Case Study: Flinders University achieves institutional agility and a single source of truth with Workday Adaptive Planning

Enabling institutional agility at Flinders University

Flinders University, a leading research university in Adelaide with 6,600 staff and 27,500 students across 82 locations, faced fragmented HR and finance systems, a legacy payroll, manual paper‑based processes, slow and error‑prone reporting, and no single view of its workforce. Managers were spending excessive time on administration and the university urgently needed a modern, cloud‑first HR solution to improve data integrity and the employee experience.

Flinders selected Workday after hands‑on vendor testing and implemented its true SaaS platform to consolidate HR and payroll, rationalize processes, and provide built‑in reporting and insights. The deployment eliminated 25 paper forms, decommissioned 14 payroll‑related applications, reduced 93 business processes to two–three clicks, and shifted HR from transactional work to strategic activities — delivering operational efficiencies, a single source of workforce information, and stronger staff engagement with digital transformation.

Flinders University

Kerrie Campbell

Chief Information Officer