Michael Finelli Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Treasury Management, procurement and vendor Consulting Services and Real Estate Development, Sales, and Services. Assist clients with procurement and vendor policies, negotiations, and process improvements; treasury consulting and liquidity management; and receivables and payables optimization.

Greater Chicago Area

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• Executive Director, Insurance and Real Estate, Global Treasury Services Work in partnership with treasury management teams to create and deliver highly customized, complex, and large-scale treasury management solutions.
• Consult with clients to understand their treasury business goals to develop and deliver products, services and technologies that optimize global cash resources.
• Serve as subject matter expert for the bank’s and clients’ treasury professionals to provide relevant solutions for international revenue collection and payments, cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, credit.
• Collaborate with banking partners to grow treasury revenue by implementing a strategic sales plan that leverages a consultative and solutions orientated approach, and develops new and cultivates existing relationships.

Chicago, IL

• FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF CHICAGO
• Chicago, IL
• 2010 ­ PresentSenior Vice President & Director, Mortgage Partnership Finance (MPF)
• May 2013 ­ presentVice President & Director, Member Products Support Group (MPSG)
• 2010 ­ 2013Co-Chair, Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI)
• 2010 ­ 2014Mortgage Partnership Finance

Chicago, IL

• Member Products Support Group
• Managed operations functions, including advances, letter of credits, wires, safekeeping/custody, collateral, collateral verification, securities settlements, administrative functions, capital stock, customer service.
• Reorganized Member Product Support Group by successfully consolidating six small departments into the group, recruiting talent, initiating staff training, and emphasizing skill development for professional and support.
• Spearheaded the establishment of a LOC team, marketed the product to members resulting in increasing business volume significantly and growing balances threefold.
• Increased collateral balances and value to members by expanding guidelines.
• Produced reports and presented to the Board of Directors, Credit & Collateral Committee, Asset & Liability Committee and other sub-committees of the Board.Office of Minority and Women Inclusion 2010 - 2014

Recruited to turn around numerous leadership challenges and achieve operating efficiencies for a national insurance third party administrator. Member of the executive management team reporting to CEO. Directed analysis of all corporate functions including; treasury, cash & investment management, budgeting, procurement, and operation activities implementing.

Provide innovative and customized treasury management solutions to Fortune 500 CFOs and Treasurers. Manage portfolio of 21 global corporate clients representing $25 million in annual revenue achieving target sales growth in first year. Formulate and deliver solutions to clients providing ideas and products for their treasury and investment operations.

Manage all aspects of fiduciary relationships for bank's corporate and institutional clients representing $5 billion in corporate and pension plan assets providing expertise in the areas of investment management and products, securities lending, transition management, global asset custody, and investment performance measurement. Lead sales & marketing.

Recruited to lead organization's financial operations; directly responsible for risk, cash, and investment management functions for 21 domestic and global insurance companies totaling $9.5 billon in assets including $1.5 billion pension plan assets. Member of executive management team reporting to CFO accountable for developing and implementing strategies.

Responsible for managing a portfolio of approximately $10 billion comprising defined contribution and defined benefit plan, healthcare, foundation, and executive plan assets of Fortune 500 clients. Lead, direct and coordinate sales, product development and operational teams to structure solutions for clients and identify and generate new business. In less.

Manage $6 billion securities lending business; accountable for overall business functions including trading, operations, and investments. Created strategy to grow insurance company market for special deposits and reinsurance trusts, implementing strategy grew lending assets by $1 billion resulting in $1.1 million increase in revenues. Manage 18.

• Hired as accounting clerk and fast-tracked through a series of increasingly responsible positions over a 14-year period culminating with selection by executive management for Director of Treasury position managing.
• Spearhead decentralization of treasury/investment accounting functions of 10 business units within 6 months successfully achieving corporate restructure goals.
• Revamp operations company-wide including developing, testing, and implementing new accounts payable and investment accounting systems increasing operating efficiencies and reducing costs.
• Manage investment portfolios of holding and insurance companies totaling $9.5 billion in assets.
• Effectively manage 65 banking relationships; reducing annual bank fees from $3.1M to $1.4M, a 55% reduction in cost, over three years.
• Direct securities lending operations; increased revenues from $5.2M to $14.8M by developing and implementing creative reinvestment strategies, proactive program management and negotiating favorable contract terms.

Start up and operate family business; responsibilities including running all aspects of day-to-day restaurant operations, maintaining adequate inventory levels, negotiating supplier contracts, maintaining records of revenues and expenses, preparing accounting reports, and filing state and federal business tax returns.

Bachelor Of Arts, Finance & Business Administration

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