Treasury Management for CFOs

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Dates and Locations

Copenhagen, Denmark | October 1st 2024 | From €995+25% VAT

Overview
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Overview

This workshop provides practical examples of the practices used by multinationals to meet challenges. There is a particular focus on treasury’s activities impact on the wider finance and other business functions.

In a rapidly changing economic environment, treasury is both central and critical to many of the key tasks facing a CFO. These include, but are not limited to, ensuring the solvency of the company, safeguarding assets and controlling and managing risk. Risks today come in many forms, driven by the volatility of exchange rates, fluctuating bank appetite for credit risk and more recently interest rate volatility. Political and country risk is also firmly back on the agenda. Coupled with significant internal changes around shared service adoption, working capital management and automation possibilities there is an important challenge in deciding where to focus and invest for the optimum return.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to understand:
- The evolving role of treasury and whether there is an absolute “best practice” in treasury?
- What are the proven and available treasury organisation structures and treasury techniques
- How to manage corporate liquidity; solvency and controlling investment risk
- The role of supply chain financing and working capital management
- The various treasury approaches for shared service centres and payment factories
- Global payment infrastructure and treasury technology
- How cyber-risk and cyber-security are crucial to treasury and the wider business
- What to expect in the future
Who should attend?

This course is ideal for CFOs and/or Financial Controllers new to treasury management or as a refresher to update your current knowledge and set the agenda for the coming year and beyond.

- 8.30
  Registration and refreshments
- 9am
  The evolving role of treasury, is there a “best” treasury practice?
  Role of treasury in the 21st century: defensive, proactive, strategic approaches
  
  Maximising liquidity and availability of credit facilities
  
  Importance of cash, liquidity and working capital management
  
  Coping with risk: FX, interest rate, commodity, counterparty risk
  
  Treasurer as polymath
- 10am
  Treasury organisation and treasury techniques
  Organisation of treasury and the role of the CFO
  
  Setting treasury policy and governance
  
  Treasury as a tool to actively manage risks
  
  Levels of treasury responsibility: centralised, distributed, decentralised
  
  Inter-company lending
  
  Centralising exposure management: inter-company FX
  
  Treasury dashboards for CFOs
- 11am
  Refreshment break
- 11.15am
  Management of liquidity: maintaining solvency and controlling investment risk
  Accessing balances and capital locked in the organisation
  
  Types of notional pooling, zero balancing and concentration
  
  The tax, legal, documentation and regulatory issues
  
  Mobilising core balances and money market investment
  
  Tax neutral or tax advantaged treasury vehicles
  
  Impact of BEPS
  
  The changing role of cash flow forecasting
- 12.30pm
  Supply chain financing and working capital
  Principles of supplier and receivables financing
  
  Creating win, win, win in the chain
  
  Financing: POs, invoices, acceptances, promissory notes
  
  Leveraging credit differentials
  
  Distributor and inventory financing
- 1pm
  Lunch
- 2pm
  Treasury approaches for shared service centres and payment factories
  Critical role of treasury – deliver banking interfaces to SSCs
  
  Integration of ERP accounting with payments systems
  
  Examples from ERP vendors
  
  In-house cash driven solutions for cashless funding, POBO, netting
  
  Achieving economies of scale: benchmarking the processes
  
  Challenges to eliminate domestic instruments and paper
- 3pm
  Refreshment break
- 3.15pm
  Global payment infrastructure and treasury technology
  The systems architecture of typical multinational
  
  Who needs a TMS? Who doesn’t?
  
  Connecting you company to its banks: multibanking and Swift
  
  Automated bank reconciliation and receivables matching
  
  Role of a treasury dashboard
- 4.15pm
  Cyber-risk and cyber-security
  Definitions
  
  Threat vectors
  
  Major risk areas; why AP? Why not treasury?
  
  Lowering your risk profile
- 5pm
  What to expect in the future
  Treasury policy agenda issues for CFOs
  
  Expectations; what to expect in 2O23 and beyond
  
  Policy agenda issues for treasurers
  
  New banking products
- 5.30pm
  End of course and presentation of certificates

Tutor

Adrian Rodgers

Senior EuroFinance Tutor & Director ARC Solutions, UK

Adrian has over 30 years’ experience of working as a consultant, and in the banking and corporate sectors.

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Adrian spent a number of years with IBM, in a variety of treasury and sales roles. Adrian was also part of the implementation team which created IBM International Financial Services, the European centralised treasury operation based in Dublin. Adrian then joined the newly created cash management consultancy team of Chase Manhattan Bank, with a brief to help create cash management solutions which matched the needs of customers’ underlying businesses and technology infrastructures. As a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he specialised in managing change in the finance function, including re-engineering of corporate treasury. His current company is an independent consultancy providing advisory, design and implementation services to corporates and banks, on a variety of change-related issues within the finance function. Services include strategy development, process design, bank and vendor selection and project management. Clients include major corporations with a strong international focus.

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