Today I am joined on the program by Scott Bilter, the Principal and owner at Atlas Risk Advisory. The reason I got Scott on is because he wrote a good article that caught my eye which was: How Effective is your FX Hedging program? With the economic crisis that we’re in now, I thought it’s a good time to have someone who could tell us more and shed some light.
In this episode:
- How did Scott get into treasury and what made him choose it as a career?
- Scott tells more about
- Difference of corporate treasury side to working on the bank
- Comparing the corporate treasury side to the advisory work Scott is doing now
- Was it challenging to make the moves across from the different industries
- Distinction between cash flow and balance sheet hedging
- FX and financial market
- Previous FX strategies’ connections with the coronavirus and the volatility
- How is resourcing relevant to being effective in FX risk management
- What does “accounting can be the tie wagging the dog” mean
- Business partnering being important for FX risk management
- How important are simultaneous budgeted FX or the planned FX rights
- What has Scott seen from his clients recently
- FX Tips for the listeners
- Advice for listeners around networking and how Scott approached it in his career
- What piece of advice Scott wish he’d been told
- What are the things Scott tends to focus on when hiring
Links
Scott Bilter LinkedIn
How Effective is your FX Hedging program
