As Director of Grants and Contracts, I am the primary contact for all grants and contract-related administration, both pre and post-award. I work closely with the Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration, the Senior Vice President for Research, the finance department, our research teams, and sponsors to ensure that all financial and programmatic reporting is met.Pre-Award: • Budget development for new submissions. • Technical assistance with grant applications. • Manages PI's biographical sketches and other support pages. • Submits applications through funders' portals.Post-Award Financial Planning & Analysis: • Reviews the general ledger and updates the Post Award Budget Tracker. • Prepares budget vs actual reports. • Forecast cash flow needs and revenue. • Develops management reports.Salary Allocations: • Allocates salaries - % effort to projects. • Responsible for effort reporting.Billing and Accounts Receivable: • Prepares invoices for research projects. • Handles billing inquiries. • Reconciles cash receipts with expenses.AdministrationLegal: • Drafts consultant and subaward agreements. • Reviews agreements. • Updates and distributes contract status reports.Compliance: • Provides technical assistance for regulatory compliance. • Manages fiscal requirements for research activities. • Maintains active registrations for the organization. • Updates staff on compliance changes.Templates and Tools: • Maintains budget templates. • Develops external budget templates.Process Improvements: • Leads process improvement meetings. • Drafts SOPs and policies.Other Administration: • Archives documents. • Conducts training sessions. • Conducts risk assessments with funders.

As Senior Financial Analyst my primary role is to provide budgetary and administrative oversight in the financial management of 100 ($50MM+) awarded research grants and contracts. I worked closely with research investigators and members of the administrative team to ensure the fiscal health of research funds for various research teams in the Department of Psychiatry.• Ensures that grants, contracts, and other revenue streams are properly monitored, credited and reports are prepared• Monitored monthly budget, and or/general ledgers of the assigned funds in the department’s research program; provides variance analysis• Communicates with institutional finance staff to ensure that revenue and expenses are captured properly• Prepare and submit purchase orders, contracts, change orders, invoices, check requests, petty cash vouchers, travel requests, travel vouchers, fund transfers and HRTS transactions as necessary• Analyze all revenue streams for the research program and assists in developing feasibility and profitability analysis and/or business plans for new and existing programs• Prepared regular and ad hoc reports, participated in follow-up discussions with business unit leaders• Recommend and implement new process improvement changes that increase efficiency• Reviewed Time and Effort reports for faculty and staff

Assist in the daily operations of the department in relation to grants and contracts. I gained valuable insight as to how the universities administrative offices operate. More specifically how OBFS manages federal, state, and local, grants and contracts internally. I also worked with the Compliance Department preforming risk assessment on sub award recipients as required by A-133.

Oversees the business operations of three separate recharge facilities, EPIC, NIFTI, and Keck II. Monitor billing and account receivables; prepares costs studies reports for the recharge facilities; forecasts revenues and expenses; manages the budget process and the preparation of financial reports for the center and oversee the center’s discretionary funds.• Monitors billings and account receivables, prepares costs studies reports for the recharge facilities, forecasts revenues, and expenses, manages the budget process and the preparation of financial reports for the center• Oversees center's salary budgets including faculty, bi-weekly, work-study, and temporary staff• Manages monthly payroll; Oversees the Human Resource processes which include research appointments, hiring, and performance reviews; Advises on personnel issues within the center, resolves personnel problems and ensures compliance with applicable University policies and procedures. Directly, and indirectly manages a staff of 16 academic professionals, graduate students, teaching assistants, and administrative staff• Maintains communication flow among faculty, managers, and administrative personnel to achieve optimal fiscal management• Development and implement new policies and procedures that will improve financial management and performance• Assess the needs of the department and identify areas of improvement• Develop a shadow system for FOM augmenting its ability to operate as an accounting tool

Manages the daily operations of a biomedical research study at Northwestern University. Monitors study performance analyzes and review results. Develops, and implements budgets. Coordinates written submissions, and the administration of grants both pre and post-award. • Ensures all study activities are completed by strictly following Good Clinical Practices (GCP) as well as all current local, state, and federal laws, regulations, guidance, policy, and procedure developed by the NU Institutional Review Board (IRB), the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH)• Oversees and manages collection, maintenance, analysis, and evaluation of data that will be used in grant submissions, presentations, and publications. Ensures that patient data is entered correctly into databases. Assists PI in reviewing, summarizing, formatting, editing, and preparing tables, charts, and graphs • Manages lab/study budgets, inventory including purchasing of supplies and services ensuring that they are necessary, reasonable and project related; orders and maintains inventory of study supplies, which may include the distribution of intra-departmental charges. Negotiate with vendors, obtain quotes, and arranges demos of large equipment

Coordination of research projects, management of research-specific resources, pre and post-award budget management, maintain a liaison relationship with the office of Grants and Contracts, as well as faculty, external funding agencies, and the Institutional Review Board (IRB). In addition, manage research expenses, purchasing support, reconciliation of monthly ledgers and preparation of monthly financial reports for all grants, contracts, subcontracts (both European and US) as well as departmental expenses.• Monitor all Grants.gov submissions through UIC’s portal• Maintain all current and pending IRB certification documents• Prepare budgets, PAF’s, and all required data for all Grants.gov submissions for 7 Principal Investigators in the department• Budget management $5,250,000. This Includes funding from NIH (National Institutes of Health), American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Leukemia Foundation, and the Department of Defense• Monitor income and expenditures (direct and indirect costs) for all grant and contracts for the department. Including all payroll and FTE reports monthly• Instrumental in develop and maintaining financial information systems that shadow UIC, BANNER accounting system• Statistical and programmatic data reporting through eCommons.gov, and grantsolutions.gov (research performance progress reports, just in time requests, and material transfer agreements)

Plans, directs, organizes, and evaluates the operations of UIC’s eight community clinics in conjunction with the Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, the School of Public Health, and the University of Illinois Hospital. Accountable for budget development, financial performance, facilities and administration, labor productivity, people management, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance. Represents leadership to the staff; communicates and supports organizational goals and objectives within the patient care units.