Steffan Leininger, CTP

Experience

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  Everwise Credit Union

  May 2009 - Nov 2016

  EFT Specialist

  Sole responsibilities include leading, coordinating and training all new and existing EFT Clerks and Specialists. ACH duties include balancing the daily files to the Fed settlement report using Fedline Advantage, process the ACH exception items and create the return report. Four times a day process incoming and outgoing wires. Twice a day, collect, receive, and process incoming and outgoing ACH payments/originator files, such as Payroll, HSA Deposits, Vendor Payments, and Payroll Reversals. Provide support to Accounting for ACH, ATM and Co-Op Shared Service Center GL reconciliation. Provide support to ACH originators and cash management clients. Creation of ACH monthly billing sheets for originators and cash management clients. Find ways to streamline processes while maintaining TCU policies and board approved procedures. Other positions held at Everwise (formerly Teachers Credit Union) include: Member Service Representative and Teller Professional Show less

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  TRUPAY

  Nov 2016 - Mar 2021

  Daily balancing and reconciliation of prior business day activity for five bank accounts across four system platforms. Daily monitoring of bank account balances. Monthly general ledger account reconciliations, including but not limited to Receivables, Payables, and Payroll, TLM, and HR revenues and expenses. Monthly review of financial statement balance sheet and income statement to calculate margins and COGS across all major service categories while ensuring proper entry codification and noting any anomalies for presentation to company CFO and ownership group. Monthly processing of referral partner commission and bonus payments. Monthly processing of sales and benefit team commissions.Leader of the Finance team which includes a Finance Assistant and the Treasury Manager. Provides bi-weekly one-on-one meetings with the Finance Assistant to discuss issues, findings, personal and professional growth, and any necessary top-down communications. Reviews the work and progress of the Finance Assistant to ensure proper procedures are being utilized to identify weak points in either the process, for review, or the person, for coaching. Facilitates and conducts monthly collaborative meetings with multiple departments to mitigate inefficient or ineffective processes and ensure the teams are working in a unified way for future company success. Supervise, lead, and train and new Finance team members. Backup to all Finance Assistant and Treasury related tasks and duties. Show less Balance and process multiple banking files daily for clients utilizing Millennium and Inspire platforms. Once daily file creation within Millennium and Master Tax for all tax payments and cash collection items due. Assist clients via telephone and email with banking and ACH related inquiries. Completion of check stop payment and void requests, as well as completion of ACH reversal requests. Transactional processing of ACH returns, ACH reversals, tax adjustments, and other manual banking transactions while creating associated General Ledger entries within Microsoft Excel. Finalize draw-down/reverse wires for clients and post incoming wire transfers. Weekly processing of stale dated/escheated checks. Show less

  • Staff Accountant

    Sept 2018 - Mar 2021

  • Treasury Specialist

    Nov 2016 - Sept 2018
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  Patrick Industries, Inc.

  Mar 2021 - now

  Lead Treasury team consisting of Cash Management and Expense TeamsMonitoring the KPI’s of the Treasury Team providing appropriate training and resourcesConstant review for gained efficiencies and improvements for both Corporate and Business Unit managed processesReviewing the cash forecast with the Cash Management team to ensure the forecasting of cash and debt is consistent with gathered intelligenceManaging the online banking portals per the authorization matrixMeet with banking partners and service providers on a regular basis to review services and pricing, to enhance the profitability and financial practices of Patrick Supporting Cash Management in the administration of the bank websites, implementing account changes, being diligent to review procedures and guard against fraud Ensuring timely and successful integration of acquisitions into the Patrick banking structureProviding treasury guidance as requested from leadership or business units Monitoring and adhering to the various debt facilities and instruments compliance requirements Approving the debt, interest expense, and interest accrual reconciliationsAuthorizing the daily borrowing and/or investment activity while ensuring swap and debt requirements are met and the Company is receiving the greatest benefitFinal treasury review and approval of the quarterly debt covenant model Timely submission of required items per the terms of the executed agreements including but not limited to the annual budget, quarterly debt compliance calculations, mergers and acquisitions, and declared dividendsMonitoring and timely submission of the assigned treasury SOX control requirementsLeading the annual FBAR reporting and LEI derivatives renewalBack-up the key Treasury responsibilities and maintain a general knowledge of all treasury functions ensuring SOPs and training documentation is maintained and appropriately updated for all key Treasury functionsLead and support special treasury projects as needed Show less Supervising and developing the Cash Management Analyst whose role is to perform the key tasks of the cash management functionFunctioning as the primary back-up for the Cash Management AnalystReviewing the forecast of cash and debt on a daily basis with the intent of being more than 85% accurate on receipt and disbursement projectionsManaging the process for precise and timely set-up of EFT vendors in the Wells Fargo online banking portal ensuring independent, verbal confirmation of banking information to protect the Company against fraudSupporting the day-to-day management of financial relationships with multiple banks by tracking and monitoring services and meeting with the banks to enhance the overall cash management of Patrick IndustriesAdministering the bank websites, implementing account changes, being diligent to review procedures and guard against fraudLeading and/or supporting the integration of acquisitions into the Patrick banking structureLeading the overall reconciliation efforts and month-end closing cash management processes while being responsible for SOX complianceReviewing the reporting of the daily balances of the various debt facilities, instruments and investmentsReviewing the reconciling of the interest, debt and invested cash and related accruals on a monthly basisReviewing and approving the daily borrowing and/or investment activity as proposed by the Cash Management AnalystReviewing the quarterly debt covenant model, ensuring it is appropriately updated by the Cash Management Analyst on a monthly basis while providing analysis of the expected outcome based on projected scenarios and reconciling the model to the monthly and quarterly financialsBack-up and cross train for all other routine and key Treasury functions as appropriate Deliver the request for issuing and amending the Standby Letters of Credit and tracking the related fees and documentationMentoring other Treasury team membersLead special Treasury projects as needed Show less

  • Treasury Manager

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Cash Manager

    Mar 2021 - Feb 2022