Pharmacy Business Services
The business services office is here to assist College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (CPPS) faculty and staff with a variety of day-to-day functions.
Travel
Everything you need to know about traveling on behalf of the Washington State University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Ordering & Purchasing
Policies and procedures for getting the supplies you need from letterhead, to research equipment, technology, and more.
Personnel & Hiring Resources
Support for personnel, hiring, and the on-boarding process at the WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Grants & Contracts
The pharmacy grants team provides support and guidance throughout the life of extramural awards.
What We Do
Operations Support
- Support for the Office of Research and Assistant Vice President for Research Andrea Lazarus
- Coordination of college events including the SURF program, Dean’s Welcome Back Picnic, Research Day, Research Seminar Series, and Fourth Year Review Week
- Equipment inventory control and tracking
- Financial coordination and support for pharmacy student groups
Oversight of Rx Business Services
- Non-OGRD contracts & agreements: liaison with WSU Contracts Office
- Fiscal support to dean and other pharmacy units
- Hospital contract renewals for faculty shared positions
- Personnel funding
- Fiscal and facilities management, internal controls
- Limited fiscal support to faculty advisors and pharmacy student groups
- Completion of required external fiscal and personnel surveys and university reports
Ordering & Purchasing
- Payroll processing
- Service Center oversight: set-up, renewals, evaluations
- Office Depot ordering approval and processing
- IRI reconciliations
- Procurement
- Revenue collection and reconciliation
- Scholarship disbursements
Grants & Contracts
- Assists with grant proposal submissions
- Assists with budget preparation for grant proposals
- Prints, distributes and files monthly grant budget statements
- Monitors on-going revenue collection for awards
- Preparation of eREX
Personnel Resources
- Personnel appointments (faculty, staff, students and temporaries)
- Time and Leave Report maintenance and auditing
- New CPPS employee orientation and on-boarding (I-9, W-4, direct deposit, etc.)
- Creation and updating of position descriptions
- Posting of position announcements and support to search committees
- Creation of offer and renewal appointment letters, delivery of finalized letters
- Liaison with International Programs for Visa paperwork support and processing for foreign nationals
- Liaison with HRS (issues involving shared leave, FMLA, LWOP, etc.)
Travel Reimbursement & Ordering
- Travel arrangements and reimbursements (TEV’s)
- Travel Authorities (TA’s) and Airline ticket payments (CTA’s)
- CPPS inventory
- Creating and processing purchase orders
- Confirming receipt of goods
- Resolution of vendor difficulties
- Accounts payable processing