Julia is Global Treasury Director at Newell Brands Inc with responsibility for liquidity and treasury operations in 46 countries. She has over 15 years’ experience in treasury operations, including cash and liquidity management, complex treasury development and restructuring driven by Tax and legal requirements, financial reporting and change management. Julia developed the Dublin Treasury operations team from start up to currently comprising 7 colleagues, as well as managing Newells’ Treasury Operations team in the US. Under Julia’s leadership, the team have successfully reconfigured the company’s banking structure, standardised processes across EMEA and migrated the Asia Pacific (APAC) treasury function from Hong Kong to Dublin. In 2024, Julia and team won the Adam Smith Best Transaction Management Solution award for her work with Newell on transforming the European banking structure and implementing a multi entity, multi-currency notional pool with our partner bank.
Prior to joining Newell, Julia was treasury team lead at Pfizer, responsible for cash and liquidity management and implementation of strategic projects. She holds a BSc Management (Finance), a Masters in Business Studies, and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).