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Treasurer Test Update: Looking for the very last peers

| 09-05-2019 | by Kendra Keydeniers |

We are happy to say that since our last update, we successfully completed the senior categories of the peer groups. We are literally in the final phase of completing all peer groups. Exciting times ahead!

Are you the lucky one?

Our focus now is to find the very last peers who can help us out in the categories “no experience in treasury” and “treasurers with up to two years of treasury experience”.

The Treasurer Test is split up in two different parts:

Technical Treasury Knowledge
The Treasurer Test assesses your technical knowledge level in corporate treasury with questions on risk management, corporate finance, cash management and treasury miscellaneous.

Personality Profile
The Treasurer Test also assesses your personality profile with a test based upon the scientifically acknowledged “Big Five” theory.

Are you the person we are looking for or do you know someone who can make the Treasurer Test in the mentioned categories? Your help is highly appreciated!

How can I participate?

As a launch testee you can make the Treasurer Test for only €1,21- (normal price, €595,-)

Make sure to follow next steps:

Click here for purchasing
Click ‘add to cart’
Fill out the ‘Billing Details’ form
Enter coupon code (Send an email to [email protected] and request a coupon code)
Place order and complete payment

You will receive an invoice and a confirmation via email. In the confirmation mail you can find all relevant information that will guide you into and through the test.

Duration of the Treasurer Test
The Treasurer Test takes about 70 to 90 minutes.

You will receive notice when the Treasurer Test results are completed and when you can download your results. This will happen after all launch testees completed the test.

If you require more information regarding the Treasurer Test, check our blogs here or send an email to [email protected].

Kendra Keydeniers
Community & Partner Manager at treasuryXL

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New Community and Partner Manager for treasuryXL

| 02-05-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit |

treasuryXL recently celebrated its third birthday. As a partner and sponsor I have been involved from the start and so far, it has been an exciting journey. I am proud we have been able to create a constant flow of relevant content for corporate treasurers and all others interested in treasury. We continue the build-up of a platform where you can find expertise, opinions, events, job openings, product and service offerings. Different treasury topics for a variety of organisations.

Roy has been able to build a foundation in our content flow, our infrastructure and network. His experience as a banker has been valuable and partners appreciated his initiatives. He enjoys his time with treasuryXL but misses the content driven tasks he had as a banker. He will return to financial services. We thank him for his effort and wish him all the best.

We are ambitious and want to make the next step! In order to fulfill our pivot role we have been looking for more relevant skills and entrepreneurial power. I am happy we can present Kendra as the new Community & Partner Manager.

Currently Roy is working together with Kendra. Kendra brings valuable expertise in modern community management, she worked with a very successful tech company. Her focus will be on two major tasks. First, she will help improve the quality of the content and will increase of the relevant audience. Most likely this will be combined with the organisation of relevant events. Second, she will closely cooperate with partners and experts, helping them to achieve their professional and commercial goals. And of course the treasuryXL goals. Her efforts up till now are very promising. We look forward to working with her and wish her lots of success!

Currently you can contact both Roy and Kendra through [email protected] and 06-21303744

On behalf of partners and experts of treasuryXL
Pieter de Kiewit

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New update for the community: Treasurer Test

| 02-04-2019 | by Roy Baaten |

Dear peer goup members, treasurers, financials and friends of the community.
It has been a while since we updated you on the treasurer test.

First of all, we would like to thank everyone who helped us in one way or the other. A special thanks for those who made the test as a peer group member and provided us with very valuable feedback.

From the start we communicated that everyone will receive their report at the same time when the peer group is complete. We nearly completed the senior categories of the peer group but have to invest in finding candidates for the categories “no experience in treasury” and “treasurers with up to two years of treasury experience”. We are working very hard so everyone can receive their report they worked so hard for. We are almost there!

If you are a candidate for the aforementioned categories or know people who qualify and might want to take the test, send an email to [email protected] We appreciate your help.

We will inform you again if we have more news.

Roy Baaten – Community Manager

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Real and fake risk control – Treasurers and recruiters benefit and suffer

| 25-09-2018 | by Pieter de Kiewit |

As owner of a small company I have been listening to people complaining about regulatory and compliance affairs for a long time. 2018 will be the year these affairs have a substantial impact on my business and now I can understand the complaints. Both treasurers, recruiters and, I expect, many others in our society, struggle finding the balance in correcting what goes wrong and the hassle of too many rules. Some simple examples:

ING is punished hard for money laundering and I suspect just so. The rules are in place but not applied. My assumption is that target setting beats following the rules;
Some large corporates nowadays hire recruitment outsourcing parties that do the procurement of my services. One of them required me to inform them about the payrolling of my staff because: “in Bangladesh there is child labour and we want to prevent you make the same mistake”;
One of my clients is a subsidiary of an international conglomerate and decided to implement the services of a new cash management bank. The project has been on hold because the HQ of the conglomerate and the bank cannot agree upon the know your customer (KYC) regulations, much to frustration of all involved;
GDPR is implemented, also to control the power of large internet firms. Of course these regulations also apply to my business but did any of you read my new privacy statement or actually read cookie statements? Bureaucracy rules!

I think 99% of us know what is the right thing in 99% of the cases. This is what our parents taught us. That does not mean we will do the right thing. In the current situation, regulators want to solve issues by creating new rules. I am happy that applying the rules with consequences, as with ING, is being done increasingly. I think the structural solution does not lie in more rules.

Hopefully we can all start a dialogue about what is right and act upon it. Customers and clients, family members, colleagues, countries, teachers and students. Not blindly following the rules, but following them because we understand and agree. I am aware that this sounds might sound soft and is not possible in all situations. With many of our clients we cooperate successfully based upon a few bullet points in an email. That’s the way I like it.

Will you share your thoughts?

Pieter de Kiewit
Owner Treasurer Search

Best read articles of all time: Treasurer en controller; een paar apart ?

| 10-08-2018 | Jan de Kroon | treasuryXL |

De treasurer en de controller zouden twee handen op dezelfde buik moeten zijn, maar de vraag is of dat in alle, of zelfs de meeste, gevallen wel zo is. Enkele uitzonderingen daargelaten, zijn de verschillen groter dan de overeenkomsten.

Kort door de bocht zou je kunnen stellen dat de treasurer zich met het financieren van de operatie bezig houdt aan de passiefzijde van de balans. De controller houdt zich dan bezig met vooral de operatie waarvoor die middelen aan de actiefzijde zijn aangewend en zorgt ervoor dat die cash ook weer beschikbaar komt voor de verschaffer van die middelen. Beiden spelen een belangrijke rol in de cash conversion cycle en als het goed is, stemmen ze hun belangen onderling goed af. De praktijk leert echter dat het in veel gevallen niet zo rooskleurig verloopt in de afstemming.

De treasury functie onderhoudt een brug tussen de financiële belangen van de eigen organisatie en ontwikkelingen op de financiële markten er buiten. Hij zorgt voor blijvende toegang tot bronnen van geld, beschermt vermogen en resultaat tegen financiële risico’s en beheert een superieure en kosten-efficiënte financiële infrastructuur. Daar is weinig op tegen te hebben; voorwaar een nuttige rol die op begrip van iedereen kan rekenen. Althans, dat zou je denken.

Toch gaat het in de relatie vaak verre van soepel. Meestal omdat ze niet alleen een andere taal spreken, maar ook elkaars wereld niet echt lijken te kennen; laat staan echt begrijpen. De treasurer heeft een groot belang bij juiste, tijdige en volledige positie informatie en verwacht die van de controller te ontvangen. Zich niet realiserend dat de controller het belang vast wel onderschrijft maar in zijn eigen business unit met een vergelijkbaar vraagstuk worstelt; hoe krijg ik in des hemelsnaam tijdig betrouwbare informatie uit de lijn en het primaire proces. Voor eigen gebruik in het veld, maar ook om een collega op het hoofdkantoor een plezier mee te doen.

Anders dan de gemiddelde treasurer is echter de controller een vogeltje dat minder goed gebekt is en mede daardoor niet altijd lijneenheden kan overtuigen van nut en noodzaak van tijdige prognoses op basis waarvan de treasurer zijn randvoorwaarden beter kan inregelen. Om dat op te lossen en betere positie-informatie te verkrijgen uit de operatie, is een aantal elementen van belang:

1. Zorg er voor dat treasurer en controller elkaar beter leren begrijpen. Dat kan door meer in te spelen op business partnership dan ‘leverancier-afnemer’;

2. Zorg voor een beter financieel economisch bewustzijn bij de lijn. Dat kan door bijvoorbeeld het hanteren van feedback en feed forward technieken maar ook door het benoemen van lokale treasury referenten in het primaire proces;

3. Zorg dat de verantwoordelijkheden scherp zijn gedefinieerd. Daarmee zorg je dat tenminste iemand zich verantwoordelijk voelt voor de juiste positie op het juiste moment;

4. Een periodieke treasury nieuwsbrief kan helpen bij het vermijden van ‘ver-van-het-bed-shows’ en het verkleinen van de communicatie-kloof.

Zo komen de handen weer op één buik.

Jan de Kroon

Owner & Managing partner of I mprofin Groep

Information Evening – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

| 07-05-2018 | treasuryXL |

On Wednesday 16th May 2018, the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam will be holding an information evening for their Post Graduate programmes, including Treasury Management and Corporate Finance. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in this programme, and will allow participants to get an impression of how the programme works and meet the programme managers, teachers and (ex-) students.

Successful completion of the Post Graduate programme leads to the title of Registered Treasurer (RT). The programme focuses primarily on the practice of treasury departments of large corporations, but is also relevant in other business situations. Programme lecturers come from both the commercial world as well as the academical sphere. It is linked to the Dutch Association Corporate Treasurers (DACT) and the programme is a part time weekly course normally in small groups between 15 – 20 students.

You are welcome as of 17.30 hours. The program for the PGO Treasury Management & Corporate Financestarts at 20.00 hours. Afterwards there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions.

Program

17.30 hrs. Walk in with coffee / tea and sandwiches

18.00 hrs. Information round 1

19.00 hrs. Information round 2

20.00 hrs. Information round 3 – Treasury Management & Corporate Finance

Location

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agora Complex, De Boelelaan 1105 (main building, 3rd floor), Amsterdam.

VU bereikbaarheid

VU Accessibility

Register

You can register viaVU PGO Information evening

Contact

Nicole Lijs

020-5982171

[email protected]

www.sbe.vu.nl/treasury

This is why corporate treasury is great – The laymen introduction to corporate treasury

| 09-01-2018 | Pieter de Kiewit |

My father was a civil engineer and would have liked one of his kids to follow in his footsteps. Regretfully for him we all went in different directions, me landing an engineering degree of the wrong type. What I did like to learn from my first business management professor was about creating bridges between various functional areas. That is what I have been doing as a recruiter for almost 25 years, the last 8 solely in corporate treasury. Why treasury?

All organisations, even the small ones, can benefit from good treasury. Only the bigger ones hired permanent experts. The main three areas, perhaps oversimplified, they focus on are:

Money logistics: opening and closing bank accounts, doing (bulk) payments, forecast money coming in and going out;
Managing (treasury) risk: understand and manage the implications of interest or currency fluctuations. If your manufacturing costs are in Euro and you sell in Dollars and the price of the Dollar drops, what to do? What to do if you have excess cash on your current account;
Funding: where do you get your money for new or current business? Bank loans, equity, mortgage, leasing?

This does not sound sexy, does it? But do understand that during the crisis treasurers found solutions for companies how to survive. They found funding to pay salaries, helped sales finding creative funding solutions to make complex transactions achievable, helped prevent companies going belly-up due to currency exposures, forced banks to offer better solutions at a more acceptable price.

Treasurers manage huge amounts of money and operate very close to the CFO. They are involved in mergers & acquisitions, reorganisations and international expansion. They act in small numbers but have huge impact if they would stop doing their work. And the job type evolves continuously. Creating new treasury bridges to traditional job types like accounting, tax, sales helps all doing a better job. The academic world is showing increasing interest. In the Netherlands the post graduate education at the Vrije Universiteit is becoming more prominent in the treasury community. Corporate treasury is very dynamic!

What I love doing is helping CFO’s, HR, internal recruitment and senior treasury managers with their staffing questions. What qualifications and personality type matches best with your current and future business situation. If you only hire one treasurer per year, what do you need to know to choose the best candidate? I hope now you can understand my passion for creating bridges in treasury and recruitment.

I look forward to your thoughts to the above and further contact,

Pieter de Kiewit
[email protected] / +31 6 1111 9783

Pieter de Kiewit
Owner Treasurer Search

The end of the Notional Pooling Era: What to do next?

Treasurer en controller; een paar apart ?

| 22-09-2016 | Jan de Kroon |