-: Good morning, my name is Genesis Waldron.
I'm an account payable financial analyst
and I work at the University of Toledo.
But basically, the job itself, what it does is
that you pay a lot of bills for the university.
There's a lot of reporting and stuff that goes into it,
but the role is more in the financial operations side.
So there's a lot of dealing with customers,
dealing with vendors, dealing with fellow staff and stuff.
And basically it's a lot of reporting
as well as paying bills.
But the emphasis of the job itself is more
on the financial operational side, where you are actually
like paying a lot of the bills for the university.
And in terms of like, with reports and stuff,
we have a lot of reporting that we do,
analyzing where the university wants to go in terms of
with their funding as well as their mission and everything.
And we are more on the lower level of the decision making,
but we do a lot of support work for senior staff.
So we use a lot of systems like Excel.
We do generally with Banner as well,
as some with the Dynamic Forms as well.
So those are just some general systems that we used to help
with the reporting as well as the payment
of the bills for the university.
One of the recent tasks that I worked on would be in terms
of getting some ACH, a lot of the vendors that we deal with,
moving from paper checks onto ACH.
It was a big task that we usually have.
A lot of times vendors, they prefer to have checks,
they don't usually see the advantages
of having electronic bank payments.
So that was a big project where you know,
you're go in and you interact with those vendors,
you get them to kind of, persuade them to see the advantages
of being paid electronically, which is a lot quicker, easier
and there's a lot better tracking than a check
that can easily be lost in the mail.
Well, in this particular position,
there is no travel involved.
Most of the stuff is done via telephone,
you know, with technology and everything.
With the whole COVID system,
a lot of the meetings have gone virtual now.
So we have used relied heavily on Teams platform,
Microsoft Teams.
We also use WebEx as well.
That's another video conferencing system
that we use, as well.
So between those two as well as phone calls,
communicating with the people and staff,
it's been mostly virtual.