Jo E. Barnard Email & Phone Number

Springfield, IL, US

• Serving as Finance Manager, monitors, manages, and oversees fiscal duties related to carrying out the agency's mission.
• Advises the Chief Fiscal Officer in the development and preparation of the Agency's budget requests and Illinois State Legislature forms.
• Acts as Property Control Officer and Payroll Coordinator.

Springfield, Illinois Area

• Dean’s designee in all fiscal matters; has approval and signature authority for Library accounts; develop and monitor appropriated and non-appropriated budgets and supervises the execution of financial processes and.
• Prepare reports on Library accounts and disseminate information to internal and external stakeholders; analyze financial data and makes recommendations to the Dean
• Coordinate all purchasing processes for the Library; coordinate with the Dean and/or Director of Scholarly Communications, University Purchasing and Payables, vendors, and others to draft contracts and major purchases.
• Coordinate the development and maintenance of personnel information and records; manage personnel processes for faculty, staff, and student assistants including budgetary aspects of employee appointments, professional.
• Supervise and evaluate the Administrative Aide in the Library Administrative Office; coordinate workflow for purchasing, budget, and HR processes ensuring transactions by staff are completed accurately and on time
• Manage the Library property control processes, completing regular maintenance to both the tagged and untagged inventory lists and the University required biennial inventory processes

• Dean’s designee in all fiscal matters; develop and monitor appropriated ($3.7 million) and non-appropriated budgets; monitor, review, and approve use of fiscal resources for purchases of goods and services, including.
• Utilize Business Objects and Web Intelligence reporting software to initiate, format, assemble data, and prepare enrollment, salary, expense, and other administrative reports as requested by the Dean or University.
• Collect data from University data warehouse, create, and compute instructional resource metrics such as the College tuition revenue and faculty cost analysis on a semester basis.
• Created procedures to address internal audit findings and ensure appropriate procedures are followed moving forward.
• Assist college faculty and staff with questions about budget expectations, expenditures, forms, and policies. Created online data system for keeping College departments up to date on budget status.
• Developed procedures for monitoring and updating College equipment inventory and lending equipment for staff use. Complete biennial inventory reporting.Campus Involvement:

• Collected, analyzed, and disseminated data to stakeholders on faculty, staff, programs, and nearly one million annual students at Illinois’s 48 community colleges.
• Responded to internal and external research requests, preparing analyses and reports to support agency units, community colleges, and the state legislature.
• Lead researcher for the Business and Industry Grant, Developmental Education, and Online Instruction Reports and participated in the creation of the Illinois Longitudinal Data System (ILDS).
• Created briefs, brochures, and executive summaries of full length reports to facilitate widespread dissemination of research.
• Utilized SAS data tools to process, review, and verify the accuracy of data submitted by community colleges in response to annual and periodic surveys and provided data to assist with the Illinois Community College.
• Contributed to the development of the Perkins IV Online Data System, Perkins IV Partnerships for College and Career Success, and the Data and Characteristics web portals for constituents to access community college data.

Mpa, Public Administration

Coursework in Organization Dynamics, Statistics, Public and Nonprofit Budget and Finance, Human Resource Management, Collective.

B.A., Economics, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Delta Phi Epsilon Magna Cum Laude