Know your workforce.
Control your plan.
Headcount and personnel cost, controlled down to the position. Actuals, budget, target, forecast and plan in one model, with scenarios you can test before you decide.
Tichi Mbanwie, founder. Former European headcount Controller at Ford.
Headcount controlling is a year-round job. The tools are still spreadsheets.
Today
- Actual, budget, target and forecast live in different files.
- Explaining a variance takes days and ends at “it depends”.
- A restructuring idea needs a week before anyone can say what it costs.
With HC Controller
- Every version in one model, compared on the same dimensions.
- Click from the group to the skill team to the single position.
- Move 100 roles from the US to Poland, or merge two teams, and see the effect by year in a second.
From a spreadsheet to an answer.
Load
Download the template, paste your positions and pay rules, upload. A readiness report shows what is missing before anything is loaded. Your own column names and date formats are recognised.
See
Actual against budget, target and forecast by department, skill team, country and cost cluster. Every figure drills down to the positions behind it.
Decide
Test country moves, skill team splits and mergers. Only the touched positions are recalculated, so it answers at once.
Versions all year. The plan is only a sprint.
Free, private, and you stay in control.
What controllers ask first.
Do I have to give you personal data?
No. The model works on positions, not people. Use any id you like, such as a position number. There are no names, birth dates or salaries per person in the template. Pay comes from pay rules per country, worker type and grade.
What do I need to start?
One Excel sheet of positions and one of pay rules is enough to see head count and cost. Add actuals, budget, target and prior business plan when you want the full comparison. The readiness report tells you what is missing before anything is loaded.
Where does my data live and how long?
In a private workspace that only you can open. It is deleted automatically after 30 days, and you can delete it yourself at any time with one button.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the test drive. No card, and no trial that turns into a subscription.
Is it a replacement for my HR system or planning tool?
No. It sits beside them: SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, ADP, UKG, Dayforce, Personio and the like, and planning tools such as Anaplan, Oracle EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud or Excel. Those systems record what happened and hold the master data; HC Controller is where controllers compare versions, find the variance and test decisions. You bring an extract (Excel or CSV) from any of them, you do not connect anything. The names are examples of where extracts come from, not partnerships.
How many positions can I load?
There is no limit on the number of positions. Tens of thousands of rows work: large Excel and CSV files are opened on your computer first, and history files (actuals, budget) are added up there before they are sent.
Tichi Mbanwie
Founder, HC Controller
I spent more than a decade in finance and controlling at Ford in Cologne, in FP&A, purchasing controlling and pricing, where I owned European headcount controlling and reporting for senior management. Before that I worked in portfolio compliance at PIMCO. Every budget, forecast and plan cycle brought the same problem: no single model to compare actuals, budget, target and forecast and follow a difference down to the position. HC Controller is the tool I wanted.
I also advise finance and HR teams on workforce planning and controlling.
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Free test drive. No card. Your data stays in your private workspace.