How Angel
Trains reduced payroll from weeks to days with IRIS Payroll Services

Customer story

Angel Trains is the UK’s leading rolling stock company, driving innovation in the rail industry through cutting-edge train refurbishment and investment programmes.

With a team of around 160 employees, Angel Trains needed a payroll solution to replace their outdated, manual system and better support their day-to-day operations.

After encountering inefficiencies and errors with their previous provider, they turned to IRIS Payroll Services to transform their payroll operations.

A new perspective
on payroll

Chika Eze, HR Advisor at Angel Trains, joined the company after working at a much larger organisation.

Despite the smaller workforce at Angel Trains, she was surprised by how time-consuming and error-prone payroll processing had become.

“Running payroll each month was an incredibly manual process which was both time-consuming on our side and on the provider’s side.

“We had no visibility of payroll, and there were frequent mistakes, which meant it took a very long time as we had to check every individual’s payroll each month due to the high risk of errors.

“It took longer to do payroll for 160 employees than it had taken at my previous company, where we had over 1,000 employees,” Eze explains.

After evaluating their options, Angel Trains chose IRIS Payroll Services and immediately saw the benefits.

One of the standout advantages was the integration with their existing HR system, which enabled seamless data transfer and eliminated the risk of manual input errors.

“There were a lot of reasons we chose IRIS Payroll Services.

“We could integrate our HR system, maintain a managed service and gain full visibility via the employer portal.

“We could also see changes in real time, run reports whenever needed, and our payroll advisor was very responsive.

“Where I used to spend hours checking every single line of payroll, I now trust that the same mistakes won’t be made.

“I would 100% recommend IRIS Payroll Services!

“Our payroll advisor has gone above and beyond with our payroll, and nothing is too much trouble.

“It has honestly been a life-changing move over to IRIS Payroll Services,”
says Eze.

Moving to IRIS Payroll Services

Payroll processing time cut from three weeks to four days a month

Full visibility and real-time access through the Employer Portal

HR system integration removing manual re-keying and the errors that came with it