202F Keim Hall
1825 North 38th Street
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln NE 68583-0915
Business Manager: Teresa Loseke
Phone: 402-472-7916
Regular Office Hours: Monday though Friday – 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
General Information
The HAPPI Business Center is a unit within the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), that performs specialized business services in financial and human resource management for our departments: Agronomy & Horticulture, Plant Pathology, and Doctor of Plant Health. We also support the Center for Grassland Studies.
The HAPPI team works together to provide excellent, high-quality professional services with the highest levels of integrity, accountability and customer focus for the departments and their faculty, staff, students and clients. Major activities include budget development and administration, financial management services, human resources and payroll management, and grant development and management.
HAPPI staff encourages you to utilize our talents and skills to assist you in your business processes and to provide us with feedback about your needs, questions, and concerns.
HAPPI Personnel
- Provides overall management to the Business Center staff in Finance, Grants, Accounting, Procurement, Travel and other Business related administration actions.
- Provide overall guidance to unit administrators, faculty, staff, and students in fiscal management, human resources and grants/contract administration.
Financial Staff
- AgHort Pre-/Post Award Grant Development including grant proposal review, budget development, confirming cost share documentation and match commitments, processing and routing.
- Provides fiscal coordination and management for grant cost objects.
- Provides Fee-for-service agreement review, coordination and management.
- Contract Management and processing
- AgHort Pre-/Post Award Grant Development including grant proposal review, budget development, confirming cost share documentation and match commitments, processing and routing.
- Provides fiscal coordination and management for grant cost objects.
- Provides Fee-for-service agreement review, coordination and management.
- Foundation and 27-WBS account management to include industry and charity donations
- Agronomy and Hort, Plant Path, CGS, and Plant Health Post Award Grant Development including grant proposal review, budget development, confirming cost share documentation and match commitments, processing and routing.
- Responsible for Personnel Activity Reports and cost share documentation associated with relevant grant cost objects.
- Provides fiscal coordination and management for grant cost objects.
- Provides Fee-for-service agreement review, coordination and management.
- Processes invoices, deposits, purchase orders and requisitions, electronic ordering, internal billing transactions (IBTs), and warrant requests.
- Account Management for State-funded child for Agronomy & Horticulture, Plant Pathology, Center of Grassland Studies and Plant Health.
- Provides travel assistance and processes expense reimbursements.
- Reconciles and distributes registration income for Agronomy and Horticulture
- Processes invoices, deposits, purchase orders and requisitions, electronic ordering, internal billing transactions (IBTs), and warrant requests.
- Monitors and reconciles revolving and auxiliary cost objects.
- Reconciles Purchasing card transactions.
- Provides travel assistance and processes expense reimbursements.
- Processes invoices, deposits, purchase orders and requisitions, electronic ordering, internal billing transactions (IBTs), and warrant requests.
- Monitors and reconciles state department cost objects.
- Monitors and reconciles Agronomy Farm and the John Seaton Anderson Turf and Ornamental Research facility; both located at ARDC.
- Purchasing card assistance and reconciliation.
Human Resources Staff
- Provides services relating to student hires, staff and faculty positions; creating and filling regular and temporary positions, classifying and reclassifying positions
- Provides guidance in the search and interview process
- Handles all aspects of payroll administration; processes new hire paperwork; assists with the classification of student and on-call/temp employee wages, entry of appointment changes, and monitors appointment end dates
- Coordinates hourly employee’s time entry
- Handles all aspects of payroll administration; Time Entry Review, processes new hire paperwork; assists with the classification of student and on-call/temp employee wages
- Assist in new hire paperwork, and the processing of non-benefits updates