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GPA: Tell me about impactful work relationships with those not in payroll. Oluyomi Okunowo: Well, first there are HR business partners and managers that serve the different areas of the business who are critical for effectively communicating payroll issues. They all have different agendas, but they are key to ensuring people are paid right. Having a good relationship with those in finance, of course, helps ensure the outputs are good and that treasury and banking relationships are solid. Those in procurement are key to successfully managing the vendor
and the cycle is met. People get paid, but the HRIS tends to get left behind. To make sure that HRIS was a single source of truth and correct, we needed to first connect payroll to the HRIS hub and then make sure that the way payroll gets fed is through HR. Now, we all know technology . . . there will still be a few things that need to be done, the exceptions; it’s not where it’s 100%. The advances we’ve made help us to absorb those instances. Further, we are using service-provider technology to integrate and help us understand the data. We are incorporating robotics and AI; they are coming into play bit by bit. Primarily, we are using these for scheduling and recruitment, but are looking at different use cases in the operations from a data management point of view.
relationships. I call them “procurement partners.” They keep an eye on service level arrangements and we rely on them when we need to have difficult discussions involving our vendor relationships. There also are those in data privacy and cybersecurity that stand out as well, who help stabilize the systems and ensure the data is collected right and available. In today’s world, with and internal practices must be in place. These people help make sure not only that we are doing it right, but they also keep an eye on any cybersecurity risks. GDPR, data needs to be secure, and proper vendor
To make sure that HRIS was a single source of truth and correct, we needed to first connect payroll to the HRIS hub and then make sure that the way payroll gets fed is through HR
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