PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the world’s largest professional services firm, has outsourced its bureau payroll service to Logica. The deal will see Logica provide a pay-as-you-go BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) service for 18,000 of Logica’s employees and pensioners.

The deal, to begin in December this year, marks the first win of this kind for Logica since it announced its partnership with Oracle to offer Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) as part of its own outsourced HR & payroll service. Logica’s pay-as-you-go model negates the need for PricewaterhouseCoopers to pay the traditional upfront software licence fee.

Patricia Taylor, Director of HR and Payroll BPO Services at Logica said: “We’re seeing a real demand for BPO pay-as-you-go services from current and potential customers. This type of offering means that premium services based on a market leading product like Oracle HCM are no longer just available to large enterprises – they are accessible to all. Many organisations will now find that they can positively change the way they deliver HR and payroll services to their employees”.