Effort Reporting & Certification demo

What the demo shows

Reconciles payroll, committed effort and salary caps, and routes certifications to PIs

Seven agents load the period from payroll, HR and the research administration system, compare payroll with committed effort award by award and with current and pending support, apply the NIH salary cap, find reductions of 25% or more that need prior approval and draft the request, and draft cost transfers with the payroll fix. The department administrator prepares the corrections, the investigator certifies, because only they know where the effort went, and a post-award reviewer checks the record before it closes. Agents never certify.

Transcript

1. 0:00Effort Reporting and Certification checks payroll against committed effort, for research offices.
2. 0:09Effort is a top audit finding; one center paid $13 million.
3. 0:15Halden State has 6,900 certifications due; agents marked 486. Each person is one row.
4. 0:26Dr. Solano committed 30% to her R01; payroll charged 18%.
5. 0:33That 40% cut needs NIH approval; the Change agent drafts the request.
6. 0:43On her R21, $9,075 a year is over the NIH cap.
7. 0:50Administrator Kofi Brennan sends both fixes; the certify button turns blue.
8. 0:58Martin Hale, the signing official, submits the request; reviewer Ines Calloway approves the transfer.
9. 1:08Dr. Solano certifies at 2:50; Ines checks the record before it closes. Agents never certify.
10. 1:17Certifications close on time, with cap errors fixed before the audit.
11. 1:24Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.

The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.