Coming soon
Bench turns competency frameworks into structured staff evaluations: define what each role needs, assess your people against it, and close the gaps with targeted training.
From the team behind Drills and Desk.
The problem
Appraisals are ad-hoc and inconsistent. There is no agreed definition of what good looks like for each role.
Development spend is disconnected from the capability gaps that actually hold the team back.
Who can do what, and to what level, lives in scattered spreadsheets, and walks out the door when people leave.
The evidence
Treasury Accountant, Budget Execution Directorate
Close the two-level IPSAS reporting gap first: assign the accrual-accounting module and re-assess next cycle. Commitment control follows once reporting holds.
This is the artifact a review cycle leaves behind: who holds which competency at which level, where the gaps are, and the training plan that follows from them. Rating history accumulates across cycles, so the picture stays current as people grow.
What Bench does
Build skills with leveled descriptors, group them into reusable blocks, and compose them into roles, so similar positions share the same definitions.
Rate people against each role's required level, with a full rating history across review cycles.
Turn the gap between current and required levels into a focused development plan, automatically.
Start from a ready-made treasury-management set, draw from large standardized banks (a PFM-oriented model and the extensive US federal framework), or build your own.
How it works
Set the competencies each role needs, from a ready-made bank or your own.
Run structured reviews and rate staff against their role's requirements.
Generate training plans from the gaps and track progress across review cycles.
Who it's for
Bench fits any team that runs structured staff evaluations, and it speaks the language of public finance first.
Finance ministries, treasuries, audit offices, and PFM units.
HR units, line agencies, and donor-funded programmes running competency-based evaluation.
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Questions? bench@pfmexpert.net
