Financial Services training program
Welcome to the Financial Services training program. You can access introductory training courses for each of the units within Financial Services here. You can go through all of the courses listed below or pick and choose the topics that are important for you right now. Come back and view the courses any time as a refresher.
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Training modules for faculty and staff |
Introduction to Financial Services
Financial Services manages the university’s financial operations by overseeing the stewardship of funds, ensuring accurate financial reporting, supporting administration and reporting of research accounts, and facilitating transactions, payments, payroll, purchasing, and banking services across the institution.
Our department is comprised of five individual units: Payment and Banking Services, Payroll, Purchasing Services, Research Accounting, and Financial Reporting.
- We help you to purchase goods and services and pay for those goods and services
- We support units on campus in on-boarding faculty and staff and paying those faculty and staff
- If someone needs to be reimbursed or an honorarium or scholarship needs to be paid, we can help
- We create invoices to request payment to UVic from external parties as well as process payments made to the university to get the funds to the correct unit on campus
- We support researchers with all of these activities as well as with reporting and budgeting for their research funds
- We prepare internal and external financial reports, including endowments and provide financial accounting training.
Other training
- FAST Finance training
- Budgets training
- Emburse Enterprise expense management instruction guides and videos (previously Chrome River)
- Research Accounting expense reimbursement drop-in sessions - Tuesdays & Thursdays 2-3 pm via Microsoft Teams
- Payroll and UVic Careers drop-in sessions - Tuesdays at 11 am and Thursdays at 2 pm via Microsoft Teams
- Payroll resources for employees
- Payroll resources for departments and supervisors
- Approval authority tool - information and step by step instructions
Other resources and code lists
Payroll appointment/job configuration codes
- Employee class codes
- Account codes (payroll specific)
- Job change reason codes
- Job status codes
Payroll processing codes
FAST codes
- Expense account codes - searchable list
- Revenue account codes - searchable list
- FAST revenue and expense code list
- FAST Activity and Location codes
- FAST document identification code