HSO International - The go-to partner for multinational Finance solution deployments

In order to manage the employment of 1 million+ workers around the world, Kelly requires an efficient, centralised and standardised back-office system for processing finance as well as procurement and billing. In its European operations Kelly was managing a whole matrix of different systems across 15 countries, leading to inefficiencies and headaches. They required a new finance system that could integrate with a host of different legacy solutions, to centralise and unify processes. The result being the optimisation of valuable time and resources, thereby contributing to overall growth.

Kelly came to this project with a clear vision and a strong idea of how they wanted to work. They were looking for a multi-country rollout of a new finance system that was standardised across geos. They also wanted and a true partnership. For this job, the right partner was HSO International.

Multi-country rollouts are what HSO does. With a global presence and practice, they do not need to stop at borders and pass off to a new team, HSO can implement in each country with the localised expertise needed to follow legal and statutory requirements. As such HSO were able to keep to the goal of implementing a standardised system. Working with a strong template-based approach to reach the goal of alignment, HSO started in the Swiss European headquarters and has now successfully rolled out to 10/15 countries. The roll-out moved in step, running to a strict cadence.

Customisations were kept to a strict minimum, only high-impact developments that could be used across multiple geos were permitted, thereby keeping to the goal of standardisation. Where developments were made HSO worked within Kelly’s framework, with HSO responsible for designing the solutions and Kelly’s own internal team doing the development, reaching out for support where needed. HSO are a company that are small enough to be flexible in their approach but crucially they are still large enough to deliver. Together, HSO and Kelly Services were able to prove that it is possible to keep customisations to a minimum, when deploying to 15 countries.