Finance Business Strategy & Operations

Turning complexity into clear, actionable strategy.

I work in finance today, solving problems for clients under pressure. Now I'm applying that same instinct to strategy and operations: mapping processes, analyzing data, and building the dashboards and systems that make decisions easier.

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS OPTIMIZATION DATA ANALYSIS DASHBOARD DESIGN MARKET RESEARCH OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Selected Work

Case Studies & Projects

Business Strategy Product & Dashboard Design Financial Analysis

GovSight: Strategy, Pricing & Product Design

Co-founded and served as COO of GovSight, an AI-powered financial platform that connects directly into a city's existing accounting system. Built the competitive financial analysis behind our pricing strategy ($30K/year versus $120K+ in combined competitor costs) and pitched the resulting $90K/year in projected savings to 10 municipalities. Also led end-to-end UI/UX design across the platform's three core tools: Navi (what-if scenario planning), Mantis (an AI finance co-pilot), and Vatica (departmental financial insights).

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GovSight
Illustration of GovSight: a municipal capitol building connects through Navi and Mantis, GovSight's scenario-planning and AI co-pilot modules, into a rising financial chart

Illustration representing GovSight's AI-powered financial platform for local governments.

Process Automation AI Systems Design Financial Operations

Automated Billing Audit Pipeline

Designed a three-stage automation pipeline for a retirement planning firm (name withheld) to catch billing discrepancies between signed client agreements and what was actually charged. AI extraction turns signed PDFs into structured records, a deterministic audit matches every charge against what was authorized, and a Microsoft Teams agent lets staff ask questions like "did this client sign up for this fee?" and get a sourced answer without touching the underlying systems directly.

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Billing Audit Pipeline
Illustration of the billing audit pipeline: signed documents flow through AI extraction, a verification check, structured storage, and a confirmation message

Simplified view of a proposed pipeline design. Company name withheld; this was a technical proposal, not delivered production work.

Process Automation AI Systems Design Client Operations

Trade Notification Sync

Designed an automation to close a gap where trade confirmations sometimes never reached clients. The system watches a read-only shared sheet from the firm's clearing company for changes, checks each change against the firm's own records to tell a new trade from a correction, and sends the confirmation directly, so a missed notification no longer depends on someone noticing it was missing.

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Trade Notification Sync
Illustration of the trade notification pipeline: a shared spreadsheet is checked for a match and triggers a notification

Simplified view of a proposed pipeline design. Company name withheld; this was a technical proposal, not delivered production work.

About

Let's get to know each other.

Portrait of Alexander Stephenson

What I'm building toward

A career where the analysis I run and the dashboards I build actually change how a team makes decisions, not just reports that get filed away.

I'm Alexander, currently working in finance and moving toward business strategy and operations. I care about the "how," not just the "what": how a process actually runs, how a team makes decisions, how the numbers tell the real story. Client-facing finance work has sharpened that instinct daily, and I've also co-founded a startup, run sales operations, and picked up technical skills like dashboards and data tools to back it up.

FINRA Series 7 FINRA Series 63 B.S. Finance, UVU '27

Background

  • Portfolio Operations Associate Fidelity Investments · Current Handle 25+ daily client calls executing securities transactions and account changes, ranking in the 90th percentile for call quality while maintaining strict regulatory compliance.
  • Co-Founder & COO GovSight Led strategy, pricing, and go-to-market for an AI-powered municipal finance platform, pitched to 10 municipalities, built the sales team, and designed the product's UI/UX.
  • Sales & Operations Analyst Intern NOMYX Built Salesforce pipelines and a structured targeting framework to improve outreach efficiency, while coordinating executive-level logistics for the VP of Revenue and CEO.
  • Admin & Data Specialist The Entrepreneurship Institute, Utah Valley University Built Excel tracking systems for 30+ events and project-managed logistics for 18+ workshops and conferences.

Get in Touch

Let's build something that works.

Open to strategy, operations, and analytics roles, and consulting projects. If you're working on a problem worth solving, I'd like to hear about it.

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