Setup Considerations: Candidate Expense Reports
You can use this topic
to help make decisions when planning your configuration and use of candidate expense
reports. It explains:
- Why to set them up.
- How they fit into the rest of Workday.
- Downstream impacts and cross-product interactions.
- Security requirements and business process configurations.
- Questions and limitations to consider before implementation.
Refer to detailed task instructions for full configuration details.
What They Are
You can enable workers to create expense reports on behalf of candidates to reimburse them for
incurred expenses.
Business Benefits
- Analyze candidate expense data to make more informed decisions for HR initiatives.
- Eliminate manual workarounds, such as ad hoc payments and use of noncandidate payee types.
- Expedite reimbursement by routing candidate expense reports to specific reviewers and approvers.
- Reduce data duplication by centralizing candidate expense data in Workday.
- Track and report on recruiting costs for greater spend control.
Use Cases
- Reimburse candidates who incur recruitment costs, such as flights to interview sites and hotel stays.
- Report on job requisition totals, such as total costs for supplier invoices and candidate expenses.
- Submit expense reports that include multiple payee types, such as candidates and employees who attend the same team lunch.
Questions to Consider
Questions | Considerations |
|---|---|
What expense data do workers manage? | You can configure segmented security to enable workers to access
only candidate expense data. When you enable segmented security, workers
with:
When you don't enable segmented security, constrained and
unconstrained workers can select all nonworker payee types,
including candidates, on the Create Expense Report for
Non-Worker task. However, without the adequate
security permissions, workers won't have the ability to select
specific nonworkers on the Pay To
prompt. |
How do you manage credit card transactions for
candidates? | Although candidates don't use corporate expense credit cards, you
can reassign credit card transactions to them to expense costs incurred
on their behalf. When you reassign credit card transactions to
candidates, Workday displays the transactions on their expense
reports so you can select them for inclusion. When you don't
reassign credit card transactions to candidates, your custom and
standard reports might contain limited expense data, which can
affect your ability to analyze total spend. |
What expense report data can you purge for candidates? | When you select the Financials – Expense Reports purgeable
data type on the Purge Person Data task, Workday
purges:
|
Recommendations
- For accurate reporting, enable the Job Requisition worktag type on expense reports to track cost totals for job requisitions.
- When evergreen job requisitions don't have an associated manager or supervisory organization, configure calculated fields to route expense reports to other reviewers and approvers.
Requirements
- Assign workers with constrained security access to the required companies so that they can access candidate data and associated job applications.
- To submit expense reports on behalf of candidates, add expense payments as an option on their payment elections.
Limitations
Candidates don't have the ability to create their own expense reports in Workday.
We don't provide a
Candidate
worktag for use on expense reports. Instead, you can use
these report fields to report on candidate expenses:- Expense Payee Type
- Expense Report Payee
Workday doesn't support:
- Confidential job requisitions on candidate expense reports.
- Spend authorizations and cash advances for candidates.
Tenant Setup
No impact.
Security
Domains | Considerations |
|---|---|
Candidate Data: Candidate Expenses in the Recruiting
functional area. | Enables you to create expense reports for candidates and associate
job applications with candidate expenses. |
Process: Credit Card in the Common Financial Management functional
area. | Enables you to reassign credit card transactions to
candidates. |
Process: Expense Reports in the Expenses functional
area. | Enables you to manage expense reports and related reporting. You
can configure segmented security on this domain to enable workers to
access only candidate data on expense tasks and
reports. |
Manage: Payment Election in the Expenses functional
area. | Enables you to manage payment elections on behalf of
candidates. |
Business Processes
You can configure the
Expense Report Event
business process to route candidate expense
reports for review and approval. You can also route candidate expense reports to
specific reviewers and approvers.Reporting
Reports | Considerations |
|---|---|
Find Credit Card Transactions
| Use to view credit card transactions you reassign to candidates. |
Find Expense Report Lines for
Organization
| Use to view expense report lines for candidates by
organization. |
Find Expense Reports
| Use to view expense reports you create for candidates. |
Find Payments
| Use to view candidate expense payments:
|
Maintain Worktag Usage
| Use to enable the Job Requisition worktag type on expense reports and supplier
invoices. To make manual corrections on journal entries related to
expense reports and supplier invoices, you can also enable the Job
Requisition worktag type on:
|
When you enable segmented security, you can use these report data sources and their filters to
create custom reports with candidate expense data only:
- Expense Report Lines and Itemizations
- Expense Report Lines for Company
- Expense Reports for Company
You can configure multiple security segments to enable workers to access expense data for
multiple payee types on custom reports. Example: Create a custom report that
includes candidate and student expense data, but not expense data for external
committee members.
Integrations
Web Services | Considerations |
|---|---|
Get Expense Reports
| Use to retrieve data for candidate expense reports. When you
enable segmented security, you can use this web service to retrieve
expense data only for candidates. |
Get Payments
| Use to retrieve data for candidate expense payments. |
Get Settlement Run Custom Filters
Put Settlement Run
Custom Filter | Use to upload and retrieve data for the custom filters you create
for candidate settlement runs. |
Get Payment Election Options
Put Payment Election
Option | Use to upload and retrieve payment election options for candidate
expenses. |
Submit Expense Report for Non-Worker
| Use to upload data to submit expense reports for candidates. When
you enable segmented security, you can use this web service to
upload expense data only for candidates. |
Submit Settlement Run
| Use to upload data to settle and reimburse candidate
expenses. |
Connections and Touchpoints
Features | Considerations |
|---|---|
Accounting | Workday automatically generates a Job Requisition worktag on
accounting journal lines associated with candidate expense reports and
their job applications. We generate this worktag only on spend journals,
not on journals related to:
|
Settlement | You can create:
|
Supplier Accounts | You can enable the Job Requisition worktag type on supplier invoices to capture more
detailed cost totals for job requisitions. |