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    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.

    1. 02No visibility into fully loaded costs
    2. 03Hiring plans disconnected from budget
    3. 04Manual pay and social security calculations
    4. 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.

    1. Plan

      OnePlan

      • Headcount plan by department, linked to the budget.
      • Import from Excel/CSV of your current headcount.
      See OnePlan
    2. Inside OnePlan

      Aurora

      • Explains the variance in personnel costs.
      • Builds pay formulas from plain language; they are applied only with approval.
      See Aurora
    3. Reporting

      Board packs and dashboards

      • Impact of headcount on the plan.
      • Hiring scenarios compared with the plan.
      See management reporting

    Example flow

    How it works, step by step

    1. 01You import your current headcount from Excel or CSV.
    2. 02Each department plans its new hires in the model.
    3. 03Aurora explains why personnel costs deviate from the budget.
    4. 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.

    See integrations

    Ready to Get Started?

    We'll show you OnePlan applied to your case in a personalized demo.