Session 01
X - Executive, A - Advanced, I - Intermediate, B – Basic, F- FP&A Renewal Credit, G - GTOT Credit
CTP Review Sessions are not available for CTP or FP&A credit.
Cyberfraud 2021 (I) (F)
- Ernest Smith, CTP, FP&A, North Texas Regional Treasury Solutions Executive, BBVA Compass
- Sharon Lampley, Director, Franchise Customer Engagement & Performance, Mastercard
Tuesday, April 13th
9:45am - 10:30am
Grapevine A
Virtual
Session Description
Ever wonder why there is a cyberfraud session at each conference? That’s because each year the fraudsters find new and innovative ways to try to take your money. This session will focus on some of the newer tricks that criminals were using in 2020, and discuss ways to combat them.
Speaker Information
Ernie Smith is responsible for a staff of 10 TM professionals, providing TM product solutions and support to clients in the North Texas region. In his previous position he served as the Public Funds Specialist for BBVA. During his tenure, total public deposits grew from $800M to $4B. Before joining BBVA Compass, Ernie spent 16 years at JPMorgan Chase, including 6 years as a Commercial Banker and 3 years as a Private Client Advisor. He is an instructor of the CTP exam review courses for Rice University and University of Dallas.
Sharon Lampley is the Director, Franchise Customer Engagement & Performance, NAM. In this role, she assists customers to optimize their performance, reduce fraud and advance overall ecosystem health. Additional roles at Mastercard include Acquirer Channel Account Management and selling Digital, Mobile, Personal Payments and Fraud Solutions to Issuers, Acquirers and Processors. Prior to joining MasterCard, Sharon was Director of Major Accounts at Ingenico North America. In that role she sold payments technology products and services used in banking, retail, petroleum, transportation, healthcare and government. Previously, Sharon was Vice President of Sales for 11 years at TASQ Technology, a subsidiary of First Data Corporation, a market leader in the payment processing industry. Earlier in her career, she worked as Director, POS Member Bank Support for VISA, where she managed a staff of 12 technical and sales support professionals. Sharon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with an emphasis in marketing and a minor in communications from California State University.
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State of Treasury Post COVID (A)
- Jeff Diorio, CCM, Managing Director, Treasury Strategies
Tuesday, April 13th
9:45am - 10:30am
Grapevine B
Virtual
Session Description
This session will detail the results of TSI’s annual survey and interviews of Treasurers revealing what their focus will be for the upcoming year.
Key topics will be:
- What is on their 2021 to do list
- What they perceive as risks
- What they perceive as opportunities
- What changes adopted during the COVID crisis will be permanent and which will be temporary? For example, many of the changes to payment processing around automation and control are permanent and will evolve in 2021.
Speaker Information
Jeff Diorio is a Director at Treasury Strategies. He works with corporate treasury departments, treasury technology vendors, as well as financial institutions across a wide variety of complex engagements in designing treasury and banking solutions for today’s challenging liquidity and risk environment. Jeff has more than 30 years of experience in both financial technology as well as global treasury operations that allow him to bring a strategic focus to this leadership role. His specialties include development of solutions, system selection and implementation, project management, hosting/ASP/Cloud based solutions. Jeff is currently a Director at Large on the board of the Treasury Management Association of New York. He has been a speaker at the AFP National Conference, and numerous regional treasury and bank conferences. Jeff has a BS in Mathematics from Northwestern University and is also a Certified Cash Manager.
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The Reinvention of the Treasury Management System (I) (F)
- Tracey Ferguson Knight, Director of Solution Engineering, HighRadius
- Jennifer Jones, VP, Invoice To Cash Enterprise Service Line, Genpact
Tuesday, April 13th
9:45am - 10:30am
Grapevine C
Live
Session Description
In the radically changing economic environment, treasury is both central and critical to many of the key tasks facing the treasurer and CFO – managing FX risks, ensuring the availability of credit, driving working capital efficiency, and restructuring banking relations to work in a shared services environment. This evolution reflects the increasing complexity of business and the need for technology for treasury to respond to heightened expectations.
Treasury Management Systems have come a long way since their introduction in the early ’90s when they were only implemented at large corporates, but the change hasn’t gone far enough. Many companies, both large and small, find that they are not getting significant value in return for the time and money they have invested. New technology is disrupting treasury just like other areas of our life and will significantly change the value of a TMS.
Join this session to understand the alphabet soup of technologies, the future of treasury, and the technologies that will enable the treasury department to partner with the business more effectively than ever before. Come learn about the future of Treasury technology.
Speaker Information
Tracey Ferguson Knight is a highly accomplished Treasury professional who excels in motivating and leading high-performance teams. As Director of Solution Engineering at HighRadius, Tracey provides a unique blend of treasury knowledge with extensive experience from both the practitioner and fintech perspectives, with an emphasis on transforming treasuries into efficient operating centers that can partner strategically with the entire organization.
Jennifer Jones has 25+ years of experience in the Order to Cash function with roles covering domain consulting, digital design. delivery operations, GBS strategy, large scale transformation and business outcome initiatives. She has held OTC Leadership positions at Dr Pepper/7Up, Cadbury, and Kraft Foods leading Operations and driving the OTC strategy. For the past 6 years, she has served as the Vice President, Invoice to Cash Enterprise Services. In this role she partners on OTC Finance transformation journey's, Shared Service Center/Target Operating Model design and implementation support, Business Impact & Transformation initiatives, Blueprinting & Due diligence, RFX responses, and operationalization of best practices through domain expertise
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CTP – Working Capital Management (B)
- Dubos Masson, Ph.D, CTP, CertICM, President - The Treasury Academy
- Tyrone Gant, CTP, SVP, Director of Treasury Management, Vectra Bank
Tuesday, April 13th
9:45am - 10:30am
Grapevine D
Virtual
Session Description
- ETM6-Ch 10: Introduction to Working Capital Management
- ETM6-Ch 11: Working Capital Metrics.
This session covers both the basics and the metrics (calculations) used in the area of working capital management. These topics include: cash conversion cycle, management of key working capital accounts (accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable), and the investment and financing of working capital. The section on working capital metrics covers many of the important calculations used in the area, including days sales outstanding, aging schedules and payment pattern analysis.
Speaker Information
D.J. Masson, Ph.D., is President of The Treasury Academy, a training and consulting firm specializing in treasury management, international finance, business forecasting, and risk management. Over the past 25 years, D.J. has provided business and financial consulting and training services to a wide variety of corporations, financial institutions, and not-for-profit organizations in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Finance at Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business and is a trainer and curriculum developer for programs with Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), GT News and Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) in the U.K, and Citibank’s Global Transactions Services unit. D.J. has extensive experience in developing curriculum for a wide range of teaching and training environments, both residential and on-line. He has developed classes and taught at all levels of higher education: undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and in-house, custom-designed courses. D.J. has worked with professional associations to develop workshop, training materials, and certification programs in the areas of Treasury Management, Credit Management, Global Cash Management, Financial Forecasting, Commercial Banking, and Risk Management. D. J.’s educational background includes a B.A. in Business from the University of New Orleans and an MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from Indiana University. D.J. earned his Certified Cash Manager (CCM/CTP) credential in 1988. D.J. also earned the Cert ICM, an international cash management certification, from the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) in the UK in 1999.
Tyrone Gant, CTP, is the Director of Treasury Management for Vectra Bank Colorado, a division of Zions Bancorporation. Tyrone is a results oriented financial professional with 25 plus years’ experience in the banking industry including leading and executing growth and sales strategies, new business development and treasury management consulting.
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