Financial Management Partners

College-Wide Services

Financial Management Partners provides services College-wide for the following:

• Unit Security Contact (USC) – System access requests
• Labor redistributions
• Budget:
  • Budget Planning & Management
  • Financial Forecasting
  • Banner budget maintenance
  • Coordination with the Provost Budget Office on Financial Matters
  • Budget to actual reporting

Subscribing Units

As part of the College's support of Operational Excellence@Illinois, Gies has been moving toward the centralization of some common financial functions as vacancies in units have occurred. Currently, Financial Management Partners provides support to the Dean’s Office, IT Partners, DEI, Disruption & Innovation, OVAEL, Office of Undergraduate Programs, and Teaching & Learning.

Financial Management Partners provides the following services for subscribing units:

• Fund management and fund reconciliation
• Creation of New Funds or Program Codes
• Fund Transfers (expense transfers, non-mandatory gift transfers)
• Purchasing
  • Execute Purchases and Purchase Orders
• Expense Reimbursements
• Contracts
  • Upload and route contracts in Contracts+
  • Manage financials for any sponsored research for subscribing units
• Card Management
  • Department Card Manager for P-Cards and T-Cards
  • Exception Requests
• Pinnacle Requests
• Inventory
  • Surplus requests/transfer
  • Biennial Inventory
  • New acquisitions
• Payment Processing
  • Invoice payments
  • Departmental payments
  • Awards processing
  • Check Deposits