The Finance Business Center provides services for the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences and the College of Sciences. The support teams include Finance/Budget Analyst, Travel and Procurement Coordinators, and Post-Award Specialist. Please visit our service team’s webpage to get the point of contact for each area assigned to your department, school, research center, institute, initiative, or office.
Overview of Services
Financial/Budget Analyst provides support to the chair/director with developing budgets, monitoring expenses, and identifying any variances. This includes Education & General (E&G), auxiliary, student fees, unit’s overhead, gifts, and continuing education funds. They also assist faculty with start-up funds, special awards (e.g. Pegasus professor, trustee chair, reach for the stars, PhD Research Awards), and other professional development funds.
The travel coordinator can assist you with your travel or guests visiting the college (e.g. interview candidates, guest speaker). This includes assisting you with getting the appropriate approvals for your business trip. They can also book the hotel, transportation and reimbursement of other incidentals – based on the university travel manual. If you are full-time employee, you may also book your own hotel or transportation using with your own expense card.
The procurement coordinator can assist you with purchasing goods and services – based on the procurement services manual. This includes
Department and PI overhead accounts are distributed on a bi-annual basis, in January and July. January’s distribution will be calculated using overhead earned from January 1st, through June 30th of the previous calendar year. July’s distribution will be calculated using overhead earned from July 1st, through December 31st of the previous calendar year.Overhead is calculated and distributed… Read more: Overhead Distribution for COS
Department and PI overhead accounts are distributed on a bi-annual basis, in January and July. January’s distribution will be calculated using overhead earned from January 1st, through June 30th of the previous calendar year. July’s distribution will be calculated using overhead earned from July 1st, through December 31st of the previous calendar year.Overhead is calculated and distributed… Read more: Overhead Distribution for CECS
Effective Monday, March 2, 2026, a vendor will need to register with UCF using Workday to become a new vendor. They can also use the Workday platform to update information.
The Finance Business Center supporting the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Sciences has published a new form to request purchases. The completed request should be sent to CECSFinanceBusiness@ucf.edu or COS.FinanceBusiness@ucf.edu depending on your unit. We will be phasing out the cecstravelprocure@ucf.edu email but did not want to delete to give… Read more: Purchasing Form Updated
The protected carryforward funds have been returned to the colleges. If you would like to know the current balance, please send an email to the budget analyst assigned to your department/school. The Point of Contact can be found on our Service Teams website here.
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