SJSURF Workday Training

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Welcome to Workday!

Workday is a cloud-based human resource (HR) and financial management (financials) system. It's a one-stop shop for workforce management, including payroll, timesheets, benefits, and more.

Workday Login
Scribe: User Login Help


Questions

Issue Who to Contact
Login issues, password resets, or tech questions

Email fdn-it-group@sjsu.edu  or Log a ticket

Time tracking, paystubs, W-2s

Email the RF Payroll Team

Grants or account balances

Email your RF OSP Post-Award Analyst

Invoices and reimbursements

Email the RF Accounts Payable Team

Additional Resources

 

Training Hub

Quick Guides
  1. Workday Toolbar Navigation Tutorial
  2. Workday Global Navigation Menu
  3. Workday Shortcuts
Benefits (Presented: Jun. 17, 2025)

Target Audience: All Employees (except SJSU students)
Presenter: Jocelyne Peña

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Scribe: How to Change Commuter and Retirement Benefit Online

Description

Benefits: How to enroll/waive benefits-retirement plan, parking, Commuter Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

Employee Dashboard (Presented: Jun. 3, 2025)

Target Audience: All Active Employees
Presenter: Myles Reed

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Scribe: How To Update Personal Information In Workday
Slides

Description

Human Resources: Employee Dashboard — Learn how to navigate your employee dashboard, including:
– Accessing and updating your employee profile
– Using the menu options
– Updating Direct Deposit (DD), W-4, Emergency Contact, and EEO information
– Viewing your payslips, W-2s, and 1095 forms

Job Changes (Presented: Jun. 10, 2025)

Target Audience: All PIs & Account Signers
Presenter: Ranjit Kaur

Training Resources

– Training Video Recording (coming shortly)
Scribe: Faculty Reappointment Process
Scribe: Job Change — Account and/or Salary Change (for non-faculty employee)
Scribe: Add Job — Hiring existing employee under different Manager/PI
Scribe: Convert Contingent Worker to Employee
Scribe: How to Terminate Employee in Workday
Scribe: Extend/Reappoint a Non-faculty Employee

Description

Human Resources: How to manage employment changes — salary action, account change/extension, add job, end job, and termination.

New Hire Process (Presented: Jun. 5, 2025)

Target Audience: All PIs & Administrative Staff
Presenters: Ranjit Kaur & Vicky Farias

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Scribe: How to Hire a Benefited Position — Hiring Manager
Scribe: Faculty New Hire Process
Scribe: Non-benefited New Hire Process (for all student employees and other temporary positions)
Scribe: How to Approve a Job Requisition — OSP
Scribe: Completing Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9
Scribe: Completing Your Onboarding Process in Workday
Scribe: Hire Contingent Worker (volunteer, PI managing employees but not paid through RF)

Description

Human Resources: For non-benefited, faculty, and benefited positions.

New Suppliers, Purchase Orders, and Invoices (Presented: Jun. 13, 2025)

Target Audience: Central Office, All PIs, & Administrative Staff
Presenter: Loralee Quintero

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Scribe: Creating Purchase Order Requisitions In Workday
Scribe: Requesting a New Supplier
Scribe: Creating a Non-PO Supplier Invoice Request in Workday

Description

Finance/Acounts Payable: This workshop will cover the following processes:

– Submitting purchase order requisitions through Workday
– Submitting non-PO invoices through Workday
– Requesting a new supplier through Workday
– Approving requisitions and invoices
– General information and questions

Performance Evaluations (All Benefited Employees)

Target Audience: All Benefited Employees and their Supervisors
Presenter: Vicky Farias

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Copy Last Year's Goals to Workday
Complete Self-Evaluation
Create Goals for Upcoming Year
Updated Employee Rating Scale [pdf]

Description

Overview of the performance evaluation process and how to complete it in Workday.

Performance Evaluations (Managers)

Target Audience: All Benefited Employees and their Supervisors
Presenter: Vicky Farias

Training Resources

Training Video Recording

Description

Overview of the performance evaluation process and how to complete it in Workday.

PI Grants Access in Workday (Presented: Jun. 17, 2025)

Target Audience: PIs
Presenters: Lan Ngoc Duong & Amy Zhao

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Scribe: How to search for your award in Workday
Scribe: How to run Account Status Report – PIs on-line

Description

In this Workday training session, the OSP Post-Award Associate Director and Manager will walk through how to navigate the system to access grant account information. There will be a demonstration of key details, such as remaining balances, purchase orders, and expense history.

Program Accounts in Workday (Presented: Jun. 27, 2025)

Target Audience: PIs for Self-support Programs
Presenters: Ricky Yoneda & Patrick Murray

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Scribe: Program Accounts in Workday [pdf]
Slides: Program Accounts in Workday [pdf]

Description

This workshop will cover the following processes:

– Funds recorded as revenue
– Interfund transfers done via journal entries
– Admin fees
– Timing of calculations
– Fees

Timesheet and Requesting Time-Off (Presented: Jun. 12, 2025)

Target Audience: All Active Employees
Presenter: Vicky Farias

Training Resources

– Training Video Recording
– Scribe: How to Submit Timesheet — Exempt
Scribe: How to Submit Timesheet — Faculty
Scribe: How to Submit Timesheet — Hourly
Scribe: How to Submit Timesheet — Multiple Position
Scribe: How to Request Time Off

Description

Payroll: Instructions for submitting timesheets and time off for hourly, exempt, faculty, and multiple positions.

Timesheet and Time-Off Approval (Presented: Jun. 12, 2025)

Target Audience: All PIs & Account Signers
Presenter: Vicky Farias

Training Resources

– Training Video Recording
Scribe: How to Approve Timesheets — PIs, Account Signers
Scribe: How to Delegate Timesheets — PIs, Account Signers

Description

Payroll: Learn how to review and approve time entries and time off/leave requests.

Travel, Expenses and P-Cards (Presented: Jun. 10, 2025)

Target Audience: Central Office, All PIs, & Administrative Staff
Presenter: Loralee Quintero  

Training Resources

Training Video Recording
Scribe: Travel Authorizations and Expense Reports
Scribe: Reconcile and Verify P-Card Transactions in Workday

Description

Finance/Accounts Payable: This workshop will cover the following processes:

– Spend Authorization: Approval for travel will be submitted through Workday rather than using our current RAT form (employees only, separate process for students and non-employees)
– Expense Reports: Creating expense reports in Workday for travel or expense reimbursement. How to link your expense report to your Workday travel authorization.
– Approving Spend Authorizations and Expense Reports.
– P-Card Reconciliation: How to reconcile your P-Card charges using Workday. How to delegate reconciliation to support staff.
– General information and questions