202F Keim Hall
1825 North 38th Street
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln NE 68583-0915
Great Plains Business Center Group, Operations Manager: Sheryl May
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:
Sheryl May
Great Plains Business Center Group, Operations Manager, 472-6855, 151 VBS-Annex, EC 0905, smay7@unl.edu.
- Provides overall guidance to Business Center staff in fiscal management, human resources and grants/contract administration.
- Cross Functional Manager that ensures organizational- effectiveness and consistency by providing strategic & operations leadership and management for Great Plains Business Center Group and the Director of BC Operations, IANR F & P
- Provides guidance to unit administrators, faculty and staff in fiscal management/budgeting.
- Serves as liaison to IANR Finance & Personnel, IANR Deans & VC offices, VC for Research, the VC for Academic Affairs, and all other UNL functional offices in the management of fiscal & human resources issues.
Teresa Loseke
Business Manager II, 402-472-7916, 202G, Keim Hall, EC 0915, tloseke2@unl.edu.
- 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:
Kyle Bernadt
Financial/Grants Specialist, 402-472-5132, 202D Keim Hall, EC 0915, kbernadt2@unl.edu.
- 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
Tom Danaher
Financial/Grants Specialist, 472-1554, 202F Keim Hall, EC 0915, tdanaher1@unl.edu.
- 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
Andrew Loseke
Finance/Grant Specialist, 472-1522, 202C Keim Hall, EC 0915, aloseke2@unl.edu.
- Plant Path, CGS, and Plant Health Pre-/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.
Alexey Moisseyev
Financial Specialist, 472-7447, 202L Keim Hall, EC 0915, moisseyev@unl.edu.
- 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
Elena Alexandrova
Financial Associate, 472-8617, 250 Keim Hall, EC 0915, ealexandrova2@unl.edu.
- 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.
Susan Thomas
Financial Associate, 472-8617, 202B Keim Hall, EC 0915, sthomas1@unl.edu .
- 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:
Svetlana Chistopolskaya
BCGII Personnel Coordinator Lead, 472-2859, 202E Keim Hall, EC 0915, schistopolskaya2@unl.edu
- 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
Jean Hinton
Payroll Associate, 472-6238, 202B Keim Hall, EC 0915, jhinton2@unl.edu.
- 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
