Sharath Gopinath
Pune
Summary
Assistant Vice President at AllianceBernstein specializing in asset management and stakeholder engagement. Demonstrated success in leading teams to improve operational efficiency and implement automation controls. Proficient in process automations using Co-Pilot and AB AI. Proven mentorship capabilities resulting in enhanced service quality and team performance.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Vice President
AllianceBernstein
Pune
01.2023 - Current
- Leading multiple clusters - OTC Settlements, Documentations, Cash Reconciliations and Broadly Syndicated Loans
- Liaise with Middle office, Delta1 and other internal teams for investigating discrepancies and communicate accordingly with Custody
- Responsible for business migrations, transition management and single point of contact for overall department and business management that includes process escalations, audits, automation, efficiency generation, building people and business resilience
Associate Manager – Middle Office
AXA Business Services Pvt Ltd
Pune
03.2020 - 12.2022
- Leading and managing multiple teams - Clearing Counterparty (CCP), Futures, Structured Loans, Documentations (DTCC, Electronic/market wire trade confirmations), Derivatives Legal, OTC Trade Settlements and Recon comprising of 21 team members that support various Derivative middle office functions
- Regular governance with Clients/Partners to discuss on team performance and to understand and exceed their expectations
- Streamline critical SLAs/KPI metrics and parameters for various teams by regular Partner interactions
- Strengthen team resilience, work from home governance and knowledge management
- Identify problem areas and implement automation controls to prevent errors/misses that improves our quality of service
- Provide Management reporting on monthly team performance. Highlight Partner feedbacks and metrics achieved by the team
- ISO, BCP and ISMS (Information Security Management System) co-ordinator for the team
- Handle end to end audit process (internal and external audits).
- Client/Partner: AllianceBernstein, USA
Assistant Manager / Consultant
AXA Business Services Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
12.2015 - 03.2020
- Post investment tracking of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) deals
- Liaise with trustees for obtaining financial detail for deals, those are in the liquidation stage, track for residual and tranche payments
- Monitor coupon, amortization and cash flows for different CDOs/CLOs.
- Monitor the entire health of CDO Life Cycle for AXA Portfolio on a quarterly cycle
- Reporting rollovers, paydown (principal / interest), and waterfall for each tranche by analyzing trustee reports
- Conduct overall governance of data quality for the team
- Clients: AXA Investment Managers (Collateralized Debt Obligations – Structured Loans) and AXA Equitable (Asset and Wealth management)
Team Leader
Northern Trust Operating Services Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
08.2011 - 12.2015
- Conduct buy side credit research for various Municipal Bond issuers in the US, covering General Obligation and revenue bonds
- Important aspects considered for research, include – macro economic factors, financial trends analysis (financial statements, ratios) demographic scenario etc
- Assign an in-house credit rating for the bonds (IG – Investment Grade; few HY – High Yield), thereby recommend and assist Portfolio Managers to make effective business decisions - buy, sell or hold a particular security
- Conduct stress test for various asset classes through Portfolio Risk Tool (PRT)
Content Analyst
Thomson Reuters
Bangalore
03.2006 - 08.2011
- Support Reuters America and EMEA markets by capturing M&A deals
- Publish significant development coverage in the M&A space
- Extensive M&A research using Factiva, SEC, RKIM, 3000Xtra, ThomsonOneBanker
Education
Data Visualization with Tableau -
Skill Nation
01.2021
MBA - Finance and Marketing
Kristu Jayanti College of Technology & Management
Bangalore01.2005
B. Com - Financial Management and Advanced Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College of Technology & Management
Bangalore01.2003
Skills
- Co-Pilot
- AB AI
- Data Visualization with Tableau
- Asset Management
- Investment Banking
- Mentorship
- People/Conflict Management
- Stakeholder management
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Bloomberg
- CTC (Recon), Calypso, APEX, RAP, Portfolio Management System, AB Advantage/CTR, WSO
Accomplishments
- Transitioned new processes for AXA from AllianceBernstein during 2020-21.
- Played a key role in winning the business from AXA US on Financial Research.
- Executed process automations during 2025 that resulted in reducing man hours and increased efficiency. There was an extensive use of Licensed Co-Pilot and AB AI
Certifications Skills
Data Visualization with Tableau, Skill Nation, 2021
Affiliations
- Active member of the AB Gives Back team that is involved in Corporate Social Responsibilities. We were honored with a Corporate Volunteering Award at the Karma Summit Asia during September 2025, organized by Goodera. We received the award in the Supercharger category, recognizing the firm's efforts in scaling volunteering initiatives globally
Timeline
Assistant Vice President
AllianceBernstein
01.2023 - Current
Associate Manager – Middle Office
AXA Business Services Pvt Ltd
03.2020 - 12.2022
Assistant Manager / Consultant
AXA Business Services Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 03.2020
Team Leader
Northern Trust Operating Services Pvt Ltd
08.2011 - 12.2015
Content Analyst
Thomson Reuters
03.2006 - 08.2011
Data Visualization with Tableau -
Skill Nation
MBA - Finance and Marketing
Kristu Jayanti College of Technology & Management
B. Com - Financial Management and Advanced Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College of Technology & Management