Implementing Treasury Roadmaps with Séverine Le Blévennec

It's caring about your staff, caring about your stakeholders, caring about balance of relationship. Safety is value number one at Aliaxis and it goes well beyond that, Right? It's safety, it's well being. I think we can work very hard and still care for our people and make sure that they are happy to come to work and deliver. Yes, ultimately we want to achieve something. We have those, those aspirations on what should be our role, what should be the treasury, and knowing that we want to deliver. And luckily, after some months where we've launched all our projects, now in the coming weeks, we have a number that come to an end and that's a good opportunity to celebrate. And so, yes, delivery is what we want to do. But this to me is the result of putting everything in place. If you put people with a clear vision, that you give them the means, the tools, the investments to achieve that vision and that you respect them and want to make sure that they develop at the same time that the company develops. Also, of course you deliver, of course you do. When I joined the company, it was still full remote working, right? So I got my computer, I was at home. All my introductions with the various functions in remote, I think they've done it quite well. They've organized for me a one hour meeting with each head of function so that we could get to know each other to some extent, maybe more time than if I had been live and people crossing people a bit less formally. Now, luckily a few months later we could return to the office. And initially I was coming here because I thought, okay, I'm going to meet the people. And some days I didn't meet anyone all the day, so it was a bit strange. Now I can see that generally at Aliaxis, people are a lot in the office because of all those projects going on with a lot of interaction. For my team, we have contracts where we may work two days per week from home, but it's absolutely flexible in practice. It's really when we have those design session interactions where we have meetings, where we have four, five, six training, et cetera, I mean, we just come to the office. If it's just an up to date call for an update of a few points or less strategic and so on, then we can do it from home. It's not really a question, it's very natural. I have to say that my team members don't live far away from the office. Neither do I. So it makes it of course easier. But to me it's more if you come to the office, then there should be a reason, right? My technology ecosystem has been really the backbone of the start of my transformation. Only then did I launch RFP for a TMS or rfp RFP for Payment hub, RFP for Bank Account Management system, which are the first three systems we are implementing as well. We are also implementing Swift as connectivity for our bank with the Swift Service Bureau and the whole flavor. But obviously it was clear that these are the first steps. But knowing where I want to go to and what I want those systems to be, exchanging data between systems, which is often, you know, a good system in its own and it's completely not connected, it's just a database. Once you start to connect system between each other, then you really unlock value and have real strong static data management, which then allows you later to leverage data to take good decisions.