GTreasury: a Great Solution and Business Partner
Overall Satisfaction with GTreasury
The GTreasury Workstation is used by the Treasury team for our daily cash concentration process, administer our debt portfolio, ST money market transactions, FHLB Borrowing, bank account administration central repository, bank account analysis, payment hub, origination of funds transfers, wires US & international, ACH origination, State ACH Tax Payments with addendum, and settlement of inter company payables and receivables for the organization. The 822 Account Analysis feed is utilized to monitor bank service fees actual to contracted prices, and various statistical reports regarding bank balance exposure, risk assessment, and monitoring any overdrawn accounts.
We use the GTreasury Workstation to receive previous and same day BAI information (including Money Market Fund Balances and custodial/trust account information, wire reference numbers, ACH return files, ACH Prenotes, ACH NOCs, This data is used by Treasury and the extended corporation. Extended corporation includes accounting, business areas, accounts payable, billing & collection, Investment Advisors, and our Puerto Rico office. Extended users are reviewing for incoming transaction activity, and some originate electronic fund transfers.
This system allows for self service on payment inquires for the product areas looking to see if funds have been received from our various customers for specific products, or confirm ACH and wire transactions have been released and for wires the Federal Reserve Reference Number and date/time it was sent.
Billing & Collection, Customer Service Teams utilize GTreasury to research ACH payments both collection and disbursement. They also utilize the GTreasury for monitoring ACH Returns, and NOC's which are associated to the original transaction.
The Controller Team utilizes the system to receive BAI information for bank account reconciliation, and researching differences between the bank statement and the ledger.
We also utilize the GTreasury accounting feature to send daily accounting entries for various payment transactions originated and also transaction assignment that automatically generates accounting for automated bank sweeps and incoming debit or credit transactions automatically.
This system has allowed us to optimize our daily cash and investment levels to optimize the return on short term cash, and provide cash forecasts for the Investment Advisors tracking incoming cash from operations, principal & interest, pending trades to know the available cash for investing.
The system has also assisted in better management of the Bank Account Analysis to identify costs, and services and contract price variances. This and the ACH reversal functionality has allowed us to identify and reduce various bank service costs, saving the organization bank service charges each year.
This system also solved the issue of tracking the USA and International bank accounts, and signers, simplifying when signers change, and completion of the FBar reporting requirements, reducing the time spent on this task by over 70%.
- Customer focused on treasury services with agile system releases and training.
- User friendly system, easy to create reports, worksheets or download data.
- Responsive customer service.
- They are updating their Debt module in October, which is a good thing - listening to customer requests.
- They are expanding the short-term trading platform with ICD to fill the gap on money market transaction processing.
- The adhoc reporting can always be improved.
- Very positive ROI allowing us to take our daily cash target down to 1% of total admitted Assts. Prior to GTreasury we were running close to 20%.
- Reduced bank service cost initially by $300,000+ and annually a minimum of $50,000.
- Allowed us to maintain and streamline Treasury Staff FTE level, with the ability to train other areas for self service payment research, so the Treasury Analyst can focus on value added analysis tasks.
GTreasury came out ahead in almost all areas of the RFP. TWS providers we also looked at were PeopleSoft/Oracle Treasury, Reval, Kyriba IT2.
GTreasury cam out ahead in the following sections of the RFP for example: Bank Administration, User Set Up, Cash Position & Forecast, Funds Transfer, Debt Administration, Capital Action Tracking, Bank Fee Analysis, Accounting, Customer Service.
The areas listed above are why we chose GTreasury. We were looking for a partner that understood what we needed for our operation and willing to work with us to make it reality and we found it We also wanted a cloud solution and GTreasury provided that to us. We also needed a TWS that could process.
GTreasury Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Set your Vision for future state
Determine automated Bank Integration for BAI and payment processing
Have a current list of Banks and Accounts for Set Up
Determine how you want to Daily CashPosition
Funds Transfer
Accounting for payment transactions and money movement
Define user groups and separation of duties for controls.
Go Live supporting Treasury
BAI Account Reconciliation Feed
Expand Payment functionality
Added new product payment processing
Add Debt Module
Add ACH Functionality
Add 822 Account Analysis
Expand Reporting
Added Investment wire transfers
Add Money Market Transaction Feeds
Engage areas in the vision early so they understand future impact and can engage on the technology efficiencies coming and position changes for self service benefits.
Communicate often, insure appropriate resource alignment from other areas SME approved allocations and time they would be working on the project.
Ask why, just because have always done it that way isn't the correct answer
- Getting IT to understand Cloud Security
- Inhouse Project Manager turnover
- Resource time for project and production