Renaissance Woman Alison Hyler Joins FST to Help Shape UVA’s Financial Future

Drawing on in-house expertise, Accounts Payable (AP) and Payment Specialist Alison Hyler joins the FST team half-time. She’ll be working on the Supplier Accounts team, focusing on AP processes.  

“For the team, I was excited just to be able to learn something new. Then, also, I really wanted to build something better for AP, knowing how Oracle is now and being able to be part of UVA’s financial future is really exciting.”

Hyler’s been working in AP for over a year-and-a-half, so she’s quite familiar with current business practices. For FST, she’ll concentrate on supplier accounts, payment, and invoicing processes. In her FST work, she’ll connect with AP stakeholders and fiscal administrators—anyone who will be impacted by the AP changes that will be made in Workday Financials.

“We’ve been on Oracle for a long time, so I know there’s trouble with data for reporting and some inconvenient manual processes that could definitely be overhauled and improved in Workday. Especially around the invoice processing process because that’s completely manual except for our supplier portal, which works somewhat,” Hyler says. “So there definitely is just a lot of room for improvement. There’s already great stuff in Oracle, but there are a lot of manual processes that we’re hoping Workday can streamline.” 

Hyler’s analytical brain that makes her a natural problem solver also gets plenty of use in her personal life. An avid gamer, she enjoys video and board games. In non-Covid times, she has fun cracking escape rooms with her fiancé and friends. In true Renaissance woman style, she also paints and sews, and she’s currently working on her own comic, writing the story and creating the visual art.