Workday Grants guides for higher ed and public sector, from an independent consultant.
Mel Wong is an independent Workday Grants consultant with nine years in enterprise finance systems. These guides answer what grants teams ask most after go-live.
Seven questions, answered plainly
Each guide opens with the answer, walks one worked example on made-up numbers, and ends with what to check. Patterns only: nothing here comes from a client, an employer or Workday training material.
- Fixing a salary charge on the wrong grant. How do I move salary onto the right grant in Workday after payroll already ran?
- Effort certification when payroll keeps moving. Is an effort certification still valid if payroll for that period changes afterward?
- Cost share, the promise and the proof. How do you track cost share commitments against actual spending on a grant?
- I can see the award but not the grant. Why can someone see a Workday award but not the grant, payroll or report?
- Following a dollar from cost to cash. How do you reconcile grant costs, billing and cash in Workday?
- Closeout, three finishes. How long do you have to close out a federal grant, and what does closed actually mean?
- Amendments change the future. What happens to costs already processed when a grant's end date or rate changes in Workday?
Independent Workday Grants consultant, not an implementation partner
Saintilco does not sell implementations or staff augmentation. The work is finding where your Workday Grants setup falls short, ranking what to fix and why, and helping your team or partner fix it.
Two pages go deeper on effort: testing effort certification in Workday and what evidence should support an effort certification.
Two ways to take this further
The free health check runs sixteen checks on your grants area, and the free Effort Certification Review tests your own export in your browser.
The Sponsored Award Review is the scored version, $1,950 for your whole institution.