The Huron Employee Compensation and Compliance (ECC) program replacing our current Banner Effort Certification process will go-live Monday, March 30.

 

We’ve launched a new webpage that has the latest updates, including training schedule, for ECC and additional updates for each module as the information becomes available. 

 

Training sessions are scheduled every week this month for “pre-reviewers” and “certifiers”. For a full list of training and Zoom links, visit the website

 

Certifications will now be handled by the fund (i.e., project index) instead of by employee. No matter how many employees are on the fund, only one certification is required for both exempt and non-exempt employees.

 

To simplify the ECC transition, Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 periods will be done in two 6-month segments:

 

  • March 30 begins the certification period for July-December 2025. 
  • January-June 2026 will begin pre-review on July 22, 2026. 
  • Beginning in FY27, we will transition to a pre-planned quarterly schedule.

 

Pre-review will begin the 15th of the month following the fiscal quarter with certifications due 60 days after the start date.

 

Effort Coordinators (generally department administrators) will begin the process by pre-reviewing records as is done in our current Banner system. As soon as they have completed their review, the PI will receive an email letting them know they can review and certify effort on the fund. There will be 60 days from when pre-review begins to the due date of all certifications.

 

 

New

  • Quarterly Certification
  • By Fund/Index
  • Only one pre-reviewer and one certifier
  • All employees on Fund/Index
  • Department admin can delegate pre-review responsibility
  • No BAR required

  

Advantages of the changes

  • Moving from semi-annual to quarterly means less payroll errors discovered after final invoices and reports were due/submitted.
  • Reviewing salaries quarterly matches best practices of reviewing all indices no less frequent than quarterly (with monthly preferred).
  • Live payroll information means the system can also be used to review all effort charges on the index monthly in between certification periods.
  • Moving from employee to Fund/Index means annual certifications are half of the certifications currently required even with more frequent reviews.
  • With index certifications, there will only ever be one pre-reviewer and one certifier – no more waiting for others in the queue before pre-reviewing or certifying!
  • All employees on an index will be certified instead of just exempt.
  • Department administrators can delegate pre-reviews to others depending on their business practices instead of being limited to Banner.
  • No more BAR required for PIs to certify!

 

For questions, please contact:

®  Central/Branch Campuses: maineffortrptng@unm.edu

®  HSC: HSC-Effort-Reporting@salud.unm.edu

 

CURRENT EFFORT CERTIFICATION PERIOD:

January, 2025 - June, 2025

 

What is effort certification?  Reasonable assurance that salary charges are accurate.

Why do we certify effort?  It is a Federal Requirement.

Whose effort is certified?  5R Monthly Employees: Faculty, Professional staff & RA's

How often is effort certified? Semi-annual certification, by award PI.

Where is effort certification done? In LoboWeb. 

 

If you are having technical issues, please do the following:

  • Use this link rather than the Employee Dashboard link: https://lobowebapp.unm.edu/EmployeeSelfServiceAdmin/
  • Verify you have the required BAR role:
    • To request a BAR, go to https://bar.unm.edu/.
      • Go to “Search Roles”
      • Type in Search “Effort Certification”
      • Add “Department Effort Certification”
      • Submit the request.  Your supervisor will be listed on your request.  You can reach out to them if necessary to get approval.
      • Remember that on-line training is required to get the BAR role.
    • If you need training for the BAR role or if you want a refresher, online training is available through Learning Central (https://learningcentral.unm.edu).  Just remember to use the new link rather than the Employee Dashboard once you get ready to certify!
      • Go to “Learning” and search for EOD 932 – Required Effort Certification Training for Pre-Reviewers and Effort Certification for Certifiers.
    • Make sure you are connected to VPN if you are off campus.  The easiest way to connect for effort certification is through this link: https://unmvpn.unm.edu/https/lobowebapp.unm.edu/EmployeeSelfServiceAdmin/
    • If you are still having issues, clear your cache.  FastInfo ID 4599 can assist with this step: Go to https://unm.custhelp.com/app/answers/list and enter 4599 in the search.  Click on “How to Clear Cached Browser Items”.
    • Try an incognito screen (crtl+shift+N) and use the new link mentioned above.

If you still have issues after the above steps, please email the appropriate office:

Main/Branch Campus: maineffortrptng@unm.edu

 

On-line training is available thru Learning Central:

EOD 932* – Required Effort Certification Training for Pre-reviewers(Department Administrators) and Effort Certification Training for Certifiers(PI's)
Please request: BAR role: “Department Effort Certification”

MyReports FNRECDS Effort Certification Detail and Summary Report is located in the Finance tab, F All Campus Reports folder.  This report, when run in detail, allows users to reconcile between individual pay period percentages and allocations to the total reported in the effort report. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to the demise of ePrint reports FRROEC01 and FRROEC02, the FNRECDS summary report type will generate the same information previously contained in these reports.

MyReports report FNRECRT-Effort Certification Status Report is located in the Finance/F All Campus Reports folder. This report provides a list of employees in the effort queue by Status and State of the employee record and also allows departments to view any pending actions or actions taken by Organization code.

MyReports report Account Administrator List is located in the Finance/F Core Office Reports/F Contract and Grant folder. This report provides a list of Account Administrators (AA) by Organization code of who have been identified as the Reviewer for each Grant.