The Municipal District of Bonnyville is a municipal government located in northeastern Alberta. Beyond being responsible for accurately paying 300 hourly and salaried employees, the government agency is also responsible for handling tax payer’s money, which means transparency and compliance are of the utmost importance.
Over the past 12 years, Avanti has helped the M.D. of Bonnyville transform their business processes with reduced manual data entry, easier reporting, and time-saving employee self-service.
Goals
Stay compliant & transparent
As a municipal government, staying compliant with Canadian legislation is crucial. The M.D. of Bonnyville needed a system that could ensure they could report quickly and accurately.
Eliminate manual payroll tasks & errors
The M.D. of Bonnyville team was manually entering and verifying hourly pay and statutory holiday pay every pay period. They needed a solution to help them eliminate manual and duplicate data entry while reducing time-consuming errors.
Empower employees
Printing and mailing employee tax and payment information was taking too much time and money. Not to mention the number of back-and-forth emails and conversations with employees who needed specific documents. Empowering their employees and freeing up their team’s time and budget was a priority.
The Solution
Report Designer
M.D. of Bonnyville uses Report Designer to get easy and fast access to employee data. They use their data to make informed business decisions on staffing and audit for duplications and other errors. This helps them stay compliant and ensure their paying their employees the correct amounts.
Advanced payroll features
Using Avanti’s configurable payroll formulas and automation, they’ve greatly reduced the amount of manual effort required to run their payroll accurately and on time. They used to need multiple people to review statutory holiday pay prior to using Avanti’s formula capabilities. Now they’ve eliminated 3 hours a week per pay giving their payroll staff back time to conquer other tasks.
Self-Service Portal
Using the Avanti Self-Service Portal, M.D. Bonnyville employees can access the documents they need without the help of their busy payroll department. This reduced the payroll team’s time spent on one-off requests and back and forth emails by 25%.
