Experience

Northwestern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Finance Lead

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Manage the Finance and Procurement Teams in Basic Science Administration. BSA is the Feinberg School of Medicine's shared service center responsible for covering the administrative needs of FSM’s basic science departments and centers: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Cell & Developmental Biology, Microbiology-Immunology, Pharmacology, Physiology, SQ Institute for Epigenetics, and the Center for Genetic Medicine. Annual expenditures ~$116 million.

• Senior Financial Analyst

  • Oct 2012 - Jul 2020

  Manage the budget supporting core facilities across disciplines and schools throughout Northwestern University, providing equipment grants, operating support, and IT infrastructure. Develop financial forecasts based on anticipated activities within core facilities. Oversee the finances and consult on the operational practices of core facilities reporting directly to the Office for Research.Advise core facilities throughout Northwestern on matters ranging from financial sustainability, federal accounting standards, tax issues, compliance, subsidy allocation, and cost studies. Develop and lead workshops and courses to this end, including teaching the Value Pricing module for the Kellogg School of Management "Leadership and Management in Core Facilities" annual Certificate Course (since 2016).Evanston lead on the team responsible for developing and supporting the University's primary core facility workflow management software, NUcore. Responsible for leading the development of a credit card payment integration, a secure door controller and accompanying payment method selection interface, an integration with the Research Safety Certificate system, and a method for compliantly splitting charges across multiple federal grants. Show less

• Business Coordinator

  • Aug 2009 - Oct 2012

  Manage infrastructure projects for the Office for Research including: information technology user requests (campus network and phones), physical infrastructure (office moves, furniture purchases, capital leases, ergonomic assessments), and related financial management tasks (annual telephony and network access charge calculation and reconciliation).Manage the recruiting process for Office for Research units including: posting positions, candidate screening, I-9 processing, and intake interviews using Northwestern HR systems. Show less

• Financial Assistant

  • Mar 2008 - Aug 2009

  Track financial commitments to University Research Centers and reconcile transactions. Review and approve payments to vendors and employee reimbursements for Office for Research units. Maintain financial position records for the University Research Center portfolio.