Making your Own Treasury Career with Todd Yoder

We’ve reached back into our archives to bring you another brilliant episode from January 2020. This time around we’re looking back at our conversation with Todd Yoder, Senior Managing Director of Global Treasury, Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR). We had a fantastic conversation with him about his work ethic, how he got started in treasury and the principles he’s used to forge his own treasury career. It’s safe to say that he’s learned some valuable lessons that still translate in today’s treasury landscape, and he shares a few key ones in this episode. Todd Yoder joined Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) in 2011 and serves on finance and hedging committees for Fluor mega-projects and subsidiaries located in Mexico, Canada, and China. Todd serves as Innovation Catalyst for Fluor’s world headquarters, is an alum of Fluor’s Innovation Unwrapped program and has led numerous treasury and finance-related technology projects. Todd began his career in corporate accounting and treasury followed by progressive roles in banking commercial credit, financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and more than 15 years in multi-national corporate treasury. Fluor Corporation is an American multinational engineering and construction firm headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a holding company that provides services through its subsidiaries in the following areas: oil and gas, industrial and infrastructure, government and power.

On the podcast Todd Yoder and I discussed…

• How Todd discovered the world of treasury
• How his first job gave him a crash course in management
• The moment he fell in love with treasury
• The sink or swim culture at Zimmer
• What a recruiter said that convinced him to make the move to Fluor
• Todd’s advice to other treasury professionals
• The recipe for success in any treasury role
• Working on mega projects in excess of $15+ billion at Fluor
• Todd’s insights into how technology is shaping treasury and some invaluable career tips

You can connect with Todd on LinkedIn.

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