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.

01 / Commission

Services

Bear Consulting offers five 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

Priced / Published figure

Unit4 X-Ray

Bear Consulting examines one defined area of your Unit4 Business World system over about three weeks and writes down what it finds.

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.

Price
£14,750excluding VAT, indicative, subject to scoping
Duration
About 3 weekssubject to scope

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

Fixed fee, fixed duration

PolicyAI deployment

Answers staff and line manager questions from your own published policy library, citing the source document for each answer. PolicyAI is a prototype; a working version was documented in a March 2026 briefing.

Fee
Fixedagreed at scoping
Duration
Fixedagreed at scoping

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
02 / 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.

Read the insights

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

Run the health check

You want to know who would do the workFive Unit4 engagements by sector, each with the outcome in its title.

See the case studies

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

Compare the five services

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

How commissioning works
03 / Proof

Case studies

Proving a payroll for over 2,500 employees before anyone was paid

Sector and scale
An international organisation. Over 2,500 employees across multiple pay groups.
Deliverables
Parallel-run design and execution, a defect register with resolution rates reported to the project board, and the test completion evidence pack.
The result
Calculation parity was proved before the first live run, and the go-live decision was taken on the quantified residual risk.
Read the payroll parallel-run case

A support backlog cut by 50 per cent in a higher-education Unit4 team

Sector and scale
Higher education. A central Unit4 support function.
Deliverables
A triage and resolution routine, with the team trained to run it.
The result
The backlog halved, and the team reached full compliance with its agreed service levels.
Read the support backlog case

A payroll review forecast to save 9,000 administrative hours a year

Sector and scale
Local government. A council payroll running multiple pay entities, including a schools payroll.
Deliverables
An operating review for a council payroll, with a phased remediation roadmap.
The result
The review enabled the move to self-service time, attendance and travel claim entry, with a forecast saving of 9,000 administrative hours a year.
Read the payroll review case
04 / 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.

He has written numerous user manuals for one public-sector Unit4 system. The payroll set covers personnel, pay elements, payroll processing, absence, pensions, deductions, period end and HMRC, reconciliation and system administration. Separate sets cover accounts receivable, and procurement and purchase orders.

He has also produced build documentation, an HR solution design extracted from a live configuration, cloud-upgrade test script workbooks, and Excelerator reports in operational use by a payroll team.

05 / 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.

More on strategic advisory

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.

More on AI in the method

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
06 / Insights

Recent insights

Free to read. No download.

07 / 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 five services fits.

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

Mircea Rogojan-Rush

Direct

mircea@bearconsultingservices.com

07983 610346

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Replies within one working day.

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What to send

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.