SJSURF Workday Training
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
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
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 New Hire Process
– Scribe: Faculty Reappointment Process
– Scribe: Non-benefited New Hire Process (for all student employees and other temporary positions)
– Scribe: Job Change — Account and/or Salary Change (for non-faculty employee)
– Scribe: Add Job — Hiring existing employee under different Manager/PI
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
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
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