Treasury Resilience: Building an Effective Action Plan

When primary systems go down, most organizations discover the same hard truth: they know what should happen, but they cannot execute it.

This recommendation report, produced in collaboration with Future of Finance/ LOSAM, synthesizes the work of around fifteen Treasury directors from major French groups who came together as part of the Treasury Resilience & Efficiency Taskforce. Their shared objective: establish an effective action plan to ensure that vital Treasury processes are never interrupted.

What you will find in this report

• Why the growing dependence on information systems now exposes Treasury to systemic risk, and what the Jaguar Land Rover and Marks & Spencer incidents reveal about the real cost of a paralysis.
• How to build a Business Case for the Executive Committee by quantifying the concrete operational consequences of a Treasury shutdown.
• The 3 Vital Processes identified by the Taskforce: salary payments, critical supplier payments, and core Treasury operations.
• How to maintain access to Vital Data when your TMS, cloud tools, and authentication systems are all unavailable.
• The right banking strategy in a crisis: why relying on a limited number of pre-selected partners, trained in crisis procedures and with backup payment arrangements formally established, is the only viable approach.
• The 5 operational principles to launch a Treasury Resilience program, from a single end-to-end process to regular crisis exercises.

Who should read it

This report is for CFOs, Treasury Directors, CISOs, and COOs who need a structured, operational model to ensure their Treasury function can operate under any circumstances.

It is equally relevant for IT, Cybersecurity, Procurement, and Internal Control teams who are essential partners in implementing effective protection.

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