Financial Analysis and Follow-up Office

Presentation

The Financial Analysis and Follow-up Office is responsible of the economic planning and rendition, and financial information management, which it reports directly to the General Rector.

It analyzes the processed information to ensure the quality, opportunity and homogeneity of the applied criteria as well as the coherence, methodology and consistency of the Institutional financial information that generate the different parts of the corresponding SIIUAM’s financial resources Subsystem.

It permanently advises budget management, operations, economic and financial results to the central administration. It compiles data from different information sources to make executive reports that suit different types of users by analyzing information coherence.

The Financial Analysis and Follow-up Office’s tasks, functions and responsibilities directly support the General Rectorate’s everyday duties in a constantly changing work environment and managerial, budgetary and financial aspects to timely respond to the specific needs that the University’s own growth requires. This contributes an accurate information analysis from the information it obtains from different university instances, which favors and adequate evaluation and decision making.

Gustavo Posadas Hernández, MA

Head of Office

Telephone: 5554834000 ext. 1873
Email: gposadas@correo.uam.mx

Biographical Note

Mr. Posadas Hernández holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration which he studied at Mexico’s Spanish College. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Information Management Applied to the Analysis and Improvement of Higher Education Institutions’ Financial Information Management, which he studied at Havana’s University in Cuba and the Metropolitan Autonomous University, which has been awarded UNESCO’s professorship on Organizations’ Information Management.

He started working at UAM in 1991 as an internal auditor at the Comptroller where he carried out administrative and financial audits. In 1997, he was appointed as Financial Resources and Budget Control Chief at UAM Xochimilco. In 2004, he returned to the Comptroller as Head of the Accounting Supervision Department. Since 2015, he has been taking part in tasks related to the financial supervision, analysis and follow-up in direct support of the General Rectorate. Starting 2022, he was appointed as Head of The Financial Analysis and Follow-up Office.

Purpose

Analyzing, integrating and presenting institutional financial, accounting, and budgetary information that make up budgetary operative proposals and specific specialized studies to have all the necessary and sufficient elements to take timely decision by the General Rector.

Assignment

Supervising financial, accounting, and budgetary information integration as well as expenses by the General Rectorate, including the budget for Research Programs.

Representing the General Rector in administrative meetings and committees

Collaborating in the elaboration and updating of specific organizational manuals from the instances that integration the General Rectorate.

Perspective

Based on a set of techniques and the use of financial indicators, it makes periodic diagnostics of the university’s situation and perspective.

Using a quality analysis, it selects different action possibilities adequate to the detected needs and set objectives by the General Rector

It makes future projections by using the current data analysis to avoid future possible scenarios about relevant aspects for the institution.