Driving Local Government Success with Automated Workforce Reporting

Outdated and manual org charting: Many councils still rely on outdated tools or manually created charts that require constant updates. This is time-consuming, prone to errors and lacks key details like photos, detailed employee information or reporting relationships.

Scattered workforce data and security risks: HR data is often spread across payroll systems, HRIS and other platforms, making it difficult to consolidate and manage efficiently. Manual handling increases the risk of errors, unauthorised access and compliance breaches.

Limited Manager Reporting: HR teams and department heads often struggle with gaining real-time insights into key workforce data, including leave liability, secondments, remuneration and diversity metrics.

How Navigo is helping HR in local government

Over the last 20+ years, we’ve had a strong focus on supporting organisations who are undergoing digital transformation. We provide advanced org charts, workforce analytics and org design software, with an expert team who specialise in technical payroll and HRIS database systems.

We’ve worked with a long list of Australian local government HR teams to enable seamless payroll data cleansing, employee and position management, workforce modelling, compliance and reporting.

Our workforce visualisation software allows organisations to strategically analyse their current and future workforce needs, to ensure that they have the right people in the right roles at the right time.

For local governments, this means ensuring that they have the capacity and capability to deliver essential services and address community needs effectively. It involves understanding the skills required for various roles within the council and then aligning recruitment, training and development efforts to meet those needs.

Visualisation examples that are proven to enable local government HR teams

Organisational Hierarchy
Seamlessly integrate with payroll and HR systems to keep your organisational chart up to date. View a clear, easy-to-understand hierarchy that displays even the most complex reporting lines without any manual effort.

This feature is especially helpful for new starters, allowing them to quickly understand the company structure, learn about their team, and connect with colleagues with just one click. Employee photos and role details are included to provide a comprehensive view.

Better leave management
This leave management view provides managers and employees with self-serve access to leave balance. By using conditional formatting, they can easily identify and action leave liability. The chart example below shows you which departments have employees with excess or negative leave.

Intelligent budget and salary management

In local government, a clear budget report is key for managing hiring, promotions and salary reviews. Visualising your budget simplifies reporting and analysis across different departments, making it easier to track and manage.

Access detailed budget and salary data for all teams and use conditional formatting to easily spot deficits or surpluses, supporting better decision-making and resource allocation.

Seamless HRIS integration
A dedicated tool like org.manager can seamlessly integrate with your existing HRIS system, bringing all your HR data to one place. By centralising data, it reduces the risk of errors and ensures that your information is accurate and up to date. This system also makes it simpler to spot and fix data issues, helping the HR team to maintain clean and reliable records.

Navigo is focused on protecting our customers’ data and information. Our flagship product, org.manager, is hosted by Navigo on Microsoft Azure (NSW, Australia). Azure Data Centres are ISO27001, IRAP & APRA Data Centre certified and accompanied by Navigo ISO27001 certified processes. We maintain a range of cyber security credentials, policies and industry engagement.