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The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

​Delivering an integrated solution for HR, Finance, Procurement and Payroll, on time and to budget.

The merger in 2017 of two key Government departments, Department of Energy and Climate Change [DECC] and The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills [BIS] saw the creation of a single entity, The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy [BEIS]. BEIS from day one represented some 4,000 staff at two main sites. But finance and HR services remained divided across two Shared Service providers.

To maximise efficiencies and as a stepping stone to a larger transformation programme the decision was made to transfer all staff to a single Shared Service provider, bringing the new department’s HR, Finance, Procurement and Payroll on to one platform.

Conflicting service priorities prevented this work from progressing until a new BEIS team was put in place in early 2018. With its extensive experience in Central Government, and a reputation for hands-on Project Management, Step5 was asked to step in providing Programme Management with the necessary Payroll and Oracle migration experience to bring the transition back on track.

Step5 worked with the BEIS team and GIAA auditors to revise the governance structure and establish speed and quality of delivery as primary delivery benchmarks.