PayTalk
PayTalk is a monthly podcast created by PayrollOrg with the goal of sharing earned knowledge from high-level payroll professionals to the greater industry at large. Join us each month as we take a look at the leaders behind the payroll processes. Whether you’re just starting out in payroll or are a seasoned professional, PayTalk will help uncover the insights needed to unlock the next stage of your career.
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Global Payroll Operations: Outsourcing vs. In House
04/04/2024
Global Payroll Operations: Outsourcing vs. In House
It's time to celebrate Global Payroll Week! In this episode, we explore the critical choices in global payroll operations with John Lestock, CPP, Global Payroll Accountant at Boeing. With extensive experience in US and international payroll, John sheds light on the nuanced decision-making process between in-house management and outsourcing in the global payroll sphere. We address key considerations such as cost-effectiveness, expertise availability, and navigating the regulatory landscapes of various countries. From assessing the challenges of managing payroll in diverse legislative environments to understanding the implications of outsourcing in countries like Azerbaijan, this episode offers valuable insights for payroll professionals facing global operational decisions. Want more insights from John Lestock? Don't miss our previous two-part conversation on "Stepping Into Global Payroll." | Join the conversation! Share your thoughts via email at [email protected] or by leaving a comment on PayrollOrg’s Facebook page.
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Mastering Payroll Communications
02/29/2024
Mastering Payroll Communications
On this month's episode of PayTalk, we are joined by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, president of Fripp & Associates and an executive speech coach at PayrollOrg. Join us as we delve into the power of effective communication for payroll professionals, exploring strategies to enhance persuasive speaking, the importance of clear and concise language, and how to tailor communication styles for diverse and international teams. Patricia shares her extensive experience and insights, offering actionable advice to improve communication skills at every career stage. Learn more from Patricia at Payroll Congress 2024: www.payrollcongress.com
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AI-Powered Payroll: Redefining the Future of Workforce Management
02/01/2024
AI-Powered Payroll: Redefining the Future of Workforce Management
In this episode of PayTalk, we delve into the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in payroll systems with Roberto Masiero, SVP of Product Development at ADP and an innovator in payroll technology. Join us as we take a detailed look at AI's transformative effects on payroll practices, how AI can be harnessed for pay equity, and key data security concerns. Don’t miss out on this insightful episode, including an AI-fueled payroll nightmare that showcases how important the human element is when successfully deploying these algorithms. For more details or to join the conversation, email [email protected] or comment on PayrollOrg’s Facebook page.
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Merge With Caution: Emotional Intelligence in Mergers & Acquisitions
01/04/2024
Merge With Caution: Emotional Intelligence in Mergers & Acquisitions
In this month's episode we dive into the heart of payroll mergers and acquisitions with Jennifer Russell, Director of Payroll Governance & Compliance at Pearson Education. With over 35 years in the field, Jennifer joins us to champion the crucial role of emotional intelligence in M&A. We tackle the pressing questions about preparing for M&A changes, ensuring stakeholder readiness, and the importance of cultural discussions before integrating new co-employees. Other key topics include the importance of payroll representation in decision-making, the utility of an M&A playbook, and the vital role of project management in these processes. Want to get involved in the conversation? Email us at [email protected] or leave us a comment on PayrollOrg’s Facebook page.
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Pay Transparency: Insights from the Robert Half 2024 Salary Guide
11/30/2023
Pay Transparency: Insights from the Robert Half 2024 Salary Guide
In this episode of PayTalk, we are joined by Brandi Britton, Global Executive Director of Contract Finance and Accounting at Robert Half, to discuss the latest trends in the job market, as revealed in Robert Half's 2024 Salary Guide. Brandi shares insights on how pay transparency laws are affecting employers and job seekers, offers tips for enhancing salary negotiation skills, and advises on the timing and approach for payroll professionals seeking pay raises. We also take some time to explore how this data can be used by payroll and business managers to retain employees. Learn more about all of the key highlights discussed (and the ones we didn’t have time for) by reviewing the complete .
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The Global Payroll Pulse Survey Special
11/02/2023
The Global Payroll Pulse Survey Special
On this month's episode of PayTalk, we have a fascinating conversation with Nathan North, Director of Strategic Initiatives for PayrollOrg, and Eric Hachmer, the Americas Global Payroll Operate Leader for EY. Together, we explore the Global Payroll Pulse Survey, a comprehensive look at the payroll landscape over the past year. We discuss the survey methodology and demographics of the respondents, providing a solid foundation for understanding the data and examining key survey findings regarding payroll operations, as well as the evolving payroll technology landscape. We also discuss the hot topic issue of remote work and whether the survey data aligns with the ongoing discussions about returning to the office. If you're curious to learn more, be sure to check out the for all the details!
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From Payday to Any Day: Unpacking On-Demand Pay Impacts
10/05/2023
From Payday to Any Day: Unpacking On-Demand Pay Impacts
This month we are excited to welcome back our guest Brian Slowik, Wage & Corporate Disbursements for Green Dot Corporation and Co-Founder of rapid! PayCard. Brian is at the forefront of the disruptive on-demand pay landscape and joins us to discuss the impacts transitioning to these models can have on your payroll operations, the specific industries primed to lead the on-demand pay charge, and takes a look at the arguments of on-demand pay skeptics — as well as how their concerns can be addressed. Get involved in the conversation! Share your views about on-demand by commenting on PayrollOrg's Facebook page or drop us an email at .
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Pairing Up to Pare Down: Streamlining HCM Complexities
08/31/2023
Pairing Up to Pare Down: Streamlining HCM Complexities
In the latest episode of PayTalk, we are joined by Dan Regan, a veteran in the tax compliance and technology community, who shares his insights on Human Capital Management (HCM) within the realm of payroll. Drawing from his rich 25-year experience in the payroll HCM sector, Dan delves into the fundamentals of HCM, the telltale signs to identify the right HCM partnerships, how payroll professionals can research providers without tipping their hand, and ventures a look at how HCM's will continue to shift the role of payroll in the future. Get involved in the conversation! Share your views on HCM by commenting on PayrollOrg's Facebook page or drop us an email at .
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Mastering the Global Payroll Game: Unveiling the Secrets of Operating Systems
08/03/2023
Mastering the Global Payroll Game: Unveiling the Secrets of Operating Systems
In this month's episode of PayTalk we're joined by Ian Giles a Global Payroll Leader & Payroll Strategist at Papaya Global, as we discuss the intricacies of global payroll systems. We discuss the current landscape and pinpoint key features businesses should consider when adopting a new payroll OS, such as robust compliance mechanisms, scalability, and interoperability. Addressing common challenges, Ian tells us of the importance of an effective system in managing payroll complexities and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions, and shares his best practices for a successful implementation. We also take a look into the future and discuss what advancements in technologies we foresee further revolutionizing global payroll systems. Join the conversation! Share your thoughts on managing global payroll operating systems by leaving a comment on PayrollOrg's Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Guest Podcast: Payroll Podcast with Nick Day at the 41st Annual Payroll Congress - Part Two
07/06/2023
Guest Podcast: Payroll Podcast with Nick Day at the 41st Annual Payroll Congress - Part Two
This month is our second special guest podcast crossover episode! We hear from Nick Day from Payroll Podcast, interviewing attendees of the 2023 PayrollOrg Congress about the future of payroll, technology, global payroll, and more! Thank you to Nick Day for capturing the energy and passion for payroll that this wonderful annual event creates. Featuring interview with: Nathan North from PayrollOrg Rebecca Harshberger from Entertainment Partners Lisa Weckman from Ceridian Vivek Khanna from Neeyamo Join the conversation! Share your thoughts by leaving a comment on PayrollOrg's Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Guest Podcast: Payroll Podcast with Nick Day at the 41st Annual Payroll Congress
06/01/2023
Guest Podcast: Payroll Podcast with Nick Day at the 41st Annual Payroll Congress
This month is a special guest podcast crossover episode! We hear from Nick Day from Payroll Podcast, interviewing attendees of the 2023 PayrollOrg Congress about the future of payroll, technology, global payroll, and more! Thank you to Nick Day for capturing the energy and passion for payroll that this wonderful annual event creates. Featuring interviews with: Michael Francis, MBA, CPP payroll guru from SBA Communications Laurel Serra, CPP from PayrollOrg Mary Holland from Payslip Allison Strong, CPP from Booster Fuels Emily Castles from Boundless Global Payroll Employment Platform Join the conversation! Share your thoughts on by leaving a comment on PayrollOrg's Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part Two
05/04/2023
Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part Two
We're back with the second half of our conversation with our guests De Ann Doonan, CPP, Sr. Director Global Payroll at Analog Devices, and John Lestock, CPP, a Global Payroll Accountant at Boeing, about making the transition from USA domestic payroll operations into the wide world of global payroll. In addition to looking at global payroll processing models, we discuss the hard and soft skills you'll need to be successful, and what they've learned from their own payroll nightmares. Haven't listened to Part One? Go back a previous episode to make sure you have the valuable context needed before listening to this episode. Join the conversation! Share your thoughts on managing globally distributed teams by leaving a comment on PayrollOrg's Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part One
04/11/2023
Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part One
Join us for part one of a two-part conversation on entering the global payroll market with De Ann Doonan, CPP, Sr. Director of Global Payroll at Analog Devices, and John Lestock, CPP, a Global Payroll Accountant at Boeing. We discuss the details of what skills you need to make the transition into global payroll, how to define your role and find joy within global payroll, and what the journey from domestic payroll operations to global payroll can look like for payroll professionals just like you. Don't forget to like and subscribe to receive a notification for when we publish Part Two! Join the conversation! Let us know your experience as a payroll consultant by leaving a comment on the American Payroll Association’s Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Developing Payroll Competencies - How to Promote Full-Time Compliance
03/02/2023
Developing Payroll Competencies - How to Promote Full-Time Compliance
Let’s talk about full-time compliance! Christine Stolpe, CPP, a Payroll Consultant with Wages Creek, joins us to share her insights into the steps needed to ensure that the training is continual, and how to keep your payroll team’s education up-to-date, both locally and virtually. We discuss how to identify the core competencies of payroll for your organization, developing competency measurements that are fair and relevant, how to monitor and report payroll employee competencies so that you can turn it into usable data, and much more. Join the conversation! Let us know your experience as a payroll consultant by leaving a comment on the American Payroll Association’s Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Accelerated Innovation in Payroll: How New Technology Is Changing the Industry
02/02/2023
Accelerated Innovation in Payroll: How New Technology Is Changing the Industry
This month we welcome returning guest, Richard Limpkin, a Chief Innovation Officer at Immedis, and an HCM and Payroll Technology Evangelist, and discuss the rapid pace of technology innovations happening within the payroll industry. We cover things like consolidated global payroll data and the valuable insights it can provide you with, tackling tough system integrations, what a new generation of workers expect from a payroll department, and much more! Join the conversation! Let us know your experience as a payroll consultant by leaving a comment on the American Payroll Association’s Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Consulting With a Payroll Consultant
01/05/2023
Consulting With a Payroll Consultant
Is 2023 the year for you to make a career change? We speak with Ginnette Clark, CPP, a Consultant and Employee-Owner at Wise Consulting, and Vice President at the American Payroll Association, about payroll consulting. This episode touches on almost all aspects of payroll consulting, including how to know if it’s the right move for you, the unexpected skills you’ll use, future payroll consulting trend projections, and so much more! Join the conversation! Let us know your experience as a payroll consultant by leaving a comment on the American Payroll Association’s Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Business Leadership Skills for Future-Ready Payroll Pros
12/01/2022
Business Leadership Skills for Future-Ready Payroll Pros
It's our last episode of the year and we are looking to the future with Cyndi Karapogosian, District President at global talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half. We talk about business leadership skills for payroll professionals, how to prepare to take the next step in your career, the art of selling your skill set, and what you will need to do to make yourself the most attractive leadership candidate possible. Join the conversation! Share your thoughts on what makes a payroll professional stand out as a business leader by leaving a comment on the American Payroll Association’s Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Borderless Hiring & Building the Best Team on Earth
11/03/2022
Borderless Hiring & Building the Best Team on Earth
What are the chances that the best hire possible lives within a 40 mile radius of your office? This month’s episode explores how payroll departments can adopt borderless hiring methodologies and the benefits of having a distributed team with diverse insights. We cover questions on salary and cost of living impacts, company culture shifts, and the common implementation pitfalls payroll professionals should avoid. Join the conversation! Share your thoughts on managing globally distributed teams by leaving a comment on the American Payroll Association’s Facebook page or by sending us an email to [email protected].
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Earned Wage Access: The Payroll of the Future?
10/06/2022
Earned Wage Access: The Payroll of the Future?
This month we’re talking about Earned Wage Access with Brian Slowik, SVP of Wage & Corporate Disbursements for Green Dot Corporation and Co-Founder of rapid! PayCard. We discuss defining best practices for EWA within your payroll department, how it impacts employee recruitment and retention, and discerning the need for EWA within your organization. This episode also features Brian’s payroll nightmare, which tackles how payroll departments need to be creative when dealing with natural disasters. Want to get involved in the conversation? Email your payroll nightmare to [email protected] or leave us a comment on the APA’s Facebook page.
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Best of Payroll Advice
09/01/2022
Best of Payroll Advice
This month’s episode is a little different! Over the past two years that we've been interviewing payroll experts, we've asked each of them what their most important piece of advice is for other payroll professionals, or what they wish they had known earlier in their careers. We've compiled all their best advice into one jam-packed episode. Hear from them about cultivating a thriving career in payroll, navigating personal challenges, developing leadership skills and a professional network, adopting emerging technologies and innovative processes, and more!
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A Primer in Payroll Data Analytics: Part Two
08/04/2022
A Primer in Payroll Data Analytics: Part Two
We're back with Jim Medlock, CPP former Director of Education and Training at the American Payroll Association, and Mark Thornton, CPA, CPP, Payroll Tax Supervisor at Southern Company, for Part Two of our in depth discussion on all things payroll data analytics. We look into how payroll data analytics can be used to improve employee retention, the need for clean data, and how smaller payroll teams can begin to implement payroll data analytics into their day-to-day operations. Make sure you listen last month's episode "A Primer in Payroll Data Analytics: Part One" to get the full impact of this conversation!
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A Primer in Payroll Data Analytics: Part One
06/30/2022
A Primer in Payroll Data Analytics: Part One
What do you need to know about payroll data analytics? We're joined by Jim Medlock, CPP former Director of Education and Training at the American Payroll Association, and Mark Thornton, CPA, CPP, Payroll Tax Supervisor at Southern Company for Part One of this Two Part conversation covering everything you need to know about payroll data analytics to amplify your impact as a payroll professional. From monitoring payroll and business operations to understanding the benchmarks of success, this is one payroll conversation you cannot afford to miss!
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A Global Perspective on Family Leave
06/02/2022
A Global Perspective on Family Leave
What does family leave look like for payroll departments operating on a global scale? Tim Kelsey, MCIPP, AIPA, Owner and Managing Director of Kelsey's Payroll Services is back to share his global payroll expertise with us on all things leave, from antenatal policies to tax reprecussions. Don't miss out on Tim's unique insights into all facets of family leave from around the globe and to hear personal takes from our host Nina Talley, who is about to embark on a maternity leave journey of her own!
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Digitization, Global Payroll, and You!
05/05/2022
Digitization, Global Payroll, and You!
This month we’re joined by Richard Limpkin, a Chief Innovation Officer at Immedis and an HCM and Payroll Technology Evangelist, to discuss the ongoing digitization of global payroll operations. Learn about leading innovations in the space as we discuss the technology trends shaping global payroll, the importance of human capital management strategy alignment with payroll practices, the skills you will need to keep up with as the global payroll landscape continues to evolve, and much more!
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Working From Home… Abroad!
03/31/2022
Working From Home… Abroad!
This month we’re covering a topic that is more relevant than ever — what it means to work from home, while in a different country from your employer! We’re joined by Tim Kelsey, MCIPP, AIPA, Owner and Managing Director of Kelsey's Payroll Services, whose expertise spans across 39 different global payroll jurisdictions. We discuss permanent establishment risks, global social insurance and tax liabilities, potential immigration restrictions, and much more! Make sure to stay tuned for a special payroll nightmare, featuring a one of a kind experience from Tim, using payroll taxes to successfully prevent a military coup. Whoever said payroll isn’t exciting?
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The Joy of HRIS
03/03/2022
The Joy of HRIS
What can an HRIS do for you? This month we’re joined by the winner of the APA’s 2020 Prism Award in Management, Sarah Chasney, CPP, Director of Payroll & HRIS at Pacific Bells, and we’re exploring all the ways a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) can help you optimize your payroll practices. Join us as we discuss how to begin implementing an HRIS at your company, where the future of HRIS is headed, how you can transition your career from that of a payroll professional to an HRIS manager while leveraging your existing payroll skills, and much more!
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The Recipe for a Successful 2022 Payroll - Part Two
02/03/2022
The Recipe for a Successful 2022 Payroll - Part Two
We’re back with part two of our conversation on setting yourself up for payroll success in 2022 with Davida Lara, CPP, Executive Vice President of Payroll Services at Entertainment Partners! Tune in for insights on integrating automation into your team in a holistic way, using payroll data to show — not tell, how to ignite a passion for payroll within your team, and so much more. Don’t forget to listen to our last episode for part one of our conversation with Davida!
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The Recipe for a Successful 2022 Payroll - Part One
01/06/2022
The Recipe for a Successful 2022 Payroll - Part One
It’s our first episode of the new year and we’re kicking things off with GPMI’s 2021 Global Payroll Titan, Davida Lara, CPP, Executive Vice President of Payroll Services at Entertainment Partners. In part one of this two part conversation, we discuss how payroll leaders can best set themselves and their teams up for a successful 2022 and beyond! Tune in for tips on preventing burnout culture, guidance on managing global payroll relationships, and new lessons being added to the payroll playbook.
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Empathy, Technology, and the Payroll Practitioner
12/02/2021
Empathy, Technology, and the Payroll Practitioner
We're heading into 2022 with empathy! Pete Tiliakos, Director, Principal Analyst, and HR Practice Lead at ISG, joins us to discuss the intersection of empathy and payroll. Learn how you can utilize emerging technologies to create not just a more efficient payroll process, but one that is transparent and trusted. Discover how you can reshape your department for the better in our final episode of the year.
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The Best of the Best Practices
11/04/2021
The Best of the Best Practices
Take a deep dive into best practices for payroll departments in this episode featuring a four-time recipient of the APA’s Prism Award for Best Practices, Martin Armstrong, CPP, MBA, DBA, Vice President of Payroll Shared Services at Charter Communications. We discuss modern best practices for distributed teams, the tools you’ll need to optimize your department, and some helpful tips and techniques for creating the processes that work best for your organization.
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