Workday Advisory Committee
Provides oversight and direction for Workday, approving and prioritizing changes stemming from needs across campus. These may include changes to business processes, system configuration, and security/roles, as well as changes stemming from Workday product releases. WAC serves as the parent committee to three focused, functional Subcommittees for Human Resources (HR), Finance, and Student.
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- Approve priorities for Workday Production’s ongoing operations, enhancements, and new initiatives approved at the Subcommittee level to assure alignment with the university’s business goals and needs.
- Discuss and make decisions on cross-functional requests stemming from Subcommittees, assessing impacts for shared objects and functions.
- Ensure changes to sandbox and production environments are controlled and coordinated.
- Identify and monitor progress of Workday initiatives on its Roadmap and provide guidance to ongoing administrative systems’ operations, support efforts, and enhancements.
- Consider and discuss impact of administrative system changes on people, process, technology, standards, and policies.
- Resolve the escalation of issues which span departmental or divisional boundaries.
- Review school and department systems in the context of enterprise systems.
- Provide direction to prevent, where appropriate, unnecessary redundancy or non-sustainable implementations and resulting inefficiencies and risks.
- Assist in informing the broader campus community of approved changes to processes, policies, and standards.
- In conjunction with data governance program launch, with approval from the appropriate data trustees if applicable:
- Encourage and facilitate the integration of systems and access to data across functional boundaries and guide the development of common data models.
- Champion effective information and IT security measures, policies and practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of resources are preserved.
- ITS Leadership Representative (chair)
- HR Subcommittee Chair
- Finance Subcommittee Chair
- Student Subcommittee Chair
- Student Financials Representative
- Payroll Representative
- Student Employment Representative
- Security Lead
- Technical Lead
- Training Lead
Requests for enhancements, addition of new initiatives, or changes to existing systems should be sent to help@brandeis.edu with the subject: Workday Governance.
General support for Workday Student, HR or Finance can be also be sent to help@brandeis.edu with the subject: Workday Support.
The Workday Production Advisory Committee Meeting Agendas and Minutes are posted to Box (Brandeis login required). If you have questions, please contact the chair of the committee.