Bryan Bowden Email & Phone Number

Boca Raton, Florida

• Supervised staff of 12 financial professionals for business telecommunications firm formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications. • Primary responsibility for complete and accurate financial reporting for all of the US and Canadian legal entities. Included transfer pricing, compliance reporting, and audit liaison.• Heavy involvement with business transformation project throughout employment at Unify. Accomplishments included taking over tax support from sold businesses, relocating Accounts Receivable function, and planning the transfer of accounting positions to an internal shared services organization in Bulgaria.

Irving, Texas

• Managed staff of 26 financial professionals for telecommunication equipment and service provider to fixed and mobile communications carriers.• Primary responsibility for complete and accurate financial reporting for all of the US and Canadian legal entities. Included transfer pricing, compliance reporting, and audit liaison.• Senior member and governor of revenue recognition board for the region. Direct responsibility for all significant revenue recognition transactions, customer and vendor contract compliance, and resolution of extraordinary accounting issues.• Responsible for implementing, maintaining, and monitoring system of internal controls.• Major accomplishments included overseeing the merger of two telecom companies with diametrically opposed cultures and philosophies. Heavy involvement with the creation of new policies and procedures. North America was the first region to complete all consolidation and integration projects and the only one to complete both within one year. Also, reduced staff size from 26 to 12. Supervised acquisition of Motorola Networks division in 2011 and led the acquisition accounting for the North America region.

Boca Raton, Florida

Overall regional responsibility for financial reporting and integration of the financial organization of Siemens Communications as it merged into Nokia-Siemens Networks. Activities included a consolidation phase implemented upon announcement of the joint venture and a full system and process migration to Nokia Networks platform.

Boca Raton, Florida

• During the 17 years at Siemens Communication Systems, positions included Fixed Asset Accountant, Project Cost Accountant, Supervisor of Cost Accounting, Accounting Manager, and Director of Accounting. • All customer contract revenue accounting, loss provisions, and margin forecasting. • Systems accounting responsibilities for SAP implementations and upgrades.• Audit liaison, Internal Controls, supplementary financial disclosures.• Merger and acquisition accounting.• Accomplishments included changing the entire forecasting process to use order backlog as the primary driver for predicting financial performance. Forecasting methodology brought together the forecasted P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow as well as dramatically increased transparency to critical liabilities such as deferred revenue and contract loss provisions. Other accomplishments included primary financial representative for several system implementations both to and from internally developed tools to SAP. Four time Circle of Excellence Award Winner.

Round Rock, Texas

• Quarterly and annual planning for personnel, capital, and expense forecasts.• Product line and trend analysis.• Assisted in monthly general ledger closings and financial statement preparation.• Accomplishments included the development of asset capacity and cost accounting models to determine optimal times for asset acquisitions and implementations into the manufacturing process. Worked closely with the engineering community to create models and a capital expenditure forecast that blended with overall P&L forecast.