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