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Paula Alexander

Paula Alexander - Business Manager I
Room G10-X
Tel: 3-8234
E-Mail: palexand@uga.edu

Oversee all grant activity in the following: Communication Sciences & Special Education, Counseling & Human Development Services, Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology, and GSTEP

Oversees Post Award Management of grant budgets associated with restricted, residual, and UGARF accounts.

  • Setup of new grant spreadsheets
  • Approval of paper & electronic purchase/check request
  • Preparation of journal vouchers and budget amendments
  • Management of cost sharing in grants
  • Approval and monitoring of personnel documents with financial staff in the departments, and with personnel in business office
  • Monthly balancing of spreadsheets to UGA status reports
Preparation of documents for closing accounts that have ended
   
Shirley Anderson Shirley Anderson - Business Manager II
Room G7-B
Tel: 2-3880
E-Mail: shirlee@uga.edu

Responsible for the following:

  • Works on special projects as instructed by administration in the Business Office
  • Assists in the training of Accountants in the College of Education as needed in areas of processing personnel reports, budget amendments, summer school and policies and procedures in the College of Education
  • Assists in the training and processing of budget development for the College of Education
   
Donna Bodiford Donna Bodiford - Business Manager I
Room G7-C
Tel: 2-4425
E-Mail: dbodifor@uga.edu

Responsible for the following STATE accounts for Mathematics & Science Education, Elementary & Social Studies Education and Language and Literacy Education departments:

  • Issues, concerns and questions regarding budgets, personnel and payrolls.
  • Fiscal responsibility for monitoring all accounts and budgets.
  • Budget development Personnel reports and budget amendments.
  • Payrolls PARs (Personnel Activity Reports).
  • Posting and monitoring of annual and sick leave.
   
Lisa Vander Kooi

Lisa Conley -Business Manager I
Room G12-C
Tel: 2-3865
E-Mail: lvanderk@uga.edu

Responsible for the following:

  • Process transactions for income and foundation accounts
  • Prepare and process budget amendments and personnels for income and foundation accounts
  • Provide projected revenue figures for income account budgets
  • Assist departments with income deferral requests, and budget development for income accounts
  • Monitor departmental spreadsheets and assist with balancing various accounts
  • Develop spreadsheets for various accounts and programs and assist with special projects
  • Train department staff to use financial spreadsheets
  • Assists Business Manager II with special projects
   
Andy Garber

Andy Garber - Business Manager II
Room G12-G
Tel: 2-7486
E-Mail: agarber@uga.edu

Responsible for the following:

  • Process paperwork for state funded personnel for the Department of Counseling & HDS (CHDS) and  Dean’s Office Units. This includes processing personnel and budget amendment documents, and processing payroll vouchers and leave requests.
  • Monitor and balance accounts for the Research and External Affairs office.
  • Fiscal responsibility for monitoring O&E, travel, and equipment balances in state accounts for CHDS and certain Dean’s Office units. Process budget amendments and journal vouchers when necessary.
  • Fiscal responsibility for release funds and special funding initiatives.
  • Help generate the Quarterly Report for the college.
  • Participate in budget development for the college.
   
Cheryl Lavender Cheryl Lavender - Business Manager II
Room G12-D
Tel: 2-4564
E-Mail: lavender@uga.edu

Fiscal monitoring of state accounts, & contact person for Communication Sciences & Special Education and Educational Psychology & InstructionalTechnology departments

Responsibilities include:

  • Processing of personnel reports, budget amendments, payrolls (hourly, salaried, monthly, academic, & summer school), PAR’s, annual & sick leave reporting

COE Business Office duties include:

  • Distribution of all payroll cost reports and time sheets for the college
  • Over see & maintain Dean’s Office allocations for instructional support
  • Monitor faculty & staff vacant lines
  • Budget development
  • COE Quarterly reporting
  • Work with Business Managers & Assistant to the Dean on special projects as requested
  • Periodically will serve as backup for verification, documentation and processing of Dean’s Office Unit accounts payrolls
   
Pat McDonald

Patricia McDonald - Business Manager I
Room G10-J
Tel: 2-3089
E-Mail: pmcdon@uga.edu

  • Process check/purchase request and make all purchases necessary for Dean’s Office
  • Process travel arrangements and reimbursements for the Dean and Associate Deans.
  • Maintain Dean’s office O & E and Travel accounts and balance spreadsheet
  • Maintain Gwinnett O &E and Travel accounts for Special Education, Science Education, and IPTT and balance each spreadsheet. Process budget amendments as needed.
  • Work on budget issues and special projects assigned by Associate Dean of Faculty, Administration, and Finance
  • Administrator for COE, Faculty, and Staff List serves
  • Responsible for mail room employee and duties
   
Teresa Melton

Teresa Melton - Business Manager II
Room G12-B
Tel: 2-8347
E-Mail: tmelton@uga.edu

Oversee all grant activity in the Learning & Performance Support Laboratory, TSARS, PRISM, Goizueta, and Dean’s Office

Oversees Post Award Management of grant budgets associated with restricted, residual, and UGARF accounts.

  • Setup of new grant spreadsheets
  • Approval of paper & electronic purchase/check request
  • Preparation of journal vouchers and budget amendments
  • Management of cost sharing in grants
  • Approval and monitoring of personnel documents with financial staff in the departments, and with personnel in business office
  • Monthly balancing of spreadsheets to UGA status reports
Preparation of documents for closing accounts that have ended
   
Keith Morgan

Keith Morgan - Business Manager I
Room G12-A
Tel: 2-4047
E-Mail: skmorgan@uga.edu

Oversee all grant activity in Kinesiology, Lifelong Education Administration Policy, and Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations, and Occupational Research Group

Oversees Post Award Management of grant budgets associated with restricted, residual, and UGARF accounts.

  • Setup of new grant spreadsheets
  • Approval of paper & electronic purchase/check request
  • Preparation of journal vouchers and budget amendments
  • Management of cost sharing in grants
  • Approval and monitoring of personnel documents with financial staff in the departments, and with personnel in business office
  • Monthly balancing of spreadsheets to UGA status reports
Preparation of documents for closing accounts that have ended
 

 

Sheila Myers

Shelia Myers - Business Manager I
Room G7-A
Tel: 2-3870
E-Mail: smyers2@uga.edu

Oversee all of the College of Education departments’ State Accounts such as:

  • Oversee COE Operating Supplies & Expenses and Travel for state accounts
  • Contact for setting up approval paths for all COE accounts for e ck, e travel, purchasing and WORKS (Pcard); train/assist accountants in COE for these systems
  • Distribution of monthly electronic status reports to S drive
  • Monitor, post and assist in balancing departmental spreadsheets; balance Business Office, GH216, and CML O&E and Travel
  • Pcard liaison for COE and fill in as pcard manager for various departments when position vacancies
  • Process forms for systems access requests, pcard requests and change requests, JVs and eproves to pay invoices
  • Process purchase orders, check requests, and travel for Business Office accounts and CML
   
Elaine Payne

Elaine Payne - Business Manager I
Room G10-Z
Tel: 2-2193
E-Mail: epayne@uga.edu

Oversee all grant activity in Elementary & Social Studies Education, Language & Literacy Education, Mathematics & Science Education, and Teacher Quality/Eisenhower

Oversees Post Award Management of grant budgets associated with restricted, residual, and UGARF accounts.

  • Setup of new grant spreadsheets
  • Approval of paper & electronic purchase/check request
  • Preparation of journal vouchers and budget amendments
  • Management of cost sharing in grants
  • Approval and monitoring of personnel documents with financial staff in the departments, and with personnel in business office
  • Monthly balancing of spreadsheets to UGA status reports
  • Preparation of documents for closing accounts that have ended
   
June Smith

June Smith - Administrative Financial Director
Room G12-H
Tel: 2-3878
E-Mail: jhsmith@uga.edu

Supervisor of Business Office staff, assist with training staff in college, special projects and reports for Deans Office, oversight of budget development for college.

   
Martha Williams

Martha Williams - Business Manager I
Room G7-D
Tel: 2-4413
E-Mail: mwms@uga.edu

Responsible for the following STATE accounts for departments: Kinesiology, Lifelong Education Administration & Policy (LEAP) and Workforce Education Leadership & Social Foundations (WELSF) departments:

  • Addressing all issues, concerns and questions regarding personnel, budgets and payrolls
  • Monitoring all accounts
  • Personnel reports and budget amendments for state and grant accounts
  • Monthly, academic, salaried, hourly and summer school payrolls
  • Budget development
  • Posting annual and sick leave
  • Coordinating and processing PAR (Personnel Activity Reports)

 

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