Case Study: Global Energy Company achieves centralized global payroll and Workday integration with Safeguard Global

Centralizing global payroll drives strategic advantages

Global Energy Company, an integrated oil and gas firm with 8,000+ employees across 49 countries, struggled with a fragmented payroll landscape of 75 payroll operations, manual processes, and no integration with its Workday HCM — leading to costly compliance risks, processing inefficiencies, and low HCM adoption. To solve this, the company chose Safeguard Global to centralize payroll and integrate it with Workday.

Safeguard Global deployed a centralized global payroll solution using prebuilt Workday connectors, expanding the scope to consolidate 149 payrolls (including the parent company) and completing the rollout in 15 months on time and within budget. The result was a single Workday-integrated payroll, lower payroll processing costs, reduced high-cost labor and HR attrition, improved compliance via continuous auditing, and actionable payroll analytics that elevated HR’s strategic role.