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>> I'm Maria Zaccardo, and I
currently work for Penn state.

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I report to the controller's office,
but I am located in Philadelphia,

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and I oversee the operating budgets for
two campuses, Great Valley and Brandywine.

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The day of a financial officer is varied.

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One of the challenges in the position is
we can work at a very strategic level,

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reporting directly to the president of the
campus, the chancellor, and being involved

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in senior management decisions, but we
also work down in the weeds as well.

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Which is overseeing that financial
policies adhere to, in our units,

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reviewing expense reports, and dealing with
funding budgets, and trending expenses.

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I do travel to state college for retreats,
and also to meet with my manager who is,

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actually resides in [inaudible] and
I travel between the two campuses.

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I have two offices, and that's
pretty interesting,

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because Great Valley is a graduate
campus and Brandywine is undergraduate,

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so there's two very different business models.