This is a YouTube video titled "Defining your Treasury Legacy with Chris Fulton" containing a monologue or interview from March 19, 2019, where Chris Fulton discusses his experience in treasury management, the importance of communication, networking, and building relationships within the industry to advance one's career. The content focuses on treasury best practices and career advice.
It's making sure that on the treasury front that you have all of the documents taken care of, make sure that any renewals that need to be done, the communication out to the entire organization. Fortunately, over 10 years with 22 offices globally, I had a pretty good working relationship. So it's making sure that I communicated out to all of the offices and made sure that they were comfortable with the transition plan. And unfortunately, when you work at a place for as long as I did, you build up friendships within the organization. So just because I left doesn't mean I'm not available for folks when they need some assistance. So it's. I think the legacy is that you want to make the organization better than it was when you got there. I think that I can say that I did that by creating a world class treasury as well as implementing a lot of improvements within the FP and a process. If you get involved within whatever the mechanism is for meeting other like minded folks within the industry, I think you should do that. Obviously getting involved in a large organization like the AFP is very beneficial to your career as well. I mean, you have the opportunity to. And Mike, you've been at the AFP several times. You've got several thousand people from a lot of different industries that are there at a conference for three, four days and it's great just to sit down and meet with some of those folks and just talk about that industry and what are the best practices and you can take some of that back into your own organization. So I think at the end of the day, networking has done a very, it's been very strong within my career because a lot of the jobs that I've gotten, my last three, four jobs from ey on were all referrals. Especially in treasury space. You build up a lot of relationships with your banks. What you'll find is that banks, given that they're concentrated in specific, well at least the bankers in specific industries or specific size of companies, they tend to, to know a lot about these organizations and they tend to know a lot about jobs that are coming up or potential jobs that are going to come up. And they tend to be very forthcoming with that information. So what I found is that they like it when you get a little more personal with them. They like it when you're friendly with them. And I think again, I'm going to go back to earlier podcasts that you've had. I know that one of your podcast attendees, she got her job as a result of a banker reaching out directly on her behalf because they had built up a strong relationship. So I think that at least from a Treasury career perspective, at the level that you're a treasurer or a CFO or an assistant treasurer, you need to build strong relationships.
