Why Relationships are Key to Treasury Success with Ashish Advani

I want it to be dynamic. I want it to be my. My personality is I'm an extrovert. And accounting isn't necessarily everything that an extrovert would want for. In that reason, I got an mba and I realized that's what I was missing. So once I achieved the pinnacle of success in the accounting world, I wanted to move myself into an adjacent field and I wanted to get into Treasury. Some of the best work that I've done in treasury or in Tax has been because of the knowledge that I've developed as I've met people, as I've understood different cultures, different environments, different market conditions. And that's not something you can sit and learn either in a classroom or by phone calls. And many of my holistic approaches have been designed around, you know, casual conversations where, incidentally, you know, aspects of markets have come up where, you know, I realized, hey, I could use some of that. It wasn't a planned discussion, it wasn't something that we formally explored, but came out of, you know, conversations. And those have been the best and most successful for me. The one thing that people in treasury need to embrace with an open heart is the ability to be flexible. And what I mean by that is adapt to market conditions, whether it be Covid and therefore not meeting people or whether it be, you know, the Chinese market, you talk, the US markets, no two solutions are going to look exactly the same, but we need to embrace that rather than consider that as a challenge, saying, you know, every time we need to break the mold and come up with something new. That's just the DNA of success in treasury is thinking outside the box, thinking of what could be done given the circumstances you're in. And while you have the wisdom of your previous deals, you should always look for opportunities on how you can even improve on a great deal, which was excellent for last year, but next year could be something different.