The University of Canterbury Students’ Association (UCSA) provides support services for over 20,000 students across a purpose-built hub, food and beverage outlets and early learning centres. As the organisation grew to nearly 300 staff across multiple sites, its paper-based timesheets, leave requests and manual payroll data entry – built around MYOB Exo Employer Services – increasingly struggled to keep up, a problem the COVID-19 work-from-home period made impossible to ignore.
UCSA moved to MYOB Advanced Payroll and MYOB Advanced Workforce Management, letting staff submit timesheets and leave requests from a laptop or phone, with the information syncing to payroll in real time and giving managers visibility to set rosters and estimate wage costs in advance instead of after the fact.
What used to be a two-day process manually entering, checking and processing payroll for up to 180 people is now a 1.5-day process covering up to 280 people.
