Remuneration Ally is designed for large organisations with complex remuneration requirements. Delivered as software-as-a-service, Remuneration Ally enables you to improve your organisation's remuneration decisions by automating time-consuming tasks, gaining visibility across the entire process and empowering line managers.

1. You don’t need to be an Einstein
to work smarter with remuneration
Remuneration Ally
helps you go with the flow
Software that puts you in control
of the remuneration process

2. Salary review transactions are a ‘moment of truth’ in any organisation.
They are closely connected with the productivity, efficiency and morale
of any labour force, but the complexity of this process in many large
organisations means it is not as effective as you know it could be.
Pivot Software can help with our product Remuneration Ally - software
enabling you to improve your organisation’s remuneration decisions by
automating time-consuming tasks, gaining visibility across the entire
process and empowering line managers. You’ll feel more in control
with a good ally.
Remuneration, like hair, can be very
hard to control (Even for very smart people)
BEFORE REMUNERATION ALLY AFTER REMUNERATION ALLY
• Staff: upset with inequitable decisions • Staff: feel remuneration review is well
and poor communication controlled (clear, fair, process-oriented)
• HR: working long hours getting and correcting • HR/Payroll: know policy is being followed
data, frustration at managers ignoring policy properly, can easily set budgets at company,
department or manager level and can
• Managers: find they have the wrong team
monitor the process in real time
data and have to wait for new spreadsheets
• Finance: can keep a track on budget vs spend
• Finance: have no idea how the budgets are
during and after the review, and monitor
being spent until it is all over, and too late
this in real time with customised reports
• Payroll: receive files in formats that make
• IT: require no management of the
it difficult to update the payroll data
application and it fits safely and easily
• IT: grappling with the security and logistics
into any corporate IT infrastructure
of numerous large, sensitive spreadsheets
• Line management: know exactly what
being sent throughout the network
their budget is. Traffic lights allow
• CEO/Senior management: waiting weeks
for overspend within reason
before the HR department has been
• CEO/Senior management: see the business
able to analyse all of the data
strategy controlling outcomes for remuneration
(e.g. performance pay, cost control)

3. Delivering for complex enterprises In control of the
remuneration process
“In the first 12 months we saw a 26% increase Remuneration Ally is a software product designed
in people reviewed, so with the reduced
for large organisations with complex remuneration
administrative burden alone, the direct return
”
requirements. Delivered as software-as-a-
on investment for AECOM is significant.
service, Remuneration Ally gives you:
Peter Richards, People & Performance Manager,
Australia & New Zealand. • Workflow that drives processes efficiently and
A global engineering services firm, effectively, aligning managers with correct procedures
AECOM employs over 3,800 professionals working • Visibility of the entire process and all those involved,
in over 25 offices in Australia and New Zealand. including ability to identify any bottlenecks and clarity
around remuneration decisions against budgets
“ It gives all parties in the review process more control
• Automation of key processes, including
over remuneration. It sets quite clear rules around
the production of final letters
both the review and approval process, and by having
it online, we don’t get version inconsistency issues • A seamless fit into any corporate IT infrastructure and
that we used to get with multiple spreadsheets. ” integration with mainstream HRIS/payroll systems
Doug Marsh, Remuneration and Reporting Manager, The Warehouse.
New Zealand’s largest retailer,
Pivot Software
with 8,500 staff.
“It is an easy system to administer, is very flexible Pivot Software helps organisations use technology to
improve their control over complex and often emotional
in its design and managers find it easy to use. Pivot
human resource processes.
does not require our team to have any technical
expertise in order to use the product. ” Productivity, enhanced transparency of outcomes and
improved employee engagement are just some of the
Anna Sefuiva, Manager of Workforce Solutions, IAG NZ.
positive impacts of implementing our technology. As human
IAG NZ is a subsidiary of Insurance Australia
resource professionals, we understand how well managed
Group, with 2,000 staff throughout the
remuneration and performance management policies bring
country, servicing a network of eight call
organisational values and principles to life.
centres, 29 sales centres and 10 branches.
We enable HR interactions that are meaningful and
“ Pivot was able to articulate what we needed. Knowing beneficial. Conversations between managers and staff are
that they had a background in HR and they understood supported, and not replaced, using our solutions which are
the issues we were facing really helped. That experience as easy to use as a simple website.
really meant that they were informed, and rather than
Over 50 organisations across Australia and New Zealand
dealing with a software company, we really were dealing
use Pivot’s solutions, with the majority coming from the
with HR experts who have software capabilities. ” energy, resources, financial services and professional
Carrie Luzar, Global Reward Manager, SKM.
services sectors. The HR policy and strategy needs of our
SKM is a global engineering services clients are met using a secure, internet-based, highly
firm, headquartered in Sydney, with configurable software-as-a-service model that fits within
6,500 staff across 13 different countries. any corporate IT infrastructure. Our clients enjoy a time-
saving solution designed for the task; not a generic tool
“ Our wider Human Resource team has been able to that is ‘made to fit’.
be involved in a process previously managed centrally
within the Remuneration team. Everyone is now much
more engaged in the process and as a result Human
Resources has achieved more credibility with its internal
customers – the People Managers within our business. ”
Paul Louis, Head of Remuneration and
Performance Management, Westpac NZ.
One of New Zealand’s largest
banks, Westpac has 5,320 employees.

4. Technical information
Remuneration Ally is delivered as software-as-a-service. Pivot hosts your Remuneration
Ally application which you access through a secure internet connection.
Minimum Recommended
system requirements system requirements
Browser: Internet Explorer 6 Browser: Internet Explorer 7 or higher
Adobe Acrobat Reader v7 or higher Adobe Acrobat Reader v7 or higher
Internet access Internet access (high speed)
800 x 600 screen resolution 1024 x 768 screen resolution
Configured application High level security Contact us:
• Remuneration Ally is configured As your application stores sensitive
to your requirements following employee data Pivot implements high Australian office
a user-needs analysis process. levels of security: PO Box 5373, West Chatswood
• Screens and processes are • Application traffic is subject to a NSW 1515
configured (incorporating your own Thawte 128bit security certificate 1 300 316 879
corporate branding) to ensure the renewed on a regular basis.
system fits your organisation. New Zealand office
• Remuneration data is further
• Full training is provided to the protected with a SHA-1 algorithm. PO Box 20 348, Bishopdale
client’s subject matter experts (SME). Christchurch 8543
• Sophisticated password
+64 3 359 1707
• All software updates and new control is in place.
features are automatic and
• Full audit logs are kept to track
available next time you log in. info@pivotsoftware.com
any access and data changes.
www.pivotsoftware.com
• Remuneration Ally can co-exist with
• Access is restricted to
your existing payroll or HRIS system.
authorised users.
• Connections are via HTTPS,
Best in class but can be limited further to
hosting provider
identified IP addresses.
• Pivot applications are hosted
in Tier 3 rated data centres in
Backup strategies in place
Auckland and Wellington, NZ.
• Pivot’s hosting providers have a
• Our hosting partner is one of the
standard backup strategy in place.
country’s largest providers of
hosting services, who also manage • Data is available instantly
systems for major government for the last five days.
departments and corporations. • Older data is stored offsite and can
• This facility offers 99.98% availability, be accessed with 24-48 hours.
24x7 monitoring and a high level • Disaster recovery sites are
of server access control. available to ensure continuity.