Headquartered in France, Atos was founded in 1997 after the merger of two French companies Axime and Sligos. Since then, the company has experienced rapid growth as it’s established itself as a global pioneer in the field of digital transformations and solutions. Atos now has offices across 69 countries and employs 111,000 people. The global scale of the company already meant that running payroll required a great deal of finesse and strong partnerships with ADP.
With ADP, we are confident that when we explain our challenges in terms of reorganization or HR transformation programs, they are really quick to identify what the impact would be in our services in payroll.
Javier Villanueva,
head of HR services and HR technology
Atos
Challenges
- Continuously adapting payroll to changes within the company
- Keeping up with changing regulations across different countries in order to stay compliant
How ADP helped
- Modernized and standardize their payroll processes
- Ensuring compliance across multiple locations of business
ADP Solutions
- ADP GlobalView HCM
Discovering the nuances of payroll
Javier Villanueva, head of HR services and HR technology, soon realized how important it was to keep up with changing regulations across different countries in order to stay compliant, as well as the importance of continuously adapting payroll to changes within the company. “Changing IT systems and payroll need to be connected to the strategy of the organization and react very quickly, because all these changes happen at very short notice,” he says. “The creation of new legal entities, changes in the labor regulations; all those things require a very agile team and very agile partner, which ADP is.”
Working in HR also meant that Villanueva soon became very familiar with how ADP and Atos were working together to provide flexible and reliable payroll solutions. But above all, Villanueva appreciated the level of support and personal service ADP was providing. “We use a wider range of IT solutions from ADP,” he says. “But I would say that working with ADP, the solutions, the IT, the systems that we use are not the most important part, because at the end of the day, what we receive from ADP is the service, irrespective of the technology behind it.”
A reliable partner during a company-wide transformation
Because this newest project requires a lot of technical expertise and often consists of moving parts that need to work together, Villanueva is particularly appreciative of the extensive support his team is getting from ADP. “Working with ADP in all these transition programs that we have at Atos, it’s really a pleasure,” he says. “With ADP, we are confident that when we explain our challenges in terms of reorganization or HR transformation programs, they are really quick to identify what the impact would be in our services in payroll.”
“And in fact, we have the guidance from ADP about how we should implement these transformations internally, because from a payroll perspective, they have the knowledge, and they understand our company from working together for the last 10 years. So they really know what we have to do, and we have the guidance to do it in the best possible way.”
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