Margaret Chu

Develop, implement, and monitor Center annual budget of $500,000.

Manage financial and research administration portfolios exceeding $50M in sponsored funding.

Perform advanced financial analyses including projections, trend analysis, and variance reporting.

Coordinated annual faculty salary negotiations, monitored payroll, and processed corrections in UCPath.

Oversee business operations of UCLA Neuroscience Genomics Core.

Supervise, mentor, and motivate junior administrative staff.

Organized NIH training programs alongside speaker series and graduate classes.

Reviewed and approved purchase orders, check requests, travel reimbursements, and facility service requests.

Create budgets, forecasts, variance reports and multi-year financial plans

Track and analyze the clinical and basic science program spending against project performance

Work with the OVCR and the External Affairs/Neuroscience Development offices to monitor gift agreement, UCLA Foundation fund as well as Semel fund set-ups; ensure funds are spent according to donors' intent

Partner with the Semel Finance Office to generate ad-hoc reporting for the Chancellor and DGSOM leadership as well as monthly financial report to the Executive Committee

Prepare progress and financial presentations to the Deans, the Executive Committee and other leadership

Support the day-to-day research and clinical activities, adjust resources according to priorities

Developed and managed grant budgets

Recorded daily transactions of multiple grant accounts and reconciled expenses

Compared actual expenditures to projections and posted adjustments

Coordinated human resources and payrolls

Created figures, slides and other visuals for journals, textbooks, and conferences

Prepared material for presentation to audiences of varying size

Edited/proofread manuscripts submitted to medical journals and textbooks

Assisted in the planning, preparation and submission of grant applications