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Guides: Step-by-Step Headcount Planning Guide for Finance Teams
Headcount planning is a challenging process, and it can be difficult to know where to start. Transform your process with this simple step by step guide.
Automated
headcount planning, made simple.
Create connected headcount plans for every budget owner that drive your business objective.
People drive your business forward
But they’re also a significant investment, totaling up to 80% of costs. Managing headcount is challenging, particularly when a lot of existing methods are…
Siloed
Without a clear workflow, headcount operations are siloed, impacting collaboration and alignment.
Manual
Headcount changes happen all the time and for finance teams, every change is more manual work.
Unscalable
As complexity grows, demand for planning increases, impacting stakeholder productivity.
Implement scalable workflows
Simple workflow process
Use your headcount data to build an end to end headcount workflow and gain time visibility into your headcount plans. Evolve your workflow over time with flexible building.
Multi-level approvals
Create approval flows for headcount changes. Build traceability into the headcount process and align decision making with clear, approval functionality.
Robust access controls
Define role based permissions for users, segmenting views and actions at different layers of Abacum to protect sensitive information and ensure that actions are controlled.
Collaborative experience
Invite stakeholders, open discussion threads, share spaces with investors and more. Make headcount planning a truly collaborative experience in one central platform.
“With its intuitive interface, it is easy to adjust your plans as needs change during your headcount planning.
The snapshot functionality provides a clear, real-time overview of your staffing levels over time, helping you make informed decisions quickly.”
Clemens Müller,
Senior Controller, Digital Careers Institute
Automated reconciliation
No more manual updates
Auto-Import your actuals and reconcile variances between budget and actuals for a real-time view on your metrics.
Real-time data
Update your budget and push these changes automatically to all related models and spaces to create a connected business plan.
Powerful budgeting
Streamline your whole budgeting process and plan headcount strategically all from one platform.
Single source of truth
Combine all your data
Combine your HR data with operational and finance data, inside Abacum.
360° view for everyone
Provide all stakeholders with a trusted central repository to forecast with confidence.
Self-service integrations
Leverage 30+ HRIS Integration’s with out of the box connectors. Check out the full list.
Further reading
Blog: Three features of a good headcount planning process for finance teams
If you feel your process isn’t optimized, we’ve flagged three easy fixes that finance teams can make when headcount planning.
Templates: Headcount Planning Template
Now is the time to take a more strategic approach to your workforce planning initiatives. Download our headcount planning template to start building your future workforce.