Finance Support Staff
FPB Administration
The FPB Finance Administration team led by the FPB Finance Director, reports to the Chief of Staff. They support all FPB units in the overall financial health of FPB, with special focus in the following areas:
- Management reporting, long-range forecasting and ad hoc analysis
- Annual budget development
- Position control and merit funding
- Commitment tracking and resource management
- Fiscal year close
- Payroll reconciliation and cost allocation management
- Delegations and Approvals
- Food approvals have been delegated to the Finance Director
- ASTRA authorization and management is overseen by the Chief of Staff
| Name | Portfolios & Support Areas | |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Ripley, Finance Director |
| lripley@uw.edu |
| Gordon Gustafson, Program Financial Analyst |
| ggustg3@uw.edu |
| Ian Cameron, Program Financial Analyst |
| ianac@uw.edu |
| Kate M Merriwether, Program Support Specialist |
| k8lynch@uw.edu |
Central Shared Environment (CSE)
CSE supports transaction processing and compliance review for FPB and some external UW units as well as processing forms submitted by FPB staff via UW Connect.
Contact CSE at centralse@uw.edu for assistance with:
- Accounting Function such as FDM Changes, Payroll Accounting Adjustments (PAA), and journal accounting adjustments
- Accounts Receivable
- Customer invoicing – external and internal service delivery (ISD)
- Internal Service Provider (ISP) management
- Procurement
- Purchase requisitions
- Procard verifications
- Central Travel Account (CTA) card approval
- Supplier invoices
- Expense reports
- Miscellaneous payments
- Customer contract management
- Reporting
- Outstanding receivables report
- Procard holders outstanding verification report
- Cost center manager outstanding verification report
- General Support
- UW Connect ticket intake and triage
- Workday Finance and Adaptive security role provisioning
- Advising and training FPB staff
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Darcie Somera | Assistant Director | dsomera@uw.edu |
| Nerissa Pineda | Manager | npined@uw.edu |
| Jeannie M. Ngo | Shared Service Supervisor | jngo@uw.edu |
| James Naumann | Shared Services Analyst | astroboy@uw.edu |
| Anqi Suo | Shared Services Analyst | anqi2025@uw.edu |
| Kiyoko Castillo | Shared Services Specialist | kmcasti@uw.edu |
| June Le | Shared Services Specialist | junele33@uw.edu |
| Kelly Chen | Shared Services Specialist | ychen479@uw.edu |
| Phong Nguyen | Shared Services Specialist | ptn19@uw.edu |
| Rebecca Baker | Shared Services Specialist | rb43@uw.edu |
| Zoey Long | Shared Services Specialist | qlong2@uw.edu |