John Covey

Background

About John Covey

Highly experienced finance and treasury professional with 20+ years of Big 4 management consulting experience and Ivy League MBA. Career focus has been on delivering strong value to clients through identification and implementation of finance and treasury policy, process and technology enhancements including in the areas of cash management and banking, global liquidity management, procure to pay and order to cash optimization, and assisting clients through strategic corporate transactions (merger integrations, carve-outs). John has focused on developing and implementing treasury, working capital, cash flow and financial risk strategies for large and medium-sized global and domestic organizations. He has extensive experience assisting multinational companies in designing and implementing efficient global funding and liquidity management strategies. He has also assisted companies to improve their cash conversion cycle by optimizing working capital across the order-to-cash and procure-to-pay cycles. He has assisted numerous companies navigate through the complexities of transformational deals by standing up new treasury organizations in preparation for transaction close and optimizing operations post-close. John has demonstrated acumen in business development, having successfully driven client pursuits across industries and finance topics. He has leveraged client relationships to win complex, cross-service line engagements and multi-year managed services deals. Specialties- Corporate treasury strategy, governance and organization - Banking strategy, structures and relationships - Global liquidity management, including physical/notional cash pooling and in-house banking - Cash management, including daily funding and cash flow forecasting - Working capital optimization through reduction of the cash conversion cycle via procure to pay and order to cash (customer credit, invoicing, collections, dispute resolution) operational enhancements - Treasury managed services / business process outsourcing (BPO)- Customer credit risk management - Investment and debt management - Financial risk management - foreign exchange, commodity and interest rate hedging, including strategy, policy, operations and financial derivative management - Intercompany trade and loans - Treasury technology John has an M.B.A. from Cornell University, a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Houston, and a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) credential from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP).