Stephen Sardar I FIA, PRINCE2

● Market Data Licensing & Compliance: Supported the full lifecycle of market data onboarding clients, contract renewals, billing & nvoicing, reporting, vendor relationship management, ensuring adherence to contractual, legal, and operational standards. Applied data-driven insights to optimize licensing costs and ensure regulatory compliance (GDPR, MiFID II, SEC). ● System Administration & Technical Integration: Managed daily operations of market data platforms, ensuring seamless data distribution and system stability. Collaborated with IT teams to troubleshoot API issues and integrate AI-assisted validation for enhanced accuracy and uptime. ● AI-Enhanced Data Quality & Governance: Leveraged and analyze large datasets, automate data validation, and identify anomalies. Assisted in implementing governance frameworks and predictive quality checks using MS Excel AI and Power BI for improved decision-making. ● Regulatory Oversight & Audit Readiness: Contributed to internal and external audits by maintaining compliance documentation, automating report summaries via prompt-engineered AI workflows, and ensuring adherence to vendor usage policies (eg: SOX, Splunk & Variance reports) ● Access & Security Management: Administered user entitlements and access control across sensitive data systems, ensuring secure, compliant, and role-based distribution aligned with vendor terms. ● Vendor & Stakeholder Collaboration: Acted as the central liaison between vendors and internal business units, ensuring transparent communication, issue resolution, and performance tracking through AI-enabled dashboards. ● Reporting, Monitoring & Budgeting: Produced analytical and management reports using Excel Copilot and Power BI, enabling leadership to forecast usage trends, track performance, and optimize market data spend.

• Market Data Administration: Supervised the processing, tracking, client onboarding, invoicing, and exchange reporting for Market Data licenses, collaborating with business analysts, compliance, and sales teams to ensure smooth operations. • Project Management & System Upgrades: Partnered with internal teams (Project Management, Technical, Business Managers, Operations) to upgrade legacy systems and transition the financial and customer base to new platforms. • Inventory & Vendor Management: Managed both Non-Index and Index data products, overseeing vendor relationships (e.g., Refinitiv, Bloomberg, NYSE) through regular calls and ensuring smooth data delivery. • Process Improvement & Training: Led process improvements, gap analysis, and the development of new processes; designed and implemented training modules and business rules to enhance market data operations. • Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Established and tracked performance metrics related to customer satisfaction, data quality and Revenue forecast, preparing comprehensive reports and analyses for management to ensure efficient performance and issue resolution. Tools: Infomatch, SalesForce, Merlin, BIS, NORA, EIPPI, GIC Worksation, FTP and ReportHQ