About Us
Responsibility and oversight of the following:
- All Wayne State University financial activity for all funds types
- Financial statistical reports and financial projections
- Invoicing and Account Receivables areas
- Dean's recurring and non-recurring commitments
- Position control and tenure obligations
Janie Williams-White
Senior Director of Fiscal Affairs, School of Medicine
williamswhite@wayne.edu
Responsibility and oversight for the following:
- Wayne State University SOM financial activity for all fund types
- Financial statistical reports and financial projections
- Departmental budgets (Prophix/Banner)
- Faculty start-up maintenance and transfers
- Faculty recruitment funds
- Tenure search requests
- Faculty, other academic, non-academic position control (roster reconciliations)
- Dean’s recurring and non-recurring commitments
- Position control and tenure obligations
- Banner security access backup
- Review and send PARS for processing
- Service center establishment and policy
- Lead annual accounting close-out
- Timesheet approver for managers
- Smart Path backup
- Cornerstone approvals backup
- Review and approve Travel Card and ProCard applications
- Monthly A/R reviews
- JV approver backup
- Supervise managers
Tamara Taylor
Manager, Fiscal Affairs
ttaylor@med.wayne.edu
313-577-1475
- Wayne Buy approval ques and authorized signature maintenance
- Travel Wayne review, approvals and maintenance (unassigned expense reports, request approvers)
- ProCard final approver and maintenance
- Timesheet approver error reports and maintenance
- Error reports for non-pooled positions
- Timesheet superuser/approver (bi-weekly) for accounting specialist
- Review and approve Smart Path transactions
- Supervise accounting specialist
- XM position assignment and maintenance
- Create PARS prior to BAO approval
- Cornerstone approvals
- Capital asset inventory maintenance
- Scholarships via workflow for SAAs
- Banner security access - primary contact
- Membership approvals for SOM
Dawn Nickoloff
Manager, Research Support (In RAS Office)
ah0595@wayne.edu
- Approve expenditure documents for grant and contract indexes in Wayne Buy
- Cost sharing
- Effort certification
- Grant activity reports - COEUS
- Payroll suspense
- CLDR approvals for grant and contract indexes
- Post-award policies and procedures
- Transfer requests for grant and contract indexes
- SAA approver for tuition charged to grant indexes
- Secondary travel approver for grant and contract indexes
Christopher Storey
Manager, Fiscal Affairs
Christopher.Storey@wayne.edu
- Supervise budget analysts
- Compile and prepare data for use in preparation of fiscal projects and related reports
- Provide Prophix access and training
- Perform departmental budget loads (Prophix/Banner)
- Deploy and implement SOM financial dashboard
- Create and implement metric reports for performance improvement initiatives
- Invoices and accounts receivable
- JV approver 1 / Wayne Buy approver backup
- Accounts receivables monthly review
- DMC teaching contract reconciliation
- Support annual budgeting process
- Payment assistance to accounting
- Salary savings calculations
- Review and forward new index requests
- Maintain SOM Fiscal Affairs Knowledge Base
- Review and approve expenditures in Wayne Buy - Backup
- Timesheet superuser/approver for budget analysts
Kyle DePerro
Budget Analyst III
hj5770@wayne.edu
- Provides service and serves as point of contact for departments as detailed in service department document
- Budget development
- Perform monthly invoicing
- Review and approve expenditures in Wayne Buy
- Maintain SOM Fiscal Affairs Knowledge Base
- Review and provide first level approval for CLDRs
- Departmental budgets (Prophix/Banner)
- Creates JVs for transfers
Tajena Horne
Budget Analyst I
gq0530@wayne.edu
- Provides service and serves as point of contact for departments as detailed in service department document
- Budget development
- Departmental budgets (Prophix/Banner)
- Review and approve expenditures in Wayne Buy
- Review and provide first level approval for CLDRs
- Special projects
Jarvara White
Accounting Specialist
cs4286@wayne.edu
- Personnel paperwork
- Creates JVs for transfers
- Manages designated signing authority for departments (until automated)
- Orders office supplies for fiscal affairs office
- Mailbox checking
- Inbox routing (currently)
- Superuser for DocuSign
- Set up meetings for manager (Tamara) when needed