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New Leader of Auxiliary Enterprises and Fiscal Innovation

May 12, 2023
Dear colleagues and friends, We are thrilled to announce that Adriana Rojas has been selected as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Auxiliary Enterprises and Fiscal Innovation at UC Merced. With over 26 years of experience in accounting and finance at the University of Texas at Austin, Rojas...

Adding Financial Analysts to Schools to Support Research Funding

April 6, 2023
To the UC Merced research community: Faculty are having a difficult time obtaining account balances in order for them to manage the use of resources to support their research. Looking into this further, we have identified two different types of financial reporting that faculty need to support...

Travel Reimbursement for Remote Work Rescinded

March 10, 2023
Travel & Expense Management would like to provide you with information about a recent memo ​issued by the UC Office of the President regarding travel reimbursement guidelines for remote work. Based on a previous memo issued in October 2022, travel expenses such as mileage were being...

Important Updates to Honorarium Payments

March 6, 2023
Effective March 20, honorariums paid to individuals will be limited to $2,500 per calendar year. Payment requests that exceed $2,500 will be submitted automatically to Procurement to be processed as a Service Agreement. To ensure compliance to UC Policy D-371-35 , honorarium requests will...

T&E Card Notification Error

March 1, 2023
Campus colleagues, Because of a technical error by the Concur expense management platform, users, delegates and HR Unit approvers who are not Procurement Card holders received multiple email notifications today citing non-compliance with P-Card policies. Rather than notifying only valid P-Card...

P-Card Notifications Start March 1

February 27, 2023
Campus colleagues, This week, the Division of Finance and Administration will begin notifying Procurement Card holders who have unreconciled transactions that they are approaching or in violation of the campus P-Card policy. If you are a cardholder and have transactions more than 10 business...

Financial Transparency Town Hall Set for March 9

February 22, 2023
The campus community is invited to the next Financial Transparency Town Hall, scheduled for 11 a.m.-noon Thursday, March 9 via Zoom. The event will focus on UC Merced's financial outlook and the university's budget call process for Fiscal Year 2023-24. The presenters will be ...

Internal Search for Interim Director of SBS and Campus Cashiering

February 17, 2023
Greetings, colleagues,   The Division of Finance and Administration is holding an internal search for the position of Interim Director of Student Billing Services and Campus Cashiering (job overview attached). We are seeking nominations from within the Division of Finance and Administration....

Feedback Sought for Update of DFA and CBS2 ServiceNow

January 30, 2023
The Division of Finance and Administration is converting the DFA and CBS2 service catalogs – commonly known as ServiceNow – into a service portal with a responsive search feature that streamlines the process of identifying the correct ticket for your requests (the experience will be...

Director of Administrative Budget and Policy Appointed

January 5, 2023
Colleagues, I am happy to announce the appointment of Lucero Mascorro as Director of Administrative Budget and Policy in the Office of Financial Planning & Analysis . Lucero joined UC Merced in November 2018 as a financial analyst for Student Affairs and has played key roles in...