The new HR and payroll system “Staff Connect”, which will enable staff to view their payslips and personal details online, continues to come together.

Since our last update in January, much work has been undertaken by all involved in the development of Staff Connect. The system has been configured and tested by the Project team.

Now HR and Finance are completing extensive “user acceptance testing”. Meanwhile IS staff are conducting technical and security testing on the system.

Once this testing is complete, data will be migrated from the current system to the new one and they will be run alongside each other for a couple of months to ensure the system and its data is ready for launch.

It was planned to launch Staff Connect in spring/early summer. However, as you can see, this is a highly complex project, and one that has also been subject to many external factors which could not have been foreseen, such as changes to pension rules, and a proposed UK Visa and Compliance Audit.

Based on current information we expect to go live sometime in the late summer, or early in the autumn term. We will issue an update as soon as we are able.

In the meantime go to the Staff Connect website, which will contain information and updates on the project up to launch.