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Payday: Global Payroll Podcast

25 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings

Payday is the first podcast for payroll, HR and finance professionals. It's focused on the modern pay experience, with experts covering topics from employee experience to global payroll innovation and the future of work.

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Impact of the Cost-of Living Crisis and War for Talent on Global Payroll

July 24, 2023 10:03 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MB

Drive business improvements with actionable insights from John Pearce, Dora Nemeth and Carlos Maroto based on the latest PEI report findings. 

Marc Ladenstein and Nick Webb discuss HR Strategy, Earned Wage Access and The Future of Pay

November 15, 2022 11:39 - 12 minutes - 23.1 MB

Marc Ladenstein talks about the HR strategy at Medtronic and the importance of delivering a consumer-grade experience to employees and customers. With a strategy based on people, process, and technology, Marc explains why people come first and the focus on employee well-being has become increasingly important, with the challenges that follow the pandemic and the current geopolitical situation.

Payroll is a career - John Pearce and Mel Pizzey discuss the many benefits of a career in payroll.

July 25, 2022 09:39 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB

John Pearce, CloudPay’s SVP of Global Payroll, is joined by Mel Pizzey, CEO of the Global Payroll Association to discuss the perception and barriers that payroll career progression faces, how to get started within the industry, and how the GPA is working to break some of those barriers down. Listen to the podcast to find out why nobody is talking about payroll and the reasons this needs to change.

Felicia Cheek on Financial Wellbeing and On-Demand Pay. The importance of financial wellbeing in the relationship between employers and employees.

December 07, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

With high levels of financial stress caused by the recent pandemic, we're seeing the importance of financial wellbeing rise up the corporate agenda, and the relationships between employees and employers change. Felicia Cheek discusses the concerns of the different generations making up today's workforce and the effects of employee financial stress on productivity and absenteeism. Then talks about how Payroll and HR functions can rectify the situation to benefit both the business and employee...

How will Blockchain Change Data Custodianship & Payroll

October 11, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

Emerging technologies like blockchain are enabling fundamental changes in the world of data custodianship, employee payroll and HR.  In this episode Dimitri Papageorgiou and Linda Obertin discuss how data ownership is shifting from employers and vendors to employees. We explore the roles, obligations and challenges of financial institutions, benefits providers and other organizations that manage data in today's model and how blockchain, smart contracts and other new technology will help so...

Managed Payroll Services Beyond Borders (Part 2) - Pete Tiliakos on global payroll vendors: types, trends, and the blurring of lines

May 05, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 39 MB

As organizations recover, payroll has been reborn as a transformational area of opportunity across all sectors. While payroll may have been overlooked in the past, it is now squarely at the heart of the employee experience, with firms realizing that payroll is more complex, vulnerable and needs modern tools to increase efficiency, continuity, and better support business strategy. In this episode, Pete Tiliakos, Principal Analyst at NelsonHall, shares the lessons learned from his latest repor...

Managed Payroll Services Beyond Borders (Part 1) - Pete Tiliakos on managed payroll services: a global buyer's perspective

May 05, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MB

As organizations recover, payroll has been reborn as a transformational area of opportunity across all sectors. While payroll may have been overlooked in the past, it is now squarely at the heart of the employee experience, with firms realizing that payroll is more complex, vulnerable and needs modern tools to increase efficiency, continuity, and better support business strategy. In this episode, Pete Tiliakos, Principal Analyst at NelsonHall, shares the lessons learned from his latest repor...

Uber: The Modern Payroll Experience & Professional

April 06, 2021 07:19 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MB

Who is the modern payroll professional? And how is the payroll function evolving? Payroll is becoming dynamic. It requires employee centricity, a love of data and technology, plus influencing skills. In this episode, Lubomira Kostova, Uber’s Lead, Strategy and Planning, Global Payroll, shares her story, tips for people in the payroll profession, and trends – from improving processes with technology to putting the employee experience first.

Payroll and the future of the minimum wage: Episode Guest: John McFarland

March 03, 2021 11:01 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

In recent years, the minimum wage debate has been a hot topic for people in payroll and HR. For instance, do wage increases hurt small businesses or boost consumer spending? There has been talk of how minimum wage differences globally could lead to different work trends. In this episode, John McFarland, SVP of Client Development at VensureHR, discusses the impact of minimum wage on labor costs and sheds light on how location plays a role in where to place your people, plus key global trends ...

The Seven Payroll Weaknesses Exposed by Covid-19 (part 2): Episode Guest: Kelley Rousayne

February 03, 2021 07:23 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB

The Covid-19 pandemic has put payroll functions through a rigorous test, challenging their business continuity plans, strategies, software capabilities, and vendors. In this episode, Kelley Rousayne from The Hackett Group discusses how payroll organizations should address key weaknesses exposed by the pandemic and what steps companies can take to operate more effectively, reduce risk, and contain costs.

The Seven Payroll Weaknesses Exposed by Covid-19 (part 1): Episode Guest: Kelley Rousayne

February 03, 2021 07:20 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MB

The Covid-19 pandemic has put payroll functions through a rigorous test, challenging their business continuity plans, strategies, software capabilities, and vendors. In this episode, Kelley Rousayne from The Hacket Group discusses how payroll organizations should address key weaknesses exposed by the pandemic and what steps companies can take to operate more effectively, reduce risk, and contain costs.

Diversity in Modern Payroll and HR: Evolving Definitions, Operational Considerations and the Power of Payroll Data

May 28, 2020 09:19 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MB

We bring together two experts to discuss how HR and Payroll departments and systems can prepare organizations for a future where diversity and inclusion are foundational components of global companies. Mollie Lombardi and Judith Lamb discuss diversity’s changing meaning, the operational hurdles ahead, and the value of HR and payroll data on diversity to aid the business.

Global Payroll Continuity and COVID-19: Making Virtual Connections and Staying Current on Legislative Changes

April 20, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MB

How does the global pandemic impact your organization, and what is its impact on your payroll operations? What should organizations do if they are in the midst of a significant change to payroll operations? How do companies stay current on new legislative changes introduced across the globe? We brought together a panel of global payroll experts to help give their perspective on managing payroll across geographies during this time of uncertainty.

Lessons In Digital Transformation (Part 2) - Brian Sommer on starting, implementing and completing transformative initiatives at your company

October 23, 2019 13:08 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

What role should vendors play in enabling digital transformation, and how do companies ensure their methodology for vendor evaluation avoids common pitfalls? In this episode, Brian Sommer, founder/president of TechVentive, focuses his attention on the role that vendors have to play enabling or hindering digital transformation projects. He shares advice on picking the right vendors for your projects, on building a compelling business case, and on staffing your organization with leaders that c...

Lessons In Digital Transformation (Part 1) - Brian Sommer on starting, implementing and completing transformative initiatives at your company

October 08, 2019 15:35 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

Digital transformation projects remain among the most challenging undertakings organizations face. Many of these projects fail to launch, and many more fail to deliver on their promises. But when done successfully, they can generate a significantly different reality for a company’s competitive position and strategy. In this episode, Brian Sommer, founder/president of TechVentive and author of Digital With Impact: Realizing Transformation Payoffs, shares his lessons learned from dozens of tra...

Measuring Payroll Performance: Part 2 - New KPIs and Benchmarks

July 17, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB

How do companies adopt more useful measurements for their payroll process? As our panel discussion continues, participants consider five new performance indicators for payroll: first-time approval rate, data input issues, calendar length, supplemental impact, and issues per 1K payslips. The discussion also covers the benefits of each KPI and ways companies can use them to gain a complete view of the payroll process. Plus, the experts offer their advice for companies and payroll professionals...

Measuring Payroll Performance: Part 1 - Current KPIs and Shortcomings

July 15, 2019 13:39 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MB

How should organizations evaluate the quality of their payroll process? In a two-part panel discussion, we examine how organizations and vendors measure the payroll process today and how they can improve the way they measure payroll going forward. In part one, our panel discusses three payroll KPIs used by organizations today: timeliness, accuracy, and completeness. Why are these KPIs used so broadly, and what are their limitations?

Growing Global Payroll: Melanie Pizzey on how knowledge sharing can help payroll professionals

January 28, 2019 17:08 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB

While payroll is anything but a new business need, the move toward managing payroll for dispersed global workforces is a relatively recent endeavor that requires a sharper set of skills. In this episode of Payday, we’re joined by Melanie Pizzey, CEO of the Global Payroll Association, to discuss the maturity of the global payroll space and how shared resources and experience — and committed industry supporters — are key to meeting this modern need.

The Power of One: Laurent Botella of Workday on the power of unifying HR and Payroll

November 19, 2018 03:03 - 31 minutes - 44.3 MB

The promise of single-source, cloud-based technology to transform the way organizations function has been heralded, doubted and debated for years, despite evidence of their benefits for companies of all sizes, across sectors and around the world. In this episode of Payday, CloudPay is joined by Laurent Botella of Workday to discuss the continuing challenges facing global HR and payroll teams, and precisely why the answers lie in single-platform solutions.

Braving the Change: Examining the need for enterprise innovation, the consumerization of enterprise technology and how payroll teams can lead the way, with Sierra Cedar

September 26, 2018 16:16 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

The evolution of enterprise tech toward self-service data management reveals a guiding focus on greater accuracy, security and flexibility in international business, but what does it mean for the people who work with that information on a daily basis? In this episode of Payday, we continue our conversation with Stacey Harris of Sierra Cedar and take a deeper look into the consumerization of technology and its impact on payroll and HR teams worldwide.

Surviving HR Transformation: Discussing new survey data on global HR transformation and examining both the threats and opportunities for payroll teams, with Sierra Cedar

September 18, 2018 15:38 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

The possibilities and promise of integrated, automated technology is bringing positive change to HR organizations around the world — with knock-on effects on related functions like global payroll that may or may not always be welcome. In this episode of Payday, CloudPay is joined by Stacey Harris of Sierra Cedar to examine the findings of their latest HR Systems Survey and the impact of HR transformation efforts on payroll teams today.

The Value of Money: Examining the Convergence of Fintech, HR and Payroll with Aptitude Research Partners

August 09, 2018 09:44 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MB

Time, technology and the desire of people to exercise increased control over their careers have transformed the role of human resources in recent years, which in turn has opened the door for greater possibilities and expectations in global payroll. In this episode of Payday, CloudPay is joined by Mollie Lombardi of Aptitude Research Partners to discuss what’s next at this intersection of work, talent and value.

Emerging Trends: Discussing Payroll Trends and Tech with NelsonHall

July 17, 2018 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MB

In this episode of Payday we’re joined by Pete Tiliakos, a senior analyst at NelsonHall who has led significant research into the technology, trends and solutions available in HR and global payroll. Pete recently identified three key industry developments that every payroll and HR professional should be aware of — so we asked him to come by and explain what they are and why they’re so important.

Going Global: How Groupon Transformed Its HR and Payroll

July 16, 2018 23:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

There’s a pervasive myth in global payroll that companies can’t have one system across all locations. Groupon begs to differ, having implemented a single HR and Payroll solution across its global footprint. In this episode, Groupon’s Director of Global Payroll, Ricardo Rehkopf, explains how his organization consolidated its payroll to one solution and why he believes other enterprise companies should do the same.

Enter Integration: How Connected Systems are Shaping HCM and Payroll

July 12, 2018 10:12 - 14 minutes - 13.9 MB

It seems everyone is focused on integration at the moment — how it speeds up data transfer, automates processing, and saves organizations both time and money. But what does it do for global payroll? More importantly, what does it do for you? In this episode of Payday, we discuss the benefits and opportunities of integrating essential enterprise functions and how global payroll fits into that futurescape.

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