management & Accounting, Property Fund Services, Performance Measurement & Attribution and Research functions (including stochastic and deterministic fund modelling).- Ownership and continuous improvement of technology governance policies, liaising with internal and external audit teams to ensure on-going compliance across property IT.- Chairing of formal stakeholder and IT governance meetings.- Liaising with Risk and Compliance functions on IT governance and audits (SOX, IPEs, SSAE18/SOC1). - Chair of vendor service review meetings and SLA oversight.- Engagement in key vendor User Groups and continuous review of new market software offerings/opportunities.