Our Policy and Technical team represent ACT members on a number of fronts, including policy submissions and consultations, technical updates, and interactions with regulators and legislators. We work to address issues on behalf of treasury practitioners and help improve professional standards in the financial sector. We publish a range of member-only technical updates, guidance and briefing notes on key issues impacting treasury practice.
Resources relating to: corporate finance and the optimal structure of a balance sheet; business transaction – mergers and acquisitions, disposals; long-term funding – debt and equity; long-term investment – strategy and practice; and, intercompany funding.
Resources on all aspects of financial risk management, from the high-level approaches to risk management and how to establish policies and controls, all the way through to detailed commentary on identifying, managing and reporting on specific risks.
Our Policy and Technical team represent ACT members on number of fronts, including policy submissions and consultations, technical updates, and interactions with regulators and legislators. We work to address issues on behalf of treasury practitioners and help improve professional standards in the financial sector. We publish a range of member-only technical updates, guidance and briefing notes on key issues impacting treasury practice.
Naresh has spent 30 years in a variety of treasury roles spanning industry and advisory firms. At PwC he was the UK Lead for Cash Management and Payments and helped lead the firm’s work on payments, Brexit, treasury controls, Blockchain, operational resilience and target operating model design and implementation. He won an Innovation award for his proposition around mobile payments. He is an Associate Member of the ACT. Prior to PwC, Naresh spent almost 20 years in industry across a range of organisations including BP, Heron Property, Cable and Wireless and Fujitsu taking on roles such as analyst, dealer and treasurer.
Sarah has extensive corporate experience with over two decades in industry working in a wide range of finance and treasury roles with companies including Cadbury and Whitbread. A qualified accountant, she now spends her time applying her insights to practical use, enabling others to understand how the corporate financial world works and the relevance of developments in financial markets on their day to day activities. She is an is an Associate Member of the ACT.
James joined the ACT Policy & Technical team in September 2019 with 30 years’ experience of international finance, most recently within Group Treasury of Royal Dutch Shell plc as Head of Regulatory Affairs, Head of Compliance and Controller of Group Pensions. James is a qualified accountant (ACMA/CGMA), with a degree in Law & Politics, who has worked in UK, Africa, South America & Middle East. He has been CFO/Finance Manager of various entities in the energy, commodities, technology and not for profit sectors. James enjoys engaging with stakeholders and has contributed to many working groups, including the FSB’s Market Participants Group on reforming interest rate benchmarks.
