Thursday 3 April 2014

Auto Enrolment: Thinking about data & systems yet?


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My dad is a systems integration engineer and right now I can really empathise with him! His job basically involves taking a number of components that were never intended to work together and trying to force them to work seamlessly as part of a process.

The parallels are there for auto enrolment pensions at the moment, with trying to integrate the HR systems with payroll system to get all the necessary employee information out to input into the auto enrolment system. Sounds simple when you start to talk about it, right? Then you realise that yes, these systems can export some of the data (usually not everything that you want), but never in the format required or quite in the right way to make the job straightforward.

I find that conversations about pensions data & systems early in the auto enrolment planning stage are an absolute must.  Have a call or a meeting with your payroll provider, auto enrolment consultant and pension provider as soon as possible to understand the challenges ahead.
 

Rob Barksfield
Auto-enrolment Consultant

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7893 3456
Email:  contactus [@] broadstoneltd.co.uk

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