Heidi Estel

• Manages the day-to-day operations of the business functions, including finance, human resources, purchasing, budgets, contracts, and accounts payable.

• Develops and manages budgets to ensure program alignment with fiscal allocation. Prepares financial analyses such as income and expense forecasting, as well as a variety of routine and ad-hoc financial reports.

• Manages human resources needs such as recruitment efforts, rate planning, salary increases, position control, payroll, adjunct/overload contracts, appointments, and other personnel actions.

• Provides oversight of all purchasing activities including requisitions and p-cards.

• Plans and implements special projects within the Division or College as assigned. Represents the Division or College on committees and work groups as requested.

• Serves as a liaison between administration and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering policies and procedures, and resolving escalated issues and concerns related to the scope of duties.

• Develops and implements business and fiscal processes to ensure compliance and good stewardship of university resources.

• Responsible for budget and operations for 21 academic units
• Develops annual budgets for the College State Appropriations and local accounts
• Monitors cash and budget balances for local and state funds within the college and prepares monthly reports on all accounts
• Approver for all p-card holders within the College of Liberal Arts
• Supervises Business Manager I
• Prepares annual inventory reports
• Communicates with customers, employees and other individuals to answer questions and explain information
• Manages projects and served as primary liaison between dean's office and multiple internal campus offices to ensure clarity of goals and quality and adherence to deadlines.

• Develops annual budgets for the College State Appropriations and local accounts
• Monitors cash and budget balances for local and state funds within the college
• Develops comprehensive fiscal and statistical reports for the Dean

• Process all hiring paperwork for faculty and administrative/professional
• Maintain files, records and spreadsheets for hiring Serve as a liaison between Associate Dean and upper administration as well as departments across campus
• Managed filing system, entered data and completed other clerical tasks.
• Managed paper and electronic filing systems by routing various documents, taking messages and managing incoming and outgoing mail.

• Bank Secrecy Act Officer
• Managed personnel staff of 20 including interviewing, hiring and training
• Responsible for daily operations of the bank and handled problems pertaining to personnel, computers, customers and outside clients
• Created and executed marketing/PR campaigns, including new product introductions and existing product development
• Analyzing and reviewing all operating procedures to ensure they were being followed
• Member of Asset/Liability Committee
• Assisted and implemented the launch of debit card system