MC Marcos Cavanagh
ES

Economist · Finance & Management Control

I turn scattered numbers into decisions.

Over fifteen years leading finance teams in private companies, international organizations and government. Process design, ERP rollouts and management dashboards so every team has the information it needs to exceed its goals.

  • USD 1.94B Largest annual budget managed
  • 22 Countries with standardized finance in three years
  • 3.5× Financial processing capacity in 6 months
  • 15+ Years leading finance

01 · Impact

Results you can measure

A few numbers from my career, the way I would track them on a management dashboard.

Construction certificates processed

Monthly average, USD millions · National Housing Undersecretariat (Argentina)

3.5× in 6 months with 60% of the staff and no substantial investment.

Cost reduction strategy

5-year reduction target, % · Ministry of Education (Buenos Aires Province)

Compliance monitoring at the second-largest employer in South America.

  • 24 Oracle NetSuite rollout across 24 organizations with different accounting, tax and cultural frameworks TECHO Global
  • 70,000 Homes under construction in the portfolio Housing Undersecretariat
  • −20% Logistics costs TAP CRAFT
  • +4 pp Business IRR through loan renegotiation TAP CRAFT
  • 100% Success rate in IDB and government grant reporting Consecuencia Partners - Datos con Método
  • #2 Most transparent NGO in Chile (Fundación Lealtad) TECHO Global

02 · Career

Interactive career timeline

Click a bar or a role to see the details.

Roles by period and sector

  • Private sector
  • Public sector
  • International organization
Private sector

Founding Partner

Consecuencia Partners - Datos con Método · Buenos Aires · Dec 2020 – Present

End-to-end finance management for companies and organizations: monthly closes, reporting, systems implementation, credit and investments, team training and restructuring.

  • Grant reporting to the Inter-American Development Bank and national agencies with a 100% success rate.
  • Mental-health network with 500+ practitioners: full finance reorganization, payments, cash flow and consolidation for monthly closes.
  • HR consultancy operating across Latin America: real-time profitability monitoring and multi-currency management.
  • Supplier to major retail chains: built the costing function, delivered end-to-end cost monitoring tools and trained the staff.
  • Regional NGO funded by the IDB, CAF and the Ministry of Social Development.
  • 100%grant reporting success
  • 500+practitioners at largest client

Education

  • B.A. in Economics · Universidad Católica Argentina2005 – 2009

Continuing education

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Databases · UTN2026
  • Diploma in AI for non-programmers · UTN2026
  • Full Stack Web Development · Digital House2018

03 · Cases

Dashboards & reports

Examples of the kind of tools I build. Clients are described by industry and the data is illustrative: it shows the structure and logic of each report, not real figures.

Mental health · 500+ practitioners Illustrative data

13-week cash flow forecast

Challenge
Paying hundreds of practitioners while collections from insurers arrive on unpredictable schedules.
Solution
Weekly forecast of collections and payments with a base case, a delayed-collections case and a minimum cash threshold.
Outcome
A predictable payment calendar and early warnings of liquidity stress.

Projected cash balance (millions)

Show data as table
Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9Wk 10Wk 11Wk 12Wk 13
Base case42384536403339354137444046
Delayed collections42343727292126192422272530
Minimum balance25252525252525252525252525
HR consultancy · Latin America Illustrative data

Real-time profitability by project

Challenge
Projects billed in several currencies: inflation and exchange rates hid the real margin.
Solution
A dashboard that converts revenue and cost to hard currency at each transaction date and compares it to the local-currency margin.
Outcome
Pricing and staffing decisions based on the real margin of each project.

Gross margin by project (%)

Show data as table
ProjectIn USDIn local currency
Project 134%41%
Project 228%37%
Project 322%30%
Project 418%29%
Project 512%24%
Project 69%20%
Project 74%17%
Project 8-3%11%
Textile manufacturing · retail supplier Illustrative data

Unit cost structure by item

Challenge
Prices were set without knowing the full cost of each item.
Solution
Built the costing function: breakdown by raw materials, labor, logistics and overhead, plus team training.
Outcome
End-to-end monitoring of costs and prices with a known margin per item.

Unit cost by component ($)

Show data as table
ItemRaw materialsLaborLogisticsOverheadTotal
Item A9.804.101.602.3017.80
Item B7.203.601.201.9013.90
Item C12.405.202.102.8022.50
Item D5.602.900.901.5010.90
Item E8.103.801.402.0015.30
Regional NGO · IDB and CAF funds Illustrative data

Budget execution of multilateral grants

Challenge
Reporting to several funders, each with its own format and components.
Solution
A single dashboard of execution by component against budget, with spending traceability for reporting.
Outcome
Reports approved on time and in full.

Execution by component (% of budget)

Show data as table
%
Infrastructure97%
Training91%
Equipment99%
Management & monitoring82%
Audit100%

04 · Projects

Side projects

Products I design and build independently, end to end: from the idea to the code.

Rumbo

A CRM for your job search.

In testing

Paste the LinkedIn job link, upload the CV you applied with, and Rumbo keeps everything in one place. When a company calls about a role you applied to six months ago, the details are right there.

  • AI-powered match analysis between your CV and the job posting
  • Log of every interaction with the company
  • Full application history
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • AI
  • Google & LinkedIn sign-in
Visit site rumbocrm.com.ar

Datos con Método

Argentina's macroeconomy, visualized and forecast.

In testing

A platform to visualize and forecast Argentina's main macroeconomic variables. It brings together in one place a repository of series that any analyst would spend days collecting from 33 different sources.

  • 1,857data series
  • 33sources
  • 1M+individual data points
  • Visualization of the main macroeconomic variables
  • Forecasts for key variables
  • Central repository of series scattered across many sources
  • Time series
  • Forecasting
  • Data visualization
Visit site datosconmetodo.com

05 · Skills

Toolbox

Finance & control

  • FP&A
  • Budgeting & forecasting
  • Financial reporting
  • Management control
  • Cash flow
  • Cost management
  • AP & AR
  • Monthly close
  • Credit & investments
  • Grant reporting (IDB / CAF)
  • Budget execution
  • Corporate finance
  • External audits (Big Four)

Technology & data

  • Oracle NetSuite (advanced)
  • ERP/CRM implementation
  • Excel (advanced)
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Looker
  • Management dashboards
  • Databases / MySQL
  • PHP · Laravel
  • Applied AI

Leadership

  • Team leadership
  • Training
  • Process documentation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Remote teams
  • International operations
  • Restructuring
  • Project management

Languages: Spanish (native) · English (bilingual, International Baccalaureate)

06 · Contact

Let's talk

Does your finance area need to be organized and strengthened? Do you think artificial intelligence could improve your company's processes? Do you have data that could make a difference but lack the time to analyze it?

Feel free to reach out anytime: I'd be glad to talk.