ROWAN UNIVERSITY POLICY 

Title:  Banner Finance Security
Subject: Accounting Services                                     
Policy No: Fin: 2015:01                                           
Applies: University-Wide             
Issuing Authority:  President                                            
Responsible Officer:  Senior Vice President for Finance and CFO                
Adopted: 01/20/2015
Last Revision:    03/24/2025
Last Reviewed: 03/24/2025

I.    PURPOSE

To implement fiscal policies and procedures for providing appropriate and authorized security access to the Banner Finance System, to define the essential department level requirements for Banner security around financial control, and to provide an outline of the respective roles and responsibilities that are required by the University at each level of the organization.

II.   ACCOUNTABILITY

Under the direction of the President, the Senior Vice President for Finance and CFO shall implement this policy, and the Associate Vice President for Finance and Controller shall ensure compliance with the policy.

III.  APPLICABILITY

It is the responsibility of any faculty and staff member who is involved in any financial activity on behalf of the University to be fiscally responsible and to exercise appropriate financial controls. 

IV.  POLICY

The Accounting Services Department in conjunction with A.S.A (Analytics, System, & Applications) Security is responsible for providing access to the Banner Finance System using information made available for this purpose. Access to Banner systems is restricted to those employees who require access in order to enable them to fulfill their job responsibilities.

V. ATTACHMENTS (Procedure details)

When an employee's duties and responsibilities require access to the Banner Finance System, the following procedures will be used to gain access or to change existing access. In addition, when an employee's duties and responsibilities change to no longer require access to these systems, the procedures below will be used to terminate access.

1. Procedures for New Users: 
1. The requester should log into the Rowan Support Portal under the Request Something section, within the Access & Security category selecting Banner Finance Permissions and follow the prompts on the form. A University Administrator (Manager or Department Head) or Primary Investigator (for Grants) responsible for the requested Fund and Organization will be sent an email for approval after the form is filled out. The form will contain requests for the following:
1. The name of the person for whom access is requested, that person’s title, department and their supervisor.
2. The reason access is necessary.
3. What type of access is needed:  Query (view), Posting (Requisition) or Both.
4. The Fund and Organization numbers for which access is necessary (Security may be provided at the predecessor organization level with Divisional approval).
5. Requests to copy the security of one person to another person can be requested assuming appropriate approval by the responsible persons applicable to all funds and organizations in the request.
2. After the supervisor’s approval is given in the workflow,  it will forward to the FinSecurity team for access completion. Security requests received for access to Grants will be routed via the workflow to the Director of Grants and Contract Accounting (or their proxy) for approval. The Director of Grants and Contract Accounting will document approval in the workflow.  The FinSecurity team will complete access once approval is received. The Finance Security Administrator will notify the requestor if further information is needed or when the set-up is completed via the workflow.   The set-up of security will only be done based on the guidelines listed above or by approval of an appropriate Finance officer.  When the set-up pertains to an employee not already provided previous access to Banner Finance, the Finance Security Team will place the requestor in a Security Class.  This will enable the requester to be set up with a User Profile in Banner Finance and be given access.
3. Requests are maintained on file in the Accounting Services Department.
2. Procedures for Change to Access:
1. When an employee's duties and responsibilities change to require different access, the appropriate Manager, Department Head or Principal Investigator responsible for the Fund and Organization must notify FinSecurity through the Banner Finance Permissions under the Rowan Support Portal to change the employee’s access.  Approval is granted if the necessary authorizations and information have been submitted.  See Procedures for New Users.
3. Procedures for Termination of Access:
1. When an employee's duties and responsibilities change to no longer require certain access, the appropriate Manager, Department Head, or Principal Investigator responsible for the Fund and Organization should notify FinSecurity through the Banner Finance Permissions under the Rowan Support Portal. Access will be terminated according to the time frame provided in the notice.  The approver will be notified that access has been removed.
4. Review/Monitoring Procedures
1. Every week the NPA (Notification of Personnel Action) report is generated and reviewed by the Finance Security Team and ASA Security.  This report provides information on employee HR changes.  Further action will be taken on whether the access is still required, and appropriate security changes are then taken by both the Finance Security Team and ASA Security.
5. Security requests for other than Banner Finance
1. The policy listed above applies only to the Banner Finance module. Requests for access to the Banner HR module should be forwarded to the Security Administrator for the Human Resources module. Requests for Banner Student and Faculty module access should be forwarded to Registrar Information Services at registrar-inforservices@rowan.edu.