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Payroll Certification at UCF

Overview

The University of Central Florida has completed its transition to Workday, and this is now reflected in the time and effort certification system, Employee Compensation Compliance (ECC).

The Employee Compensation Compliance (ECC) system is designed to help comply with the provisions of UCF™s Time and Effort policy, federal policy (Uniform Guidance, Subpart E – Cost Principles 200.430), NIH Salary Limitation on Grants, and other relevant agency policies that govern the need to provide certification of an individual’s effort pursuant to his/her sponsored and non-sponsored programs. Please direct any questions to the ECC Administrator, Daniel Sierra at Daniel.Sierra@ucf.edu. Daniel.Sierra@ucf.edu.

The ECC system can be accessed using the link listed. above You will use your Single Sign On (SSO) credentials to log in.

The ECC system has been updated to align with UCF’s transition to WorkDay.

New Cost Centers – New Divisions – New Grant IDs

The current schedule for ECC is as follows:

The following Periods of Performance will be required to be certified starting in May 2025 (specific dates and outreach coming soon!)

Fall 2024

Fall 2024; 8.16.2024 to PPE 12.19.2024

Spring 2025

12.20.2024 to PPE 5.08.2025

Note: Any posted Payroll Accounting Adjustments to prior certified effort periods (ex. Summer 2024 and prior) will need to be reviewed by the Unit Effort Coordinator and recertified.

ECC for Unit Effort Coordinators and 9M, 12M and A&P (Self Certifiers) –

  • Review personnel to determine if they are still employed (may require Proxy or Designee Certifier) OR;
  • Are the personnel listed in the correct department/unit?
  • Reviewing Faculty (PI and Co-PI) statements to verify time and effort is properly allocated to sponsored research grants.
  • Reviewing researcher(s) (GRA/OPS) statements to verify time and effort is properly allocated to sponsored research grants.
  • Statements can be reviewed throughout an In Progress For Certification period to ensure correct costing allocation prior to Pre-Review and Certification periods opening

*Requested updates to the ECC system should be sent to Daniel Sierra (Daniel.Sierra@ucf.edu).

Job Aids & Resources

Links to the Employee Compensation Compliance (ECC) training documents:

Contacts Office of Research

Office of Research:  The Office of Research is responsible for business aspects of the Employee Compensation Compliance (ECC) system, as well as manages security roles/rights for ECC and provides user access to the system. We will continue to update our website accordingly and ask that all ECC questions related to policy/procedures/guidelines be forwarded to Daniel Sierra (Daniel.Sierra@ucf.edu).