Michael Whitman

VP, Treasury & Operations at New York based direct lending private equity company
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Ray White

A delight to work with. Very knowledgeable always cheerful and helpfull in handling what ever situation may need attending to. It is with great pleasure, that I can say, I had the honor of working with Michael for five years.

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Experience

    • VP, Treasury & Operations
      • May 2015 - Present

      Manage liquidity structure, outstanding debt, and debt covenant compliance. Develop short and long-term cash forecasting for over 20 independent entities. Maintain all aspects of account structure, fraud controls, and funds transfer. Provide annual audit guidance on treasury or operations related processes. Orchestrate all operational aspects of the end-to-end lifecycle for the fund investment portfolio. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring accuracy of loan information. Interim investor relations counterpart, providing information to investors and fund administrator. Participate in investor update calls, due diligence questionnaires, and dissemination of fund information. Migrated banking structure from incumbent to new banking partner, while developing best practices for cash management, visibility, and operations. Successfully negotiated ~30% reduction in banking fees. Developed standard operating practices for newly launched secondary trading fund while onboarding counterparties and trading partners. Show less

    • United States
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Manager of Corporate Cash and Banking
      • Nov 2010 - May 2015

      Managed a team responsible for the day-to-day operations of the cash desk covering the Americas and a portion of the Islands, including: intercompany cash movements, monitoring and reconciling intraday collection and disbursement activity, target balancing, etc. Manage corporate cash management bank relationships, including structuring of accounts and banking services. Manage annual foreign bank account reporting (FBAR) process. Cash forecasting, liquidity management, investment decisions, and monitoring of various regulatory changes. Act as primary business unit manager for treasury management system upgrades and new module testing. Perform treasury due diligence for all M&A transactions. Partner with tax, legal, and accounting to optimize global entity structure creating tax efficient means of cash repatriation. Show less

    • United States
    • Banking
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Loan Servicing
      • Dec 2005 - Nov 2010

      Managed a commercial loan operations area with responsibility across multiple profit centers including: project finance, distressed assets, Latin American deals, and US Corporates. Opine on operational aspects of new and amended credit agreements while building relationships with internal and external customers. Act at deputy to the department manager during his absence. Worked with multiple internal departments to migrate the operational processing of our commercial loans from the New York office to the London office. This task included: writing and amending test scripts, reviewing and commenting on user testing results, and working with the department manager to develop transfer plans. Show less

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Operations Manager
      • Feb 2004 - Dec 2005

      Managed employees responsible for trade confirmation generation, manual trade entry, and other middle office functions Developed key performance indicators which established settlement and confirmation benchmarks Increased automated trade confirmations by approximately 20% by identifying alternative processing opportunities for trade input Developed standard operating procedures to manage delayed settlement claims and related reporting Liaised with counterparties to resolve trading discrepancies and settle within market standards Show less

    • Supplier Sales Manager of Vendor Financial Services
      • Apr 2003 - Feb 2004

      Pitched, negotiated, and closed receivable financing programs with automotive manufacturing suppliers Executed a Six Sigma Greenbelt project decreasing vendor Days Sales Outstanding by 50% or more and increasing GE's financing float by 27% Reviewed supplier financial documents to develop pricing strategies competitive to their traditional liquidity solutions Pitched, negotiated, and closed receivable financing programs with automotive manufacturing suppliers Executed a Six Sigma Greenbelt project decreasing vendor Days Sales Outstanding by 50% or more and increasing GE's financing float by 27% Reviewed supplier financial documents to develop pricing strategies competitive to their traditional liquidity solutions

    • India
    • Consumer Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Relationship Associate (AVP) for Broker
      • Mar 2001 - Apr 2003

      Cultivated client relationships by identifying needs and developing product solutions to those needs Reviewed and negotiated credit agreement language with customers and legal counsel to mitigate firm risk Analyzed clients' quarterly and annual financial statements to identify business marketing strategies Assisted with annual credit reviews by providing insight into overall relationship and account strategies Cultivated client relationships by identifying needs and developing product solutions to those needs Reviewed and negotiated credit agreement language with customers and legal counsel to mitigate firm risk Analyzed clients' quarterly and annual financial statements to identify business marketing strategies Assisted with annual credit reviews by providing insight into overall relationship and account strategies

    • Assistant Vice President of Loan Trading Operations
      • Dec 1999 - Mar 2001

      Managed employees responsible for trade confirmation generation and loan trading settlements across multiple desks Implemented a distressed loan accrual process reducing opportunity for missing income by 70% Managed employees responsible for trade confirmation generation and loan trading settlements across multiple desks Implemented a distressed loan accrual process reducing opportunity for missing income by 70%

    • United States
    • Investment Banking
    • Manager of Lockbox Operations
      • Apr 1999 - Dec 1999

      Developed benchmarks for key performance indicators across a 24 hour lockbox operation Worked with external process consultants to identify workflow inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement Managed employees responsible for customer and vendor billing, FTE analysis, and other MIS data entry Developed benchmarks for key performance indicators across a 24 hour lockbox operation Worked with external process consultants to identify workflow inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement Managed employees responsible for customer and vendor billing, FTE analysis, and other MIS data entry

    • Assistant Manager of Loan Servicing
      • Jan 1997 - Apr 1999

      Managed a $16B portfolio of bilateral and syndicated bank loans Lead multiple training classes for process quality and improvement opportunities Participated in an exercise to reduce inter-departmental handoffs by 90% for the asset backed finance group Managed a $16B portfolio of bilateral and syndicated bank loans Lead multiple training classes for process quality and improvement opportunities Participated in an exercise to reduce inter-departmental handoffs by 90% for the asset backed finance group

Education

  • The University of Connecticut
    MBA, Finance
    2001 - 2006
  • The College of New Jersey
    Bachelors of Science, Finance
    1993 - 1997

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