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The Made in IRIS CEO Award encourages IRIS employees to think of new business ideas for products and services or ways of helping business professionals flourish and school leaders improve educational outcomes. Successful candidates are then invited to present their ideas to the IRIS Executive Team at a Dragon’s Den style panel. If successful, they are then given the funds and resources to help bring their ideas to life. James Nadal, Associate Content Manager at IRIS, was crowned the winner and awarded for the successful launch of his project ‘Your Accountancy Life’ – a new online community publication dedicated to celebrating accountants’ good news.
The Made in IRIS CEO Award encourages IRIS employees to think of new business ideas for products and services or ways of helping business professionals flourish and school leaders improve educational outcomes. Successful candidates are then invited to present their ideas to the IRIS Executive Team at a Dragon’s Den style panel. If successful, they are then given the funds and resources to help bring their ideas to life. Here's the highlights from the first ever Made in IRIS CEO Award Ceremony 2021.
Gareth tells us about how as the company has grown, he's felt part of the changes rather than watching them happen and had a range of roles at the company along the way. Click below to find out more!
We've caught up with our Associate Quality Engineer, Zara Khan to find out how she's built her confidence and independence at IRIS. Click here to watch Zara's full video below.
We're delighted to share that our CEO Elona has been featured on BBC News, on their new mini-series called Paths to Success. In the short video, Elona highlights the importance of hiring a diverse workforce and how ultimately this leads to creating a great business. Diversity is what opens up fresh, unexplored avenues of thoughts and innovation. Watch the video via the link below.
We start the year with acquisition news, and we are delighted to announce we have acquired Staffology, a cloud payroll application. The business is in an early stage of its lifecycle and has already secured over 100 customers with 18,000 payslips per month managed on the application. Staffology is a cloud-based payroll application designed specifically for the UK. As well as being comprehensive in terms of the features provided, it has a powerful Application Programming Interface (API) so it can easily be integrated with other systems. We have also acquired Senta, a provider of cloud-based practice management software for accountants and bookkeepers. Senta joining the IRIS family allows us to make sure our customers are compliant while revolutionising the cloud practice management market, and delivering the functionality customers require today, regardless of location. Our shared strategy, investment in cloud technology and sector expertise, means we can accelerate our growth and deliver better services to our customers.
We’ve donated over £7,500 to Shelter! Unfortunately, last year we couldn’t meet up for our usual Christmas parties and festivities, so we decided to do things a little differently. In the UK, some of our wonderful colleagues selflessly donated the value of their hamper to Shelter, helping us raise a total of £7,562 for the charity that supports millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness by providing advice, support, and legal services. A £10 donation to the charity could fund two webchats giving expert advice to people facing homelessness. £50 could pay for five urgent calls to the Shelter helpline to support those under immediate threat of homelessness and £80 could pay for legal advice to help a family in crisis keep their home. So, the fantastic amount we’ve been able to donate will make a real difference. Well done team IRIS.
IRIS Software Group, one of the UKâs largest privately held software companies is today announcing it is Great Place to Work-Certifiedâ¢. The certification has been achieved through validated employee feedback gathered with Great Place to Workâs rigorous, data-driven methodology. Certification confirms that at least 65% of employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the survey considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management and leadership, effective communication, and recognition and reward. Stephanie Kelly, Chief People Officer says, âNow more than ever, itâs vital to make the employee experience a priority every day. We are delighted our colleagues have reported a consistently positive experience with their team, leaders and their role and recognise IRIS as a âgreat place to workâ.
Everyone continues to be impacted by unique and unprecedented challenges in the wake of COVID-19. Recently, our customers joined us for IRIS Live, a week of discussion, debate and knowledge-sharing to give professionals and industry leaders practical strategies to navigate the next normal and begin to look forward with confidence. The sessions were chaired by our very own IRIS specialists, who were joined by thought leaders and industry experts from across a variety of sectors. We delivered 39 different sessions to nearly 4,000 attendees over the space of five days. We were also joined by over 350 of our IRIS Live guests for a Zoom comedy night with a line-up of hilarious comedians, raising an incredible £3,736 (including gift aid) for our chosen four charities: NHS Charities Together, NSPCC, Mind for Better Mental Health and Shelter. We would like to give a big thanks to everyone who helped #MakeItHappen.
IRIS recently held a #MyStaycation prize draw. We invited our employees to send in some of their best pictures from their trips around the UK, and encouraged them to take some well-earned time off! We entered all names into a ‘spin the wheel’ and we are delighted to announce our four lucky winners: Manjinder Devgon (Marketing Director), Lauren Ramsden (Senior Finance Business Partner), James Marshall (Account Manager) and Andy Charlton (T3 Business Analyst). They won one of four prizes: a picnic hamper, a pamper package, a gardening hamper and a relaxation of mindfulness items to enjoy during the bank holiday weekend. From hiking up the highest peaks in the UK to visiting beaches all over the country; from building outdoor cinemas in your garden to flying kites in the country side – it’s been wonderful to celebrate our new ways of relaxing and having fun. Even though original holiday plans may have been cancelled, we encourage all of our employees to continue with taking annual leave and switching off from time to time.
