Michael Bohm Email & Phone Number

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Serving as Manager of the General Controlling department, I lead a team of 4 senior accountants and 1 purchasing accountant. Review reconciliations, supporting documents and calculations in preparation for month end close. Review IFRS and GAAP monthly financial statements prior to distribution to parent company and internal executive team. Team lead for compilation and presentation of annual audited consolidated financial statements and Tennessee annual audited financial statements as well as point of contact with external audit firm. Implemented continuous improvement project to standardize workpaper format, detail, and supporting documentation as well as standardized journal entry text to streamline research and provide better insight into the numbers.

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Served as the accounting liaison on the development and implementation of proprietary lending point of sale software replacing multiple existing legacy applications. Member of cross-functional team tasked with managing new product roll-out to ensure report accuracy and compliance with accounting standards. Power-user for SAP implementation project to replace Oracle PeopleSoft, tasked with creating all accounting reports in BW. Performed initial rollout training on the basics of SAP BW for accounting and finance teams. Accounting representative for cross-functional team tasked with prioritizing point of sale and fund transfer system errors and defects to ensure proper team assignment and swift resolution.

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Produce fund and property level reports for institutional investors and senior management. Review financial statements to identify, investigate, resolve and report on fluctuations, variances and discrepancies. Manage and project cash flow at individual funds. Assist with the development of operating budgets. Successes include creating functional MS Access databases and MS Excel macros to streamline data collection, analysis and reporting.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Generate SEC reports on a quarterly and annual basis. Maintain financial records for a portfolio of public real estate partnerships. Initiate cash distributions from limited partnerships. Perform account reconciliations. Additional duties included actively participating in an 18 month project to upgrade Aimco’s accounting software fixed asset module. Project involved documenting all manual and electronic interfaces of the historic fixed asset system, analyzing and improving processes, removing redundancies, providing instructions to the software programmers and sample testing to ensure accuracy.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Accounting systems power user and subject matter expert in fixed asset depreciation and deferred loan cost amortization. Developed software queries to extract and analyze financial data for various end users. Analyzed key accounting functions to develop and implement best practices, wrote Sarbanes Oxley 404 documentation revising annually to reflect process changes and conducted annual walk through. Wrote and revised policy procedure manual. Conducted semi-annual fixed asset software and procedure training to real estate accounting staff.

Second tier automotive fabric manufacturer.Reorganized accounting system to facilitate AP, AR, and financial reporting functions. Brought company sponsored 401-K plan into voluntary compliance with DOL and IRS and prepared anniversary package form 5500. Completed application and secured approval of South Carolina Department of Commerce Revitalization Agreement (RVA). Compiled documentation for submitting United States Customs import duty drawback. Performed all aspects of accounting including AP, AR, Payroll, as well as, weekly and monthly production and financial reports to Austrian parent company. Acted as main contact with outside audit firm. Completed 12 hoursof course instruction in both Understanding the QS/ISO 9000 and the Internal Auditor QS/ISO 9000. Updated accounting section of quality manual in accordance with the QS/ISO 9000, 1994 Standard.

Bs, Accounting

Ba, Economics