FST Decision Log U: Updates and Finalized Decisions

Have you checked out the FST Decision Log lately?

Over the past few months, the FST Team and stakeholders have resolved a few key decisions for the project. 

Firstly, based on feedback collected at the various governance meetings, FST will not map and convert data in the warehouse to the new FDM. 

Secondly, the project team will configure Workday Financials to accommodate both per diem and actuals. However, there are plans to revisit this policy after implementation. 

Finally, Position Budgets will be generated in Adaptive Planning and loaded to Workday for reporting. No changes will be made to the existing HCM business processes and Position Budget Checking will not be implemented. 

Now that these decisions are finalized, the team is currently bringing the following topics to governance meetings for feedback:

• Recon@ in Future State: as UVA moves towards Workday Financials, it has the chance to phase out Recon@ and potentially shift away from the heavy reliance on post-transaction reconciliation activities.
• System Admin Responsibility Approach: Admins for Oracle today are primarily within ITS Enterprise Applications. Workday, however, allows for super-user access within certain functional area domains. This raises the question: should UVA still shift towards specialized super-users within different functional departments (Finance/AP), or keep those admin roles centralized within IT?

These topics were presented at last week's Fiscal Administrators Meeting and attendees were given the chance to share their thoughts. You can check out the slides for the meeting here. You can find recordings of past meetings here.