In the evolution of many businesses, there comes a time when the need to outsource Payroll and HR becomes a necessity. This often occurs when business leaders have to deal with one or more of these functions and is a distraction from their core business. Limited resources, knowledge and time will inevitably lead to challenges.
So what are the advantages in outsourcing your Payroll and HR services?
Skills and knowledge – hiring someone from a specialist company will ensure they are trained and qualified in that specific function, with up to date knowledge and expertise. An in-house resource may not have the extent or depth of knowledge as a specialist provider.
Increased legislative compliance – specialist companies, such as payroll, pensions HR, will have a detailed understanding of the legislation that surrounds that subject, ensuring ongoing legal compliance.
Efficiency – companies can focus on their core business process and development rather than on finance and HR specialisms.
Reduced costs – Hiring a dedicated HR or Finance Professional is undoubtedly a significant investment. Alternatively engaging a specialist company with access to wider resources may prove to be more cost effective in the long term. In addition, the cost of poor people management can be significant, if a company fails to comply with the law; potentially they could be faced with substantial costs for both legal and HR advice.
How Can Liberata Help?
By partnering with Liberata and utilising our People Services, you will be able to ensure employees are paid on time and accurately, manage the employee lifecycle with a comprehensive HR service and, should the unfortunate time come for redundancies, this will be professionally managed and, we can offer a full outplacement support service.
Payroll Services
Expert Delivery – Liberata is responsible for 350 separate payrolls, that’s in excess of 1,000,000 payslips processed across Public and Private Sector organisations and, we pay in excess of £1 billion to payees annually
Pinpoint Accuracy – Our solutions are different as they are highly secure, flexible and accurate with over 99.8% service accuracy delivered across our payrolls
Four tiers of service available – Payroll Bureau, Managed Service, Specialist Services and Premium Service. Allowing our clients to pick the solution that meets their current and anticipated needs
HR Services & Outplacement Support
Transactional HR Services – recruitment support, pre-employment (baseline) checks, Disclosure & Barring Service checking, issuing employment contracts and variations, fixed term contract reminders, probationary reviews, maternity/paternity administration, sickness absence, leavers’ and pensions administration.
HR Consultancy Services – additional services include drafting policy & procedures, supporting formal/informal meeting, sensitive document drafting, briefing on new legislation, disciplinary/grievance and ill health procedural support, Trade Union negotiation, pay & grading advice, redundancy & retirement support, Settlement Agreement and representation at Employment Tribunals.
Organisational Development – for business strategy, definition and support, policy design, change management support, competency frameworks, staff development frameworks, compliance training programmes, Investors in People support and graduate/ apprentice programme support
Outplacement Support – including career assessments, CV building, IT skills courses, company research database, interview coaching & support, personal career coaching, job search portal, career profiling tools, personal branding support and role on-boarding support.
Why Liberata?
System Agnostic – our HR solutions are system agnostic so we can wrap our services around any existing payroll system
Flexibility – we respond to our clients’ exact needs and will include strategic HR and organisational development. We never take a “one size fits all” approach
Security – having worked across sensitive areas of government for many years we take security very seriously
Partnerships – Liberata has an excellent network or partners that we can use if our clients require very specialist support and advice
If you would like to learn more about Liberata’s People Services then please contact us by clicking here.