Michael Riley
Associate Vice Chancellor and Controller
Financial Accounting and Controls (FAC)
Natalie Garkusha
Director, Financial Accounting and Controls
Plant Accounting and Analysis
Sandra Carnero
Accounting Manager
Roles and Responsibilities
- Journal entry processing (related to plant funds and depreciation)
- Account analysis and reconciliation (including capital assets-related)
- Chart of account maintenance-plant
- CAAN maintenance
- Debt financing draws
- IRS declarations for external financing
- State capital appropriation claims
- Year-end financial reporting and schedules
- Financial statement external audit support
- Financial accounting analysis of third party capital transactions
- Campus support (plantaccounting@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))
Team Members
- James Cooney
- Hossai Necko
- Tammee Tan
- Christian Tom
Reporting and Analysis
Sonali Wickramasinghe
Accounting Manager
Roles and Responsibilities
- Account analysis and reconciliation (including revenue and expense variation analysis)
- Chart of account maintenance, agency and loan funds maintenance, combo edit rules
- Allocations: AFC and SSDP assessments, workstudy funding transfers, STIP distribution
- Membership funds overhead assessment
- Billing (LBNL, International House, HHMI)
- Mapping to UCOP chart of accounts
- Special state appropriation claims
- Financial statement preparation
- Monthly and fiscal close coordination and file submission to UCOP
- Year-end financial reporting and schedules
- Financial statement external audit support
- Campus support (gao@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))
Team Members
- Chris Tokarski
- Janet Hui
- Leo Shevyakov
- Bhavya Rengachary
Reconciliation and Analysis
Ariana Lightner
Accounting Manager
Roles and Responsibilities
- Journal entry processing (including bank fees, SHLP/ZIP loans, suspense clearing)
- Account analysis and reconciliation (including cash, payroll, loan, inventory, clearing accounts)
- UC Path location champion (journal interface, certain GL-related business processes and projects) and Jira defect liason
- Central deptid analysis and monitoring
- Financial accounting analysis of complex transactions (other than capital transactions)
- Campus support (controllers_ucpath@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))
Team Members
- Dora Chen
- Eric Zhou
- Jose Luis Ibarra-Gutierrez
Internal Controls, Compliance, and Reconciliation
Yohei Azuma
Accounting Manager
Roles and Responsibilities
- Journal entry processing (including Intercampus and ITOF)
- Account analysis and reconciliation (including receivables, payables, intercampus, etc.)
- External audits reporting
- DFL/SAR controls monitoring
- Division certification and management rep coordination
- Unrelated business income tax and other tax related issues
- Financial statement external audit support and coordination
- Campus support (financialcontrol@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) and itof@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail))
Team Members
- Amanda Cai
- Mario Estrella
- Joon Lee