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Payday: Global Payroll Podcast

by CloudPay

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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Episodes

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

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

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

    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...

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

    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.…

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

    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...

  5. How will Blockchain Change Data Custodianship & Payroll

    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,...

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

    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...

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

    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...

  8. Uber: The Modern Payroll Experience & Professional

    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...

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

    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...

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

    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…

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

    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...

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

    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...

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

    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...

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

    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...

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

    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...

  16. Measuring Payroll Performance: Part 2 - New KPIs and Benchmarks

    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...

  17. Measuring Payroll Performance: Part 1 - Current KPIs and Shortcomings

    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…

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

    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...

  19. 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

    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...

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

    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...

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

    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...

  22. Emerging Trends: Discussing Payroll Trends and Tech with NelsonHall

    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...

  23. Going Global: How Groupon Transformed Its HR and Payroll

    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...

  24. Enter Integration: How Connected Systems are Shaping HCM and Payroll

    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...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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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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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