From Black Box to Clear Cost Control
You can't manage what you can't see. Get real-time visibility into labour costs without needing a magic wand.
Your payroll should run without escalations, rework, or cost blowouts. Affinity gives you ERP-level insight from your payroll system – with expert support and measurable accountability built in.
Who This Is For
This is for finance leaders who are accountable for labour costs they can't fully see, compliance risks they can't fully quantify, and operational overhead they can't fully control.
If payroll feels like a black box that only opens when something goes wrong, we can change that.
The hidden costs of payroll opacity
The challenge
- • Labour cost anomalies discovered too late
- • Compliance penalties from payroll errors – averaging $13,000+ per underpayment claim
- • Rework and escalations consuming operational resources
The impact
- • No real-time visibility into cost drivers
- • Uncertainty about accuracy and compliance exposure
- • Frustrated by reactive fire-fighting instead of proactive management
A better way
Finance leaders are accountable for labour costs they can't fully see, compliance risks they can't fully quantify, and operational overhead they can't fully control. That's not a strategy problem – it's a visibility problem.
Real-time cost intelligence
Get the visibility you need to manage labour costs proactively:
- Real-time labour cost trackingVariance alerts by department, entity, and project
- See the futureCosts generated for scheduled work before it's performed
- ERP-level dataFrom your payroll system, with higher accuracy than manual reconciliation
Backed by our Accuracy Guarantee: If we don't deliver the visibility improvements we've committed to, we work with you until we do.
Strategic support, not just software
Choose the support model that fits your business – and your board's expectations:
- SaaS: Your team runs payroll with full control on our intelligent cloud platform.
- Supported: Do payroll with us. You drive the process, we navigate the complexity.
- Fully Managed: We do it for you. End-to-end processing with guaranteed compliance.
The Result: Reduced internal load, lower risk of costly errors, and reporting your board can trust.
See the Solution OptionsSaaS
Your team runs payroll with full control.
Supported
Do payroll with us. You drive, we navigate.
Fully Managed
We do it for you. Guaranteed compliance.
Built for where you do business
Generic systems lead to costly mistakes. Non-compliance penalties under the Fair Work Act can exceed $93,000 per contravention for serious breaches. Affinity eliminates compliance surprises:
- Designed for ANZ complexity – From EBAs to local tax and leave legislation
- One platform across both countries – Consistent cost tracking and compliance
- No unexpected customisation costs – It works right from day one
That's cost control you can count on.
Learn About ANZ Compliance- STP Phase 2
- Payroll Tax Logic
- Superstream
- Payday Filing
- Holidays Act
- KiwiSaver
Your path to labour cost control
Assess your current risk
We analyse your payroll processes, cost visibility gaps, and compliance exposure – quantified in dollars and hours.
Prove the business case
See measurable results in two pay cycles: reduced effort, higher accuracy, tangible savings you can present to your board.
Lock in operational savings
Reduce checking effort by half, eliminate costly errors, and get reporting that drives strategic workforce decisions.
What's at risk?
Without Affinity
- Ongoing compliance risk and potential penalties exceeding $93,000 per breach
- Hidden labour cost overruns discovered weeks after they happen
- Internal resources consumed by payroll escalations and reconciliation
- Uncertain ROI from payroll technology investments
With Affinity
- Real-time cost visibility by department, project, and entity
- Proactive compliance management – audit-ready at any time
- Measurable reduction in operational costs within two pay cycles
- One accountable partner with proven, quantifiable results
We know the business case gets scrutinised
You've seen technology investments that promised transformation and delivered complications. We understand why another payroll platform needs to prove itself.
"The ROI projections won't hold up."
Our assessment doesn't rely on optimistic assumptions. We baseline your current state – actual hours spent, actual errors caught, actual compliance gaps – and track measurable results in two pay cycles. You'll have evidence, not estimates.
"Implementation always costs more than quoted."
Affinity is built for ANZ from the ground up. There's no offshore customisation, no patching global software to fit local rules. What you see is what you get – no hidden costs to make it work for your business.
"Payroll isn't strategic enough to warrant this attention."
Labour is likely your organisation’s largest controllable cost. The question isn't whether payroll deserves strategic attention – it's whether you currently have the visibility to manage it strategically. If you're discovering cost blowouts weeks after they happen, that's a finance problem, not just a payroll problem.
"We've been burned by vendors who overpromised."
So have we – as buyers. That's why we structured Affinity around accountability. One partner, one platform, measurable outcomes. If we're not delivering, you'll know within weeks, not years.
We're not asking for blind faith. We're asking for two pay cycles to prove the business case with your data, in your environment.
Imagine total labour cost visibility
Picture this: You open your costing dashboard and see scheduled, and actual labour costs, down to employee level – in real-time. A variance alert shows you that actual costs are trending 15% above schedule. You investigate immediately, not three weeks later.
The CEO asks about the overtime spike in the board meeting. You pull up the data immediately – you saw it coming three weeks ago and already addressed it. Your answer is precise, confident, backed by numbers.
That's Affinity.
Trusted by finance leaders across ANZ
"Affinity gave us visibility we've never had. We caught a $40K annual overpayment in the first month and now have real-time labour cost tracking. For the first time, I can answer board questions about labour costs without chasing down reports."– CFO, Enterprise OrganisationRead Customer Case Studies
Ready to stop juggling and start leading?
See how one AU/NZ-built platform can transform daily operations, keep journals clean and give you back time for the work that matters.