H Thomas Bowman Iii, Mba Email & Phone Number

Fort Thomas, Ky, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Leading hands-on the Accounting & Finance Team to excellence in managing all aspects of accounting operations and financial analysis. Ensure the integrity of all financial transactions and reports including inventory, accounts payable/receivables, cash flow, building budgets and forecasts, analyzing monthly results versus budget and forecasts, sales/use tax compliance, annual and semi-annual financial and inventory audits, and costing/pricing new business. Manage the third-party relationships with company’s bankers, auditors, and tax advisors.• Assumed interim Controller responsibilities between 6/2020 and 5/2021 following previous Controller’s departure. Officially promoted to Site Controller in 5/2021 and began serving as a key member of the company’s Strategy Team.• Well-trained, coached, and mentored by former President, CFO, and Chief Innovation Officer to foster a caring, team-oriented environment focused on delivering the highest levels of financial customer service to all internal/external constituents and consumers of financial information and analysis.• Partnered with CFO to build due-diligence case and successfully obtain short-term financing (and loan forgiveness) offered to qualifying small businesses under the federal government’s COVID-based Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).• Partnered with CFO and with the acquiring company’s advisors to meet all the due-diligence requirements for the sale of KOST USA in 2020 to Recochem, Inc., based in Montreal, Canada.• Played a key role in aligning existing systems and processes with parent company’s systems and processes (GL structure, profitability measurements, financial reporting, etc.).• Playing a key role currently on the global project to upgrade the company’s ERP system to the Microsoft D365 platform (prior experience with this conversion).

Blue Ash, Ohio

Managing a team of senior accountants and staff accountants in all aspects of the company’s accounting and finance functions including accounts receivable and accounts payable, invoice processing, cash management and cash forecasting, performing month-end close, producing financial statements and reporting results with variance explanations to senior management, analyzing and controlling expenses, performing ad-hoc value-added analyses, managing day-to-day banking relationships and credit lines, reporting and filing sales taxes, and pricing new business opportunities and contract renewals.• Played a major team role in the divestiture of the company by its former parent, and the subsequent acquisition by the current owners with revenue pipeline, balance sheet, cash flow, and working capital analyses for the sellers, to gain as much value as possible. Continuing to perform post-acquisition balance sheet and income statement audits and reviews to validate the value received at acquisition.• Established an expense recognition process which has improved the company’s financial reporting transparency and allow senior management to more accurately review profitability by client and program.• Performed a comprehensive and ongoing economic analysis of the company’s costs and capacity, in both static and rapid growth states, and used the results of the analysis to improve new business modeling margins by 15-20%.• Updated the pricing models to include a net present value (NPV) based view of profitability, including all up-front investments and potential milestone calculations for sales commissions, etc.• Identified balance sheet risks and subsequently wrote-down more than $2 Million in non-performing assets and noncollectable receivables.• Worked with systems integration team to ensure that all legacy GL information contained in Microsoft Dynamics AX is mapped and transferred accurately into a new GL system (Microsoft D365).

Miamisburg, Ohio

Provided financial support to the Global HR and Global Legal management organizations by guiding expense recognition and month-end close, analyzing and reporting monthly results to senior management, creating annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, and analyzing the business and making recommendations to senior management to improve performance.• Developed an accountability process for managing the decentralized global Training expense budget for across the entire company.• Worked with the Continuous Improvement team to develop a metrics dashboard tool for use by the SLT to track and compare global HR performance by group and function.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Created budgets used in proposals for new clinical study opportunities, using in-house developed pricing tools. Provided quality control for proposal documents. Became study sponsor’s post-award primary point of contact for all things related to budget including contracts administration, changes in scope, billing, and payment for services.

Mason, Ohio

Served the Sales and Relationship Management teams by creating pricing for new business and renewal opportunities to grow the wholesale debit and credit card transaction processing and mobile based services offered to financial institutions. Utilized economic modeling and presentation skills to create win-win pricing proposals for Vantiv’s transaction processing, fraud protection, analytics, and prepaid card program services based on deal variables such as volume, growth potential, contract term, and up-front investment.• Became a trusted finance business partner to a team of 25 Sales and Relationship Managers, helping them to achieve 6% growth in new revenues and 80% retention of existing revenue in 2012-2014.• Centralized multiple spreadsheet models into a single Excel-based tool using VBA and SQL to automate the functionality of storing and retrieving data to/from an Access database, generating reports, and routing financial models for email approval. • Utilized Excel, VBA, SQL, and Access to automatically generate hundreds of thousands of modeling simulations in order to find out where models started to break-down.• Created the scope and functionality requirements for the migration from spreadsheet models to a web-based pricing system. Worked daily with overseas developers to ensure the system was built as planned.

Mason, Ohio

Created and managed budgets and rolling 12-18 month forecasts for a $150 million business unit, performed month-end financial close, analyzed and then reported results versus budget and forecast key metrics, while managing two financial analysts. Also, created costing and pricing for new business development, managed the process of acquiring and controlling capital assets, and analyzed expenses and made recommendations to reduce costs and/or become more efficient.• Utilized Excel, VBA, SQL, and MS Access to create a rough order of magnitude (ROM) pricing tool used by the Sales teams to qualify and estimate new business opportunities for prospective clients. This included auto-generating simulations of packing costs depending on scope of work and complexity factors.• Completed a cost savings review project that analyzed $15 Million in third-party costs, documented the reason for each expense, and presented this information to the management team to help identify $1.2M in expenses that could be reduced or eliminated. • Played a key role in the implementation of SAP transfer pricing by creating and managing service delivery cost units across ten different delivery towers for Go-Live. Served as the post Go-Live service offerings subject matter expert (SME) to the service towers and Account Management Office (AMO) teams.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Created budgets and forecasts, performed monthly close processes and analyzed monthly results variances against metrics, presented results and recommendations to business unit leadership to help them manage the business, and created new business costing and pricing models, while managing two financial analysts. Also, managed the company’s centralized cash position and capital markets based borrowing capacity of $500 Million, created corporate policies for corporate cash investment and leasing, managed the day-to-day banking relationships, and helped develop and execute foreign exchange and interest rate hedging strategies.* Performed Lead Finance due diligence role on a major outsourcing transaction proposal, with Convergys as a subcontractor to a business consortium worth more than $1 Billion over 5 years.* Negotiated the structure and terms, and then managed compliance for a $65 Million synthetic lease real estate financing facility.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Marketed and serviced Huntington’s full suite of corporate treasury management services for commercial clients and prospects including zero balance accounts, controlled disbursements, stop pay, positive pay, automated overnight investments, automated account reporting and reconciliation, EDI, and electronic funds transfers.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Managed Fifth Third’s electronic banking system which provided online access for commercial banking clients to retrieve account statements and transaction records, initiate controlled disbursements, stop payments, and positive pay transactions, perform automated account reconciliations, and initiate domestic and internal electronic funds transfers.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Rotated through Fifth Third’s management training program to gain exposure to several of the bank’s lines of business including retail banking and branch management, personal brokerage services, corporate trust, and corporate audit. Accepted a role on the internal audit team to analyze and review the bank’s diverse array of computer information systems and software applications for compliance with the bank’s policies on data integrity, physical security, applications development, systems security, and user access. Produced and distributed audit reports to the bank’s senior management team with fact-finding results, written analysis, and recommendations for compliance improvement.• Utilized database application development skills to build a tool ("TrustPro") for the Corporate Trust department used to track and manage the administration of corporate bond issues for commercial and governmental clients. The system’s functionality included menu-driven user input, reporting, interest calculations and coupon payments, and automated reminders and ticklers.• Utilized database application development skills to build a tool ("SecurityPro") for the Risk Management and Security department used to track and manage the administration of case files of client-reported fraud, identity theft, and other criminal activity occurring in clients’ accounts.

Bachelor Of Science, Finance

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Accounting And Finance