KAMILLE VARGAS, MBA

• Oversee timely processing and addressing issues of all contract payments including professional fees, travel stipends, expense reimbursements, open access costs, and miscellaneous operating expenses.
• Ensure appropriate budget and grant and operational expense coding.
• Coordinate donor restriction releases towards programs in compliance with donor intent.
• Act as liaison between internal departments and Finance to ensure productive budget management
• Generate reports for effective interdepartmental collaboration and executive funding decisions.

Previous Positions, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

• Senior Associate Director, Business Operations
• Associate Director, Business Operations - Research Operations
• Associate Director, Business Operations - Research Cohors

• Manage and monitor the scheduling and release of over 700 committed grant payments exceeding $250M annually
• Provide financial oversight for the research business unit consisting of operational budgets, grants, contracts, donations, and gifts
• Serve as the point of contact overseeing expense budget coding and identifying needs for expense reclass
• Monitor and release restricted funding towards grants and operational expenses based on contractual obligations
• Train and work with operation leads during the reforecasting and annual planning process as well as manage the reforecast and annual planning for departments and project budgets
• Cross departmental collaboration with the goal to determine and launch new processes for work enhancement and communication improvement
• Lead the tracking and payment of non-staff travel stipends, expense reimbursements, and monetary awards
• Reconcile travel and operational expenses while monitoring the usage and authenticity of expenses
• Serve as representative of the Fox Foundation at participant events and webinars
• Participate in DEI taskforces and initiatives to assist with finding solutions for diversifying the Parkinson's Disease research landscape.

Previous Positions, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

• Associate Director, Business Operations - Research Operations
• Associate Director, Business Operations - Research Cohorts

• Monitor and allocate spending across five distinct programs and 45 to 50 grants
• Assisted with the facilitation of new grant applications, renewals, and final reporting
• Managed $2.7 million budget and track both fiscal and grant year spending

Previous Positions, Center for NYC Affairs - The New School

• Assistant Director of Operations
• Manager of Operations

• Assisted Controller in vendor database maintenance as well as processed and tracked vendor payments
• Ran manual payroll process for 80 offshore contractors and confirmed their work and overtime hours
• Served as lead recruiter for the employment needs of Joystick's six multi-national offices
• Prepared offer letters, new hire paperwork, created and maintained personnel files with applicable legal requirements
• Processed enrollments, changes, and terminations of participants in all benefit plans and programs as well as assisted employees with any benefit claim issues or concerns.

• Facilitated the transition from ADP to Paychex by training staff on new pay roll system as well as working out any issues with the QuickBooks/Paychex interface
• Completed daily bookkeeping; accounts payable, bank and credit card reconciliations using QuickBooks database
• Supported payroll functions including timesheet review, payroll processing using ADP, and tracked accrued time for PTO
• Implemented and managed Volunteer Program by establishing connections with agencies that refer volunteers to the organization, manage the workflow of volunteers, their work schedules, and stipends
• Worked directly with the hiring manager throughout the hiring process to interview, recommend and select final candidates for hire and process background checks, offer letters, and new hire documents.