Checking My Certifying Officers

In Umoja, it is advised to check your certifying officers before you start a transaction that needs financial certification. For example creation of official business needs a financial certification by the travel and shipment Approver. In order to avoid the approval workflow, each and every user is encouraged to try the following steps to proactively determine the certifying officers before even creating the transaction. Please note, the certification is based on the cost objects (Fund and Cost center) and the the users who are mapped to these cost objects based on the delegation of Authority (DOA) will be the approvers for those transactions.

• Log on to Portal; and you will be landing in Home tab. Click/select User map.

• The User map will default your name and will get all information in and around you

• On the User or Employee Search, please enter the Fund and Cost center for which you need to find the certifying officer
• Press Enter

• Select from the first tab ‘My Approvers’ the travel view

• The people who are listed under Travel and Shipment approver are the certifying officers for the travel request you will be creating.