Lessons From Building an In-House Bank and Winning an Adam Smith Award

In this episode, discover how Peter Schadelbauer built a centralized treasury from the ground up within a rapidly expanding global company - and how that vision led to winning an Adam Smith Award for Best Process Re-engineering Solution.

Peter Schadelbauer is the Senior VP & Treasurer at NielsenIQ, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company. With a background in both banking and corporate treasury, Peter has led transformation initiatives in companies of all sizes - from family-run firms to multinational organizations - bringing modern systems, centralization, and strategy to the treasury function.

Whether you're building treasury operations from the ground up, leading digital transformation, or managing change in a traditional corporate culture, this episode is packed with insights. Peter’s story proves that with vision, collaboration, and persistence, even smaller organizations can achieve world-class treasury excellence.

What We Cover in This Episode:

• Peter’s career journey from banking apprentice to global treasurer
• Why he left banking to pursue a more strategic role in industry
• The reality check of moving from theory in banking to hands-on treasury in production companies
• Transitioning into treasury at Lindner Group and the evolution of a "banking department" into a full-fledged treasury function
• Step-by-step creation of an in-house bank to support global operations
• Winning the Adam Smith Award for Best Process Re-engineering Solution
• How to lead change and build buy-in within long-established company cultures
• Lessons from integrating treasury systems during major corporate mergers
• The role of technology in treasury - when to innovate and when to simplify
• Peter’s insights on artificial intelligence in treasury and why he’s cautious but optimistic

You can connect with Peter Schädelbauer on LinkedIn.

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