Senior Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Marianne Cwalina will retire from her position at the end of June to spend more time with her family, Cwalina wrote in an email to the Justice.

Cwalina’s retirement was first announced in a Dec. 15, 2016 email to the Brandeis community from Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Stew Uretsky, as previously reported in a Jan. 24 Justice article.

“It was a personal decision to retire at the end of June,” Cwalina wrote in her email to the Justice. “My husband Steve has been retired for several years, and I want to make sure we spend some quality time together while we’re both healthy!”

She added that building and mentoring the University’s finance team was one of her biggest accomplishments from her time at Brandeis, especially “given their creativity and skills and dedication to serving the community.”

“With their help and support, we were able to provide more accurate and transparent financial reports and analyses for senior leadership and trustees, centralize procurement and install state-of-the-art procurement and payable software, maintain the University’s credit agency ratings and outlook, and move to a self-insured health plan to reduce costs,” she wrote.

Cwalina wrote that she is most looking forward to having the summer off from work, joking that she will spend the first few months of retirement at the beach. She added that she also has gardening, cooking, doing Pilates and reading a “roomful” of books on her to-do list. “My mother also needs assistance in her home and her gardens so I’m looking forward to spending time with her and my family too,” she wrote.

Cwalina began her career in higher education finance with 23 years at neighboring Bentley University and has been with Brandeis for over five years, having been promoted to her current role in 2013.

In her email to the Justice, she looked back on her time at the University fondly: “It’s been a pleasure working with my new friends, colleagues, and staff,” she wrote. “Brandeis is truly a very special place, and I know I’m leaving it in very goods hands.”