In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the synergy between finance and HR teams has never been more critical.

At the intersection of your talent strategies and financial plans, sits your most important asset, your people. As leaders of HR and Finance, you need an effective way of understanding:

Whether you have the right team and roles to meet your business objectives.
The strategies you can employ to manage compensation and retain talent.
Where you are most vulnerable to attrition, or where you may have excess capacity.

But above all, you need a way to manage these factors in a way that is dynamic. If there was a change in your business performance, how would these strategies look under different scenarios?

We're thrilled today to announce two new capabilities as part of the Humaans platform: Headcount Planning and Compensation Management.

These innovations are set to transform the way you plan, execute, and adapt your workforce strategies in real-time, giving you flexibility, foresight, and strategic alignment between Finance and HR.

Harnessing the Power of Humaans Tables

At the heart of our new features is the Humaans Tables infrastructure, renowned for its unparalleled flexibility and scalability in data management. This advanced foundation ensures that our Headcount Planning and Compensation Management tools are not just additions but transformative elements within our HR software, setting a new standard in the industry.

Strategic Headcount Planning: Flexibility and Insights

Understanding your people costs is core to any financial plan, but an often neglected part of this plan is an accurate understanding of your future roles and hiring plans.

Our Headcount Planning in Humaans lets you manage your current and planned workforce, offering comprehensive insights into total salary spend, projected costs, and the status of planned roles, new hires and internal team mobility. This tool empowers organisations to strategically manage their headcount in alignment with financial objectives and market dynamics, providing a clear view of their workforce landscape now and in the future, and under multiple scenarios that map to your financial plans.

Manage your teams, new hires, planned roles and leavers, all in one place.
Analyse the historical and future people costs of your organisation, and manage this under multiple scenarios or budgets.
Collaborate effortlessly by sharing relevant sections with your team members.

Advanced Compensation Management: Visibility and Collaboration

Compensation Management is redefined in Humaans, providing a detailed view of each employee's compensation progression. Gone are the days of juggling multiple spreadsheets, with sensitive employee compensation data.

With Humaans, you can run compensation reviews and manage compensation adjustments with controlled collaboration across teams and departments, enhanced compliance by securing sensitive data away from offline spreadsheets, and streamlined processes for setting approvals, reviewers, and executing bulk salary changes at scale. It’s a comprehensive solution designed to ensure an efficient compensation process across your organisation.

Understand the impact proposed compensation changes will have on your budgets.
Propose, review, discuss and implement changes all in one seamless flow, driven from the underlying source of your data.
Review the historical context for each compensation review including, tenure, job level, past adjustments, time since last raise, and more.
Quickly analyse compensation across teams, roles, locations to ensure they map to your talent strategies

A Truly Powerful Data Layer: Why It Matters

At Humaans, we believe in building efficient processes grounded in reliable data. By integrating headcount planning and compensation management into our core HR system, businesses gain a unified view of their workforce, enhancing financial forecasting and budget allocation directly from the source of truth.

This approach ensures strategic alignment of workforce and financial strategies, supports data-driven decisions with real-time insights, boosts employee satisfaction and retention through fair compensation practices, and enables controlled collaboration with secure data sharing, streamlining operations and enhancing strategic planning.

Ready to take your HR and finance collaboration to the next level? Contact us for a demo and see firsthand how our headcount planning and compensation management features can help your business, financial and talent strategies. Let’s unlock together the full potential of your workforce! If you're not a Humaans customer yet and want to learn more, book a demo today!

Elevate your people operations today. Book a demo to learn more.

Robbie Osborne

Head of Finance