Operating Budget Management is responsible for overseeing the development and ongoing maintenance of annual departmental budgets and long-term management plans for the purpose of quarterly monitoring, year-end balancing, and long-term planning. This office acts as a liaison with other Central offices--Provost's Office, Human Resources, Controller's office, Office of Institutional Research, etc.--to collect and maintain data for ongoing University planning and budgeting projects. Other functions of this office include: developing and maintaining planning sub-models in such areas as fringe benefits, royalties, cost recoveries, and University assessments and allocations.

Operating Budget Management also provides guidance in the following areas:

• Acts as a training/consulting resource to other departmental staff
• Maintains the University Long Range Planning Model
• Provides systems and functional training efforts
• Assists with training and support in use of Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA), and eventual training/support for Oracle Express Analyzer (OEA)
• Supports organizations working on long-range planning
• Conducts special research studies