Though most of UVAFinance likely knows Gary Young, Director
of Fixed Assets Accounting in the Financial Reporting and Operations
department, you might not know that he recently joined the FST project team.
In his
typical role, he and his team handle the accounting and financial reporting for
the Academic side of Fixed Assets, but also consolidates the Medical Center Fixed
Assets financial data. For his work on the FST project, Young uses his
knowledge of these responsibilities and the Oracle Fixed Assets Module, along
with the valuable assistance of one of his key staff members, Lisa Layne, to
provide screenshots, financial reports, and other helpful information to the
group building UVA’s Workday tenant.
“I’m not as
familiar with Workday,” he explains, “Trying to get used to the different
terminology is challenging, but I know what things we need within Oracle. A big
part of my job is working with different FST experts to ensure we do not lose
any important functionality in Workday that we currently have in Oracle. There
are also times when we have to figure out whether or not we need to do
something differently than how we did it in the past.”
He says
his experience with the project so far has been good. However, he is “looking
forward to when we can all meet face-to-face again. Sometimes things can go a
bit fast within Zoom, so it’ll be nice to be able to slow meetings down a bit
to allow greater time to explore some of the important elements under
discussion.”
When he’s not busy doing his best to make sure Workday
Financials has everything UVA needs, Young likes to putter around in his garden
or work on other home projects. He also enjoys the pursuit of writing about subjects
such as parenting and religion. He and his distant family members also recently
started to participate in frequent game nights over Zoom, while enjoying the
creativity of his eight grandchildren as each shows off their latest Lego
creation based on a central theme, like their favorite vacation or adventure.
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