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Advisory practice · svc-treasury

Treasury Advisory

Liquidity, FX and bank-relationship control for Nigerian operating environments.

Outliers Treasury Advisory rebuilds the treasury function around the Outliers Treasury Excellence Framework™ — combining 13-week cash visibility, FX exposure management, hedging policy and banking architecture into a single board-ready operating model.

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Duration
10–16 weeks
Access tier
enterprise
Pricing
Custom · Project or retainer · Briefing on request

Business problem

Cash is opaque beyond two weeks, FX exposure is unhedged or over-hedged, and banking relationships are transactional instead of strategic.

Ideal client profile

  • Importers and exporters with material FX exposure
  • Group treasurers managing multi-entity, multi-bank structures
  • Companies under covenant pressure or facility renewal
  • Subsidiaries of multinationals upgrading treasury policy

Symptoms / trigger events

  • 13-week cash forecast is missing, late or unreliable
  • FX losses are surprising the board
  • Bank relationships are reactive — no scorecard, no pricing benchmark
  • Hedge accounting is not documented to IFRS 9 standards

Outcomes

  • Reliable 13-week direct cash forecast
  • Board-approved FX exposure and hedging policy
  • Bank counterparty scorecard with renegotiated pricing
  • Treasury Excellence Framework™ embedded across the group

Scope of work

  • Treasury maturity diagnostic against the Outliers Treasury Maturity Model™
  • 13-week cashflow design and rollout
  • FX exposure mapping and hedge policy refresh
  • Bank scorecard and facility renegotiation support

Delivery phases

  1. Phase 1 · DiagnoseWeeks 1–2

    Baseline cash visibility, FX exposure register, banking architecture.

  2. Phase 2 · DesignWeeks 3–5

    Author treasury policy, 13-week model, hedging framework, bank scorecard.

  3. Phase 3 · ImplementWeeks 6–10

    Deploy Treasury & Liquidity Dashboard, retrain team, renegotiate facilities.

  4. Phase 4 · EmbedWeeks 11–16

    Run weekly treasury committee for two cycles; hand over to in-house treasurer.

Deliverables

  • Treasury maturity diagnostic
  • 13-week cashflow model
  • Board-approved FX policy
  • Bank counterparty scorecard
  • Treasury operating manual

Symptoms this practice addresses

  • Treasury & LiquidityCash pressure / liquidity stress — runway < 3 months or facility headroom < 10%
  • Treasury & LiquidityTreasury control gaps — FX exposure, hedging or bank relationships unmanaged
  • Investor & Lender ReadinessInvestor / lender readiness gaps — diligence pack and covenants weak