Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 5 · Divisions, Departments, Locations and Trees
Departments and cost centers
Lesson 49 of 175 · 15 min
A department is where a worker sits organisationally. It carries a manager, a location, and — critically — an association to a cost centre in the financial chart of accounts. That cost centre association is the join between HR and Finance. If you took the Financials course, this is where their chart of accounts meets your HR structure — and getting the mapping wrong sends labour cost to the wrong place. It will be Finance who notices, not HR. On granularity: the department structure should match how the business actually manages people, which in practice is finer than the legal structure and coarser than the team structure. Both halves need saying, because people err in both directions. Then the build: a three-level hierarchy, managers and locations set, cost centres associated, legal employers associated, department title behaviour configured — and effective-dated changes shown, including what happens when a department moves in…
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