Moving to a new HR system?
Our HRIS implementation consultants guide SME businesses across the South East and London through every stage of HR software implementation, from your first requirements conversation to a fully digital system your team actually relies on.
Businesses move to a new HRIS to manage people admin more effectively, replacing spreadsheets, shared inboxes and paper files with one digital system. The problem is that implementing a new HR system is a specialist project in its own right, and most businesses with fewer than 100 staff simply don’t have the internal resource to run it from start to finish alongside their day job.
Asking an already-stretched HR or office manager to project-manage a full HR system implementation on top of everything else can become challenging.
This is exactly where MJV Consulting comes in. We work as an extension of your team, giving you the SME HR software expertise to implement a new HR system properly, without needing to hire for it.
Every HRIS implementation project at MJV Consulting is led by Ewen Bonnyman.
With a background in project delivery, and ITIL v4 qualified, well-structured, process-driven projects are at the heart of our delivery work. Before joining MJV Consulting in 2025, Ewen worked in-house at an HRIS SaaS provider, giving him first-hand knowledge of how these systems are built, delivered and supported from the inside.
That insight matters. It means that we don’t just configure a system to a template, we get to know your business, your people processes and work with your team to translate your business’s manual. We help turn inconsistent, internal processes into a clean, fully digital HRIS setup that’s designed around how your business actually works.
Implementing a new HR system shouldn’t feel like a leap of faith. We’ve structured our HRIS implementation plan into four clear stages, guiding your business from initial idea through to a system that’s fully embedded and delivering value.
We map your current, often manual, HR processes and gather your requirements. Together we build the business case, agree scope and set clear objectives so the project starts on solid ground.
Whether you need full system selection support or already know your HRIS, we design how it will work for your business — structure, contracts, work patterns and process rules included.
We configure your system, cleanse and migrate your data, run user acceptance testing and deliver training and communications, so your team is ready and confident before go-live.
Post go-live, we provide health checks and ongoing optimisation support, helping you keep maximising your HRIS investment as your business and processes continue to grow.
Wondering how to implement a new HR system without it derailing your day-to-day? Here’s the checklist we work through with every client and the version we’re happy to talk through on a free discovery call.
We’re not tied to any single HR software provider.
Our HRIS implementation service is driven entirely by what your business needs.
Start by documenting your current, often manual, HR processes and gathering requirements from across the business, not just HR. From there, build a business case, select the right system for your needs, and work through configuration, data migration, testing and training before go-live. An HRIS implementation consultant can manage this end-to-end, or support your team through specific stages.
The key is sequencing: introduce changes in stages rather than switching everything on at once, involve managers and employees early through testing (UAT), and communicate clearly ahead of go-live. This is exactly what our HRIS implementation plan is designed to manage.
An HRIS implementation consultant supports (or leads) every stage of moving to a new HR system, from requirements gathering and system selection through to configuration, data migration, user testing, training and post-go-live support. For SME businesses without an internal systems team, this expertise is often the difference between a smooth rollout and a stalled project.
No. We’re certified partners of Breathe HR and Cezanne HR, so we know both platforms in depth, but our HRIS implementation service is customer-led. If your business has already chosen a different system, or needs support selecting one, we’ll work with you just the same.
It depends on the complexity of your processes and the size of your business, but most SME HRIS implementations run between 6 and 16 weeks from discovery to go-live. We’ll give you a realistic project plan once we understand your requirements.
