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
  • Gies Budget Dates FY25
  • 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. 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