Bonjour Finance et Planification… as Jackson my pooch would say… you know being French n’all.

So as some of you may have heard you have a new chief blogger! Here to serve you up some bite sized chunks of updates, news and events in our esteemed Friday Feeling – I’m not going to go on too much about my feelings of being slightly overwhelmed or intimidated after such a wonderful 12 months of blogging from Gemma but it’s safe to say they’re real, so I’ll dive right in!

Pinch punch first of the month… here we have Bea Bell’s winning calendar picture entry of Scotland for August

Year End it’s over…

YAY!

So for those of you in the Finance processing teams you will be breathing out a sigh of relief, e5 is back and touch wood everything went off without a hitch, for management accounts though the work has just begun preparing us for P1. Keep your eye out for our upcoming blog post on year end from across the teams… find out what really goes into it and why it’s such a big deal.

For those geeky ones… here’s  Matt’s fast stats:

Last year there were:	The most prolific users (in terms of number of GL lines created directly or indirectly) were:
23121 cash receipts 59075 BACS payments 784 Accrual Journals 49 FACR journals Exactly 1,000 JRNL journals (spooky) 209 RECJ journals 11,172 sales invoices and credit notes 32,950 tuition fee invoices and credit notes 13,818 POs were created	Kate Bembridge Debbie Rush Graz Manchester Fran Davies Debbie Rush Anna Ward Jo Steeples Mark Holmes And Donna Mcveigh

Rain.. what rain? nothing stops a Great British BBQ!

It rained, it poured, it was torrential but nothing stopped the Finance and Planning peeps from enjoying a few free drinks (big up Lorna P), some BBQ food and of course the annual quiz.  The winners were as follows:

1. The Shoal
2. The artists formerly known as Cashiers
3. Norfolk N Chance

and finally…. did anyone find out what the actual registered trademark of Coca Cola is… Tom Russell?

Changes to the ULT and the slides from the University Strategy Update

This week the VC announced that Karen Bryan and Paul Harrison will be leaving the University to move onto pastures new with Karen joining The University of Greenwich from November to be Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) .

Click the link here to see the slides from the VC’s update on the University Strategy.

Now you can view historic absence online…

You may have spied in this weeks e-view that there are changes to absence reporting. From Monday next week you will be able to view absence in core including historic absences which have been processed such as maternity and paternity leave

Bye bye SHU 21’s you served us well.

Leadership Bulletin

Have a read of Deborah’s update under Building a Great University (BaGU) where she writes about the end of the 16/17 planning round drawing to a close and the financial aspirations for the University over the next 24 months.

FD Making a Difference -Partner Awards

It seems our directorate really know how to make an impact right across the University with 4 colleagues from Finance being nominated for the FD Making a Difference – Partner Awards.

• Liz Windle
• Craig Jefferies
• Fran Davies
• Donna Fowler

Shortlisting will be on 9th August, the awards will be on the 19th October.

Cracking stuff guys whatever it is you’re doing keep it up!

Incident reporting is changing

The way we report accidents, incidents and near-misses has changed, moving to online reports . View a full break down of the changes here.

To report an incident

• in Finance contact me, Antonia Barton on extension 3564
• In Planning contact Iain Burton on extension 6429

Calling all Finance Health and Safety enthusiasts… I am the interim incident manager and we are on the look out for a permanent one.  Hit me up if you want to know more! I’m way too clumsy for this prestigious position.

Professional Development Programme – Cohort 6

Applications for the next cohort of the Professional Services Development Programme (PSDP) are open now. Check out the intranet page with all the details of the programme, our blog post summarising the programme and this video too from ACES PSDP graduate Jill where she talks about her experience (best viewed in chrome).

Deadline for entries is 24th August 2017

FD Family Fun Day

The FD Family Fun Day was a roaring success showing the appetite for free fun days out with the kids, with staff and budding new students (albeit a few years off yet) attending the day in their droves with over 1000 reported. The Star gave a us a great write up catch it here.

What’s on? The Sports Edition…

Crikey there’s a right lot going on this weekend…

Who are ya? Who are ya? It’s that time of the year again… Football is back!

Saturday sees the return of the League 1 Champions The Blades who face Brentford at home, their first match back in the championship, and The Owls take on Preston North End away at Deepdale. I’ve included the fixtures in the links above.

This year the University is supporting the Special Olympics National Summer Games 2017 at venues across the city.  Tickets are priced at £8 for Adults, £6 for Disabled and £5 for Students / Under 16.

Car enthusiasts! Get yourself down to The Moor which will play host to a plethora of classic cars on Sunday 6th August.

Clumber Park and Chill, anyone?? This weekend Clumber Park host The National Heritage Summer Nights Film Festival.

It’s the first weekend of the month so that means Peddler Food Market at Kelham Island.

Finally…

Next week we start our summer series which will focus on low cost summer days out… did someone say bakery crawl?

What else?

Changes in Sales Ledger, Sustainability Update, Meet the CI Team, Charity Update, Good Food For Less