Payroll & Personnel Processing — High Automation

Industry

Business Services / Outsourcing

Company size

Medium (50–150 employees)

Process to be automated

Monthly payroll processing and payslip generation

Process description

The process includes collecting payroll updates (absences, overtime, bonuses), processing salaries, calculating payroll contributions, generating PDF payslips, and archiving in shared folders. Currently executed manually in Excel with multiple validations between HR and Accounting.

ROI Automation, recommendation and costs

COP

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Nivel de Automatización	% Automatizable	Casos al Mes	Tiempo por Caso (horas)
High	80	1	48

Personas Involucradas	Nivel de Cargo Promedio	Average Monthly Salary	Real Company Cost with Benefits
4	Level 3 (Coordinator) + Level 4 (Senior Analyst)	4.250.000	6.517.000

Monthly Operational Cost	Annual Operational Cost	Estimated Monthly Savings
5.213.600	62.563.200	4.170.880

Estimated Annual Savings	Year 1 Investment	Net Benefit Year 1
50.050.560	10.228.950	39.821.610

Cumulative Net Benefit 3 Years	FTE Equivalente Liberado
121.393.230	3.2

Power in Numbers

389

ROI Year 1 (%)

2.5

Payback (months)

4.89

Cost/Benefit ratio

✅ AUTOMATE

This process is highly repetitive, follows fixed calculation rules, and occurs monthly with significant human cost. 80% of the work (data collection, calculation, PDF generation, archiving) is automatable. Positive ROI from month 3. For every dollar invested, $4.89 is returned.

Signs of inefficiency detected

• Heavy manual follow-up between HR and Accounting • A process nobody wants to handle because it's tedious • Email approvals creating bottlenecks • No traceability of who approved which payroll updates • Dependency on 1–2 key people who hold the master Excel knowledge

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