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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 five 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 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.
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.
Fixed fee, fixed duration
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.
Retained
A consultant embedded in your Unit4 team for a fixed period, inside IR35 where required.
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 insightsYou want to know before you spendThe free health check. About two minutes, no email address.
Run the health checkYou want to know who would do the workFive Unit4 engagements by sector, each with the outcome in its title.
See the case studiesYou are choosing the size of the workReview, diagnostic or remediation programme, and what each one produces.
Compare the five 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.
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.
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 five 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.