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The Financial and Business Services Directorate is responsible for a diverse range of the University's financial functions and business services, including:
- Strategic financial and budgeting advice
- Business case development and review
- Management accounting
- Treasury management
- Budgeting
- Procurement, accounts payable, and corporate credit cards
- Accounts receivable
- Cashiering/banking taxation
- Assets
- Insurance
- Financial systems management, and
- Other statutory compliance obligations and responsibilities.
We are receptive to new ideas and suggestions for ways in which we can enhance our delivery for services to the University.
Chief Financial Officer
Danella Forster
cfo@jcu.edu.au
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
Alicia Fowles
alicia.fowles@jcu.edu.au
- Strategic Procurement
- Category Management
- Supplier Contract Negotiation and Management
Head and Key Email Contact
Lisa James
Manager, Strategic Procure to Pay
Lisa.James3@jcu.edu.au
All enquiries relating to Procurement to procurement@jcu.edu.au
Services
- Procurement
- Operational procurement
- Strategic sourcing
- Contract management
- Supplier relationships
- Stores administration
For more information visit Strategic Procure to Pay.
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Financial analysis
- Business case and new course financial modelling
Head and Key Email Contact
All finance questions to be sent to finance@jcu.edu.au
Services
- Finance Support
- Support for budgeting and forecasting
- Analysis of financial performance of accounts, College and Division
- Business case assistance
- Course costing analysis
- Externally-funded research grants and consultancies
- Externally-funded non-research grants and consultancies
Head and Key Email Contact
Julie Strachan
Manager, Grants
julie.strachan@jcu.edu.au
All Grants enquiries
All grants finance questions to be sent to grantsfinance@jcu.edu.au
Services
- Grants support
- Set up new grant accounts in finance system
- Invoicing funding bodies
- Financial reporting to external bodies
- Assistance in preparing budgets using Project Costing Tool
- University budgeting, forecasting and reporting
- Financial course historical and predictive modelling
- Management of Capital and Infrastructure Plan
- Cognos finance report scoping
Head and Key Email Contact
Alicia Fowles
Manager, Budgeting and Forecasting
Alicia.fowles@jcu.edu.au
All enquiries relating to Budgeting and Reporting
budgeting.reporting@jcu.edu.au
Services
- Budgeting support
- University budgeting and forecasting
- Development and maintenance of Enterprise Budgeting (EB) module within Finance One
- University management reporting
- Historical and predictive course financial modelling
- Management of capital and infrastructure planning
- Updating University 10-year financial model (QTC)
- Cognos Finance and Report List tabs – finance report scoping
- Financial Accounting
- Taxation and Treasury
- Asset Accounting
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Corporate Card and Expenses
Head and Key Email Contact
Wendy Ganly
Manager, Treasury and Corporate Finance
Wendy.ganly@jcu.edu.au
All enquiries relating to taxation to taxation@jcu.edu.au
All enquiries for Corporate Finance to corporatefinance@jcu.edu.au
All enquiries relating to Accounts Payable to accountspayable@jcu.edu.au
All enquiries relating to Corporate Credit Cards to corporatecreditcard@jcu.edu.au
Services
- Treasury and Corporate Finance Support
- Statutory accounting
- Financial accounting
- Taxation
- Treasury and cash flow
- Asset accounting
- Restricted fund reporting
- Accounts Payable
- Processing invoices
- Payments
- Corporate Credit Card and Expense
- Credit card administration
- User Access and System Maintenance
- System and Process Improvements
All enquiries relating to Financial Systems to financialsystems@jcu.edu.au
Services
- Financial Systems
- Financial system upgrades and Maintenance
- Financial system user access
- financial delegation management
- User Support and training
- Process Improvements
- Process consultation services
- Analysis
- Process mapping
- Benchmarking
- Process improvement
- Project management
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