The workforce you cannot see is the cost you cannot control.
You've controlled permanent headcount. You've frozen recruitment. But across procurement, IT, and marketing, managers have found workarounds, contractors, consultants, and service providers you can't see in any single report. That's not just a compliance risk. It's budget you've already lost control of.
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The Visibility Gap Finance Can't Ignore
You control headcount. But do you control workforce cost?
Every CFO we speak to faces the same challenge: permanent headcount is visible, governed, and budgeted. But the external workforce: contractors, consultants, service providers exists in the gaps between systems.
The pattern is predictable:
- HR tracks temps and agency workers in their systems
- Procurement tracks consultants in theirs
- Finance sees invoices from service providers, but not the humans behind them
- Line managers bring in "just one contractor for six weeks" who's still there 18 months later
No one has the complete picture. And without visibility, you can't control cost, risk, or compliance.
The Cost of Not Knowing
| Risk | Impact |
|---|---|
| Budget Erosion | Contractors who arrived for "6 weeks" become permanent fixtures at 2-3x employee cost. Across the organisation, this adds up to millions in unplanned spend. |
| SAO Exposure | As a Senior Accounting Officer, you certify appropriate tax arrangements are in place. Worker misclassification directly impacts that certification and the penalties flow to you. |
| Audit Vulnerability | External auditors are increasingly focused on contingent workforce risk. Without evidence of governance, you're exposed at every year-end. |
"Line Managers spending service budget on unplanned 3rd party labour is infuriating. It is just bad business management. I cannot have consultants or contractors hired in secret, only for us to discover 18 months later that they have become business-critical and now require inflated permanent headcount funding. It creates huge classification risk and undermines confidence at board level that we have effective control over our budgets. Top CFOs will not stand for it."
Visibility First. Compliance Follows.
CoComply doesn't start with compliance rules. We start with a simpler question: who is actually working for your organisation?
We connect data from HR, procurement, and finance into a single view of your entire workforce, permanent and external. Once you can see it, you can govern it. Once you can govern it, you can evidence compliance. That's what stands up to audit, to regulators, and to the board.
What CFOs Get from CoComply
Unified Workforce View
Everyone in One View
See every worker: temps, contractors, consultants, service provider personnel in one dashboard. No more reconciling spreadsheets from three departments.
What Changes
You know the real number. The total external workforce cost, across all channels and departments - in one report.
You can answer the board. When audit asks about classification exposure, you have evidence, not estimates.
You stop the leakage. Visibility surfaces the "secret spend" that's been eroding your budgets.
The money is so, so... it's actually harder than commercial organisations because it's no one's money as such, it's the charity's. We report to the Charity Commission and I want to show all stakeholders we have control of where and to whom our spend is going.