Contact the Finance and Business Services Division
The Finance and Business Services (FBS) Division forms part of the Chief Operating Officer’s portfolio. We help secure the University’s financial future through expert advice, systems and support.
Finance Leadership Team
Gail Jukes
Chief Financial Officer
Finance and Business Services
cfo@uq.edu.au
Matthew Toomey
Director, Corporate Finance
Finance and Business Services
m.toomey1@uq.edu.au
Bharat Raniga
Director, Business Partnering
Finance and Business Services
b.raniga@uq.edu.au
Bruce Pain
Director, Procurement
Finance and Business Services
b.pain@uq.edu.au
David Dellit
Associate Director, Financial Planning and Analysis
Finance and Business Services
d.dellit@uq.edu.au
Angela Lawton
Associate Director, Finance Systems and Transactional Services
Finance and Business Services
a.lawton@uq.edu.au
Finance Managers for the Professional Services teams
Cherie McGuire
Finance Manager
Business Economics and Law (BEL)
cherie.mcguire@uq.edu.au
Tiffany McKibbin
Finance Manager
Chief Operating Officer (COO) portfolios
t.mckibbin@uq.edu.au
Timothy Robinson
Finance Manager
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) portfolios
t.robinson1@uq.edu.au
Elma Spooner-Marurai
Finance Manager
Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT)
e.spoonermarurai@uq.edu.au
John Leyland
Finance Manager
Health and Behavioural Sciences (HaBS)
j.leyland@uq.edu.au
Jacqueline Hounslow
Finance Manager
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
j.hounslow@uq.edu.au
Phil Carter
Finance Manager
Faculty of Medicine
p.carter@uq.edu.au
Jurgens Liebenberg
Finance Manager
Faculty of Science
jurgens.liebenberg@uq.edu.au
Accounts Receivable
The Accounts Receivable section is responsible for financial
- processing of transactional operations including revenue receipting, banking and billing
- advisory services relating to credit risk management and collection of overdue debt
Revenue Services team
- tier 1 support of Xetta transactions
- banking, payment and merchant set-up and support
- payment allocation and receipting in UniFi
- payment channel offerings and advice
- UQ Pay administration
Billing Services team
UniFi - AR and Billing Modules
- customer creation and maintenance
- billing purchase order management
SI-net Sponsor Financials
- third-party contract (TPC) financial management for sponsored students including billing and debt recovery
- receipting and allocation of student fee related revenue
- USD Financial Aid draw down and allocation
- SI-net Revenue Transfer (RT) forms and other journals to / from SI-net
- ad hoc manual invoices for students to a third party
- runs the Uncollected Funds campaign for students
sponsorfinancials@fbs.uq.edu.au
Credit Services team
- credit risk management control and monitoring
- collection of overdue debt
- customer invoice portal management
- ad hoc customer account reconciliations
- customer credit card payments, refunds and credit adjustments
Contract and Grants Accounting
Contract and Grants Accounting is responsible for:
- preparation of certified financial statements and acquittals for research projects and any non-research external contract and grant funding
- billing and receipt of grant income
- refunds of unexpended research grant and the transfer of research grant income to other institutions
- Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC)
- research infrastructure funding
- corpus (investment) donation and bequest funding
- ensuring financial reporting is accurate and compliant with grantor contractual requirements and accounting standards.
Financial Planning and Analysis
Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA) is responsible for:
- reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes for the University
- Asset Management Plan (AMP) and strategic funding/funding in arrears (FIA) support to the University financial community
- maintaining the general ledger and chart of accounts.
Payment Services
The Payment Services section is responsible for:
- payment of domestic and overseas creditor invoices
- processing credit and adjustment notes
- actioning returned and failed payments
- processing reimbursement claims (other than salary payments)
- maintaining supplier account details
- administering corporate cards
- advising staff on allowance entitlements
- overseeing other payment processing, including refunds and homestay payments
- training and assisting unit finance officers.
Processing and Supplier Management
Expense Management and Payments
Procurement
The Procurement team can help with:
- advice: strategic and operational procurement planning and delivery
- reviewing procurement plans
- compiling tender documentation
- managing communications with offerors
- QTenders submissions
- drafting contractual agreements
- assistance in contract management
- procurement training.
Procurement
UQeMarket
- UQeMarket system administration and escalation point for overall marketplace platform and supplier performance.
Supplier administration
- UniFi onboarding of new suppliers and amendment of existing suppliers.
- CRM queue: Finance - UniFi Supplier Administration
Purchase order maintenance
- UniFi Purchase order maintenance including re-opening or re-dispatching purchase orders, closing receipts (for standing orders), and re-opening receipts.
- CRM queue: Finance - Client Support Services
Professional Services teams
We service 9 areas across UQ:
- Business, Economics and Law (BEL)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO) portfolios
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) portfolios
- Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT)
- Health and Behavioural Sciences (HABS)
- Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
- Institutes
- Medicine
- Science.