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Today’s financial professionals require real-time, cross-functional visibility into their cash, payments, and liquidity to support the growth and financial stability of their organizations. The new reality is that financial functions such as treasury and accounting must unify shared operations and processes for fully integrated treasury and payments management.
However, achieving this utopia requires more interaction with multiple stakeholders and multiple data sources. Without integrated financial systems and access to consumable data, such a value-delivering environment can remain out of reach.
Fortunately, today’s treasury management technology is equipped to help finance teams simply and efficiently achieve broad and accurate financial visibility.
In this webinar, we discuss how you can best utilise this to enhance cross-functional visibility and decision-making within your organisation.
Speakers:
Christof is Head of Treasury at the John Lewis Partnership in London. Prior to that he was Global Group Treasurer at Willis Towers Watson plc based in London from 2010 – December 2018. In this role, Christof led Treasury as well as the insurance function.
Other career stations include Head of Treasury at Fiberweb plc, leading corporate treasury as well as risk management, Group Treasury Manager at Novar plc, where he re-engineered the treasury function, and European Treasurer at Kellogg’s, having set up the European Treasury Centre. He was also Group Treasurer at International Personal Finance plc in 2019/20
Christof holds a dual degree in European Finance and Accounting, and an MBA from Manchester Business School. He qualified with the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
Willis Towers Watson plc was the winner of TMI’s 2017 Corporate Finance and Funding Award under Christof’s leadership, and were shortlisted in the 2018 Treasurer’s Deals of the Year Awards in the category of Large EMEA Treasury Team of the Year.
Kevin Grant is the Managing Director of Treasury at Bottomline where he is responsible for bringing leading-edge treasury solutions to financial leaders worldwide. Kevin joins Bottomline after more than 30 years in the Fintech space serving requirements internationally. With a specific focus on treasury technology, Kevin previously held executive roles at IT2 (now part of Ion Group) and Serrala. As CEO at IT2, Kevin led the growth in Treasury sales, quadrupling turnover through expansion in EMEA, North America and Asia. More recently Kevin was a member of the executive team at Serrala overseeing the firm’s international strategy.
Educated at the Henley Business School, Kevin holds an MBA in Finance and Project Management as well as a BSc Computing from the University of West Scotland. Kevin also attained Futures & Options Representative status from the Securities & Futures Association in London, as a requirement of an advisory and trading role previously.
Moderator:
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 where he 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. 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.
This webinar, in association with Bottomline TreasuryXpress, took place on Tuesday 14 September, 12:30-13:15 BST.
