University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
There are three separate areas within the Financial Services division.
Pre Award is the birthplace of Grants, Contracts and Other Agreements that benefit the UNM Health Science Center in its Research, Public Service and Educational goals. The role of PreAward is that of a Sponsored Projects Office; reviewing, approving, negotiating, and advising HSC Principal Investigators, Faculty & Staff members who seek external funding from federal, state, local, and business entities.
Post award monitors and assists in the maintenance of HSC sponsored projects throughout the lifetime of awards, including interpretation and implementation of HSC policies related to contracts and grants, review and interpretation of policies of outside private and governmental funding agencies, generation of fiscal reports on sponsored projects, revenue collection and management through automated invoicing and timely follow-up, monitoring of expenditure adherence with regulations and guidelines, submission of periodic reports as required by various funding agencies and response to audit requests.
Unrestricted Accounting and Reporting reviews all purchase requisitions, travel and other reimbursement requests, payroll transactions and journal entries, and approves the transactions based on compliance with University policy. We are also responsible for managing internal invoicing of charges between UNM & UNMH and coordination of departmental invoicing to third party customers including monitoring, reconciling, billing and collections. We develop & maintain standard reporting mechanisms to facilitate the flow of financial information that is accurate, timely and consistent for internal and external users of financial information.