Financial Operations welcomes Ruth Parcells

Ruth Parcells, formerly a "Batman of Accounting"
and otherwise known as "the new BC"

Financial Operations is pleased to announce that Ruth Parcells has joined the team as Senior Payment Card Compliance Analyst. In this role, Parcells is responsible for the University’s credit card compliance program, including setting up and maintaining merchant accounts, working with operational units and ITS on processing solutions, ensuring compliance with laws and data security standards, and acting as UVAFinance’s liaison to internal and external auditors on PCI matters.

Parcells comes to UVAFinance from her most recent role at the UVA Alumni Association, where for almost 11 years, she handled bank account reconciliations, stock trading for donations, merchant services setups, and international wire transfers.

A Certified Fraud Examiner and a notary, Parcells is a Double Hoo (2010 and 2012). She has always loved banking and accounting, she started her career quite early: at the age of 15, she went to work for a credit card bank in Delaware, fighting credit card fraud for five years.

“A bank fraud investigator is sort of like the Batman of the accounting world,” she laughs.

Parcells looks forward to learning all of the intricacies and systems in her new role, and moving from a small foundation to serving a large portion of UVA.

Outside of work, Parcells is an active volunteer: teaching “Our Whole Lives” with the Universal Unitarians and mentoring a first year student at Blue Ridge Community College, as well as volunteering with the Girl Scouts. She is also taking classes at Piedmont Valley Community College in Cyber Security.

She and her husband live in Waynesboro with their five year old daughter, Amelia.