Catch Up With FST

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Phase 3 Updates

• We’re building the foundation tenant in Workday.  This is our UVA instance of Workday Financials and provides us with something to work from when we start designing future state business processes and testing out the chart of accounts. 
• Thomas Schneeberger and Allison Holt continue to work hard and do a lot of outreach on the chart of accounts/foundation data model and have put together a blueprint and some use cases to work within the tenant.  This will allow us to make sure the chart does what schools and units need it to do in terms of reporting and analytics. Later, in the fourth quarter, we’ll decide on worktags and move into data conversion.

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• As of this week, over 250 total attendees will have represented their school or unit at a multitude of data-gathering sessions. Thank you to everyone who took part in those sessions!

• The phase of FST we’re in now, through early summer, is the Architecture phase, where we really begin to work together to build the future of finance together. From there, we’ll move into Data Architecture sessions in late March through June– in those sessions, we’ll be able to see our data in the system as we design. We’ll review functional areas in Workday and required configuration, identify decisions for configuration, business processes, conditional logic, and workflow routing, and align on configuration, user stories, personas, and additional transformational opportunities.

Team Updates

We have over 40 positions filled and several more posted.  We’re in good shape on the functional side of the project, in change management and in finance, but we still have work to do on the technical side. We’re exploring multiple channels to get those technical positions filled.  

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See more FST news on the Online Community:
https://communityhub.virginia.edu/community/uva-finance-transformation including:

• Is ESharp going away?
• What's going on with training?