Success Stories: Fullerton Joint Union High School District and Helios

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Fullerton Joint Union High School District (FJUHSD) is located in Fullerton, Orange County, Southern California. FJUHSD serves around 14,000 Grades 9-12 students in a fifty-square-mile area. This includes six comprehensive high schools, one continuation high school, and one alternative high school. The District serves a varied socioeconomic population of families, and is enjoyed by parent organizations, the local business community, and supportive higher education institutions. Their mission is to provide quality curriculum and instruction through a wide range of academic, co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities by which all students may discover their interests and talents, form connections, and move from passive to active participants in the educational community in preparation for responsible, productive adulthood.

Summary

FJUSHD enjoys the streamlined, paperless freedom of Helios for Onboarding, e-Form Requisitions and Approvals, Reports, Employee e-Files, Interfacing, and Employee Self-Service Portal. FJUSHD partners with Helios for their user-friendliness, functionality, adaptability to needs, and top-notch customer service.

Challenges

Chris MacMeekin, Manager, Fiscal Services, and Nicolas Cardenas, Accountant, together with their team at Business Services, were handling everything paper-based before Helios. Their outdated processes were a source of waste in, both, district time and money.

A lot of time was spent tracking forms like New Hire onboarding packets, travel and mileage reimbursements, purchase orders, receipts, supplemental payments, etc. Frustrations mounted when Chris, Nicolas, and their team was having to search through stacks of paper after employees and vendors were not getting paid on time.

Solution

Helios’ seamless, web-based, user-friendly interface has made FJUHSD processes so much quicker. Now that Chris, Nicolas, and their team are not having to shuffle through stacks of paper to find what they are looking for, they are saving lots of time. They are also saving money by not needing to print and store so much paper.

We chatted with Chris and Nicolas to get an update on their district’s use of Helios.