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Transforming time: How one university streamlined pay

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Daemen University is a private university located in Amherst, New York. Founded in 1947, Daemen has a long history as a premier higher education institution and offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate-level degrees.

Helping lead the charge is HR manager Eden Wagner, who oversees a broad array of responsibilities, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and payroll for their student-employee population. With over two years in this role, she personally manages the 300+ part-time student employees.

Eden Wagner, HR Manager
Daemen University

Challenges

  • Paper timecards for student employees were prone to errors and delayed approvals
  • Payroll processing required tedious manual entries for time recorded on paper timecards

How ADP Helped

  • Partnering with ADP® and Synerion through ADP Marketplace helped spark ongoing transformation for time tracking and payroll processing at Daemen University. Now with digital inputs, approvals and uploads, processing payroll has become more streamlined, allowing the HR team to spend time on more value-adding initiatives.

ADP Solution

  • ADP Workforce Now®

Getting started with Synerion

With Daemen being a smaller university, Eden has to be mindful of things like cost and budget when implementing new tools. Since Daemen has been an ADP client for over 10 years, Eden turned to her existing resources at ADP when her team began exploring options for digitizing student employee timecards.

“We wanted something that we could eventually use on a campus-wide basis for student employment and something we could customize,” says Eden. “When I reached out to ADP, they put us in touch with Synerion, which is a digital timecard system compatible with our ADP payroll platform.”

Eden worked with her supervisor and a handful of department heads when evaluating the product. Once they decided to take the plunge, Synerion developed an implementation timeline and stuck to it. Now that the system is up and running, they’ve been rolling out the process to student employee groups across campus.

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