Workday Finance is here!

This phase of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project includes the implementation of financial accounting, procurement, expense reimbursement, purchasing card reconciliation, grants management, bank reconciliations, and accounting for capital projects and capital assets. Click here to see a summary of some of the changes that may impact your department.

Drop-in labs to practice business processes are currently available on the Coral Gables, Miller School, and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) campuses through Friday, September 8. Drop-in labs are a great way to get hands-on experience in Workday. For the full schedule of drop-in labs, please click here. (Note: you do not have to register to attend a drop-in lab).

If you missed training before last Friday’s go live, formal training will resume on Monday, September 11. Please visit the Workday Finance Training Catalog to review the list of available training classes. Click here to review Workday Finance Tip Sheets and Tutorials.

The Workday Finance Team, in cooperation with the UMIT Service Desk, will be monitoring Service Desk tickets and issues centrally to assist in any way possible.

If you have any questions, please contact the UMIT Service Desk at 305-284-6565 or help@miami.edu. If you have any questions about the project, please email workdayfinance@miami.edu.

Interested in Learning More?

Learn about the Financial Data Model (FDM), grants, gifts, and security functionality in Workday as part of the Finance 101 Series. To register, visit ULearn and search for the keyword: “FDM101,” or by the complete course name: “Workday FDM 101.”

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Register to receive the Workday Finance Update, a monthly publication sent straight to your inbox. Email workday@miami.edu or click here to register.

To learn more about the Workday Finance project click here. If you have any questions about the project, email a Workday expert at workdayfinance@miami.edu.

The fall edition of Mind and Matter offers helpful suggestions for managing crucial conversations. Mind and Matter is the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program’s quarterly newsletter and features articles on health and well-being, helpful tips on maintaining work-life balance, and other valuable resources such as free wellness seminars for faculty and staff. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter, or seminar announcements via email, please visit the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program website or contact Caliope Bootle at cbootle@miami.edu.

By Steve Pierre
University Communications

From left are Edith, Andrea, Amanda, and Jose Candelaria.

As a child growing up in Guanajuato, Mexico, Edith Candelaria fell in love with architecture and the idea of pursuing it as a career. “A family friend of ours had a daughter studying architecture, and I remember watching in awe as she built models,” she recalled. Coming to Miami as a teenager, she followed her dreams and received her Bachelor of Architecture from UM in 1990.

After gaining experience with architectural and engineering firms, Candelaria secured a position with UM Facilities, Design and Construction. Now in her 11th year, the project manager is helping to change the landscape of the University through the completion of various construction projects across the Coral Gables campus. Through her work, Candelaria is helping her daughters, Amanda and Andrea, build their student legacies at the University.

Amanda Candelaria revs up game-day festivities as part of the Category 5 student group

Andrea, a junior studying ecosystems science and policy, and Amanda, who recently graduated with her baccalaureate and Master of Science degrees from the five-year biomedical engineering program, were able to attend UM through the employee tuition remission benefit.

“Andrea is our green child and is very involved with the eco board, and Amanda is already working as an associate engineer at an endovascular medical solutions provider,” said Candelaria. “Both of our daughters showed interest in the sciences since they were very young. As a parent, you always want to encourage them to pursue their interests, and that’s exactly what we did.”

As students, their involvement in academics and organizations at the U has spanned a variety of interests, including orientation, commuter student involvement, and homecoming.

The Candelarias weren’t strangers to the U, nor to the tuition remission benefit, which covers eligible tuition costs for employees, their spouses, and eligible dependents.

Edith’s mother-in-law, Aurora Candelaria, worked at UM for 32 years, enabling Edith’s husband and his brother to earn their UM degrees at little cost.

“Since my husband and I were both alumni, we took the girls to football games, homecoming, everything,” said Candelaria. “We’ve always been a UM family and the girls have always wanted to attend as well. They were both very driven and great students, and they both worked very hard to live up to our legacy.”

Andrea Candelaria, far right, serves as a counselor for Great Start, a pre-orientation program for commuter students.

Candelaria attributes her daughters’ success and experiences in pursuing their passions to the tuition benefit. “When I started in 2006, the girls were very young, so it was in the back of our minds, but as the years went by we hoped they would get accepted since it is very competitive,” she recalled. “A degree from UM opens doors—anywhere you travel, anywhere you go, people know the University of Miami. It’s been a blessing for my family.”

To learn more about tuition benefits, visit benefits.miami.edu.

A new shuttle route connecting Gables One Tower (GOT) to the Coral Gables campus is now available. The shuttle is intended to connect GOT staff to the main campus for the Well ’Canes Market and other campus amenities. The GOT shuttle will pick up and drop off at the rear of GOT and Stanford Circle every 20 minutes.

The shuttle operates every Wednesday on Well ’Canes Market day and Fridays between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. For additional information, please call Parking and Transportation at 305-284-3096, or visit www.miami.edu/mobility and click on the Hurry’ Cane Shuttle link.

To better protect the University community from potential email threats, University of Miami Information Technology (UMIT) will be implementing Microsoft (MS) Email Protection—a combination of Microsoft’s advanced threat protection and exchange online protection—in September 2017 to replace Proofpoint. (Proofpoint will no longer be available after September 30, 2017).

MS Email Protection seamlessly integrates with UM’s Office 365 suite of products and services and provides multi-tiered protection against spam, viruses, malware, and phishing attempts, including encryption services to further protect your personal information.

For most people, no action will be required after this implementation, as MS Email Protection will be automatically enabled. However, a small group of faculty, staff, and students who have set up safelists and blocklists within Proofpoint will need to follow these instructions in order to transfer these lists to MS Email Protection.

To learn more, please visit the UM email protection service webpage. If you have any questions, please contact the UMIT Service Desk at 305-284-6565 or help@miami.edu.