Case study · Payroll, finance and HR
Riverside: payroll, finance and HR brought onto one platform
A multi-year programme in three phases: people and payroll, then finance, then AI-supported HR. Each phase paid back in under seven months.
UK housing associations
Finance and procure-to-pay for UK housing, live in months
Oracle Fusion for housing associations, delivered from a design already live in UK social housing. Your team works on the difference.
Housing finance teams run rent, service charges, development schemes and a property asset base that few general ERP partners understand. PCL One focuses on UK housing finance and brings a ready-made design, housing data tools and a tested cutover playbook to every project.
Bring your go-live date and we will show you the plan to reach it.
Built on Oracle Fusion Cloud.
What we deliver
Five areas of housing finance, designed and delivered together.
Record to report
- Chart of accounts
- Multi-entity and intercompany
- Budgetary control
- Month-end close
Procure to pay
- Requisitions and catalogues
- Approval limits
- Three-way match
- CIS
- Payment runs
Housing tax
- VAT with partial exemption (PESM)
- Domestic reverse charge
- Making Tax Digital
Assets and development
- Property components
- Capitalisation from schemes
- Grants
Integration
- Housing management
- Banking
- Payroll
- Through the Finance One accelerator
Go deeper
One platform, connected to the systems you keep
Finance, procure-to-pay and HR sit on one platform. Your housing management system, bank and payroll connect through one integration layer, so the housing system can keep posting with the codes it already uses.
At the centre: Integration layer (Finance One accelerator). Connected to it:
- Finance
- Procure to pay
- HR and payroll
- Housing management system
- Bank
- Reporting
How we make it fast
Most of a housing association's finance requirements match those of other housing associations. We start from a design that is already live, so the project works on the difference.
Steps, in order:
- Requirements baseline from a live housing association
- Housing-aware data cleansing with a checklist
- Configuration in about two weeks
- Test scripts with anonymised housing data
- Cutover plan and playbook timed to your financial year
- A requirements baseline and design from a live housing association
- Housing-aware data cleansing, with a checklist your team works through
- Configuration in about two weeks after design sign-off
- Test scripts with anonymised housing data
- A cutover plan and playbook, with go-live timed to your financial year
Proof from UK social housing
Riverside, a UK social housing provider, moved month-end close from 18 days to under 5 on Oracle Fusion Financials (case study).
Month-end close
Before
18 days
After
Under 5 days
Case study · Finance
Riverside: real-time financial visibility across 56,000+ properties
A rationalised chart of accounts, automated rent billing and three-way invoice matching gave the finance team one view of cash, receivables and payables.
Case study · Payroll
Riverside: payroll sign-off time cut by about 90% for 3,500+ employees
More than 500 work schedules and 400 pay codes were standardised onto one platform, with payroll brought forward two months when the legacy system failed.
Housing finance insights
Practical articles for housing finance, procurement and systems teams.
Cutover and go-live · November 6, 2026
Go Live on 1 April: Changing Finance Systems at the Year Boundary
Most housing associations close their year on 31 March. Timing a new finance system to start on 1 April gives each year one system, one ledger and one audit trail.
Housing tax · November 6, 2026
Getting Housing Tax Right at the Point of Purchase
Housing associations carry tax rules most ERP templates ignore: partial exemption, the Construction Industry Scheme and the domestic reverse charge. Each is easier to control when it is set at requisition.
Finance and procure-to-pay · November 6, 2026
Service Charges by Scheme, Property and Unit
Service charge teams work at the level residents are billed: the scheme, the property and the unit. The finance system should accept costs at that level without rekeying.
Finance and procure-to-pay · October 27, 2026
Bringing Housing Finance and Purchase-to-Pay onto One Oracle Platform
How a housing association with a separate finance ledger and P2P tool moves to one Oracle Fusion platform for finance and procurement, with a group structure, housing dimensions and approvals designed in from the start.
Data and assets · October 22, 2026
Migrating a Housing Asset Register, Components and All, into Oracle Fusion
How housing providers move balances, suppliers and a component-level fixed asset register into Oracle Fusion Cloud with three reconciled loads, control totals and finance sign-off at every cycle.
Integration · October 20, 2026
Connecting Oracle Fusion to Housing and CRM Systems Through Your Integration Hub
How housing providers connect Oracle Fusion finance to their housing management system, CRM, repairs, payroll and data warehouse through an existing integration hub, with monitored and replayable interfaces.
Book a 30-minute housing finance review
Bring your go-live date and we will show you the plan to reach it.
PCL One (PayrollCloud Limited)
International House, 12 Constance Street
London E16 2DQ
United Kingdom