First Circle transforms HR and payroll into paperless processes

Enabling efficiencies and self-service for HR, managers and employees

First Circle designs and manufactures innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.

Nearly 200 people work at First Circle’s four sites in the UK and Ireland. With the help of Civica’s HR and payroll solutions, a two-person HR team can take care of them all.

First Circle chose Civica HR and payroll solutions for a number of reasons, as Greg Ward, HR Director explains: “Civica offers a complete solution that integrates HR, payroll, time and attendance, recruitment and learning management, alongside a payroll bureau service. Compared with other solutions we evaluated, Civica offered better functionality and easier navigation. On top of that, the Civica team did an in-depth demo that really let us see how the software would help us.”

Key outcomes

Estimated £60,000 cost savings in year one

Paper-heavy processes transformed to zero paper

Efficiency savings with unified data and increased automation.

Sarah Dickenson,

HR Manager,

First Circle

You can’t afford for anything to go wrong with payroll. Right from the start, we felt we were in safe hands, with the Civica payroll bureau seamlessly handling the differences between UK and Irish payroll requirements, and acting as an extension of our own team.