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Trade Insights: Working capital through the eyes of a treasurer
Read time : 10 mins Added: 08/04/2024
How to optimise working capital
Abel Martins-Alexandre, Head of Infrastructure, Energy and Industrials at Lloyds Bank and former Group Corporate Treasurer of mining company Rio Tinto, shares his insights into managing working capital from the perspective of a treasurer.
The importance of the treasurer in connecting the physical and financial supply chains
At a glance:
- From a significant number of defining elections across the world, major weather events and conflicts to attacks on container ships, events on the world’s stage are having a significant impact on the operations and supply chains of businesses.
- Building supply chain resilience is a high priority for many businesses. While some are on-shoring or ‘near-shoring’ their supplies and/or production, others are choosing to pivot from a ‘just in time’ approach to inventory, to a ‘just in case’ model.
- Holding additional inventory requires improving the management of working capital.
Abel Martins-Alexandre, Head of Infrastructure, Energy and Industrials at Lloyds Bank and former Group Treasurer at Rio Tinto,shares his insights into managing working capital from the perspective of a corporate treasurer and discusses why the treasurer should be embedded in strategic conversations with all areas of a business.
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