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King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight in the areas of treasury operations, cash management, and cash flow planning. Manage all cash management functions to ensure adequate liquidity, including managing short and long-term cash flow for the business, with a primary focus on strategic cash allocation and risk mitigation. Oversee cash management banking and financial institution relationships. Implement new bank technologies, products, and services to improve cash cycle and simplifycompany operations.Streamline and standardize existing cash management functions with existing and newsoftware/technology.Assess overall risk around cash management, payment processing, banking systems, and fundingprocesses.

Responsible for the management of Conair’s cash, financial resources and employee savings and investment plans. Oversee the company’s liquidity and secure short-term and long-term funding. Establish strategic goals and objectives for the Treasury function, support financial planning and cross departmental projects. Maintain high level working relationships with banks, investment banks and other financial institutions. Monitor financial markets and keep abreast of trends and developments. Arrange borrowings, investments and evaluate savings and investment plan manager performance. Negotiate financial and banking commitments and contracts. Formulate Treasury policies, execute authority over bank accounts, signatories and delegate authority over all banking matters. Identify, monitor and protect against financial risk exposures and develop near term and long range cash forecasts. Direct and mentor staff.

Hershey, Pa

Oversee treasury operations at The Hershey Company. Responsible for daily management of daily cash activities, implementation of treasury processes that affect intra-departmental initiatives, cash forecasting, month-end closes, debt/captial markets, bank relationships, SOX compliance, and policies and procedures management. Manage the administration of $1.0B credit facility, corporate bond issuances, discount note program, interest rate derivatives and FX trades. Work with senior management, IS, Legal, Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Internal Audit. Provide support and direction for international treasury operations. Direct and mentor staff.

Oversee treasury operations at The Hershey Company. Responsible for daily management of daily cash activities, implementation of treasury processes that affect intra-departmental initiatives, cash forecasting, month-end closes, bank relationships, SOX compliance, and policies and procedures management. Support the administration of $1.1B credit facility, corporate bond issuances, discount note program, interest rate derivatives and FX trades. Work with senior management, IS, Legal, Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Internal Audit. Provide support and direction for international treasury operations. Direct and mentor staff.

Managed departmental treasury activities of cash management, debt portfolio management, treasury systems, bank relationships, compliance reporting, tax-exempt financings, and accounting close. Directed and mentored staff. Worked with senior management, IT, Legal, Accounting and Internal Audit. Built corporate relationships with Bankers and outside Vendors. Responsible for $2.75B syndicated credit facility, $2.4M departmental expenses, and company-wide expenses of $96M. Developed annual debt and interest budget and forecast.

Managed daily cash operations, weekly and monthly cash forecasting, foreign exchange, and month-end reporting. Worked with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Payroll departments to maximize cash flow and forecast large cash events. Managed annual banking services budget of $1.2M and all banking relationships. Managed $30M foreign exchange exposures and $100M import / export letters of credit. Managed staff of four Treasury professionals.

Prepared annual budgets, capital budgets, forecasts, and variance analyses. Oversaw financial reporting of three technology centers serving Eastern Airlines and Continental Airlines operations. Responsible for capital expenditure tracking, cost/benefit analyses and progamming costing analyses. Filed Proof of Claim involving Eastern Airlines bankrupcty and oversaw reimbursement from bankruptcy trustee. Managed a staff of five.

Established treasury function at System One. Developed cash budgets, cash forecasting models, capital budgets and managed cash settlement techniques with affiliates. Responsible for daily cash management, investment of corporate funds, investment policy guidelines and creation and maintenance of treasury debt database.Create cash accounting system to automate journal entries.