>> My name is Justin Plummer and I'm a financial analyst 2 at Kish Bank.
Working within the treasury department of a bank, the main general goal
of the department would be working with the various business lines within the bank
for really the simple objective of increasing the value of a company.
So I'd say that three major functions of the department would be financial risk management,
cash, and liquidity management and then finally your funding management.
So whenever you're looking at developing an investment strategy, the most important is
to not silo just the investment portfolio, but to understand how it relates to balance sheet,
and just managing the needs of your balance sheets through the investment portfolio.
It's just taking all of those metrics from these accounting software and doing a full analysis
of the credit, understanding the implications of the bond and the different pricing metrics
and how it's going to impact your portfolio.
I mean, there's always a project going on as far as writing analysis,
modeling, forecasting, budgeting.
You have your set monthly or quarterly or annual reporting that you have to do,
but when it comes to the funding side with investments, you have to be able
to be react again to the markets and be able to move on, that at a moment's notice.