Plan the full horizon
Start with current Actuals and year-end Forecast, then develop five Business Plan years. Keep prior approved plans, management targets and new submissions identifiable.
WORKFORCE PLANNING & BUSINESS PLAN
See what every workforce decision does next year. And five years out.
A workforce plan should be more than a set of year-end headcount targets. HC Controller models positions, effective dates and FTE over time while keeping the Business Plan, management targets and what-if scenarios separate.
For the controlling team
Built around your job, not another dashboard.
FP&A, Labour Economics, workforce planning, Skill Team Leads and management teams managing multi-country plans.
The problem
Why the numbers take too long to explain.
A new hiring proposal can leave year-end HC unchanged but materially change annual personnel cost because the start date moved. Teams also submit requirements at different times, which makes consolidation and approval difficult if the entire Business Plan lives in spreadsheets.
With HC Controller
From the source to the decision.
Use effective dates
Model planned starters, leavers, FTE changes, country moves, vacancies and grades in the month they take effect. Separate ending HC from average FTE.
Coordinate the submissions
Collect Skill Team proposals, record explanations, identify outstanding submissions and follow planning-cycle deadlines, milestones and extension requests.
Cost the plan centrally
Let business owners submit operational position requirements while Finance or Labour Economics maintains pay, benefits, country assumptions and FX.
Preserve governance
Test alternatives in scenarios without overwriting the approved target or locked Business Plan.
Practical example
What the controller can investigate.
Illustrative question: 30 engineering positions remain approved for the year, but the hiring month moves from April to October. The same number of year-end positions may appear in both plans while the annual FTE and cost phasing differ significantly.
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.
The test drive includes a planning workspace, position-based calculations and timetables. A fully integrated enterprise approval chain, external HRIS feeds and verified delivery of all reminders are not implied by that test experience.