“On the Payslip platform, automated feeds mean I no longer have to spend hours validating hundreds of bonus and one time payment inputs. This can now be done in seconds, so I have much more time for review and analysis.”
Taynan De Jesus Nunes
Payroll Analyst at Cloudera
The Challenge
Cloudera had scaled rapidly from 200 employees across 14 countries to over 1800 employees in 28 countries. They had several different systems for global payroll processing, finance and HR and their growth activity created a strong requirement for consolidated reporting to get clearer visibility around compensation data metrics and payroll costs. They also required Workday integrations for their countries outside of the United States.
“I see Payslip is taking us forward to be the scalable $billion business we want to be.”
Scott Reasoner, (CPA, MBA)
CAO at Cloudera
The Solution
The Client Success Implementations team here at Payslip met with Cloudera’s global payroll owners and finance teams to evaluate the current status of their data. To achieve quality reporting, it is essential to first review, clean up and standardize the data.
Understandably, their scaling activity resulted in them receiving different data from different sources, in different formats, making it difficult to supply bigger picture reporting to the C-Suite team.
Payslip worked with Cloudera to analyze their data and then proceeded to standardize and harmonize the pay elements for earning, deductions, and employer costs by setting up and mapping the elements across a range of relevant categories: country, entity, employee etc. We introduced standardized general ledger codes and element classification across all of their payroll countries. While doing this, we created a playbook process that would enable Cloudera to introduce new elements in the future in a similarly standardized way, ensuring they could map and classify pay elements rapidly when they needed to in the future.
Payslip also helped Cloudera integrate with their Workday HCM, using a phased approach that focused on their payroll countries with the largest number of employees. Using one standard Workday integration file, Payslip ensured that the PECI file coordination was done via a standard file structure which significantly reduced file testing volumes & times ahead of go-live.
Cloudera had 1800 people across 20+ countries on Workday so the integration removed the need for manual data transfer via excel spreadsheet, saving them hours on data entry and checking while also reducing payroll data errors.
“Reporting is now standardized globally across all countries for the first time ever which is fantastic.
We had nothing but positive feedback from all of the teams that were involved in Payslip onboarding. It's been brilliant”
David Nugent
Senior Manager, International Payroll at Cloudera
The Result
Payroll reporting at local country and global level
Cloudera now operate with payroll processes that are fully integrated with Workday, enabling them to drive payroll for all their countries using the Workday HCM.
Cloudera are a high growth organization, so always need to be agile and responsive when it comes to C-Suite requests for multicounty consolidated global payroll reporting. The Payslip global reporter tool allows them to run exactly the kind of reports they need, in real time and on a self-serve basis.
Their new reporting capabilities are facilitated by standardized data across all of their payroll countries, enabling far more granular detail to be extracted in the form of easily understood reporting. All of their global payroll data can now be accessed and viewed inside Workday so they can now run comprehensive reports and analytics to give them the full picture while also ensuring the are always in a state of audit readiness.
Cloudera use Payslip for comprehensive reviewing and analysis of month and quarter end accounting data, and now benefit from greater analytics and insights to explain any fluctuations in figures. This has saved them considerable time in their month-end process, and they were pleased to learn the new reporting formats were easily understood by a range of internal and external stakeholders. This has also served to strengthen their internal partnerships with HR, finance and IT.
This level of reporting provides detailed insight as well as essential country costs comparison data that helps them view, manage and control the global payroll processes at a local level in their new countries as well as an overall global level.
