Hilda Frank
Location: Senior Financial Analyst: Treasury Operations & Management
Rochester Hills,
MI
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Profile
Over 20 years of Compliance, Bank Relations & Foreign Exchange Middle/Back
experience in Office: A senior expert and acknowledged point of contact for
Treasury, Finance global banks, global funds transfers and settlement methods and
and Accounting in global bank exposure limits compliance, cash pooling, global
Asia and U.S.A. multilateral netting payments (Euro netting), and compliance for
credit and indenture agreements.
Management Advisor: Acknowledged as an advisory resource by
Qualifications management for developing and integrating flexible and effective
Summary solutions, planning, process improvements, and management of
MBA, Oklahoma critical compliance and settlement challenges. Ability to handle
City University, multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
Oklahoma Program & Project Management: Expertise in back & middle office
operations training and supervision. Enjoy leading as well as
Over 10 years of working within groups to accomplish critical and wide-reaching
experience in process improvements. Acknowledged expertise in mentoring peers
advising and junior staff. Excellent communication, analytical and
management and interpersonal skills.
executives on Business Systems Support: Highly skilled in coordinating
compliance and cost-effective, flexible, robust and timely solutions to complex
banking financial accounting challenges while engaging and negotiating
operations. with stakeholders within the company. Recognized as an
effective communicator and negotiator.
Experience
Expertise Delphi Holdings LLC
Global Treasury Troy, Michigan: January 1999 - July 2012
Operations & Senior Financial Analyst
Compliance to SOX Treasury Operations, Compliance, Bank Relations & Middle Office:
controls August 2007 - July 2012
Subject Matter Environment & Roles
Expert in Bank Senior expert and point of contact for global multilateral
Relationship, netting process (Euro Netting), global funds transfers and
Account Analysis, settlement methods, global bank exposure limits compliance,
and Closing of global bank account openings & closures, all domestic bank
Legacy accounts account maintenance, training and supervising back office
globally & Cash operations, compliance for credit and indenture agreements, and
Pooling monthly commodity calculations & settlement (base metals,
Subject Matter precious metals, natural gas).
Expert in Foreign Technical advisor and systems administration point of contact
Exchange for JPM ACCESS, HSBC Net, BOFA CashPro, Receivables Edge,
Back-office and Integrity, FXALL, IT/2.
Middle-office Initiatives & Organizational Impact
Operations & Sucessfully implemented the online version of Euro Netting.
Training Converted all domestic lockboxes to lockbox imaging.
Subject Matter Reduced the number of bank accounts in the Cash Pool.
Expert in Prepared and internally published whitepapers and procedural
Multi-Lateral blueprints for staff supporting Back Office, Middle Office and
Netting Sarbanes-Oxley Controls as well as the Account Analysis process
Operations for in Weiland and Euro Netting online.
Multi-National Provided specialized guidance for operating upgrades to the
Corporations Treasury System.
Global Cash
Management Financial Analyst
Operations Treasury Operations & Bank Relations: July 2004 - July 2007
Forecasting, Environment & Roles
Budgeting and Primary subject matter expert for global foreign exchange
Profit Analysis settlements & controls, preparation of controls and procedures
in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, and primary contact for
foreign exchange netting accounts maintained in Europe.
Responsible for settlement and reconciliation of all Foreign
Exchange trades (spots, options, hedges), inter-company loans,
Competencies commodities, short-term investments, and issuance of commercial
Treasury paper, and for assisting with bank relationship and global cash
Operations management operations.
personnel
training and Initiatives & Organizational Impact
supervision Developed a constructive working relationship with banks to
General reduce interest rate and service charges.
accounting Based on my interest, expertise and leadership in this position,
operations it was expanded to include assisting with and testing a
Supervision of large-scale Treasury System upgrade.
accounting staff Prepared quarterly foreign exchange counter-party limits and
exposure reports for management, and maintained and updated
counter-party settlement instructions in the Treasury System.
Applications & Trained MBA candidates on foreign exchange Back Office
Systems operations.
Euro-Netting Worked with third-party vendors to successfully resolve various
System, FIRST systems challenges.
(treasury system- Implemented process improvement and controls and authored
FXPRESS), procedural blueprints for internal staff.
DB-direct
(Deutsche Bank Financial Analyst
payments & Finance Dept at Product & Service Solutions Aftermarket
information Operations: April 2003 - June 2004
reporting
system), Environment & Roles
ePayments, JPM Financial analyst primarily responsible for forecasting,
ACCESS, Bank of budgeting and profit analysis for the company's entire North
America CashPro, American aftermarket operations.
HSBC Net, Share
Point, MISYS Initiatives & Organizational Impact
Treasury System, Engineered monthly OES (Original Equipment Service) financial
Integrity forecasts for North American sales.
(treasury system Assisted with past-model OES parts price adjustments for all
- SunGard), divisions from Service Parts Operations.
Project Maintained transferred business mapping (SAP).
Management, IT/2 Ad hoc special assisgnments as requested.
(treasury system-
SimCorp), SAP Financial Analyst
System, Lotus Treasury Operations & Cash Management: January 1999 - April
1-2-3, DATM 2003
System (cash
desk), EDS-EFT Environment & Roles
Funds Transfer Primary architect of the Foreign Exchange Back Office & Middle
System Office operations. Responsible for foreign exchange operations.
Microsoft Office
Suite and other Initiatives & Organizational Impact
productivity Set up the Foreign Exchange Back-Office & Middle-Office
tools. operations at Delphi.
Set up all multi-currency foreign exchange accounts and
disbursement accounts in Europe .
Reconciled the foreign exchange trades in the Treasury System
and the foreign exchange netting accounts maintained in Europe.
Settlement of all foreign exchange trades, commodities,
short-term investments, and issuance of commercial papers.
Prepared quarterly foreign exchange counter-party limits and
exposure reports for management.
Completed monthly reconciliation of Delphi's 13 parent accounts
and 3 corporate accounts.
Maintained and updated counter-party settlement instructions
within the Treasury System.
Assisted in improving shareholder services at Bank of New York.
Negotiated and communicated with banks to reduce interest rate
and service charges.
Trained MBA rotational candidates on foreign exchange
back-office operations and set up of account structure for all
foreign exchange accounts.
Coordinated with vendors on various system problems.
Interfaced with systems project team as a Subject Matter Expert
(SME) in back-office operations for the design and rollout of a
new Treasury System.
Maybank: Mayban Discount Berhad Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:
Month 1981 - Month 1998
Department Head
Treasury Settlements: May 1991 - May 1998
Environment & Roles
Departmental manager with a staff of 7 full-time career
employees responsible for Treasury Settlements at the
wholly-owned subsidiary of Maybank, at the time, one of
Malaysia's leading banking institutions.
Responsible for review and authorization of money market
transactions and fund transfers to various commercial banks and
other financial institutions, daily department operations, and
employee retention and training.
Initiatives & Organizational Impact
Authorized signatory for the company's current / checking
Banking Industry account.
Southeast Asia Revaluated money market instruments monthly (Treasury Bills,
Negotiable Certificates of Deposits, Bankers Acceptances,
Government Bonds, Commercial Papers).
Provided specialized guidance for operating upgrades to the
Treasury System.
Assistant Accountant
Operations Department: January 1981 - April 1991
Environment & Roles
Departmental supervisor for a staff of 2 full-time career
employees responsible for Accounting Operations at the bank.
Assisted in planning and control of daily departmental
operations.
Initiatives & Organizational Impact
Analyzed, researched and prepared corporate budgets and
forecasts.
Developed monthly, quarterly and yearly financial statements for
the company.
Verified and executed a final reveiw of management reports
before submission to the Board of Directors for the company.
Prepared weekly and monthly reports of all financial instruments
for the country's central bank (Bank Negara Malaysia).
Education
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK: Masters of
Business Administration (MBA)
Concentration: International Business
Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Diploma
Concentration: Applied Parasitology & Entomology
University of Bombay, Mumbai, India: Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Concentration: Microbiology
Professional Conferences / Training
Attended conferences and training sessions in Treasury
Operations, Bank Relations, Middle and Back Office Operations
conducted within Delphi and at various other locations.
Language Proficiency
Written, Spoken, Read: English, French, Malay
Spoken: Malayalam, Tamil
Professional Recognition
2011: Recognition for reducing bank fees and legacy bank
accounts at Delphi: Successfully reduced bank fees for U.S.
domestic bank accounts by $900,000. Closed legacy bank accounts
in the U.S.A. and globally by initiating Cash Pooling of
accounts.
2008: Recognition for automating the account analysis process at
Delphi: Responsible for implementing Weiland / BRMEdge for
Delphi's U.S. domestic accounts.
2007: Recognition for automating the Multi-Lateral Netting
operations at Delphi: Implemented the Euro-Netting system for
the monthly multi-currency settlement of allied and non-allied
payments.
1991: Recognition at Mayban Discount Berhad: Was tagged as the
Subject Matter Expert for the implementation of new Treasury
Other System; and provided documentation and controls.
Willing to
relocate within
the US, to
Southeast Asia or
within the
Euro-zone.