Financial Accounting Stabilization Update
- Beginning balance reconciliation, or the transfer of certain financial balances from multiple legacy systems to Workday with an increased level of detail, is a high priority item for the central office teams involved in this work. Three hour long daily working sessions to complete the reconciliation are scheduled throughout the latter part of March with the goal of completing this critical to fiscal year close work by the end of April. Earlier this year departmental operating resource fund balances were reconciled at a central level (in total), this concentrated work is focused on enterprise-wide reconciliation of balance sheet items.
Post Award Grant Administration Stabilization Update
- Focus group meetings between Huron and stakeholders throughout the UW have been completed. These meetings were critical information gathering sessions used to better inform pain points experienced by central office teams, grant managers and PIs that can be targeted for potential quick wins while the broader work to optimize business processes and reduce inefficient manual work occurs. These meetings also are key drivers for informing a forthcoming backlog elimination roadmap.
- Award setup and modification requests returned to campus users by GCA continues to hover in the high 200s. Missing, incomplete or incorrect SAGE Budget Worksheets are among the most common reason for returns to campus users. Please visit the SAGE Budget Support page for SAGE Budget resources
See the GCA Workflow and Backlog Tracking dashboard for more detail on post award backlogs.
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