Noel Carranza Rodríguez

Manage the real estate projects, institutional acquisitions, and administrative services provided both at headquarters and country representative offices, ensuring strict compliance with internal policies, and ensuring the bank’s best interests.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Manage the processes of acquisition and contracting of goods, services, and consultancies, ensuring the correct application of internal policies and the efficient use of available resources. These procurements also include consultancies relating to technical cooperations given for the bank to its ‘member countries.
• Design and execute preventive and corrective maintenance programs for the bank´s facilities: electrical energy, drinking water, air conditioning, communications, cleaning, gardening, among others.
• Lead the actions and programs aimed at reducing the impact of the facilities’ operation on the environment, through the management and monitoring of operating expenses and the environmental plans.
• Design security and protection programs, aimed at promptly detecting threats and preventing damage to people’s integrity, or damage or loss to the facilities, assets, or institutional information.
• Manage the administrative services, among them: Travel agency, events and protocol, logistic, transportation, immigration paperwork for the international bank´s employees, and courier support services (correspondence, inactive files, telephony, reception, among others)
• Manage the real estate acquisitions for the establishment of the bank´s new representative offices, including construction of new buildings, remodeling of facilities, and operation.
• CABEI´s social club management.
• Manage the bank´s extraordinary assets obtained as a result of non-payment of borrowers.

• Manage staff in charge of corporate procurement, contract management, administrative payments, helpdesk, fixed assets administration, travel agency, correspondence, compliance for the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing, among other services provided by the Administrative Services and Corporate Procurement Department.

• Carry out tender processes for the acquisition of goods and services
• Analysis of proposals presented by suppliers
• Assisting and monitoring suppliers interested in taking part in the tender process
• Ensure compliance for the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing
• Administrate the Bank's Supplier Portal
• Follow-up to ensure that contracts comply with the negotiation terms
• Manage the Bank's administrative contracts
• Keep the supplier evaluations carried out by the Bank's units updated.

• Prepare the Bank's annual operating and investment budget
• Provide support to all end-users of the bank in the execution of the budget assigned
• Monitor the execution and perform of the Bank´s budget to ensure accuracy and quality control
• Control of budget transfers between accounting accounts, and transfers between units
• Analyze and approve travel expenses and liquidations after trips have been concluded, according to the regulations established for such aim
• Review, analyze, and approve the administrative expenses requested by the Bank´s Units verifying their correct codification in accordance with the different institutional norms, regulations, and procedures
• Member of the Procurement Committee, which meets to oversee all major purchases
• Prepare quarterly budget analyses for the Superior Administration, and Board of Directors
• Assist the Head of the Budget Department with other tasks.

• Analysis of proposals for the acquisition of goods and services for the Bank
• Prepare and review that purchases requisitions for goods and services are in accordance with the Bank´s policies
• Revise and authorize payments for administrative expenses generated by the refundable funds
• Management of the Bank's fixed assets
• Coordinate and supervise fixed assets tender processes
• Audits of employees in charge of refundable funds and fixed assets in headquarters and representatives' offices.

• Reconciliation of accounting accounts (advanced payments, accounts receivable)
• Keep updated inventories
• Keep daily banking balances updated
• Validate supporting payment documents
• Issuance of payments
• Management of acquired merchandise
• Coordinate deliveries.

• Registration and control of wholesale and retail sales
• Update warehouse and store inventories
• Audits to the different warehouses and stores
• Income Control Report
• Update operations such as: inventories, consignments, purchases, merchandise sent to customers.