Profile & Experience

Humanitarian Finance & Operations Manager

Humanitarian finance and operations professional with 15+ years of experience across conflict, emergency and recovery contexts including Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Colombia, Ethiopia, Palestine and Poland.

Strong Red Cross Movement and INGO background combining multi-million-euro budget exposure, donor compliance, CVA operations, field coordination, partner support, ERP literacy, financial reporting and programme delivery.

Positioned for senior roles bridging humanitarian finance, operational management, donor accountability, programme support and data-driven decision-making.

Humanitarian Finance Operations Donor Compliance CVA Ukraine Response Red Cross Movement
Experience Summary Skills & Languages Education

Core Positioning

  • Finance: budgeting, BFU, forecasting, reporting, audit readiness.
  • Operations: field coordination, branch support, HR/admin, procurement.
  • Programmes: CVA, food security, livelihoods, WASH, recovery.
  • Systems: Dynamics 365, Agresso, Odoo, FundsPro, RedRose, Power BI trajectory.

Experience Summary

A recruiter-friendly snapshot of the international field trajectory. The detailed interactive timeline remains available from the legacy experience link.

2023-2025

Ukraine Response

Multi-donor response support, branch coordination, €11M master budget exposure and donor reporting inputs.

2022-2023

Poland CVA

€1.6M Cash & Voucher Assistance operation for vulnerable Ukrainian refugee families, RedRose setup and volunteer training.

2016-2021

Finance & Programme Leadership

Finance coordination in Venezuela/Colombia, country administration in Syria and food security/WASH programme delivery in Sudan.

2007-2015

Development & Institutional Work

Food security in Ethiopia, EU-funded innovation work in Peru and institutional economic analysis in Ukraine.

Open Detailed Timeline

Portfolio Scale & Operational Impact

A quantified view of senior humanitarian finance, operations and programme exposure across Red Cross Movement and INGO assignments.

€25M+

Portfolio exposure

Multi-donor humanitarian and development budgets across career assignments.

15+

Years

Field, finance, programme and operations experience.

8

Countries

Ukraine, Poland, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Ethiopia, Venezuela/Colombia and Peru.

10+

Donor frameworks

ECHO, EU, GFFO, BMZ, USAID, UNICEF, AECID and others.

Donor & Institutional Exposure

ECHOEuropean UnionGFFOBMZUSAIDUNICEFAECIDADANeighbour in NeedEU Trust FundsStichting Vluchteling

Humanitarian Management Themes

• Budget monitoring & forecasting

• Donor compliance

• Financial reporting

• Audit preparedness

• CVA operations

• Partner capacity strengthening

• Field coordination

• Procurement & logistics follow-up

• HR/admin oversight

• Programme indicator monitoring

Skills & Competencies

Language Proficiency

Finance, Compliance & Operations

  • Humanitarian finance: budget monitoring, forecasting, BFU, treasury, cost allocation, liquidity planning, financial reporting and audit readiness.
  • Donor compliance: ECHO/EU procedures, institutional donor documentation, supporting evidence, expenditure verification and closure.
  • Operations: HR/admin oversight, procurement follow-up, partner finance support, branch coordination and implementation support.
  • CVA: RedRose deployment, volunteer training, distribution support and vulnerability-based targeting.

Digital & Analytical Skills

  • • Power BI — PL-300 in progress
  • • Advanced Excel — MOS-211 in progress
  • • Dynamics 365 exposure
  • • Agresso / Odoo / FundsPro
  • • RedRose CVA platform
  • • Reporting automation mindset
  • • Data visualization
  • • Office 365

Education & Key Training

Formal Education

  • MA Innovation and Knowledge Management

    Complutense University of Madrid

  • MA International Business Administration

    Economic & Commercial Center (CECO)

  • Postgraduate in Food Security Programme Management

    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - UN Food and Agriculture Organization

  • Bachelor of Economics

    Complutense University of Madrid — International Economics & Development

Specialized Training

  • HEAT Security Training

    Norwegian Refugee Council, Oslo — August 2022

  • Practical Emergency Cash Transfer (PECT)

    IFRC — Summer 2023

  • Cash-Based Interventions Course

    NOHA & Action Against Hunger — 2017

  • IFRC Livelihoods Centre Trainings

    Livelihood programming, CVA, emergency/recovery livelihoods assessment, market network evaluation.