Recreational Services

RECREAT IONAL SERV I CES maintenance and management, cemetery services, and graffiti removal. Recreational services are also involved in the undertaking and management of various developmental, design and renewal projects across park area paths and tracks, walls, fences, bridges, bollards and chain gates, skate parks and playgrounds, storm-water ponds, and mitigation plantations. Senior representatives Cameron Parr (CEO), Brett Turner (Managing Director) and Carla Reinke (Tender and Marketing Coordinator) share their knowledge surrounding the company’s ethos, current management, and future goals. CEO of Recreational Services, Parr provides his insight into how different divisions of the company work together to maintain continuously high rates of success. “Our operational teams are spread across 13 local councils throughout New Zealand, and we do 95% of everything ourselves. We do everything within the park that you could think of apart from specialist activities; when you walk through the park, we do everything in that space. We’ve got close to 2000 pieces of equipment out there every single day to maintain our grounds. We only subcontract specialists for unrelated work, such as electricians or plumbers. Alongside our operations teams, we also have projects teams for our redevelopment work, our Auckland headquarters team, and a Sports Service Design Management team.” The Sports Service Design Management team at Recreational Services had the fantastic opportunity to design Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand. The first fully enclosed field stadium in the world, the stadium was officially opened in 2011, and has since hosted a plethora of events from international sports extravaganzas to local concerts and schooling activities. The Sports Service Design Management team is now fortunate enough Integrity1 offers a unique consultancy service focused on payroll. All of Integrity1’s employees have come from either a payroll, HR, or Payroll and HR systems background. They are able to offer a full end to end consultancy experience covering everything payroll related. Recruitment, Audits, Remediation, System and payroll process reviews and a full end to end managed outsourced solution called their Virtual Payroll Office (VPO). VPO covers Payroll Management, Strategy, Processing, ongoing audits and compliance monitoring. This is the only full end to end payroll outsourced solution in New Zealand. Integrity1 also work with multiple Australian clients and have experience around EBA’s and Modern Awards. Integrity1 were engaged by Recreational Services to audit and review their payroll systems and processes. Recreational Services employ over 600 staff and wanted to explore the best and most efficient ways of engaging and remunerating their employees in a cost-effective manner. Integrity 1 completed an audit and study of Recreational Services’ end-to-end processes as well as the software solutions they were using. Following the audit and review Integrity1 recommended various improvements to their processes as well as alternative payroll and HR solutions that would better suit the needs of both the employee and employer. Workshops were held where the benefits and costs of each solution were worked through. Once a preferred solution was identified further workshops were held to plan the implementation, testing, communications plans and integrations into Recreational Services other systems. Recreational Services’ are transitioning from a legacy solution to a cloud based modern HRIS solution that will enhance employee engagement and communications as well as bring cost and time savings to the business with integrated rostering, costings, employee self-service, HR and fully integrated payroll. The solution will, as further phases are implemented, integrate into other Recreational Services solutions to bring more efficiencies and cost reductions and improved management of the organisation. Recreational Services have also decided to move their payroll into Integrity1’s VPO solution to ensure the investment they have made into their payroll and employees is maintained with the expertise that Recreational Services could not develop in house. The unique advantages of partnering with Integrity1 is our ability to deliver a full end-to- end solution. Recreational Services utilises Integrity1’s expertise at the relevant time for the relevant job, e.g. Audit expert, Compliance expert, Data specialist, Implementation consultants, experienced payroll testers and administrators and Payroll strategic management, which creates a seamless and significantly risk reduced journey with a single trusted supplier/partner. To take your payroll journey contact Integrity1. ...... For more information, please visit our website integrity1.biz Brett Turner, Managing Director Cameron Parr, CEO