Bill Hovel Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide financial leadership and support to the Global Legal Technology organization. Deliver operational and strategic decision support and analytics. Lead financial planning, forecasting and analysis, technology staff planning, and software development project tracking and reporting.- Collaborate with Legal Technology organization to prepare financial.

Minnesota

• Provide leadership to business analysts in the IT organization for improvements and replacement of existing systems and products. Serve as liaison between business and IT areas to implement strategic solutions. Manage.
• Provided leadership in a reorganization to integrate several departments into a comprehensive IT department representing multiple functionalities.
• Led the RFP process and drove senior team to decision to outsource entire investment finance functions; managed transition of IT processes, over 250 reports and file interfaces, representing 4 product lines.
• Implemented service enhancements and realized time savings through evaluation and estimation of data flows and systems for new products and reporting.
• Streamlined corporate-wide business continuity plans by standardizing plans and communications for all groups, contracting business resumption sites, and completing comprehensive due diligence and testing.

Minnesota

• Managed system support, reporting and IT relationship for investment finance division, including leadership of business analysts. Prioritized workflow for IT professionals. Managed the business continuity plans for 7.
• Directed the design, implementation, monitoring and improvement of data process flows, systems and reporting for multiple product lines (retail, 529, HLS, COLI and separate account).
• Improved efficiencies for team of business analysts and project professionals by implementing cross training program and formal support matrix, resulting in 30% time reduction to complete service requests.
• Reduced number of scheduled and ad hoc reports by over 80%, from 1,800 to 300, by implementing a GUI front-end software for the investment accounting engine.
• Managed the implementation and management of third party software solutions and infrastructure upgrades, including vendor relationships.
• Contracted business resumption sites following abrupt loss of original site due to sale of business line.

Minnesota

• Provided key analytical decisions, business support and reporting for investment finance activities. Managed the business continuity plans for 4 functional groups representing 25 employees.
• Led key project to move 30 mutual funds representing $45 billion in assets from an external vendor onto existing corporate accounting platform in aggressive time period of six months.
• Led transition of 80 remaining mutual funds onto unified platform and location, while simultaneously moving existing platform to ASP environment, resulting in consistency and reduction of operating expenses.
• Significantly increased the number of mutual funds each accountant could support by converting from traditional spreadsheets and manual intervention to using Microsoft Access databases.
• Updated all formal business continuity plans to reflect platform and staffing changes.

Woodbury, MN

• Managed projects to streamline mutual fund accounting processes and reporting systems.
• Managed mutual fund compliance function, including supervision of staff.
• Created and implemented business continuity plans for investment finance area.

Woodbury, MN

Priced mutual funds, prepared SEC reports, supervised compliance staff and coordinated projects.