AMY JANCOUSKAS
Bradenton,FL
Summary
Meticulous Treasury Manager offering 25 years of superior performance in related roles. Highly skilled in Treasury & Cash management, reconciliation and forecasting to serve corporate needs. Hardworking and diligent with passion for continuous process improvement.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Treasury Manager
01.2022 - Current
- Maintain client bank accounts including ensuring sufficient funds, timely processing of wire transfers and ACHs
- Review and approve incentive payments, process daily deposits, payment batches and billing transactions
- Review of payment documentation and validation of payment requests
- Create, document and continue process improvements using small automation where practical, update policies and procedures as required, and participate in the implementation and roll out of updates
- Work with operations team to onboard new clients and close out exiting clients
- Weekly cash balance and forecast update
- Assist with the corporate operating cash objectives such as monitoring of domestic and international banking regulations and requirements
- Assist with acquisition related due diligence, work with finance, legal, and external parties, participate in Day zero funding and subsequent integration activities to ensure timely integration and control over the banking function
- Assist Director of Treasury with the cash management relationship with all bank partners globally
- Assist with the testing and evidencing of SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) for the treasury function
- Responsible for SOC compliance for the payment incentive claims product offering
- Lead and motivate a team of 3 professionals with clear communication of goals and deadlines, encouraging collaboration through teamwork and enabling their career development while meeting business initiatives
Treasury Supervisor
RIA Financial
11.2021 - 01.2022
- Manage company's worldwide liquidity position including cash position and cash forecast for multiple legal entities and accounts
- Perform all ongoing daily cash transaction processing, position consolidation, bank file interfaces, reconciliation, and reporting activities in an accurate and timely manner
- Monitor intra-day cash positions on a real-time basis to ensure sufficient funds for daily liquidity and transaction processing
- Develops tools and reporting to minimize fraud across a variety of payment types, e.g., wire, ACH, credit card, and other payment processes
- Offer additional support to the Treasury team by completing operational functions including FX option, spot, swap and forward deal execution, exotic currency booking and return processing, and ad-hoc as well as routine reporting and analyses
- Supervise and assist in the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure collection of all funds in a timely and accurate manner
- Recommend process improvements to drive efficiencies, including automating current processes
- Ability to recognize payment patterns and trending for risk analysis and cash applications efficiency
- Assist with system implementation and integration projects to improve automation
Treasury Manager
Asure Software
02.2021 - 04.2021
- Ensure daily Payroll and Tax ACH and Positive Pay files are processed through to banking partners; ensure any NOC or ACH returns are timely addressed
- Oversee payroll operations and liaise with other cross-functional teams to manage current and future client funds liquidity while maintaining effective controls, Process payment transactions and review fraud products daily to ensure accurate payments and effective risk
- Participate in the month-end close process including preparing reports and various account analysis, Assist in determining investable balances and horizons and partner with FP&A and Accounting to create long term cash forecast for liquidity and to maximize investment return as well as support company's overall capital structure planning
Cash Reconciliation Manager
PCS Retirement
08.2020 - 02.2021
- Ensure completion of daily cash related tasks such as deposit reporting and verification, ACH debits from client bank accounts, and verifying and allocating cash dividends on a record-keeping system
- Identify, research and resolve overdrafts
- Manage daily cash reconciliations, research and resolve issues in a timely manner
- Monitor group email inboxes and tickets and review all requests within 24 hours
- Identify objectives and develop processes and procedures to ensure efficient and timely workflow
- Emphasis to be placed on efficiency and reducing risk for the organization
- Continuously monitor and track various department metrics and ensure pre-set standards are being followed
- Ensure the department meets deadlines and stays within predetermined accuracy standards as it relates to daily processing.
Senior Fund Finance Associate
Dimensional Fund Advisors
07.2017 - 08.2020
- Coordinate the creation, production and review of Financial Reporting (Prospectus', Annual and Semi-Annual reports) for US and Canadian funds
- This includes accuracy review, updating legal disclosures and SOX compliance
- Manage relationships with auditors, internal business teams and service providers
- Perform oversight of Fund service providers to ensure adherence to established accounting policies and procedures
- Prepare and analyze pro-forma financial data
- Review and monitor Fund expense accruals, payments, and budgets to ensure accuracy
- Prepare reports, statements and presentations for Funds' Boards of Directors
- Liaise with foreign offices and other firm organizations (Portfolio Management, Sales, Investment Operations, etc.) on firm-wide projects such as NPORT, NCEN, Process Mapping and the Financial Statement Core Project which included implementing JIRA
- Oversee the work of direct reports which includes performance reviews.
Cash Management Supervisor
Lincoln Investment Planning
08.2013 - 07.2017
- Manage and monitor daily work for the Cash Management Department which handles all incoming cash receipts and outgoing distributions
- Perform diversified Accounting duties to support Corporate Accounting and Investment Operations departments
- Participate in departmental goal meetings, consulting analysis and development and testing of new software and systems such as Schwab Omnibus platform, Docfinity, Zendesk and FTNI
- Daily review of Aged items, bank reconciliations and check receipt log
- Conduct weekly Reserve Calculation, month-end close, end of day activity through FundServ, as well as, journal entries, commissions, wire transfers, ACHs and tax withholding
- Take part in interviewing, selection process, conduct counseling sessions and performance evaluations
- Responsible for updating and enforcing company policies regarding Cash Management functions and making sure published policies and documentation meet the requirements set forth by the Compliance Department.
Operations Associate
Dimensional Fund Advisors
04.2007 - 03.2011
- Reconciliation and rebalancing of US and foreign accounts
- Quarterly cash flow analysis for CFO and board members
- Critical member of the senior team for projects including outsourcing of global client reporting, aggregation and outsourcing of corporate cash flow and retirement of proprietary software.
Senior Reconciliation Analyst SMA
SEI
05.2005 - 10.2006
- Provided support to money managers and sponsors to coordinate client investment activities
- Handled daily reconciliation of SMA accounts using APL
- Processed Corporate Actions, bond redemptions, mergers and stock splits.
Sr. SMA Specialist/Control Accounting Specialist
PFPC/BNY Mellon
10.2001 - 05.2005
- Responsible for daily reconciliation and quarterly advisor fees.
Sr, Financial Control Analyst
Alliance Global Investor Services
11.2000 - 10.2001
- Daily reconciliation of transfer agent accounts.
Education
BBA -
Wilkes University
Wilkes-barre, PA05.1998
Skills
- Treasury and Cash Management
- Bank Reconciliation
- Financial Compliance
- SOX Compliance
Timeline
Treasury Manager
01.2022 - Current
Treasury Supervisor
RIA Financial
11.2021 - 01.2022
Treasury Manager
Asure Software
02.2021 - 04.2021
Cash Reconciliation Manager
PCS Retirement
08.2020 - 02.2021
Senior Fund Finance Associate
Dimensional Fund Advisors
07.2017 - 08.2020
Cash Management Supervisor
Lincoln Investment Planning
08.2013 - 07.2017
Operations Associate
Dimensional Fund Advisors
04.2007 - 03.2011
Senior Reconciliation Analyst SMA
SEI
05.2005 - 10.2006
Sr. SMA Specialist/Control Accounting Specialist
PFPC/BNY Mellon
10.2001 - 05.2005
Sr, Financial Control Analyst
Alliance Global Investor Services
11.2000 - 10.2001
BBA -
Wilkes University