Meredith Walton
Finance Manager
Email meredith.walton@otago.ac.nz
Cris Alip
Finance Associate
Email cris.alip@otago.ac.nz
Venkat Kotte
Finance Associate
Email venkat.kotte@otago.ac.nz
Responsibilities
- Prepare School's budgets
- Provide assistance to departments in budget preparation
- Providing finance advice to departments on University financial policy
- Monitoring and analysing the School's financial performance
- Financial systems training
- Ensuring that departmental financial transactions are processed in accordance with University of Otago and University of Otago, Wellington policies
- Handling general account enquiries
- Training of new departmental staff who have budget or financial administration responsibilities
- Ensuring that appropriate revenue is being generated for external services provided by the School
- Opening new account codes
- Compilation and distribution of monthly finance reports
- Financial enquiries including research accounting