Mauro Cabrera - Mpa Email & Phone Number

Remote

Greater New York City Area

• Design and implement policies and procedures related to restricted funding management towards assuring awards compliance.• Review and update sub-grant agreements and contract templates including budget formats (internal and/or donors’ versions).• Manage the sub-granting processes in coordination with program team including: performing due diligence on potential sub-grantees, preparing and negotiating subaward agreements, monitoring sub-grantees performance for compliance, and close out processes.• Develop and lead trainings focused on restricted projects management, financial leadership, and financial sustainability for the regional office staff, member associations (MAs) and collaborative partners teams.• Work closely with MAs and collaborative partners’ multidisciplinary teams to ensure proper dissemination of lessons learned and best practices specifically in the areas of grants management, financial management, and financial leadership.• Work closely with MAs’ Executive Directors and Board of Directors to strengthen their financial leadership and administrative oversight abilities aimed to promote institutional sustainability.• Monitor MAs financial performance by closely assessing audited financial statements and quarterly financial reports.• Provide Technical Assistance to MAs’ staff on financial guidelines, financial analysis and reporting, funding sources’ rules and regulations and budget development.• Responsible for supervising, mentoring and coaching the MA Finance Officer.

Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for ensuring that IPPF/WHR Regional Office and its thirty-five Latin-American and Caribbean MAs and other collaborative partners meet the financial accountability requirements of donors and other funding sources.• Supported the Resource Mobilization department with proposals, donors’ relations, and reporting• Worked with finance staff to ensure accuracy of grant financial reports including review and submission of donor financial reports and invoices.• Visited MAs offices to support financial management of grant-funded projects, conduct periodic compliance review of grant-funded projects, and carry out financial management overview analyses in coordination with MA staff.• Worked as part of a team of experts to implement and monitor the accreditation process for MAs to ensure they are better prepared to improve their performance and public confidence at the national level, and to find new ways to facilitate opportunities for learning and sharing within the Federation.• Provided support to IPPF/WHR Regional Office on monitoring strategic plan implementation - costing analysis of expected results.• Developed and implement tools aimed to improve the budgeting process and cost recovery for new projects.• Provided support to the Regional Office’s finance team during restricted projects audit process.• Assured that regional core grant management process is fully performed on a yearly basis. • Responsible for supervising MA Financial Analyst.

New York, Usa

• • Responsible for financial management of restricted projects at the Regional Office ($9M)• Analyzed MAs annual budgets and half-year-reports; review sources of local and external income, IPPFWHR income, and overall allocation across MAs.• Responsible for financial management of Central Office (London) grant ($7M). Preparing grant remittances, ensuring MAs’ appropriate requirements for fund disbursement are met, and reconciling exchange rate gain/loss on a yearly basis.• Served as a liaison between Central Office (London) and Regional Office (New York) with issues related to MAs’ finance.• Analyzed MAs budgets to ensure presentation of balanced budget and to determine solutions to avoid deficits or large surplus.• Developed, monitored and controlled Regional Office’s Programs staff allocation.• Provided to MAs grant confirmations and cash remittances reports.• Responded to MAs’ external auditors’ queries regarding transactions between the MA and IPPFWHR.

New York, Usa

• Responsible for developing and managing financial tracking, resource flows, reporting andcompliance for a specified portfolio of federal and non-federal grants/awards ($15 million) in support of ACF-USA international programs.• Provide technical, financial, administrative, and human resources management support to the program department and the assigned field offices (Kenya, Southern Sudan, Uganda).• Review and reconcile financial data and reports from field offices; assure compliance with funding agency regulations in a timely manner; prepare and/or oversee preparation of required reports and close-outs to ACF-USA and donor agencies (USAID, ECHO, UN, CIDA, CIIA, and privates foundations) based on field expenditures and allowable indirect cost rates.• Train overseas financial administrators (12 members) in internal processes and procedures, donors’ regulations, compliance, and software operability.• Assist program departments in generating grant proposals by providing financial data as needed and make recommendations regarding budgeting to assure that reasonable provision is included for management, financial management, capacity building and audit.• Track and monitor submitted proposals and assist with preparation of requested attachments (i.e., certifications, bio-data employee information, audited financial statements, A-133 reports, etc.) to donor agency during final grant negotiation stage prior to award.• Support the field offices for developing and implementing the staff regulation and policies in compliance with the local labor and donors' regulations; follow up with the field administrator all human resources related issues.

Hempstead, New York

• Responsible for managing monthly financial transactions, processed and prepared financial statements, including Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Profit and Loss, Bank Reconciliations, and Sub-Ledger Accounts Detail.• Responsible for integral management of treasury related transactions and for all financial operations (collect, deposit, reconcile and report on monetary operations).• Prepared payroll for personnel; served as liaison between the corporation and (outsourced) payroll department and data processing center.• Accountable for responding to external financial and operational regulators, such as New York Banking Department Auditors and Maryland Banking Department Auditors.

Santa Cruz - Bolivia

• Conducted business processes reengineering (BPR) for the entire financial institution; performed project evaluation, estimation and feasibility studies for overall reengineering process (Oracle platform).• Restructured the following modules: personal and commercial loans, legal assistance, Certificate of Deposits, non-current assets, and inventories.• Trained all bank’s employees in the use of new technological tools and processes (national training); prepared overall logistics for training requirements.

Santa Cruz - Bolivia

• Responsible for planning, programming, and controlling production of a large textile company; ensured full capacity production (2000 units on a daily basis).• Provided supervision and direction to over 50 staff members in the Operations Department; including staff training, productivity supervision, and quality control.• Coordinated work flow within the operations unit, including distributing work, providing technical assistance, answering questions, and resolving problems.

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Specialization In Nonprofit Administration

Associate Degree In Business Management, Major: Accounting

Relevant Coursework: Accounting and Operations

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Professor Assistant: Operation Research I and IIRelevant Coursework: Analysis of Processes and Procedures.