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Financial First Weekend Boot Camp

This Financial First Weekend Boot Camp is made by and for entrepreneur women associated with the military, where you can count on leaving MISSION READY to achieve your entrepreneur financial goals! Female Veterans, active duty, reservist, and military spouses REGISTER NOW for SATURDAYS November 5th & 19th Boot Camp Series, you must attend both dates to complete the course. All graduates are eligible to compete for matching grants of up to $1,000 to open and/or increase business secured lines of credit.

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Presenting Partner: American First National Bank

MEET OUR PRESENTER:

Michael Bailey, Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer

Michael Bailey is Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Community Reinvestment Act Officer (CRA) for American First National Bank. In this role, he oversees the financial institutions’ Corporate Compliance Program and, coordinating with the legal counsel, is responsible for establishing standards and policies pertaining to regulatory requirements to help ensure legal, and proper conduct, for making sure these standards are communicated and institutionalized across the Financial Institution, and for monitoring the financial institutions’ compliance with these standards and policies. As CRA Officer, Mr. Bailey sets lending, investment, and community service targets and manages numerous activities required to achieve the financial institutions CRA objectives.

Before his current role, Mr. Bailey was SVP, Bank Secrecy Act Officer. He was responsible for coordinating and monitoring day-to-day Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing compliance and charged with managing all aspects of the BSA/AML compliance program and with managing the bank’s adherence to the BSA and its implementing regulations.

Prior to joining American First National Bank, Mr. Bailey worked at Briggs and Veselka, where he was a Senior Auditor. In this capacity, he executed control testing focused on credit, operational, compliance, financial reporting and technology risk and for interviewing business process owners to create process documentation, executing test work, and independently documenting audit findings.

Mr. Bailey has more than 19 years of experience in the financial services industry. He received his BBA-Accounting degree from the University of Houston, Bauer College of Business.

EXTENDED PROGRAM DETAILS:

Financials First – Weekend Boot Camp with a $500/$1000 Matching Grant includes 2 Saturday Boot Camp Series offered in collaboration with American First National Bank (total of 16 hours of  hands-on technical assistance and one-on-one support) focused exclusively on the development of business financials via intense, intentional, interactive hands on training related to setting up a formal accounting systems, tracking profits and expenses; understanding/documenting equity/dividends; understanding relevant financial ratios; reviewing current credit standing/developing a strategy to  establishing and/or enhance business credit; all resulting in a business financial outlook “MISSION READY” to tackle your capital challenges.

Participants who complete the full Program can pitch for a  $500/$1000 matching grants to apply and/or support a current secured business credit card and/or line of credit.

Financials First – Weekend Boot Camp is a group program that will be offered onsite only for an maximum of 15/25 clients per series for the most effective outcomes.  

Projected outcomes for all participants are the ability to set up a structured financial accounting system, solid business financial package, understanding of proper documentation of equity/dividends distribution protocols, credit correction strategy, and a financial strategy to access capital as needed