RDA - Remuneration Decision Assistant

What Is RDA?
RDA is a sophisticated online remuneration solution that facilitates the entire pay review process. It is geared towards maximising the organisation's return on investment; ensuring the remuneration review process is perceived by all parties to be fair and equitable; and increasing the credibility of the HR function. RDA combines expert and reliable methodologies with the latest technological innovations.

RDA suits the needs of medium to large sized organisations; geographically diverse organisations and/or those organisations requiring an online solution.

Benefits of Using RDA
RDA assists the HR team to:

• Maximise the organisation's ROI by controlling the salary budget and reducing the time and resources required to run the salary review
• Enhance the credibility of your HR function by providing a strategic online salary review process featuring a consistent, organisation-wide methodology for determining salary increases
• Automate the salary review process to enable a more consultative approach to the HR/business relationship
• Facilitate the allocation of equitable salary increases across business units or the entire organisation
• Free HR's time to consult with and advise the business
• Empower business managers to own their decisions and drive the success of the review
• Provide 'touch of a button' reporting of salary review results
• Automate manual, time-consuming processes and reduce the potential for errors
• Check and correct data by business managers and approval of any changes by HR staff prior to the review period
• Provide equitable and defensible salary increase recommendations to business managers
• Monitor progress made by business managers and the dispatch of reminders to ensure the review deadlines are met
• Import and export data accurately and efficiently
• Lodge and approve salary decisions which deviate from company policy

Typical RDA Implementation Plan

• User Needs Analysis: During this stage, Hewitt CSi consultants will gain a deeper understanding of your organisation's current remuneration review policies and processes, including the rules and guidelines your organisation requires managers to follow, therefore identifying where it will be necessary to configure the base RDA product to meet the specific needs of your organisation. Our consultants will work with your HR team to configure RDA to include your own organisation's branding, rules and guidelines. Other information such as how your organisation's payroll is stored and how it receives information and can be linked to RDA is also discussed.
• Technical Configuration / Modification: As RDA is highly configurable, this stage is only required in the rare circumstances when very unique elements of an organisation's remuneration policy or process is not covered by the core RDA product. This stage involves developers at Pivot Software Ltd (the developers of RDA) designing, creating and integrating specific functionality into RDA.
• Installation: The installation within the Pivot Software Ltd hosted environment is very simple and cost-effective. This process involves the implementation of your customised system on to the Pivot secure web site.
• Training of Users and Administrator(s): Our consultants will be available for in-house training for the nominated main administrator of the system as part of the implementation of the system. This training can be in a workshop or in the one-on-one format. The training is completely customised to suit your organisation's needs.Training for managers occurs through the use of user manuals or group training sessions. One copy of each user manual is provided as part of the RDA package.
• Post-implementation review and analysis: Telephone support after the "go-live" date is provided by Hewitt CSi for a nominated System Manager free of charge for the first review cycle. Hewitt CSi will also be available to assist the System Manager to provide an analysis of the review outcomes to your executive or board and in doing so assist to set up a reporting mechanism which can become the standard annual report following each review period. Hewitt CSi will meet with your HR team post remuneration review process to discuss how RDA has met your expectations.

Client Testimonials
"Managers within The Warehouse have now used RDA for two reviews, and based on their positive experience with the tool and the added value to the business, we are extending the tool across the Group. RDA has been a fantastic tool in not only simplifying and automating our remuneration review processes, but also reinforcing our organisation's commitment to embedding a performance culture. Overall, RDA has allowed us to: ensure greater alignment of the annual salary review process with company policy; enhance rewards for high performers; improve internal and external market relativity; simplify the calculation of bonuses; and collect relevant performance data for analysis and future planning."

"Using RDA for our remuneration review this year enabled us to take a giant leap forward in the way the whole process is managed. Apart from the obvious benefits in terms of security and accuracy of information, managers were able to become more involved without any increased time commitment. As a result, there was more ownership to the outcomes and the Human Resource team became facilitators and advisors rather than processors and policemen."

"The Remuneration Decision Assistant has enabled the total streamlining of our employee's remuneration reviews. It guides our managers easily through the process and allows for the quick and effective administration from initial data check through to the production of letters. Additionally we can check regularly that important milestones are being met, and monitor and report throughout the process to ensure that we meet our published timeframes and deliver the right outcomes."

Note: The view expressed in this testimonial relates to the personal experience of Sean McKenzie with the RDA system and does not represent an endorsement from Audit New Zealand or the Office of the Auditor General.

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