IAG
Elevating remuneration processes: ELMO Software’s impact at New Zealand’s biggest general insurer, IAG.
The Challenges
IAG required an efficient and robust system that could handle the significant volume of annual salary reviews and bonus payments at a set time every year. Staff were previously reviewed throughout the year on their anniversary date, so this change was a move to more common practice.
To ease the transition into this new review practice, IAG wanted a system that would help HR staff to efficiently process this large increase in remuneration reviews.
IAG were looking for a completely automated remuneration process that would allow more than 280 company managers to view their team’s information, process payments and recommend new salary amounts online. They also required the ability to control the data and timeframes of remuneration and bonus reviews, and also to produce and distribute salary review and short-term incentive (STI) payment letters electronically.
The Solution
IAG opted for the Pivot Remuneration solution to assist with both their annual remuneration review and bonus processes.
IAG’s Manager of Workforce Solutions says the system is easy to use and amalgamated well with other business processes. “Pivot Remuneration is an easy system to administer, is very flexible in its design and managers find it easy to use. Pivot does not require our team to have any technical expertise in order to use the product.”
IAG were also impressed by Pivot Remuneration’s capability to predict cost and/or model potential outcomes utilising a merit matrix model.
The Benefits
“Pivot Remuneration has a very logical step-by-step process engine which ensures we complete tasks on time and in the correct order,” says the Manager of Workforce Solutions.
She adds that the organisation now has an error rate of less than 1% and managers can access the data and complete the reviews from anywhere in New Zealand. “The production of 2000 letters is now fully automated.
Pivot Remuneration has improved the accuracy of payments to employees for their annual bonus payments and salary reviews. Our timeframes for these processes have been shortened by more than a month.”
Pivot Remuneration also helped carefully manage IAG’s remuneration budget through the use of “traffic lights”. This feature ensures that overspend signals a red light, which means salary recommendations must be sent for approval.