Hilton Worldwide, United States of America
Summer Associate, Treasury
• Supported director of treasury in achieving strategic initiatives out of corporate headquarters
• Advised on interest rate risk management strategy for $16 billion outstanding debt with cost-effective recommendations for both the short and long term
• Mapped global FX risk for 2011 and recommended hedging solutions for 18 out of 64 currency exposures, pending implementation, as part of the centralization process of foreign exchange risk management
• Short-listed European commercial paper issuers with excessive exposure to troubled European sovereign debt, to be avoided, resulting in an improved liquidity management strategy
• Developed updateable bank scorecard, enabling senior management to assess value-added business of all major corporate banking relationships, to be used across the treasury department immediately