The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia has selected MAGIQ Performance to achieve ‘best practice’ delivery of its financial, regulatory, strategic reporting and planning processes.
Located in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia, Kalgoorlie-Boulder is situated 600 kilometres east of Perth. With a population of more than 30,000 people, it is the largest urban centre in the Western Australian Goldfields region.
The City has had a rich gold mining history and heritage since the original claim was struck at Kalgoorlie in 1893. The concentrated area of large gold mines surrounding the original find is often referred to as the Golden Mile, and includes the Super Pit, one of the largest open cut gold mines at approximately 3.5 kilometres long, 1.5 kilometres wide and 570 metres deep.
MAGIQ Performance is a suite of highly sophisticated and easy to use budgeting, organisational reporting, long term financial planning and strategic planning software. The intuitive design of the software promotes collaboration, delivering improved transparency and data integrity to support better business decision-making and planning.
MAGIQ Performance will sit across the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s core business system, the IT Vision SynergySoft application, to provide easy access to accurate budgetary data and high quality financial reporting. Dashboards will also provide management with greater capacity for organisational performance analysis, faster decision making, and benchmarking.
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder is striving to achieve excellence through the delivery of innovative, best practice reporting systems. MAGIQ Performance will help Council improve the overall efficiency and capability of its budgeting, reporting and planning processes within a single, centralised system.
“We’re delighted to have the opportunity to partner with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and to support their goal to achieve long-term financial sustainability, ” said Colin Lillywhite, Chief Executive Officer MAGIQ Software.
“The City aspires to be a leader within the local government sector and we’re looking forward to working with them to provide reporting and planning systems that meet their business needs today and well into the future,” said Colin.
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder is committed to improving reporting skill and capability across it’s entire workforce, which will save time and deliver greater business efficiency. MAGIQ Performance is very easy to use and learn, enabling positive and rapid staff take-up.
MAGIQ Software has many years of experience working with Councils, which has led to a very deep understanding and knowledge of industry best practice and business requirements.
Colin commented: “Our customer service philosophy is focused on providing our customers with high quality customer service and support. We want our customers to feel confident that they will have access to the help and support they need; as and when they need it.”
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder has commenced its implementation of MAGIQ Performance in preparation for budgeting processes for the 2018/2019 financial year.