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Workday Financials

Introduction

Workday@Yale
April 18, 2017
Agenda

• Overview

• Functions and Features

• Roles

• Chart of Accounts

• Next Steps
Overview

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Workday@Yale Objectives

Make it easier Minimize


Lower Provide
to get work administrative
Simplify and operating accurate,
done work for
standardize costs and trusted,
and harder faculty,
processes improve and timely
to make students
effectiveness reporting
mistakes and staff
Meeting the evolving needs of higher
education.

Workday integrates financial, HR, academic, and research information to offer:


• Frequent releases that optimize the system
• Flexible reporting to meet changing needs
• Mobile access and self-service – anytime, anywhere
Community and Communication Impacts
~250 Central
~6,600 ~4,500 Managers Finance Groups
and Professional ~200 Lead
Faculty, Postdocs, Administrators and
Fellows Staff Operations Managers
~150 Service Teams

~100 Senior
Leadership

~3,900
Clerical Workers
and Technicians
Program Team

Workday@Yale Team Members Service Group Members

162 66

Local Communication and


Support Members Support Center Staff

262 300+
Impacted Systems

Systems
We are working to ensure Critical for
that Workday information Go-Live 92
flows smoothly between
existing systems such as
the ID system, SciQuest, Other People Data
Financial
Facilities, etc. Systems 81 Only 81
and People
Data 34
Where necessary, we are
making changes to those
existing systems.
Financial
Data Only 58
Timeline
2017 2018
Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Sept Oct-Dec

Financials Go-Live

Training

Post Go-Live Support


User
(including YSS, ESC, ITS Help
Testing
Desk)
Weekly Updates, Supervisor
Updates, Information Sessions
Prepare for
Go-Live

HR/Payroll/Academic Optimization

Financials Optimization
Functions and
Features of
Workday

Workday@Yale
Workday Features

Employee Self Service Workday Mobile Software-as-a-Service Workday Inbox

• Workday is built for • Enter expenses via • Adopting a Software- • Notifications of


staff to be able to the mobile app as-a-Service (SaaS) Business Processes
help themselves find • Take pictures via financial system will requiring action will
information and take put Yale at the arrive in the Workday
receipts
action on their own forefront of Inbox
• Receive notifications enterprise technology
• Staff may access old • Automated email
via the mobile app
expense reports to • Regularly updated— notifications
check status of • Access your inbox just like your phone’s unavailable
payments operating system
• Track procurement • Cloud hosted for
processes like POs greater efficiency
and Requisitions and security
Financial Functions Moving to Workday

• Award Setup • Purchase Requisitions


• Subawards through SciQuest
• Effort Certification • Expenses (EMS)
Grants
• Cash Advances
• Check Requests
• Invoice Payments
• Vendor Setup

• Payroll Costing
Finance and
• Journal Entries
Asset
• Endowments and Purchasing and Expenses
Management
Spendable Gifts
• Commitments
• Moveable Asset
Inventory
• Cash Sales (RIF)

Financial Monitoring : Financial Management and Transaction Monitoring Reports


Mobile Expenses Capabilities
Workday Roles

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Workday Roles: Who Does What

Workday ROLES:
 Are assigned to Positions
 Determine function in a business process (i.e. initiate,
approve, etc.)
 Determine what you can see and do in Workday
 Provide access to data within the assigned cost center

POSITIONS:
 A Position is the “seat” that a specific Worker occupies Workers are hired into Positions and
 A Position does not refer to a job title inherit the Workday role(s) of the
 May be assigned one or many Workday roles Position
Chart of
Accounts

Workday@Yale
What is the Chart of Accounts (COA)?
Today we call it … Tomorrow we will call it … What is it?
Oracle Chart of Accounts Workday Chart of Accounts General term to describe the full set of data points used for
Chart of Accounts Chart of Accounts standard accounting and financial reporting.
COA COA In Workday this includes delivered pieces of the Workday
Financial Data Model (FDM) and also some worktags that are
configured by Yale.

COA Segments COA Segments Each individual piece of the chart of accounts – the buckets.
 Oracle Project, Org, etc.
 Workday Program, Cost Center, etc.
The list of values for each segment are called the “segment
values”.

Charging Instructions Charging Instructions Accounting string - PTAEO


PTAEO
Expenditure Type Ledger Account COA segment used for general ledger accounting (revenue,
expense, assets, liabilities)
Next Steps

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Workday@Yale Website

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Preparing for Go-Live

Just prior to Go-Live there may be a brief “pause” in


some financial activity.

We are developing a plan now to prepare you for Go-Live and will share
more information in the coming weeks, including:
• Cutover Dates
• Impacted Systems
• Interim Steps
What’s Next

• Become an ambassador of change


• Familiarize yourself with your local Change Network participants
 Do you know who your Change Partner is?
 Do you know who your Local Workday Guru is?
• User Acceptance Testing, April 17 – May 19
• Sign up for training
 End-User Training begins May 22

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Community Engagement

• Attendance is encouraged at upcoming awareness and training sessions

• Watch training videos posted on www.workday.yale.edu

• Provide feedback and contact [email protected] with any questions

• Find more information at www.workday.yale.edu


Questions
& Discussion

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