Elevating Cougs for HR Partners: at a glance

WSU uses Workday to manage finance, payroll, grants, and human resources functions across the university. In Workday, human resources is referred to as Human Capital Management, or HCM.

HCM functions in Workday cover all aspects of an employee’s lifecycle, from applying for jobs, hiring, compensation, time and leave, position changes, and separation and retirement.

In Workday, those with the HR Partner security role are at the heart of human resource functions. HR Partners are involved in almost every HCM process, from creating positions, initiating hires, entering time on behalf of employees, adding or changing an employee’s job, and managing employee separations.  

If you’re an HR Partner, the Workday Success Stories track at the 2023 Elevating Cougs conference offers the opportunity to expand on your knowledge of HCM functions in Workday, including:

  • Foundational elements:
    • How Security works in Workday
    • HCM best practices for both departments and areas with centralized business units
    • Navigating Workday for HCM tasks
    • Finding HCM training materials and resources
  • Deep dives:
    • Review the different Person types and when to use which one
    • Managing Academic appointments and how they rout for approval
    • What to do for successful Payroll cutoff days
    • Understanding Leave of Absence
    • Change Job process

HR Partners who attend Elevating Cougs will hear from HCM subject matter experts across WSU about how they use Workday to perform HCM tasks. They’ll also have the chance to connect with HCM Modernization analysts to ask questions and learn how we’re continuing to improve Workday HCM processes at WSU. HR Partners can also attend sessions from other workstreams to learn how their contributions fit into the broader picture of WSU’s business and administrative functions.

HR Partners can start learning more now by:

Elevating Cougs is brought to all WSU employees free-of-cost by Modernization and HRS’ Learning & Organizational Development. The conference will be held virtually on October 19 & 20, 2023. Questions? Reach out at the Workday Service Desk or email hrstraining@wsu.edu.