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Unit4 configuration health check
Twelve questions on your Unit4 HR and payroll configuration, scored on the page.
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.
Bear Consulting offers six services, from a free health check to embedded delivery, and publishes one fee.
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Twelve questions on your Unit4 HR and payroll configuration, scored on the page.
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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.
Fixed fee, fixed duration
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.
Tailored to your organisation
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.
Fixed fee, fixed duration
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.
Retained
A consultant embedded in your Unit4 team for a fixed period, inside IR35 where required.
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.
Book an X-Ray discussionYou 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.
Explore tools and automationWhich 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.
Read the insightsYou want to know before you spendThe free health check. About two minutes, no email address.
Run the health checkYou want to know how the work is structuredFive generic capability examples, organised by the problem each one addresses.
See the case studiesYou are choosing the size of the workReview, diagnostic or remediation programme, and what each one produces.
Compare the six servicesYou are taking it through procurementScope, fees, timeline and deliverables are set out in a written agreement before work starts.
How commissioning worksMircea 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.
How Bear Consulting works. It has three parts.
Pillar 01
Programme architecture, governance design and the transformation roadmap, at the level a decision-maker can commit budget against.
More on strategic advisoryPillar 02
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.
More on AI in the methodPillar 03
Work is done inside the client team, with direct responsibility for the agreed advisory and implementation work.
More on embedded deliveryOne consultant sets the strategy, writes the test scripts and the SQL, and builds the AI application.
How the method worksFree to read. No download.
Awareness
Why a mature Unit4 system stops matching its own documentation, and why you should diagnose before you decide.
Diagnosis
The free health check on paper, and what a weak answer in each of the six domains usually means.
Selection
How to size the work, and how commissioning runs once you have decided.
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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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.