Michael Mueller Email & Phone Number

Westport, Connecticut, United States

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Wilton, Connecticut, United States

Manhattan, New York, USA

• Oversaw all aspects of HSBC’s corporate accounting policy function (managed staff of four): (i) Application of U.S. GAAP and IFRS policies to strategic transactions, corporate initiatives and other significant events.
• Led internal working group comprised of senior Risk and Finance managers and charged with (i) assessing the financial, regulatory and operational impacts of the FASB’s and IASB’s financial instruments impairment.
• Advised HSBC’s executive and senior management on accounting and reporting implications of proposed accounting changes
• Reviewed (i) U.S. GAAP financial statements of two of HSBC’s U.S. subsidiaries filed with the SEC on Forms 10 Q and 10-K and (ii) IFRS financial reporting package submitted to HSBC Holdings plc (U.K. parent) for.
• Participated in various control oversight committees (Hedge Accounting and Derivatives, Valuation, Wholesale Credit Risk, Retail Credit Risk, SEC Disclosure)
• Represented HSBC on various industry groups (IFRS Committee of SIFMA (Vice Chair), Financial Reporting Committee of The Clearinghouse Committee on Bank Accounting and Reporting (COBAR), and Accounting Policy Committee.

Wilton, Connecticut, USA

• Led efforts to develop interpretive firm accounting guidance, communications on standard-setting developments, and points of view on standard setting proposals (both U.S. GAAP and IFRS)
• U.S. member of Deloitte’s Global IFRS Leadership Team, and in that role, contributed to the development of positions of Deloitte’s global firm on the application of IFRS
• Provided consultative services to Deloitte professionals and clients on the FASB and IASB convergence program and specific convergence projects (e.g., Financial Instruments, Leases, Insurance, Consolidation, and.
• Leveraged relationships with the FASB and IASB to sign up Board and staff members to participate in eminence-building meetings on convergence projects with clients
• Frequent speaker at seminars, conferences, webcasts and executive-level meetings

London, United Kingdom

• Lead fellow on the “Derecognition of Financial Instruments” project, one of the credit crisis projects and also one of the most technically challenging projects on the IASB’s agenda
• Wrote numerous agenda papers and presented them to the Board at public IASB meetings
• Delivered under enormous political pressure in helping the IASB publish the Derecognition Exposure Draft (ED) on time
• Led an extremely successful outreach program on the Derecognition ED, involving: (i) more than 50 meetings with chief financial officers and controllers from major banks and insurance companies and also with accounting.
• Built strong relationships with Board and staff members of both the IASB and the FASB

Wilton, Connecticut, USA

• Assisted Deloitte professionals and clients with major transactions and highly complex technical issues in the areas of financial instruments (derivatives, liability and equity, transfers of financial assets, hedging.
• Participated in technical meetings with the financial instruments experts of the other major accounting firms
• Gave numerous presentations internally and externally (e.g., series of “Dbriefs” webcasts on the accounting for convertible instruments)
• Wrote several white papers that were submitted as technical inquiries to the FASB or as agenda submissions to the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF)
• Sought out by engagement teams not only for my strong technical expertise but also for my ability to explain highly technical issues in an understandable manner

West Palm Beach, Florida

• Led the corporate audit of one of the firm’s largest public clients in the energy industry (Fortune 200) and also the audit of some of that client’s major and highly risky joint venture investments
• Early promoted to In-Charge level and also nominated for a position in Deloitte’s Management Development Program in National Office

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

• In less than two years, promoted to lead a staff of five in the servicing and accounting department of the company’s tax lien fund, which represented an investment portfolio of more than $110 million in delinquent real.
• Oversaw all aspects of (i) the financial reporting process, including the preparation of the tax lien fund’s financial statements and supporting schedules and the development of accounting policies and (ii) the.
• Gave presentations to the fund’s institutional investors
• Served as primary contact for the company’s external auditors (Coopers & Lybrand)

M.B.A., Business Administration

B.S., Accounting

B.S., Management

Intermediate Examination Certificate, Accounting And Finance, Taxation, Law