The Ethiopia finance unit has made re-organization with the aim of attaining more efficiency and supporting the research and the organizations hosted in the campus the best it could. The structure is mainly focused on service orientation and is expected to reduce the cycle time and quality of the services delivered by the unit. To facilitate communication with internal customers and bringing in more accountability, the unit will now have three sub-sections. The following are the sub sections with their assigned responsibility.

Research Support Finance Group

• Ermias Mulugeta – D/Finance Manager
• Bruck Lemma (Senior Accountant) – LIVES Project and Medical
• Tassew Kebede – Bio Sciences
• Behailu Gebeyehu – Integrated Sciences except LIVES

Support Units and Hosted Institutes Finance Group

• Ephream Gebreyohannes – D/Finance Manager
• Kuri Ketema – Support Units (including Research Support)
• Sewasew Tefera – Hosted Institutes

General Accounting Finance Group

• Bekelu Shiferaw – D/Finance Manager
• Eyob Assefa (Senior Accountant) –Payroll and bank activities
• Misrak Mekonnen – Cost allocation
• Bizuhan Alemayehu – Cash collection, documentation and front desk

Starting from July 18, 2016 we would kindly like to request your cooperation in forwarding all your requests directly to the staff assigned to you. The assigned staff is responsible for making pre-verification of the request and inform you of any incomplete information that you are required to fulfill immediately upon receipt of the request.  Later, after making proper verification, you may be asked to supply with additional information.

To facilitate tracking of the status of requests that are not captured by the OCS workflow, both by you and the finance office, we would also like to request your support in assigning the request to the responsible officer/accountant through outlook task manager before submitting the documents. This will enable you to track the status of the request at any time. As soon as the request is processed you will thus receive a status report stating “task completed”. Attached here with you will find the instruction that will help you to assign tasks through outlook task manager. The ICT unit has agreed to support in case you want any assistance.

1. Click tasks in the navigation bar and then click new task

1. Click Assign Task

1. In the To box, enter the email address of the responsible officer/accountant
2. Enter Subject – Name of payee – Cost center code – Project code – Amount
3. Enter Start date, and Due date – due date is 4 working days after the start date for payments and 5 working days for others
4. Click Send

To maintain the contentious improvement of the financial service we deliver, we always require your contribution and support. In this regard it will be of paramount value if you forward any of your opinions and comments about our service delivery including requests and services that are not delivered as promised to the finance help desk e-mail ILRIETHFinance@CGIAR.ORG.