Case Study: Alight achieves streamlined operations, €100K savings and faster financial close with Workday

Alight streamlines operations to increase efficiency

Alight, a leading provider of benefits administration and cloud-based HR solutions with more than 22,000 employees and 1,400 clients (including nearly half of the Fortune 500), faced a major technology challenge after its 2017 separation from AON. Its aging, fragmented systems required complex integrations and manual processes, leaving project managers without real-time visibility, forcing lengthy reconciliations and audits, and locking the company into an expensive Transition Service Agreement with a firm deadline.

Alight selected Workday as a single global cloud platform for financials, professional services automation, and HCM, consolidating systems into a unified, mobile-enabled experience with real-time analytics and tighter controls. The transformation saved €100K in annual TSA costs, cut time to close from 9 days to 3, reduced report development from months to hours, improved PM availability by 10–20%, slashed time-entry errors tenfold, accelerated invoicing from one week to two days, and achieved 100% user adoption.

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