Kevin C Oliver

• Lead all aspects of treasury management including banking relationships, cash pooling, risk mitigation, liquidity planning, foreign exchange, factoring, and supply chain management.
• Prepare and present financial reports to inform senior management and board of directors.
• Implement robust fraud prevention controls including positive pay, encryption keys, ACH debit block filter, and multi-factor authentication.
• Manage issuance of SBLCs, bank guarantees and parent guarantees to support business operations.
• Develop and execute liquidity planning strategies to optimize cash flow and borrowing structures.
• Manage FX hedging activities and FX spot purchases to manage currency risks across 12 currencies.
• Utilize SAP ERP systems extensively for financial management and process optimization.

• Spearheaded procurement initiatives, leading RFPs/RFQs, collaborating with consultants (Accenture, CoreTrust GPO & A.T. Kearney), and implementing procure-to-pay systems (Ketera, Wallmedien AG & SAP Ariba).

• Managed travel policy creation, TMC selection, travel booking platform configuration, and preferred travel provider sourcing.

Managed travel policy creation, TMC selection, travel booking platform configuration, and preferred travel provider sourcing.

• Managed banking partner relationships and liaised with US parent company Treasury Dept on banking configuration, set-up, cash-pooling, and fraud controls.

• Cash planning, procurement & travel (incl. T&E) management, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.

• Implementated systems for Liquidity & Cashflow Planning (ITS@web), Procure-to-Pay (Ketera) and Travel Management (AMEX Axiom & Concur), and Workflow Processing (OpenText).

• Enhanced AR processes through cash application automation (SAP lockbox processing), credit card acceptance policies, and credit risk management strategies (Coface).

• Full management responsibility for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Collections, Credit Management and Foreign/Intercompany Accounting.
• Led combined staff of 42 employees and coordinated across departments to develop cohesive strategies that aligned with overall organizational goals.

• Consolidated four Regional Credit & Collections Departments into one National Department.
• Reduced reporting complexities & redundancies by streamlining processes and job responsibilities (FTE's reduced from 8 to 5).
• Improved communication strategy & practices with customers.
• Improved Over 30-day receivables by over 30%, in line with company targets.
• Partnered with D&B on customer credit review process to reduce credit term period from 8 days to 2 days.

• Full responsibility for Foreign/Intercompany Accounting between USA and Affiliates/Agents in over 130 countries and more than 20 foreign currencies.
• Experienced in global systems design and testing for multi-participant global netting processes (CitiNetting, Co-Process and SAP Netting.
• Led the North American Project to implement the European conversion to the common new EUR currency, including coordinating with Product Management and I.T. Teams to integrate the EUR functionality into the transportation management systems, SAP 3.1 FICO/SD and other internal systems.

• Audited and reviewed Branch shipment files for file profitability, variances and completeness.
• Worked closely with Branch Managers on Branch P/L, shipment file KPI's, delinquent customers and employee productivity.
• Traveled extensively across the east coast, with large focus on Miami Branch, to audit policy adherence and review for potential fraud or theft situations.
• Tracked A/R past dues and implemented first graphical A/R Aging Reports for the US.