Payroll data shouldn’t be invisible.
Turn your payroll data into your competitive advantage.
A common challenge is getting the right data at the right time, especially since most payroll systems aren’t built with reporting in mind. Alongside built-in reporting tools, Affinity offers powerful features that simplify complex payroll processes, provide real-time insights, and automate tedious tasks.
Intelligent GL configuration: your format, your way
Traditional systems force you to adapt your finance reporting to their rigid templates. Affinity takes the opposite approach.
Plain English to precision code
Simply describe your exact GL requirements – grouping, formatting, cost centres – in plain English. Our Intelligent Configuration engine parses your request and generates the precise export specification code in hours, not weeks. Learn more about cost centre splitting for complex organisations.
"Group by Cost Centre, split Superannuation to account 2000, output as CSV."
Costing IQ: real-time visibility
With Costing IQ, you gain full visibility into both scheduled and actual payroll costs in real time. Easily compare labour costs across departments, locations, or projects.
- Drill down into detailed cost components to stay on budget.
- Integrate budget and sales data for deeper analysis.
- Empower managers to make informed decisions in advance, rather than reacting after the fact.
Business intelligence: your data, your way
With a direct cloud SQL connection, you can access and query your payroll and employee data from anywhere, ensuring seamless integration with your data warehouse.
- Use your preferred tools: Power BI, Tableau, or Excel.
- Instantly analyse payroll data for actionable insights.
- Create high-level dashboards or drill down into specific metrics.
Never miss a critical task again.
myPA: your payroll assistant. Always on.
Meet myPA, the intelligent payroll assistant that monitors all payroll data and user actions, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
- Alerts employees, managers, and teams to important tasks.
- Maintains compliance and automatically sends reminders.
- Frees up time for more valuable, strategic work.
Stay organised, proactive, and always in control.
Reporting capabilities are available across all delivery models.
Frequently asked questions
What reporting and analytics capabilities does Affinity provide?
Affinity provides GL export configuration, labour cost visibility through Costing IQ, direct Business Intelligence connectivity, and myPA — an intelligent monitoring assistant that alerts staff and managers to important payroll tasks and compliance obligations. Each capability is designed to give payroll, finance, and HR teams access to accurate data in the format they need.
How does GL export configuration work in Affinity?
You describe your GL requirements in plain English — file format, column layout, grouping rules, value formatting — and Affinity's intelligent system generates the precise export specification. This replaces weeks of back-and-forth with a technical configuration team with a process that typically takes hours or days.
Can I connect Affinity payroll data to Power BI, Tableau, or our data warehouse?
Yes. Affinity provides a direct cloud SQL connection that allows your BI tools to query payroll data in real time. Power BI, Tableau, and Excel are all supported, and the connection is suitable for data warehouse integration as well.
What is myPA and what does it do?
myPA is Affinity's intelligent payroll assistant. It monitors payroll data across your organisation and automatically sends alerts and reminders to employees, managers, or teams when action is required — such as pending approvals, upcoming compliance deadlines, or data exceptions. It operates in the background without requiring manual monitoring.
How does Affinity handle STP2 and payday filing reporting?
STP2 (for Australian organisations) and payday filing (for New Zealand organisations) are automated within Affinity. Submissions are generated and lodged in line with ATO and IRD requirements, reducing the manual steps involved in each pay cycle's compliance reporting.
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