Attention All Credit Unions!
We have created a program to help you get the most out of your social media presence! We are here to help your reach you full potential and find your target audience!
Who we are
Advisory and Consultations to credit unions
Leading Experts in Regulatory Compliance
Need assistance with a project in your credit union and don't know whom you can trust?
Advisory Services and Consultation
Mainsail Trim provides advisory and consultation services to credit unions. There are more and more regulatory compliance and internal audits that need to be done both annually and biannually. Failure to comply is not an option for you. However not only does it take a lot of time to make sure your organization keeps up to date with the ever-changing compliance landscape, it also takes time to ensure that you do everything correctly in order to comply. As your Credit Union grows, the number of regulatory issues also become more complex.
Ongoing Risk Assessments
We work with management and officials to develop internal controls, and independently assess your operation’s risks according to your complexity and areas of operation, providing real world recommendations for process improvements.
Regulatory Compliance Reviews
Examiners expect a regular review, usually by an independent source of your compliance with a variety of regulations. Your size and complexity govern the frequency of these reviews.
Emergency / Temporary Management Assistance
Should you have a sudden loss of a key manager, we can help cover the absence by recommending skilled (often recently retired) management, until you can reasonably fill the position.
Review Any Change of Management
There are frequently bits of knowledge or relationships that are left missed when someone in managment leaves, and relationships with vendors that may be unaware of the change. We examine frequent areas including key controls, that need to be addressed with a key management change.
Budget Preparation
Sometimes a new operation or change in systems creates difficulties in developing a budget that is realistic. We have in the past worked with management teams to forecast a realistic budget moving forward, including modeling and forecasting for new operations.
Annual Planning/Training
Staff and officials need realistic planning and training in a variety of compliance areas, as well as financial competency. Frequently, new management and officials are left to fend for themselves, which your examiners and auditors find unacceptable.
Our Team
Helping you navigate faster.
From a viable budget, and review of controls after a change in management conversions to a new data processing system or control objectives.
We currently work with 50 credit unions ranging from $15 million to over $1 billion in assets.
Norm Cecil
A seasoned Credit Union internal auditor/executive, Norm Cecil has been involved in training, management, and consulting within the financial services industry since 1974. He has been involved in the credit union industry since 1985.
His career activities have allowed him to become involved with examiners, officials, and management in more than one hundred credit unions, assisting them with change, often when they were in chaotic circumstances. He is a widely known and highly regarded professional in the credit union industry. And in his spare time, he loves to sail.
Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis is a familiar face in the credit union industry. He has served Credit Unions in California and Arizona as a Risk Manager for CUNA Mutual for 22 years. He joined Mainsail Trim in 2013.
His extensive knowledge in analyzing the causes of problems, perceiving how to mitigate risks, then teaching best practices, serves our clients well.
Charith Hettiarachchi
Charith has worked in the banking/credit union industry for the past 7 years. He spent 3 years working both BSA and fraud prevention in addition to audits. He has earned his BSACS Certification (Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Specialist) as well as his CUCE (Credit Union Compliance Expert). He graduated from UC Davis after double majoring in International Relations and History.
Beatrice Lim
Beatrice has many years of experience working as a personal assistant and office administrator. She now works as an administrative support for Mainsail Trim, taking care of things behind the scenes.
Oscar Covarrubias
Oscar Covarrubias has more than 15 years of experience in Internal Audit. He spent the past 6 years as an Internal Auditor in an 800-million-dollar credit union. Prior to joining the credit union world, he worked as a Senior Internal Auditor in the education industry. Oscar has extensive knowledge in regulatory compliance, BSA and Consumer Lending compliance. Oscar has also worked very closely with NCUA Examiners during CU exams.
Oscar joined Mainsail Trim in 2023.
Ariella Davis
Ariella is Mainsail Trim's Digital Marketing Director.
She is developing a Social Media Education Program focusing on how to utilize social media to grow your business. Anything from setting up an account on each platform to content creation to posting schedules to keeping up with trends, we have it all!
She currently is the Digital Marketing Director for Injury Institute as well as the Director of Digital Marketing and Sales for MD Marketing Inc.
She works freelance as a Digital Marketing Coordinator for several local real estate agents. She has worked with Nonprofits throughout the DMV area (East Coast).
Get in touch
Main Office
San Diego, CA
Email Address
info@mainsailtrim.com
Phone Number
310-367-1170
