Academic Financial Support Services

The Academic Support Services team provides customer service support to seven academic areas, the Office of the Provost, and Moody Graduate School for their finance and budget needs.

Overarching goals for the Academic Financial Support Services team are:

  • Assist academic areas with projecting enrollment and analyzing impact to budget
  • Establish method to ensure effective and accurate endowment utilization
  • Improve consistency for budgeting salary and benefits across all academic areas
  • Serve as a resource to provide program cost analysis
  • Evaluate processes to reduce transactional burden on faculty/staff in academic areas
  • Assist with process questions

 

Financial Business Managers

   
School/Areas Contact Phone
Cox School of Business Mary Tays 8-4846
Dedman College  Charlene Pinkerton 8-2296
Dedman School of Law Melissa Lara 8-2202
Lyle School of Engineering Joshua Kuker 8-6745
Meadows School of the Arts Cynthia Watson 8-3455
Moody Graduate School Beena Varnan 8-6868
Office of the Provost Tiffany Khim 8-3855
Perkins School of Theology Brice Priestley 8-4484
Simmons School of Education Vali Dicus 8-2717

Accounting Liaisons

   
School/Area Contact Phone
Cox School of Business Becky Ortiz 8-3839
Dedman College Becky Ortiz 8-3839
Dedman School of Law Cherie Thomas 8-6037
Lyle School of Engineering  ChiChi Oguerri 8-6263
Meadows School of the Arts  Cherie Thomas 8-6037
Moody Graduate School ChiChi Oguerri 8-6263
Office of the Provost  Javier Perez
8-3020
Perkins School of Theology  Cherie Thomas 8-6037
Simmons School of Education ChiChi Oguerri 8-6263
GOCE Javier Perez 8-3020
Meadows Museum Jackie Taylor 8-6870
Customer Support Brian Cook 8-6254

*please send all accounts payable requests and inquiries to the email address linked for your academic area

Resources and Information

  Accounts Payable Payment Request Form

  Fiscal Year-End Calendar/Memo

  Independent Contractor Determination (ICD) Process

  Journal Entry (JE) Processing (procedure)

  Journal Entry (JE) Upload Template

  Q-drive Reports (content and usage)

  Payroll Processing Schedule