APT Member Highlight: Kay Doxilly

November 20, 2019

Note: This arti­cle was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in the Fall, 2019 issue of URFA Update. 

U of R APT mem­bers are a vital part of the day-to-day oper­a­tions of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Regi­na and First Nations Uni­ver­si­ty of Cana­da. Each issue of URFA Update fea­tures an APT mem­ber pro­file that high­lights our APT mem­bers and the dif­fer­ent roles they play on our campuses.

Name: Kay Doxilly

Posi­tion: Finan­cial Analyst

URFA APT Mem­ber since: March, 2019.

Pro­vide a descrip­tion of your posi­tion, and what a ​“day in the life” at your job might look like: The Finan­cial Ana­lyst (FA) posi­tion in Finan­cial Ser­vices man­ages a team of six. The role of the FA is to sup­port the team in tak­ing care of our stu­dent pop­u­la­tion and by exten­sion fund­ing part­ners, and also pro­vid­ing cash han­dling sup­port to oth­er depart­ments. The Finan­cial Ana­lyst is respon­si­ble for the approval of var­i­ous cash relat­ed activ­i­ties and post­ing trans­ac­tions made into sys­tems used across the Uni­ver­si­ty on a dai­ly basis. This posi­tion process­es schol­ar­ships, bur­saries and oth­er fund­ing types which need to be placed on stu­dents’ accounts. This includes dai­ly down­load of loan files. There are ad hoc func­tions which the FA does which can be set­ting up FAST AR accounts, or main­tain­ing var­i­ous codes. The FA is also encour­aged to be a mem­ber of var­i­ous com­mit­tees and cur­rent­ly is a mem­ber of two committees.

What about your posi­tion is the most reward­ing? Serv­ing the stu­dent pop­u­la­tion and our inter­nal and exter­nal cus­tomers. Help­ing stu­dents on their edu­ca­tion jour­ney to allow them to com­fort­ably focus on their learn­ing know­ing that we are doing our jobs com­pe­tent­ly and they do not have to wor­ry about funds not being prop­er­ly allo­cat­ed. It is sat­is­fy­ing to work in an envi­ron­ment with an array of experts, pro­fes­sion­als and col­leagues who are avail­able to help with com­plex and even more mun­dane enquiries I may have.

What is the most chal­leng­ing? Find­ing a good bal­ance between imple­ment­ing and com­mu­ni­cat­ing the poli­cies of the Uni­ver­si­ty to our cus­tomers and ensur­ing that we still pro­vide a ser­vice with a con­cerned approach.

What’s your favorite part of work­ing at the U of R? The envi­ron­ment. I enjoy com­ing to work in a place where I hear mul­ti­ple lan­guages and see a beau­ti­ful mosa­ic of faces. The grounds are very warm and wel­com­ing. I also have an amaz­ing team who pro­vide excel­lent service.