Michael Muther, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Berlin, Germany

• Moderated and provided technical leadership at bi-monthly cross-functional executive-level meeting to add, remove, or update participating services from indirect intercompany cost and service charging process.• Product Owner for SAP Business Explorer BW (Business Warehouse) for indirect intercompany charging process.• Project Manager for multi-year enhancement of custom SAP intercompany charging cockpit.• Provided technical leadership for intercompany charging team during operating division divestment and acquisitions.• Responsible for engagement and first communication with Big 4 external audit team responsible for isolated audit of the indirect intercompany charging process.• Provided technical leadership during cross-functional tax and business-side meetings for initial determination of new project admission to the charging process.• Provided technical leadership to 50+ accountants within the operating divisions and corporate functions during the monthly charging process and provided detailed answers to questions from corporate controlling.• Contract manager responsible for approval, update, and collection of signed contracts from hundreds of group entities participating in the indirect intercompany charging process.

Berlin Area, Germany

• Wrote requirements from blank paper and acted as Q/A and user acceptance lead for enhancement of legacy SAP charging cockpit.• Applied process efficiency and excel techniques to reduce quarterly creation of sales-based charging keys from multiple days to a few hours.• Developed Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro to extract, transform, and present data from multiple SAP tables and intranet sources to display group charging data in summarized, reference format.• Created VBA macro to perform financial reporting control checks on thousands of intercompany invoices as part of cross-functional team of automation experts.• Developed excel model of complex charging process to recreate exceptional data for important external audit.• Served as mentor, professional “buddy”, and expert technical resource for junior and senior specialists.• Wrote and recorded newcomer training material and webinars.• Wrote and presented live "roadshow" overview of the indirect intercompany charging process to hundreds of internal colleagues.• Provided monthly charging and audit support to multiple operating divisions and corporate functions• Provided audit data to external auditors and responded to follow-up questions.• Created multiple Q/A processes based on audit feedback and the documentation, presentations, and user trainings to support the changes.• Responsible for access rights and user privileges for the SAP charging cockpit and the SAP Business Explorer business warehouse unique to the process.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Managed all aspects of internal and external reporting.• Coordinated all aspects of monthly financial consolidation of global multi-entity matrix organization in accordance with US GAAP prior to Global Controller and CFO review and approval. • Reduced month-end results finalization from 4 to 1.5 days.• Prepared and moderated monthly CEO results review meeting and separate monthly US accounting team results, review, and communication meeting.• Finance partner for Product Development and R&D business units. Responsible for all aspects of budgeting, planning, and monthly results review. • Developed budgeting system tool exclusive for Product Development and R&D business units and processes to support it.• Reviewed and approved Product Development and R&D division related journal entries as entered by junior accountants.• Developed global cash flow forecasting and dividend model.• Corporate finance liaison for Brazil and Chile entities.• SAP super user responsible for GL, cost center, profit center, and reporting maintenance including training. • Check, wire, ACH, and credit card payment signatory duties.• Assisted in hiring process and trained junior reporting accountant.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Gathered and reviewed financial data from 10 legal entities, and assisted with the consolidation in accordance with US GAAP.• Entered the consolidated data into the parent company reporting system and excel template.• Developed excel consolidation file, legal entity reporting templates, and month end reporting files and tools in conjunction with SAP upgrade.• Developed foreign exchange effect analysis and reports.• Communicated changes and trained legal entity controllers on use of new month-end reporting templates.• Traveled to Australian subsidiary and acted as SAP super user for first live month-end reporting and SAP settlement process.• Assisted with the implementation of SAP Electronic Bank Statement and provided global support.• Corporate finance liaison for Asia and Pacific legal entities (India, Indonesia, Australia).

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Journaled daily treasury, bi-monthly payroll, and month-end GL entries.• Reconciled GL accounts.• Performed key finance role in payroll system conversion and created new payroll journal entry process that reduced finance time requirement from a whole day to 15 minutes.• Finance/accounting liaison for multiple members of the global management team providing budgeting/results support.• Created executive level financial dashboard based on monthly results excel file.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Parked daily and monthly journal entries in SAP.• Cleansed A/R and A/P accounts.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Completed ad-hoc tasks for accounting and finance supervisors.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

•Responsible for monthly billing cycle of up to 90 clients.•Resolved problems and conflicts with clients and sub-consultants regarding invoice, invoice payment, and contract compliance. •Entered all project and contract data into Deltek software including initial setup, modification, and closeout.•Completed special projects for principals and project managers such as project budget and usage analyses and document preparation for audits.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Adminstration Emphasis Finance

Accounting

Activities and Societies: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance27-Hour Accounting Curriculum to attain 150 credit hours and accounting.