Calculate from approved rules
Apply country, worker type, grade, FTE, effective period and cost component assumptions. Missing pay or FX coverage should be visible as a calculation issue.
PERSONNEL COST CONTROL
Understand the cost behind the headcount.
Personnel costs change for reasons that a headcount dashboard cannot show. HC Controller links planned positions and FTE to effective-dated pay assumptions, cost components, currencies and scenarios, making the financial effect explainable.
For the controlling team
Built around your job, not another dashboard.
Finance Controllers, FP&A, Labour Economics and multinational workforce cost planning teams.
The problem
Why the numbers take too long to explain.
Two plans can contain the same headcount while differing by hiring timing, grade mix, country mix, salary increases, employer contributions or exchange rates. A consolidated total hides the assumptions that management needs to challenge.
With HC Controller
From the source to the decision.
Separate operational and currency changes
Compare planned positions, salary or employer-cost assumptions, country mix and the approved Group FX set. Use a consistent decomposition before assigning causes.
Run multi-year cases
Move roles between countries or adjust FTE and grades; see the annual Group cost consequences against the selected baseline.
Work with Finance-owned assumptions
Skill Team Leads propose positions and dates. Finance maintains salary rules, social cost, benefits and exchange-rate assumptions.
Reconcile cost per FTE
Calculate weighted Group cost per FTE from governed cost and FTE totals, not the unweighted average of country ratios.
Practical example
What the controller can investigate.
Illustrative example: a planned full-time role costing €120,000 per year and starting in October contributes €30,000 in a simple three-month phasing model, versus €60,000 if it starts in July. Actual company accounting rules may require different treatment.
Illustrative example only; not a validated customer result or a promise of processing speed.Availability and data scope
What is available, and what still requires verification.
HC Controller does not replace payroll, calculate statutory entitlements or certify compliance. Cost outcomes are planning estimates based on the assumptions and sources supplied; real payroll data may require separate reconciliation.