Treasury Aficionado, Recruitment Consultant and Owner of Treasurer Search. Together with his team, Pieter finds candidates for interim assignments and permanent positions in treasury, corporate finance, cash management and related positions. His market focus is the BeNeLux and Germany, his clients are mainly corporates, non-profit and consultancy organizations. Pieter holds an MSc. in Organizational Science and has over 25 years experience in international recruitment. In many ways he contributes to the Treasury Community by connecting people and companies. He supports educators, for example as a member of the management board of the RT programm of the Vrije Universiteit.
In many ways, he contributes to the treasuryXL community by connecting people and companies. He also plays a key role in treasuryXL, moderating many of our live sessions and facilitating insightful discussions with industry experts.
Corporate Treasury have a problem and this is why…
| 23-07-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | Cost savings created by good treasurers easily exceed the sum of salaries of their team. They can help open doors that otherwise stay closed for their business colleagues and they can help avoid risks. Then why do they have this modest seat at the table of CFOs […]
Does your payment land in the correct currency account?
| 16-07-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | Recently I received signals from a treasurer working in a mid-sized company about payments in various currencies landing on the wrong account. In a payment of USD 1 million, this could lead to extra cost of about USD 9,000! This results in extra cost and should be […]
Be careful what you wish for in crowdfunding
| 02-07-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | Over the last decade bankers have taken over from civil servants and public transport employees as the ones to complain about. Yours truly is also guilty and I still meet bankers who do not like to talk about their profession because they are annoyed about the bashing. […]
New generation treasurer studies at the Vrije Universiteit
| 13-06-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | Research in our candidate files, filled with treasury experts and managers, shows that only a small fraction of the population completed a job specific education. Over time I see the level of impact and complexity of corporate treasury rising and an increase in treasury students. As […]
What does the hiring manager know about treasury?
| 23-05-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | Among corporate treasurers IPOs are always the icing on the cake and I have followed Adyen going public. Very interesting is that besides the obvious reasons like increased investments, money for the founders and employees dealing with their stock options, the strategic partners and clients play a […]
Four education programs for ambitious treasurers
| 18-3-2019 | by Pieter de Kiewit | One of our regular meeting topics is how to improve the skills of the corporate treasury population. Research for the Treasurer Test (https://www.treasuryxl.com/news-articles/treasurer-test-report-is-ready/) shows that only 20% of all treasurers completed a dedicated treasury education. I am happy I was invited to join the “Curatorium” of the […]