Workday for Finance

Workday Resources – Whether you’re a new or current employee, manager, or member of an administrative team, this website is your way to access training materials, find help documents, seek support, and more.

Workday is here! – This website is UW-Madison’s central resource for learning more about the Administrative Transformation Program (ATP) — including Workday — and how we will make the transition at UW Madison. Stay up to date by visiting this site often.

Financial Business Processes – The Business Process Previews are intended to provide awareness and share information on the key finance-related business processes that will take place in Workday.

Workday Data and Reporting –

      • How You’ll Get the Information You Need
      • Inventories and Crosswalks
      • Reporting Frequently Asked Questions
      • Demos and Recordings

Workday Introduction Videos – ATP Workday Introduction Videos (101 Workday Lunch and Learn videos)

Financial Facilitators Teams Q&A – Questions related to Workday or new policies implemented in FY25

FDM Tool

A place to find the crosswalk from SFS to Workday. Includes spend (expense) and revenue categories (number), funds, functions (program codes), and worktags (UDDS and projects).

CoE FDM Tool Training

Recording  from 4/21/25

Spend and Revenue Categories Crosswalk

Worktag Creation and Edits

If you want us to reach out to you before it is submitted, please indicate this in the last section of the form.

    • The current estimated turnaround time for these is 2 to 3 business days. The approval process once we enter them into the system is as follows.
      1. Campus reviews and approves or declines.
      2. WEST team reviews and approves or declines. If they approve, they enter the new information into Workday.

CoE Finance Workday Recordings

Here you can find demo’s, q&a’s and trainings the CoE Finance team has done.

Request financial security role changes/additions/removals

If you have questions about filling it out, let us know in the comment field and we will reach out.

    • This is the approval chain once we enter the requests in Workday.
      1. Employee supervisor
      2. Adam Whitehorse (Finance) or Jason Jankoski (HR)
      3. Central Campus
    • We will run a report each morning and send you the status of your requests.

EIB’s

The Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) is a tool that allows users to quickly load and retrieve large amounts of data into or from Workday using an EIB Template. An EIB Template is a spreadsheet that reflects the data requirements more easily by showing required and optional Workday data along with the column labels. The CoE Finance team has a list of examples EIB spreadsheets you can find here.

Submit issues at and after Go-live using this online form. CoE facilitators by business process in Finance and RA will receive your form and assist you in solving issues with Workday.

Questions? Please submit questions using our online form.