Eliminate Payroll Guesswork from Your Budget Cycle
Generate accurate, audit-ready payroll forecasts for the current and next financial year-without spreadsheets, manual consolidation, or last-minute surprises.
Model workforce changes, predict future costs, and give Finance complete confidence in your numbers.
Payroll forecasting shouldn't be this hard
Built in disconnected spreadsheets
Information is siloed, hard to update and prone to error.
Dependent on manual inputs and assumptions
Key data sits in the heads of a few people or fragile models.
Difficult to reconcile with Finance
Different numbers, different versions and constant back-and-forth
Time consuming to update
Every change means hours, sometimes days of rework.
The result?
Budget delays, low confidence in number and missed opportunities.
A single, reliable source of payroll truth
MakoData Pay Forecasting automates the calculation of payroll costs across the remainder of the current year and into the next-so you can plan with confidence.
- Forecast payroll instantly using real workforce data
- Model future scenarios with accuracy
- Align HR plans directly with financial budgets
- Provide Finance with audit-ready figures
What you can do
Right now you’re probably aware of all of the things that you can’t do, but that doesn’t have to be the end of the story.
Let’s show you what is possible with MakoData
Build accurate payroll forecasts in minutes
Generate full-year and multi-year payroll projections based on your current workforce and planned changes.
Model workforce changes before they happen
Test the financial impact of new hires, leavers, retirements, pay increases, increments and organisational restructures.
Support your budget cycle with confidence
Provide Finance teams with consistent, audit-ready figures and clear assumptions behind every forecast.
Respond Instantly to change
When plans shift, your forecast updates automatically-no rebuilding spreadsheets or starting from scratch.
How it works
Employee-Level Forecasts
Integrate with your HR and payroll systems to create a complete, accurate baseline.
Apply forecasting rules
Automatically account for pay progression, contracts, awards, allowances and workforce movements.
Model future scenarios
Adjust assumptions and instantly see the financial impact across departments, locations and roles
Generate budget- ready outputs
Deliver clear, structured payroll forecasts to Finance for budgeting. reporting and decision-making.
What makes us different
Built specifically for payroll complexity
Designed to handle real-world workforce scenarios-not just simple headcount projections.
Faster budgeting cycles
Move from weeks of effort to hours.
No spreadsheet dependency
Eliminate manual consolidation and version control issues.
Finance-ready by design
Outputs are structured for budgeting, reporting and audit-not just analysis.
Trusted by organisations managing large, complex workforces.
Public Sector, Higher Education, Shared Services, Private Sector. Whatever your reporting needs are, we have a solution for you.
What Our Customers Say
Discover what our customers have to say about their experience with us. Real feedback from real people who trust our products and solutions.
“We needed to see and understand our HR data to influence our HR innovations within the University but did not have the tools to get us there.”
“We chose MakoData because of their HR thought leadership, their ready to go solution and their extensive experience in the HR Analytics space”
“At the University of Liverpool, we wanted to migrate from Oracle Discoverer to a World leading Analytics tool. We engaged with MakoData on their solution. Not only did they make the process painless, we ended up with one tool that managed our operational, complex and strategic reporting. This allowed us to concentrate on one skill set.”
“With MakoData we have delivered analytics and dashboards around some of our key HR initiatives, and the business sees a lot of value from that. I have real comfort in knowing that if something is time-sensitive, MakoData will turn it around very quickly. And that affords me the opportunity to spend time looking at what the data is telling me, as opposed to being concerned about how we can get access to it.”
“We needed a solution that was going to keep progressing the strategic needs that we have, but also the operational needs and that was important because we have to keep aligned to our Operations team.
We needed expertise and we needed support to deliver that so we could maximize the value from our HR Data. MakoData delivered on all of this for us, and quickly.”
See it working in the real world
How UCD Transformed Their People Analytics Function
University College Dublin, Ireland's largest research university, replaced fragmented spreadsheets and manual HR reporting with a single, real-time people analytics platform, giving their team the...
Plan your Payroll with Confidence
Stop relying on spreadsheets and assumptions. Start building accurate, flexible payroll forecasts that support better decisions.
