Revamping Employee Entitlement Payments with Alteryx: A Case Study on Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton, a global business advisory, tax & audit firm, identified a need for payroll assurance services in New Zealand, where the government has complex and progressive employee entitlement laws. With a workforce of nearly 3 million, tracking and ensuring proper compensation for various leave scenarios is a significant challenge. Since the implementation of these laws in 2003, payment miscalculations, payroll code inconsistencies, and human errors have been prevalent. Grant Thornton initially built a model for one of New Zealand’s largest cleaning companies, covering 21,000 employees and 6 billion rows of timesheet data. However, the complexity of the entitlement definition in the Holidays Act made the architecture and model performance challenging, limiting them to process only one week at a time for each employee over their employment period. The first iteration of the three bespoke models took 3.5 days to accurately process calculations.

Grant Thornton is a global business advisory, tax, and audit firm that identified a market need for payroll assurance services in New Zealand. The firm initially built a model for one of New Zealand’s largest cleaning companies, covering 21,000 employees and 6 billion rows of timesheet data. However, the complexity of the entitlement definition in the Holidays Act made the architecture and model performance challenging. To address these challenges, Grant Thornton collaborated with Mission Intelligence to develop an Alteryx Analytic App that could navigate the constantly changing leave entitlement legislative landscape and be deployed at scale for organizations of all sizes.