Unit4 Business World and Agresso · UK public sector

Unit4 consultant for public sector HR and payroll

Bear Consulting Services helps UK councils, universities and other public bodies find what has drifted in a Unit4 Business World system, correct it and document it for the in-house team. One consultant carries each engagement from the first call to the last document.

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01 / Commission

Services

Bear Consulting offers six services, from a free health check to embedded delivery, and publishes one fee.

Start here / Free

Unit4 configuration health check

Twelve questions on your Unit4 HR and payroll configuration, scored on the page.

Fee
Freeno email address
Duration
About 2 minutesresult on the page

Run the health check

Priced / Published figure

Unit4 X-Ray

Bear Consulting examines one chosen area of Unit4 HR or payroll over one week of work, identifies the issues and recommends practical solutions.

Three documents: a plain-English executive report, a technical configuration blueprint for your systems team, and a sequenced remediation roadmap with an effort and risk profile. Remediation work is scoped separately.

Price
£7,000excluding VAT, indicative, subject to scoping
Duration
One week of worksubject to scope

The Unit4 X-Ray brief

Fixed fee, fixed duration

Documentation and governance package

Monthly payroll playbooks, error catalogues, decision trees and process maps, line manager guides and support operations manuals, with a segregation-of-duties and delegation matrix and the training material to hand the set over.

Fee
Fixedagreed at scoping
Duration
Fixedagreed at scoping

Tailored to your organisation

Work instructions and client-specific training

Work instructions for your organisation’s processes, with client-specific training for the people who use them.

Discuss the processes to cover, who needs training and the scope of the work.

Work instructions and training

Fixed fee, fixed duration

PolicyAI demonstration and deployment

PolicyAI answers from an agreed policy library and cites the source document. It is live and available for demonstration or organisation-specific deployment under a scoped agreement.

Fee
Fixedagreed at scoping
Duration
Fixedagreed at scoping

See PolicyAI

Retained

Embedded advisory and delivery

A consultant embedded in your Unit4 team for a fixed period, inside IR35 where required.

Fee
Day rate or fixed scopeagreed in the first call
Duration
Fixedagreed before work starts
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02 / Tools

Tools for the work your payroll team needs to do

Consultancy-led work supported by practical tools for payroll checking, knowledge and controlled process automation.

You need evidence on one area of HR or payrollUnit4 X-Ray identifies issues and recommends practical solutions: £7,000 excluding VAT, indicative and subject to scoping, for one week of work.

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You want to use a calculator, assistant or automationThese live tools are available through demonstrations or scoped organisation-specific work, with operating responsibilities agreed before work starts.

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03 / Route in

Where you are, and what to do next

Which of these sounds like you?

You cannot yet name the problemEight articles on how a Unit4 HR and payroll system drifts, grouped by decision stage.

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You want to know before you spendThe free health check. About two minutes, no email address.

Run the health check

You want to know how the work is structuredFive generic capability examples, organised by the problem each one addresses.

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You are choosing the size of the workReview, diagnostic or remediation programme, and what each one produces.

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You are taking it through procurementScope, fees, timeline and deliverables are set out in a written agreement before work starts.

How commissioning works
04 / Proof

Capability examples

Payroll acceptance capability

Area
Payroll and HR systems.
Deliverables
Parallel-run design, defect management and test-completion evidence.
What it demonstrates
How to produce documented acceptance evidence.
Read the payroll acceptance example

Unit4 support improvement capability

Area
Unit4 support operations.
Deliverables
A triage and resolution routine, with the team trained to run it.
What it demonstrates
How triage, resolution and knowledge transfer can form one operating routine.
Read the support improvement example

Payroll operating review and self-service preparation

Area
Payroll and HR operations.
Deliverables
An operating review with a phased remediation roadmap.
What it demonstrates
How an operating review can make options visible and prioritise remediation.
Read the payroll review example
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05 / Record

Record on Unit4

Mircea Rogojan-Rush, who founded and runs Bear Consulting, has twenty years in HR and payroll systems, the last twelve on Unit4 and Agresso. He has been test manager on more than ten Unit4 ERP implementations across HR, payroll, learning and development, and finance.

He has delivered Unit4 for councils, police forces, central government, universities, regulated and nuclear environments, international organisations and financial services.

He has worked hands-on across the release line: Agresso Milestone 4 and 5, Unit4 Business World 7.4 through 7.8, and Unit4 cloud 26.x.

His documentation work spans payroll procedures, accounts receivable, procurement and purchase orders, build documentation and HR solution design.

His testing and reporting work includes cloud-upgrade script workbooks and operational reporting.

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06 / Method

The Embedded Intelligence Method

How Bear Consulting works. It has three parts.

Pillar 01

Strategic ERP advisory

Programme architecture, governance design and the transformation roadmap, at the level a decision-maker can commit budget against.

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Pillar 02

AI engineered into the method

The X-Ray queries, evidence pack and manuals come from AI tooling the consultant has built and operates. Every finding is validated against the live system before it is reported.

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Pillar 03

Embedded delivery

Work is done inside the client team, with direct responsibility for the agreed advisory and implementation work.

More on embedded delivery

One consultant sets the strategy, writes the test scripts and the SQL, and builds the AI application.

How the method works
07 / Insights

Recent insights

Free to read. No download.

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08 / Engage

Contact

Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call. Say what is happening with your Unit4 system and you will get a straight answer on whether Bear Consulting can help and which of the six services fits.

If Bear Consulting is not the right fit, the consultant will say so on the call.

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Mircea Rogojan-Rush

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mircea@bearconsultingservices.com

07983 610346

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The modules involved, the decision the work has to support, and how urgent it is.

References and sample deliverables can be discussed on the call, subject to permission to share.