Andrea Mills
MBA, CPA, CCSA®, CGMA
Principal, FMA
Andrea is the Principal for Outsourcing at Fiscal Management Associates and has extensive experience helping nonprofits, individuals, and foundations make important fiscal decisions. With her support, organizations strengthen the effectiveness of their giving and receiving of contributions, implement powerful fiscal management tools, establish appropriate fiscal policies and procedures, and successfully assess strategic decisions.
Andrea works with a diverse group of clients across the United States and internationally, including a noteworthy engagement in Haiti in which she helped set-up the proper accounting infrastructure and controls for three large international foundations. She regularly works with Community Foundations to train their Program Directors in understanding how to read their grantees’ financial statements as well as strengthening the foundations’ own internal infrastructures.
A sought-after trainer and speaker, Andrea instructs a wide range of professionals nationwide on a variety of nonprofit financial management topics.
She has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education, where she trained Development Directors on nonprofit accounting issues, and has presented with AICPA at the Annual Nonprofit Forum in San Francisco and the Annual Nonprofit Conference in DC.
She has been a featured presenter for the JCCs of North of America Professional Conference as well as The Jewish Federation’s FTPI (Finance Technology People Innovation) Conference and was invited by Foundation Source to present to high-net-worth family foundations on Understanding Their Grantees’ Financial Statements.
Andrea is a member of both the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). She holds the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) awarded by the AICPA, which demonstrates management accounting expertise, determination and commitment to achieving sustainable business success. She also holds the Certification in Control Self-Assessment (CCSA®) awarded by The IIA to practitioners who have proven their knowledge and are able to provide guidance on risk, controls, and business objectives.
She serves on the Boards of the Ireland US Council, PhilanthropyMiami, and the Investment Committee of Social Venture Partners Miami.
Andrea holds an MBA degree from Drexel University and graduated magna cum laude with a BBA from Temple University.
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