Welcome to OBFS

Welcome to the Office of Business & Financial Services (OBFS)! We provide core business services to seven units within the Office of Research Administration (ORA) and the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research (VCR). Our focus on human resources and payroll, financial monitoring and analysis, purchases and reimbursements, and building operations and space management. Our goal is to consistently deliver responsive and solution-oriented service that enables the various units within ORA and VCR to support the campus-wide research enterprise. The Office of Business & Financial Services is located in the Wilshire Glendon Building, Suite 600 and can be reached at (310) 206-3368.

To achieve service excellence in delivering our core business and services to support and advance the ORA mission and promote a positive and professional experience for employees by implementing effective best practices.

In the Office of Business & Financial Services, our guiding principles serve as a foundation for how we approach our work and serve our customers. We are committed to function as a collaborative team to accomplish shared goals and promote operational efficiency, accuracy, and integrity.

We are committed to provide solution-oriented customer service by following through on all requests using our collective experience and resources to respond within a reasonable period of time.

Our goal is to provide consistently accurate information in a professional manner to support organizational, departmental, and individual needs.

We strive to clearly communicate UCLA policy and procedure to maintain compliance with existing Federal and State laws by providing the necessary leadership, training, and resources to continuously improve best practices related to Staff Human Resources, Financial Services, and Building Operations and Space Management.