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The Payroll Podcast
by Nick Day - JGA Payroll Recruitment
Payroll gets noticed when it goes wrong. That's about it. Which is a strange way to treat the function that pays everybody.I'm Nick Day. Twenty years recruiting payroll professionals means I've had the same conversation hundreds of times, with people who were brilliant at the job and invisible in the business. The Payroll Podcast started because I wanted to know why that keeps happening, and what the ones who broke out of it did differently.Every week I sit down with payroll leaders, global payroll operators, payroll technology founders and compliance specialists. We get into UK and international payroll legislation that lands with three weeks' notice. Fiscal drag, and what it quietly does to the people you pay. Pay transparency, AI legislation, earned wage access, salary administration, payroll AI tools and the payroll systems everyone is being sold. Payroll systems implementations that went sideways, and what was learned on the way out.Careers come up constantly. What it takes to
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Your Payroll Knows Something Your Credit Score Doesn't with Nico Simko
Most conversations about on-demand pay stop in the same place. Employees want their money sooner, employers want to hold onto cash for longer, and an app sits somewhere in the middle. But a product that only moves payday forward will never fix the real problem, and a system that judges people on...
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Real-time Payroll, Mandatory Payrolling and National Minimum Wage
Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and reliable service you need to grow your business today! Payroll keeps carrying the blame for data it doesn't control. Is your...
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The Strategic Payroll Leader | Beyond Compliance at Payroll Summit 2026 with Vickie Graham
Most payroll and reward events cover the same ground. Legislation updates, compliance checklists, a few case studies, then everyone goes home. But an event built only around compliance will never move a profession forward, and a profession that only talks about compliance will never earn a seat…
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Minimum Wage Compliance | Technology Closing the Payroll Deductions Gap with Wendy Muirhead
Payroll compliance isn't about hitting the minimum wage threshold on paper, it's about understanding what deductions, benefits, and statutory calculations actually mean in law. In this episode of @thepayrollpodcast, Nick Day, CEO of JGA Recruitment, sits down with Wendy Muirhead, co-founder of…
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Talent Retention in Payroll Leadership | Building Careers for 2040 with Troy Markusson
Payroll leadership faces a 2040 crisis that has nothing to do with compliance, technology, or AI. It's our failure to attract, educate, and listen to the next generation of payroll professionals. In this episode of @thepayrollpodcast, Nick Day, CEO of JGA Recruitment, sits down with Troy…
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Silent Payroll Errors | Why Compliance Blindspots Matter with Jay Crider
Your payroll runs smoothly but that's exactly where payroll compliance risk hides. In this episode In this episode of @thepayrollpodcast, Nick Day, CEO of JGA Recruitment Group, sits down with Jay Crider, CPP, MBA, founder and principal of ValuGuard Payroll Advisory, talked about the hidden…
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AI for Payroll | How Failed Implementations Shape Your Career with Raju Chauhan
AI for payroll is reshaping the profession but failed implementations reveal what truly matters. In this episode of @thepayrollpodcast, Nick Day, CEO of JGA Recruitment, sits down with Raju Chauhan, explore why payroll compliance and management require human judgment, what automation gets wrong,...
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Building a Strategic Payroll Career | Leadership Beyond Compliance with Jamie Phillips
Payroll careers are often written off as accidents. Someone needed a job, a shared service center needed a body, and thirty years later they never left. But staying in payroll for three decades and being recognized as one of the best in the profession does not happen by accident. So what actually...
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Mandatory Payrolling of Benefits, Salary Sacrifice Traps and Zero-Hours Reform
In this episode: Mandatory Payrolling of Benefits, Salary Sacrifice Traps and Zero-Hours Reform | Payroll Question Time Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and...
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Is This the End of Country-by-Country Payroll? with Sivanne Fishel
For years, multinational payroll was managed country by country, provider by provider, and spreadsheet by spreadsheet. That model worked when businesses expanded slowly. Global workforces do not expand slowly anymore. In this episode of @thepayrollpodcast, Nick Day, CEO of JGA Recruitment, sits...
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Trust, Transparency & The Future of Payroll | The Payroll Podcast Vault #2
Payroll Has Never Been More Complex. Are You Prepared for What's Next? In this Special Vault edition, Nick Day gathers some of the sharpest minds in global payroll and asks them all the same questions, distilling decades of experience into one powerful episode. The result is a masterclass in why...
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Payroll Is a Strategic Business Function, Not Back Office with Tiana Neal
Most businesses think payroll is simple. Checks go out, employees get paid, and nobody complains. But treating payroll as an administrative task rather than a strategic function is exactly what keeps it invisible, underfunded, and one crisis away from becoming the biggest story in the business.…
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Beyond Compliance: The Transparency Advantage with Vickie Graham and Stuart Hyland
Most organizations are treating the EU Pay Transparency Directive as a compliance deadline to hit. But the employers who will come out ahead are the ones who understand what it actually represents: the biggest shift in the employer-employee relationship since the internet changed retail forever.…
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Zero-Hours Reform, Umbrella Liability and Payrolling Benefits
In this episode: Zero-Hours Reform, Umbrella Liability and Payrolling Benefits | Payroll Question Time Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and reliable service you...
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Compliance, the Fair Work Agency, and the Future of the Profession with Julie Gunnell
Most businesses think payroll is working. People get paid, deadlines are met, and no one raises a flag. But compliant payroll is not the same as strategic payroll, and in a regulatory landscape that is shifting faster than most employers realise, the gap between the two has never been more…
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Payroll Congress 2026 - The Payroll Leaders Betting on People, AI, and Change (Episode 3)
Most payroll professionals spend their careers heads down, processing pay, managing compliance, and keeping systems running. But the payroll leaders who will still be standing in ten years are the ones lifting their heads up right now, investing in their people, embracing AI before it is forced…
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Payroll Congress 2026 - AI, Global Payroll, and the Future of the Profession (Episode 2)
Every year, the conversations at Payroll Congress shift. Five years ago it was platforms and providers. Then remote work and resilience. But at the 44th Payroll Congress in Nashville, every conversation kept circling back to the same two questions: what can we actually trust AI to do, and what is...
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The Intelligent Payroll Revolution: Why AI Must Be the Foundation, Not the Feature with Rick Hammell
Most organizations are rushing to add AI to their payroll stack. But here is the uncomfortable truth. AI does not fix broken payroll. It amplifies it. And if your foundation is wrong, your AI strategy will fail before it even starts. In this episode of @thepayrollpodcast, Nick Day, CEO of JGA...
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Payroll Congress 2026 - Strategic Payroll in the Age of Global Automation (Episode 1)
In this video: How Payroll Is Moving from Back-Office Processor to Strategic Powerhouse in the Age of Automation | The Payroll Podcast Live from Payroll Congress 2026 For years, payroll has been treated as a back-office function. A necessary process. A cost center. Something that just has to get...
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Does Payroll Need a Rebrand? with Vickie Graham, Nick Day, Ana Laiu, Ian Hodson and Melanie Pizzey
Does Payroll Need a Rebrand? | The Payroll Podcast with Vickie Graham, Nick Day, Ana Laiu, Ian Hodson and Melanie Pizzey For years, payroll has been viewed as a back office function focused on processing pay, managing compliance, and making sure employees are paid accurately and on time. But...
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Pay Transparency Doesn't Create Pay Problems. It Exposes Them with Tom Heys
Tom Heys has spent years inside the complexity of pay gap reporting and pay transparency law. And along the way, he learned something most organizations only discover when it is too late. The problem was never the reporting. It was the data behind it. In this episode of @thepayrollpodcast, Nick...
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Day-One SSP, Mandatory Payrolling, and the New Rules Reshaping UK Payroll
In this episode: Day-One SSP, Mandatory Payrolling & the New Rules Reshaping UK Payroll | Payroll Question Time Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and reliable...
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Get the RFP Right or Pay the Price: A Payroll Leader's Guide to Choosing the Right Vendor with Miranda Humphries
Miranda Humphries has spent her entire career inside payroll. Not on the edges of it, not adjacent to it, but deep inside the complexity, the pressure, and the transformation of it. And along the way, she learned something most organizations only discover too late. The vendor is rarely the…
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Payroll Is No Longer Just Payroll with Vickie Graham & Ana Laiu
Most payroll teams are still viewed as operational functions focused on processing pay, maintaining compliance, and keeping systems running. But payroll is changing rapidly, and the organizations that understand this shift first will gain a major strategic advantage. Behind the systems,...
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April 2026 Payroll Changes | SSP, Holiday Pay, AMAP, P11D & Employment Rights Act Explained
In this episode: SSP Changes, Holiday Pay & Payrolling Benefits | Payroll Challenges for 2026 & Beyond Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and reliable service you...
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Your Payroll Isn't Broken But It's Costing You More Than You Think with Sylvain Grande
Most payroll systems work. People get paid, compliance is met, and no one questions it. But working payroll is not the same as good payroll, and good payroll is not the same as modern payroll. Hidden behind the usual systems are inefficiencies, friction, missed insights, and a quietly eroding…
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It Was Written on the Clock Cards: How Payroll Became My Whole Life with Tricia Hartley
Tricia Hartley spent 47 years doing the latter. From a chance encounter with a clock card-carrying HR manager at Heathrow Airport in 1977 to becoming one of the first women ever appointed as Director of Global Payroll Services, hers is a career that did not just keep pace with the payroll...
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Why Your Payroll Integration Will Fail on Day 300 (Not Day One) with David Docherty
Most companies think payroll integration is an IT project. They build it, they test it, they go live. Done. But here is the truth nobody is saying out loud: payroll integrations rarely fail on day one. They fail on day 100, day 300, or the moment something in your organization changes and the...
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Unlocked: How Payroll Congress Turned a First-Time Attendee Into a PayrollOrg Director with Christina Ruderer
Imagine attending Payroll Congress for the very first time and within a year becoming part of the PayrollOrg team responsible for training payroll professionals across the world. That is exactly what happened to Christina Ruderer, CPP, and her story perfectly captures what makes Payroll Congress...
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The April 2026 Payroll Checklist | SSP Overhaul, Fair Work Agency & Fiscal Drag Explained
In this episode: April 2026 Payroll Changes | Tax, SSP, NMW & EV Salary Sacrifice Explained Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and reliable service you need to…
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From Invisible to Influential: The Shift Payroll Needs Now
My first book: The Payroll Pivot book is out now! https://shorturl.at/rXBXP Payroll has long been seen as a “back office” function but what if that’s the biggest myth holding the industry back? In this episode, Anita Lettink steps in as host to interview Nick Day, CEO of JGA Recruitment and…
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SSP Reform Is Coming: What Payroll Leaders Need to Know About Transitional Protection
This episode is sponsored by Deel Hire, manage and pay – anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/ Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) reform is one of the most significant payroll changes in years. Yet most of the complexity isn’t in the headline changes. It’s in what happens beneath the surface. In...
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Inside the EU Pay Transparency Directive and Its Impact on Employers with Lewis Roskilly
This episode is sponsored by Deel Hire, manage and pay – anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/ The EU Pay Transparency Directive is one of the biggest regulatory changes facing payroll, HR, and reward leaders across Europe. With the June 2026 deadline approaching, many organizations are...
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The Behavioural Science Behind Perfect Payroll and Compliance with Lars Hyland
This episode is sponsored by Deel Hire, manage and pay – anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/ Most payroll errors are not caused by systems or legislation. They are caused by human decisions made under pressure. My guest today, Lars Hyland, is a global learning strategist, former Chief...
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Inside the Evolution of Modern Payroll and Leadership with Karen Beckett
This episode is sponsored by Deel Hire, manage and pay – anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/ From accidental payroll clerk to award-winning NHS leader. In this episode of The Payroll Podcast, Nick Day speaks with Karen Beckett, Head of Payroll & Benefits at Dorset HealthCare…
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Why Payroll Is the Most Underrated Function in Business with Stephen Abbotts
This episode is sponsored by Deel Hire, manage and pay – anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/ Payroll runs every business. Yet most leaders still treat it like admin. After 51 years in the profession, Stephen Abbotts says that mindset is costing companies millions. Stephen is Director…
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Why Payroll is No Longer a Back Office Function with Vistra's Curtis Holmes
Vistra Website: https://www.vistra.com/ Curtis’ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tcurtisholmes/ Payroll isn’t just admin anymore. It’s one of the most strategic functions in your business. In this episode of The Payroll Podcast, Nick Day sits down with Curtis Holmes, Executive Vice…
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How to Build High-Performing Payroll Teams with Wendy Uutala
This episode is sponsored by Deel Hire, manage and pay – anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/ Payroll leadership is not about control, perfection, or staying invisible. It is about trust. In this episode of the Payroll Podcast, Wendy Uutala shares how the most successful payroll teams...
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Why Payroll Is No Longer a Back-Office Function with Kay Augustus
This episode is sponsored by Deel Hire, manage and pay – anyone, anywhere: https://www.deel.com/nickday/ In this episode, we sit down with Kay Augustus, founder of Augustus Payroll Services, to unpack what it really takes to build a career in payroll by choice, not by accident. With over two...
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The Hidden Compliance Crisis Inside Contingent Workforce Payroll with Anita Milasinovic
Today’s workforce looks nothing like it did a decade ago. Contingent workers, contractors, freelancers, and cross-border talent now make up a growing share of global teams, and payroll is right at the center of the risk. In this episode of The Payroll Podcast, Nick Day is joined by Anita...
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Payroll Reinvented: How Technology and EWA Are Shifting the Game with April Smith
This episode is sponsored by Deel Managing a global team is complex, Deel makes it simpler with payroll, HR, IT, and compliance all in one place. That's why over 35,000 businesses trust Deel to hire, pay, and manage their teams worldwide. See how Deel works at www.deel.com/nickday In this…
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The Shift That’s Redefining Pay Trust and Compliance
This episode is sponsored by Deel Managing a global team is complex, Deel makes it simpler with payroll, HR, IT, and compliance all in one place. That's why over 35,000 businesses trust Deel to hire, pay, and manage their teams worldwide. See how Deel works at https://www.deel.com/nickday Payroll...
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Payroll in the Firing Line: Budget 2025's Perfect Storm
This episode is sponsored by Deel Managing a global team is complex, Deel makes it simpler with payroll, HR, IT, and compliance all in one place. That's why over 35,000 businesses trust Deel to hire, pay, and manage their teams worldwide. See how Deel works at www.deel.com/nickday Payroll is…
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How to Simplify Global Workforce Complexity with AI
In this episode of The Payroll Podcast, host Nick Day sits down with Amit Levi, Senior VP of Product at Papaya Global, to explore how AI powered workforce agents are transforming global payroll. The conversation breaks down why paying people across 160 plus countries is still so complex, how...
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The PBIK Backlash: HMRC’s No-Co-Design Specs Spark Fury Across Payroll
This episode is sponsored by Deel Managing a global team is complex, Deel makes it simpler with payroll, HR, IT, and compliance all in one place. That's why over 35,000 businesses trust Deel to hire, pay, and manage their teams worldwide. See how Deel works at www.deel.com/nickday Payroll is more...
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Why Top Payroll Talent Is Saying NO To Your Job
This episode is sponsored by Deel Managing a global team is complex, Deel makes it simpler with payroll, HR, IT, and compliance all in one place. That's why over 35,000 businesses trust Deel to hire, pay, and manage their teams worldwide. See how Deel works at www.deel.com/nickday Payroll is more...
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NMW & Employment Rights Bill and How it Changes HR & Compliance
In this episode: NMW & Employment Rights Bill and How it Changes HR & Compliance Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and reliable service you need to grow your...
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Why People-First Payroll Wins Every Time with Stuart Curtis
This episode is sponsored by Deel Managing a global team is complex, Deel makes it simpler with payroll, HR, IT, and compliance all in one place. That's why over 35,000 businesses trust Deel to hire, pay, and manage their teams worldwide. See how Deel works at www.deel.com/nickday Payroll is more...
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Payroll Compliance Explained & How New Laws Are Changing HR and Finance | Payroll Podcast
*In this episode: Payroll Compliance Explained & How New Laws Are Changing HR and Finance | Payroll Podcast* Payroll Question Time is brought to you by SD Worx. SD Worx offers smart, tailored and integrated HR and Payroll solutions, along with the local expertise, global reach and reliable…
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What It Really Takes to Become a Payroll Leader in 2025 with Carlyn Davis
This episode is sponsored by Deel Managing a global team is complex, Deel makes it simpler with payroll, HR, IT, and compliance all in one place. That's why over 35,000 businesses trust Deel to hire, pay, and manage their teams worldwide. See how Deel works at www.deel.com/nickday What does it…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Payroll gets noticed when it goes wrong. That's about it. Which is a strange way to treat the function that pays everybody.I'm Nick Day. Twenty years recruiting payroll professionals means I've had the same conversation hundreds of times, with people who were brilliant at the job and invisible in the business. The Payroll Podcast started because I wanted to know why that keeps happening, and what the ones who broke out of it did differently.Every week I sit down with payroll leaders, global payroll operators, payroll technology founders and compliance specialists. We get into UK and international payroll legislation that lands with three weeks' notice. Fiscal drag, and what it quietly does to the people you pay. Pay transparency, AI legislation, earned wage access, salary administration, payroll AI tools and the payroll systems everyone is being sold. Payroll systems implementations that went sideways, and what was learned on the way out.Careers come up constantly. What it takes to
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