The Treasury Talent Podcast

We are collaborating with the Association of Finance Professionals to bring some content around business partnering. Today I am joined by Steve Kaufhold.

In this episode we discuss:

• Building the mindset and personal skills for business partnership within treasury
• Key skills to develop for successful business partnership
• Tips on virtual perspective
• Best way to be an effective business partner
• His perspective on adding to the team to give a better ability to business partnership
• How automation and technology support the business partnering for treasury

I have David Viney in today's episode. David is the Group Treasurer at Terex. David's background came from banking, structured finance phase, and now corporate treasury. He's an English origin and worked in different places.

In this episode we discuss:

• How David came to treasury
• Experience and advice in being an international citizen
• Highlights of David's career
• The differences between banking securitization and corporate treasury
• His approach to networking
• David's mentors
• Advice he wishes he'd been told
• Key things he looks for in direct hires
• What makes a successful treasurer in the eyes of the executives
• How is the role of treasury changing in the coming years

Today I am joined by Michael Braude for our monthly economic forecast for treasurers.

In this episode we discuss:

• The Central bank's perspective
• The effects on currency, bond and commodity
• What to look at in the coming months

Today we are joined by Priscila Nigalli. She is the Director in Actualize Consulting. What we're talking about today is the health check around your treasury management system. I wasn't aware of this before but it was such a great discussion with Priscilla, she's a guru on this. I hope you enjoy today's discussion around health checks for your treasury management system with Priscilla.

In this episode we discuss:

• Priscilla's background
• Her advice to people wanting to get to consulting space
• Small differences between culture, big things in terms of the work environment
• What is the health check within the treasury management system
• Common inefficiencies and how to identify them
• Best practices and processes around TMS
• The benefit of getting an advisor
• How to make sure the TMS and staff are prepared in cyber fraud and phishing threats

Today I have Marc Vandiepenbeeck on the podcast. Marc is the treasurer at Johnson Controls. I want to get him on today because you'll find his energy and enthusiasm second to not many. Also, he's a global citizen and had the pleasure of working in Europe, Asia and now in the US. He has a good global perspective from someone who's a global citizen.

In this episode we discuss:

• What brought Marc into treasury
• The highlight of Marc's career
• The differences in working in Europe and Asia
• The difference of moving from regional roles within Europe and Asia and going to head office in the US
• One thing that surprises him in making the moves as a global citizen
• His approach to networking as a global citizen
• Marc's mentors
• What makes a successful treasurer in the eyes of the executives
• How is the role of treasury changing in the coming years

We're joined by Amol Dhargalkar. He is the Managing Director of Corporates. Everyone talks a lot about will interest rates go negative? Amol is a guru in this space and we thought we would get him back on the program and talk to him about it today.

In this episode we discuss:

• Amol's background
• What is negative interest rates
• The risk to the corporate treasury
• How can a treasurer prepare and how they can get ahead of the game
• Negative interest rates imply more complex management of pension funds and funding issues

My guest today is Todd Yoder. Todd is the Global Treasury Head of Derivatives, Hedging Capital Management and Technology Strategy for Fluor, a global engineering firm. The reason why I got Todd on the program today was Fluor was such a global business, they are in all the corners of the world.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Todd came to treasury
• The biggest challenges and differences in different industries
• Making the move from accounting into banking then corporate treasury and his advice to others planning to make the move
• Highlights of Todd's career
• Mentors' part in his career
• His approach and advice regarding networking
• What he wishes he knew when he was starting his career
• What Todd looks for when hiring
• What makes a successful treasury in the eyes of the executives
• How he sees the role changing in the next few years

Today I am joined in the podcast by Michael Momdijian. Michael is the treasurer at Sydney Airport. Michael is the person who gave me the idea to start a podcast. I hope you enjoy listening and you'll find out towards the end how it all came about.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Michael came to treasury
• The process of sustainability linked bonds
• The effect of COVID-19 to Sydney Airport
• Michael's biggest achievement
• What he wished he'd known when he was younger
• What he thinks makes a successful treasurer
• What he looks for indirect hires within the team
• Michael's mentors and his advice to listeners regarding mentors
• His approach to networking
• How Michael sees the role of the treasury changing in the coming years

Today we've got a special episode for you. One of the topics we did recently was personal branding discussion with the Treasury Talent team.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why is personal branding important in your career
• What is personal branding
• Building an offline branding
• Tips on personal branding
• Changing someone's perception in the online environment
• Words of wisdom from the team

Our guest today in the podcast is Melanie Mock the treasurer at Equinix. Equinix is a very large data centre provider. I want to get Melanie on the podcast to talk through the business and for some really interesting stories.

In this episode discuss:

• What brought Melanie to the treasury
• Transition from banking to commercial side
• Comparing treasury in different industries
• Highlights of Melanie's career
• Work from home environment
• Melanie's approach to networking
• Mentors as part of her career
• What she wishes she has been told earlier in her career
• What Melanie looks forward in hiring
• What makes a successful treasury in the eyes of the executives
• How the role of treasury is changing with the advancing tech