The Treasury Talent Podcast

In this episode, we interview Matthew Harlan the Treasury Director at Toast POS. Toast is a company that empowers the restaurant community. They provide powerful cloud based software and all-in-one platform that covers point of sale, guest marketing, digital ordering & delivery, and payroll & HR.

Matthew shares how he developed his career, how he approaches things in his position as treasurer and key tips for hiring and becoming a successful treasurer.

In this episode we discuss:

• The story of how Matthew came to Treasury and why he chose it as a career.
• Developing the career that he has today.
• Matthew shares his career highlights.
• His approach and advice around the topic of networking.
• Advice Matt would like to pass forward to the listeners.
• Top characteristics he looks for when hiring people in his team.
• Keys to becoming a successful treasurer in the eyes of the C-Suite.
• The changes of treasury together with technology.

An interesting conversation with Stockland’s Treasurer, David Rowe, on the podcast today. It’s actually David’s second time to come on the show and today he’s going to give us an update on what has happened over the last 3 years since we last spoke. David is also going to share how they are running treasury successfully during this pandemic.

In this episode we discuss:

• David gives us an update on what has changed for him over the last 3 years.
• His current role at Stockland.
• How they are operating Treasury during COVID.
• Recruitment over the last 2 years and moving forward.
• Approaching networking during lockdown.
• Implementing technology in Treasury.
• Keys to becoming a successful treasurer.

Today’s episode is a monthly economic forecast for Treasurers from our regular guest, Michael Braude. He is going to share what’s happening in the commodities, risk and bond markets amid this rapidly changing world.

In this episode we discuss:

• Current movements in the bond markets.
• Updates on the currency markets.
• What’s happening around commodities.
• Things treasurer’s need to watch out for in the coming months.

In today’s episode, I have Catherine Portman with me. Catherine is the former Treasurer at Uber and now Treasurer at Palo Alto Networks. She shares the career changes she has made, the challenges she has faced and the struggles they have had over the last 18 months during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode we discuss:

• Catherine shares her current job at Palo Alto Networks
• Her career highlights over the last 18 months.
• The challenges they went through during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• How the challenges will change the way they operate moving forward.
• Handling networking during the pandemic.
• Struggles they have found around Treasury that are hard to do remotely.
• Navigating around conferences remotely.
• Their parameters around hiring remotely.
• What makes a successful treasurer.

In this episode, Karen Kearney joins us to talk about her experience as Treasurer in one of the largest research and development universities in the world, Stanford University. We talk about her career, its highlights, best lessons, and so much more.

In this episode we discuss:

• The story of how Karen came to work in the field of Treasury.
• Karen shares highlights in her career.
• How the university works as a business.
• Her experience on her move from the UK to the US from a working perspective.
• Karen’s approach to networking throughout her journey.
• The role of mentors in her career.
• Best piece of advice she has learned.
• What she looks for in hiring team members.
• Characteristics that make a successful treasurer.
• The role of the treasurer as technology changes.