Headcount Planning
Plan Your Headcount Position by Position
Workforce costs are usually your biggest expense. Stop managing them in spreadsheets: a headcount plan by department, linked to the budget.
The Headcount Challenge
Headcount spread across spreadsheets.
Hires, leavers and personnel costs in separate files, with no single version.
01 · Critical Issue
Headcount data scattered across spreadsheets
Without a reliable headcount plan, the personnel cost in the budget is an estimate.
- 02No visibility into fully loaded costs
- 03Hiring plans disconnected from budget
- 04Manual pay and social security calculations
- 05Different rules for different locations
The Solution
There's a better way.
How OnePlan handles it
One model, one process.
OnePlan is the model; Aurora understands and explains it within each person's permissions; board packs and dashboards take the result to management.
Plan
OnePlan
- Headcount plan by department, linked to the budget.
- Import from Excel/CSV of your current headcount.
Inside OnePlan
Aurora
- Explains the variance in personnel costs.
- Builds pay formulas from plain language; they are applied only with approval.
Reporting
Board packs and dashboards
- Impact of headcount on the plan.
- Hiring scenarios compared with the plan.
Example flow
How it works, step by step
- 01You import your current headcount from Excel or CSV.
- 02Each department plans its new hires in the model.
- 03Aurora explains why personnel costs deviate from the budget.
- 04OnePlan shows the impact on the plan.
Illustrative flow: the detail depends on how your model is set up.
Start from your Excel
Import from Excel and CSV with row validation. Your systems stay the source; OnePlan brings them together in one model.
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