Standard profiles

Head of financial unit / Professor

The role of head of financial unit is automatically attributed to an EPFL employee under the EPFL Structures application. This assignment cannot be altered manually within the Signature Register.

 

Heads of financial unit automatically have the right to:

  • enter into financial commitments for all existing and future funds of their unit up to CHF 50,000.
  • grant a signatory right up to CHF 5,000, and exceptionally up to CHF 50,000, for all existing and future funds of their cost centre, in cooperation with the finance officer of their Vice Presidency or School.
  • grant a signatory right up to CHF 5,000, for one or several specific existing funds of their cost centre, in cooperation with the finance officer of their Vice Presidency or School.
  • withdraw an existing signatory right within their cost centre.
  • view all signatory rights for their unit (without access to the scans of the corresponding handwritten signatures).
  • assign the role of “unit administrator” to one or several staff members of their unit (or of another unit).

 

Unit administrator

The role of unit administrator is assigned manually to an EPFL employee by the head of unit / professor or relevant finance officer.

Reminder: the unit administrator role may be assigned to an EPFL employee outside the specific unit.

 

Unit administrators automatically have the right to:

  • enter into financial commitments for all existing and future funds of their unit up to CHF 5,000.
  • initiate a request to the head of unit to create a signatory right up to CHF 5,000 for all existing and future funds, or for specific funds, of their cost centre.
  • view all signatory rights for their unit / laboratory (without access to the scans of the corresponding handwritten signatures).
  • access to the electronic HR formular “Demande de mutation”.
  • access to all Infocentre HR information (inc. personnal data and salary of the unit)


 

Fund manager

The role of fund manager is assigned by the Financial Service to an EPFL employee upon the fund’s establishment. This assignment cannot be altered manually within the Signature Register.

 

Fund managers automatically have the right to: