Our Role

The Office of the Budget is responsible for developing and implementing the University's annual multi-year budget plan and overseeing the management of the budget and compact processes.

The Director, Office of the Budget, reports to the Associate Provost (Faculty Affairs & Resource Allocation) and works closely with the Office of the Vice-Principal (Administration & Finance).

Specific responsibilities of the Office of the Budget are generally limited to Operating - university allocation funds (1A) and Operating - self-financing funds (1B), and include:

• Provide support to the Provost for completing the multi-year operating budget and the annual Budget Report
• Forecasting operating revenues and expenses, with support from Planning & Institutional Analysis
• Coordination of on-going funding for academic and non-academic salary policies
• The distribution of Compact and Priority Pool allocations
• Budget control on salary and non-salary expenditures
• Monitoring of carryforwards and overexpenditures
• Analysis and reporting of performance relative to Budget
• Development of the Preliminary Budget Framework
• Coordination of the annual Budget Development exercise
• Budget Module security access and infrastructure
• End user training, support and reporting services for budgets
• Development and maintenance of the Banner Budget Module