The VP Finance & Operations Portfolio Provides Strategic Leadership and Support for UBC’s Academic Vision through Financial and Operational Management Excellence
The eight units of the VP Finance & Operations (VPFO) portfolio are responsible for the stewardship of UBC’s physical and financial assets. We oversee a $2.5 billion budget, a $1.2 billion endowment, and all university facilities. The VPFO also manages the university’s relationships with the UBC Investment Management Trust (IMANT) and UBC Properties Trust. In all the portfolio’s responsibilities, we are committed to the values of accountability and transparency.
News From the VPFO
December 18, 2018
From a teaching perspective: Upgraded LASR 102
Sherry McKay, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), shares her experience teaching in the recently renovated Frederic Lasserre 102 classroom.
Winter is Coming
While you may only now be thinking about pulling your snow shovel out of storage, Building Operations and Facilities Management staff at UBC been planning for weeks for any winter weather event that may strike the campuses.
Grab a sweater and prepare for a cooler campus
From December 12, UBC will be slightly reducing campus building temperatures in Vancouver in order to conserve natural gas. Be prepared for a cooler campus and take appropriate action.
Preparing for extreme weather at UBC
A message from: Andrew Szeri, Provost and Vice-President, Academic; Peter Smailes, Vice-President, Finance and Operations, Barbara Meens Thistle, Vice-President, Human Resources; Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, Provost and Vice-Principal Academic, UBC Okanagan
Building Operations Opens New Custodial Centre in UBC Life Building
Building Operations has added a third custodial deployment centre to minimize custodial travel time to buildings. It's a big change for after 25 years at C&CP2 for day-shift, night-shift, and weekend staff.
UBC Reporting
2018/19 Operating Budget
The VP Operations & Finance and VP Academic & Provost are committed to open and transparent reporting of UBC’s operating budget. Read our complete 2018/19 operating budget report.
VPFO Major Projects
Integrated Renewal Program
The Integrated Renewal Program is a multi-year business process transformation and system implementation program that will leverage the industry-leading cloud enterprise solution Workday to replace our current core administrative systems with a new integrated, user friendly, mobile-enabled platform.
Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committees (JOHSC) Project
Risk Management Services will be helping the Vancouver campus move from one large University Health and Safety Committee (UHSC)—which covers the entire campus—to a cluster of smaller Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committees (JOHSC), which will cover employee groups within a VP’s portfolio.
Procurement Modernization Project
Financial Operations has heard from the university community that it can be difficult, manual, and time-consuming to make purchases and payments on time. We have developed a plan of action to improve procurement across the university.
People of the VPFO
December 6, 2018
Jennifer Sanguinetti appointed Managing Director, Infrastructure Development
Jennifer joined UBC in 2014 as the Director, Project Services and since November 2017 has been Acting Managing Director, Infrastructure Development.
Jodi Scott, Steven Lee, and Leanne Feichtinger form new Learning Space team
The Learning Space team within Facilities Planning, Infrastructure Development will work together with UBC IT Audio Visual and Scheduling Services to plan and manage all of the formal learning spaces at the UBC Vancouver campus.
Deb Capps promoted to Operations/Project Manager, Change Management with Building Operations
Deb will support the changes and training we are anticipating from systems renewal and fill a management gap that was identified in Building Operations.