FinPOST is the Finance Programme for Operations and Services Transformation.
General FAQs
The programme aims to transform finance in UCD by working with our colleagues to identify the services needed and to design and implement effective processes and modern collaborative ways of working to deliver those services. As part of the transformation programme, we will introduce a modern finance system that will allow us to meet those needs efficiently and to offer enhanced value-added services.
Click here to learn more about our new finance system and how this will improve our current ways of working.
Workday was chosen as the supplier of our new Finance System. Workday is a user-friendly, cloud based technology and is used in other highly ranked, research-intensive universities. Workday demonstrates a very strong match against UCD requirements.
Our Finance systems are nearing obsolescence, this provides us with an opportunity to implement a leading practice solution that is better suited to the digital needs of our University Community and the way we work together in today’s world. There have been gaps and shortfalls in the Finance processes and systems often resulting in cumbersome and tedious tasks, for the Finance Office and the wider University Community. FinPOST will help us close those gaps and provide an enhanced experience for those who provide and receive finance services in the University.
The programme officially launched in January 2023. Click here to visit the launch email from Bursar and Programme Sponsor, David Kelly.
The FinPOST transformation programme is set to be a complex programme of work, the current timelines estimate programme completion in 2025.
As FinPOST progresses we will be issuing updates and communications to the University over the course of the programme.
Please also see the FinPOST webpage for updates https://www.ucd.ie/finpost
Your line managers and the FinPOST programme team will also provide updates via team meetings, face to face engagements etc.
Please see the FinPOST webpage for updates https://www.ucd.ie/finpost
We have a dedicated email for any queries, please email (opens in a new window)finpost@ucd.ie
The Programme is sponsored by UCD’s Bursar, David Kelly, the Steering Committee is chaired by the Programme Owner, and has senior academics and representatives from UCD Research, IT, HR and other support areas. The FinPOST programme team has been established with dedicated expertise from within and outside of UCD. Visit the ‘Meet the Team’ section of our website, to find out more.
We are working closely with Workday and a Systems Implementer, KPMG, to implement the new Finance system.
Brilliant, we will need lots of support as the FinPOST programme progresses, please email (opens in a new window)finpost@ucd.ie
You can also contact your line manager for ways in which you can get involved with the programme.
The Governing Authority and UMT consider FinPOST to be a strategic priority for the University. As such, the programme has received widespread support from across the community.