Payment Times Reporting.
Owen Rayner, Principal of RGC Advisory, led the Treasury team responsible for the 2024 reforms of the scheme. That is the expertise we bring to every payment times engagement.
Most boards treat Payment Times Reporting as a compliance line item — file it and forget. That misses both the upside and the risk. The scheme runs on incentives: fast-payer recognition, slow-payer directions, and the penalty and investigation pathway that follows. Reported well, the report builds credibility. Reported badly, it draws regulator and stakeholder attention you don't need.
Our tools and services are scaled to your approach. For a light touch, our AI-assisted payment times report generator guides you through preparing a compliant report — calculation models aligned with the Act, an audit trail, and approval workflows built in.
For a broader approach, our proprietary data tools and services help you benchmark against peers, understand your report in context, and flag the trends that start attracting regulator and stakeholder attention before they do.
For compliance actions, penalties or investigations, we have the people who designed the foundations of the law to advise on strategy, options and approach.
What is Payment Times Reporting?
The plain-English version of the scheme — who reports, what gets disclosed, and why the regulator (and your suppliers) care.
From first report to regulator response.
End-to-end preparation and submission, with regulator-grade validation built in.
Pre-submission review of methodology, calculations and underlying data against the Act and current guidance.
Structured review and sign-off process, with an audit trail behind every decision.
Notice response, remediation strategy, and direct regulator engagement.
Strategy and drafting for extension applications and decision-reconsideration requests.
Setup, registration and first-cycle handholding for entities entering the scheme.
Positioning the report as an ESG asset — turning compliance into a fair-dealing narrative.
Supplier engagement programmes and supply-chain communication aligned to reporting outcomes.
Search the Payment Times Register, meaningfully.
PTR inFOCUS turns the register into structured, comparable data. 3,630 reporters indexed. Filter by sector, payment-times bracket and reporting cycle. Benchmark your performance, find peer disclosures, surface anomalies before the regulator does.
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Our Principal led the team responsible for the 2024 legislative reforms at the Commonwealth Treasury. We bring direct insight into the scheme's design, the policy intent behind every rule, and how the regulator reads each metric.
We run pre-submission methodology and report reviews — checking for regulatory red flags and ensuring the underlying data, calculations and reporting process align precisely with the Act and current regulatory guidance.
Yes — and most reporters underuse the opportunity. We position the Payment Times Report as a public demonstration of fair-dealing credentials and supplier-fair-trading commitments, not just a compliance filing.
Yes. Payment Times reports run through our RGC ESG platform — so the work combines senior regulatory counsel with the data tooling we built for our own practice.
Speak to the team that designed the scheme.
Named principal on every matter. Senior advice. No junior hand-offs.