Management Training

Ebonie Owusu

Sr. Treasury Associate -Treasurers, Bank Management, Corporate Banking

Parlin, NJ

***********@*****.*** - 856-***-****

Work Experience

Sr. Treasury Associate -Treasurers, Bank Management, Corporate Banking

Prudential Financial, Inc - Newark, NJ

October 2007 to October 2009

• Supported business unit requests for account maintenance including, but not limited to Bank Account

Openings, Closings and changes associated with the bank, obtaining required signatures, legal

documents, and communicating with the business unit upon set up.

• Responsible for maintaining over 1200 DDA and Custody Bank Accounts for the Insurance, Retirement

and Annuities, PFI and Asset Management portfolios.

• Reviewed and Input Domestic and Foreign Wires, ACH, FX for Cash Management, Bank Administration

and Capital Markets daily.

• Acted as an internal banking consultant supporting the cash and banking needs of the business and

acted as a liaison between the business units and banking institutions.

• Exclusively responsible for the Security and State Deposits for the Insurance, Retirement and Annuities

Business.

• Worked closely with all functions with Shared Services Treasury, Corporate Treasury, Tax, Legal,

Accounting and Controlling, Procurement and HSE to provide broad spectrum of Treasury and Insurance

support.

• Reconciliation of Federal Reserve Bank processing and streamlined the Federal Reserve Bank

reconciliation processing by drastically reducing the all-day job to a three hour procedure through

automation and computerization.

• Responsible for maintaining and building new relationships, coordinating and communicating with

business partners, asset management back offices and banks.

• Participated in and was a member of multiple project teams including the BOL account repository

application, Global Treasury Workstation and new JPMC Access design demos.

• Maintained controls and procedures for Bank Management and Treasury.

• Participated in the training process for new hires and ensured new hires had proper access to all

applications by preparing and submitting systems requests.

• Led and participated in multiple bank relationship and internal business unit bi-weekly and monthly

meetings.

• Extensively assisted with research and documentation of several ad hoc projects related to the

Insurance, Retirement and the Annuities Business.

• Performed all types of Investigations related to Funds Transfers.

Compliance/Policy Analyst

BKB Financial Center - Newark, NJ

August 2003 to August 2006

• Developed and delivered training programs to support corporate policies and the needs of all BKB

Financial entities. Verify client signatures are valid and ties with company OFAC reports

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• Reviewed training materials prepared by business areas to ensure they meet compliance requirements.

• Designed and delivered training programs across the enterprise using multiple formats.

• Analyze, identified and effectively advise compliance management, project leaders and business

partners on training needs and requirements.

• Assisted in developing training processes and controls to ensure training requirements are met,

including tracking completion rates, follow-up and assessment of training programs.

• Worked with domain experts and technical programmers to implement features in the software.

• Liaise with business sponsors, finance and line of business clients in understanding business

requirements and priorities.

• Ensured all business related issues are recorded and acted upon in a timely manner.

• Analyzed corporate business processes to develop customized solutions and reduce cost, improve

performance within a given budget.

• Responsible for gathering and documenting software requirements for the sales, marketing and back

office operation business groups as well as guiding the translation of requirements through the phases

of the system development life cycle.

Treasury Analyst

Finova Financial Corporation - Paramus, NJ

June 2000 to August 2003

• Daily cash management processes using on-line banking systems.

• Assisted asset managers in locating buyers for off lease equipments.

• Reviewed new business transactions to ensure that the approved structure and rate is correct, all

internal approvals are correct and within the current company guidelines, document packages are

accurate and complete (including proper title flow to FCS on leases), customer signatures are valid and

equipment cost ties with vendor invoices.

• Responsible for the proper financial and tax treatment of all new business by ensuring the booking of

each contract in infolease. In addition, responsible for the proper entry of customer contract, invoicing,

internal coding, asset, filing and insurance information to ensure the proper business handling, reporting

and follow-up.

• Reports to various business segments on new business, documentation deficiencies, progress

payments, delinquency and daily/monthly trial balances. Also, provide ad hoc reporting as required.

• Responsible for general ledger account reconciliation and account analysis.

• Interaction with manufacturers Inventory Logistics tea and Marketing organization regarding equipment

functions and user base and price changes or promotion.

• Trouble-shoot complex infolease production problems.

• Trouble-shoot cash related issues via communication with banks and coordinates delivery of bank

documentation packages and reporting to federated and various other financial institutions for advances.

• Served as liaison between treasury and all operating units. Provide support to subsidiaries as

necessary.

• Managed full system development and minor development projects related to infolease application.

• Monitoring daily cash balances in all domestic accounts and weekly international bank accounts.

• Produced daily cash report and submits checks and wire transfer requests to accounts payable/

receives and distributes funding checks.

• Bank account administration, including documentation and maintenance of a centralized inventory of

all bank accounts.

• Bank relations assisting in company activities related to banking evaluating services and fees, and

monitoring performance. Analyzed statements and look for cost-saving opportunities.

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Education

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration

Economics State University of NY at Stony Brook - Stony Brook, NY

May 2002

Additional Information

SKILLS

Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, JP Morgan Chase Access, BOA Direct, Cash Register Plus, CitiDirect,

GateWay Treasury Workstation, Leasepak, Infolease, OFAC, Internet Research, Visual Basics, SAS

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