Ignacio Bravo Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Focused on transforming the organization delivery strategy by including financial metrics into the decision process.Utilizing fiscal discipline to decrease recurring operational deficit and improve overall performance.Manages Accounting, Treasury & Investments, Grants Management, Admissions and Information Technology departments.

Reston, Virginia, Us

CFO of Apcela, a $30M global Managed Network Solutions headquartered in VA, responsible for the company’s day-to-day external and internal financial functions, including accounting, billing, collections, treasury and financial planning and analysis.- Successfully led contract and finance negotiations in the $15M range.- Operational improvement focus. Lead initiatives for improving the company's profitability and overall business processes.- Managed global finance workforce.

IT Security firm, focused on networking and cybersecurity for the Federal Government.- Market and develop business with existing and new prospective clients to increase IT and Finance revenue across multiple industries (federal government, retail, real estate, technology)- Procures and manage acquisition of government contract vehicles (GSA, Women Owned, 8(a)) to increase federal contracting opportunities.- Manages product development of cloud IaaS solution to federal government. (FEDRAMP / Openstack)- Provides Outsourced CFO services to a portfolio of about 10 clients. Provides guidance on M&A, taxes, cash flow and business strategy.- Manages client’s compliance, finance and accounting functions, including Bank relations, budgeting, A/P, A/R, accounting, taxes, payroll & HR.- Developed complex financial models to manage client cash flow and profitability.

Provide fractional CFO services to small and mid size companies in the Washington DC Area.Clients included UPS, Cartier Jewelery and several Information Technology and Real Estate companies. Lead finance function of an Art Non for Profit organization.Preparation and guidance on Taxes for Corporate and Individuals.

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Cl

- Negotiated a $100M+ Credit Agreement to finance the build out of the 3G network in Chile. - Responsible for the functions of Strategic Planning, Budget, Forecasting, Insurance, Treasury and Financial Analysis of the company.- As the Finance 3G Lead, responsible to coordinate the successful integration of the Finance processes and requirements into the back office systems of the new 3G company.

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Cl

Reporting to the Country President, managed all Financial matters for the startup operation of NII Holdings in Chile.Acted as the liason between the US corporation and the local subsidiaryManaged a budget of about $250MM/yrResponsible for setting up the finance organization in Nextel Chile, including the following tasks: - Implementation of financial processes and procedures - Recruiting and promoting employees - Responsible for Treasury, Planning, Revenue Assurance, Purchasing & Accounting

Reston, Virginia, Us

- Responsible for monthly capital call process to discuss local financing alternatives, future cash flows from each property and integration with tax department to define mechanisms for cash repatriation and subsidiary funding alternatives.- Responsible of a new initiative to pursue reductions in Working Capital among all properties. Set up teams in each market and created a recurrent review process to implement actions to improve cash utilization. Effort involves inventory management, account receivables and account payables processes.- Oversight the Cash Management procedures for each market, including the reconciliation processes, investment policies, and custody of the physical assets.- Review and audit of the subsidiaries practices with relation to collection channels with the objective of reducing collection costs and improving times of the collection cycle.

Reston, Virginia, Us

- Managed country managers group responsible for Consolidated P&L reporting.- Responsible for monthly close and year end forecast and analysis for NII executives. Created CFO’s operations update presentations for Board of Director’s meetings.- Identify US GAAP related issues during close and bring to SEC group for resolution.- Transferred legacy Excel reporting to fully automated Hyperion Reports to streamline monthly close process and increase analysis time.

Reston, Virginia, Us

- Responsible for Long Range Plans, yearly Budget and monthly forecast with relation to Capital Expenditures.- Provided Capital Expenditure analysis to COO and CTO for quarterly earnings calls and Board of Director’s meetings as well as reasonable tests for yearly Capital Expenditures guidance to Investors.- Implemented Hyperion Planning as a Budget and Forecasting tool for markets as well as for Consolidation. Developed Dashboard for executive information

Reston, Virginia, Us

Created Budgets, Forecast, Long Range Plans.Supported headquarter CFO and COO presentations.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor, Business Administration