Kara DeNutte

As Senior Financial Officer (SFO) Kara supervises and performs complex financial activities related to the daily operations of Kavli Institute. She oversees over 300 accounts totaling over $200M for over 40 research investigators. As SFO she provides high-level financial work (financial modeling, analysis, federal reporting, etc.), and recruits and trains staff. She maintains a key oversight role at Kavli to ensure compliance with Institute policies (i.e., travel, internal audit, etc.) and sponsor guidelines. She advises Physics faculty, MKI departmental staff and administration on all matters pertaining to finance, administration and compliance and supervises two Financial Assistants.