What is MyChoice?
MyChoice is an online flexible benefits tool. It's a quick and simple solution for organisations that previously wanted to launch flexible benefits but found it too difficult. It’s also ideal for those who want to extend their current scheme but need more from a supporting system to make it possible.
Employees can log on to MyChoice and model their benefit selection before submitting their final choices, they can also view their total reward statement.
To download a fact sheet on MyChoice, please click here
Automating the flexible benefits process helps to improve HR efficiencies; from opening up the initial enrolment, to the processing of the employee choices to payroll, pensions and P11D. This means that you have more time to spend on strategic HR issues.
MyChoice makes it easy to set up new benefits, establish benefit rules, communicate with benefit providers and calculate benefit contributions. It also simplifies the benefit selection process because employees simply select the benefits they want and can instantly see the effect on their package.
MyChoice is also ideal for organisations who want to extend their current scheme but need more from a supporting system to make it possible. Continuous improvements can be made to the scheme without incurring significant costs, so the scheme can grow in terms of employee numbers and benefit options.
MyChoice is a completely scalable reward solution with two modules – one for flexible benefits and one for total reward statements.
The total reward statement module gives you a highly effective and cost efficient way to communicate the total remuneration package to your employees. You may opt to start with total reward statements then introduce the flexible benefits module at a later date or just provide the total reward statements.
To find out more about total reward statements click here
The easy-to-use MyChoice technology means that it's quick and simple for your employees to model and submit benefit selections because employees can try a number of benefit combinations before deciding which one to select. They can review how their choices will affect their flex fund and their net pay before making a final selection. The employee has unlimited ability to ‘model’ until they are happy to make their final submission choice.
The application is essentially self-service driven, following the popular ‘online shopping’ concept, with opportunities to link directly to benefit providers’ websites for further information. Guidance, HR Policy and web links can be added giving the employee information for decisions at their fingertips.
To download a fact sheet on MyChoice, please click here
MyChoice removes the administration burden often associated with administering flexible benefits schemes and makes it easy to set up new benefits, establish benefit rules and calculate benefit contributions.
Automating the flexible benefits process helps to improve HR efficiencies; from opening up the initial enrolment, to the processing of the employee choices to payroll, pensions and P11D. This means that you have more time to spend on strategic HR issues.
MyChoice provides numerous configuration options so that it can seamlessly integrate with your HRMS, payroll, absence management, general ledger and pensions systems.
Once the configuration is complete and the system installed, most information transfers are carried out automatically and instantly.
You can make quick and simple updates to reflect changes to benefit rules and rates arising from changes instigated by benefit providers and your own policy reviews.
We also provide automatic statutory updates to keep you within relevant legislation.
The workflow programme in MyChoice announces and reminds employees about their responsibilities on a schedule set by your administrators.
This helps solves the problem of eligible employees forgetting to make their benefit choices.
The implementation of MyChoice occurs in 4 different stages which are all overseen and managed by the Project Management team.
The four stages are:
- Scoping – detailed documentation of the customer requirements
- Build – application, installation and configuration and data migration
- Review – an internal NorthgateArinso review is followed by customer User Acceptance Testing
- Live – employee enrolment is followed by transfer of data back to payroll and provider reporting.
To find out how more about MyChoice and our approach to implementation, please contact us
NorthgateArinso has achieved ISO27001 accreditation. The hosting infrastructure is subjected to monthly vulnerability scans and bi-annual penetration tests by an independent third-party consultancy.
NorthgateArinso’s Information Security Manager is responsible for creating and maintaining our Information Security Management System which is compliant with the international standards and code of practice ISO 27002.
To find out how more about MyChoice and our security accreditations, please contact us
Continuing NorthgateArinso’s design principles of providing flexibility through multiple platforms, we have architected MyChoice using Java EE compatible components. This means that you have a choice of platform when deploying the solution in house.
Any browser that supports HTML 4.01, DOM Level 2, Cascading Style Sheets and client-side JavaScript may utilise MyChoice self-service. NorthgateArinso supports Microsoft IE6, IE7 or Mozilla FireFox 3.x. Other browsers may be used but remain untested at present.
