Nick Day - JGA Payroll Recruitment
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Payroll detail with boardroom consequences.
The Payroll Podcast is a working conversation for people who live close to pay, policy, systems, and employee trust. Episodes move from technical changes like SSP reform and pay transparency to broader questions about influence, leadership, and why payroll still gets underestimated.
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The Payroll Podcast is a specialist show about payroll as it is actually practiced: part compliance function, part systems discipline, part people operation, and part quiet safeguard of trust. It is technical, but not cold. Recent episodes spend time on SSP reform, transitional protection, HMRC software development notes, minimum wage breaches, unpaid working time, EU pay transparency, and the messy edge cases that sit behind a clean payslip. The show is at its strongest when it connects those details to consequences. A change at a tax-year boundary becomes a software problem. A salary increase becomes a question about net pay and benefits. A national minimum wage failure becomes a reminder that deductions, uniforms, training, clock rounding, and unpaid preparation time can matter as much as the headline hourly rate. The conversations also look beyond compliance. Payroll is repeatedly presented as an undervalued business function with more strategic power than many organizations recognize. That theme appears in discussions of Payroll Congress, professional visibility, boardroom influence, analytics, and the effort to retire old jokes about payroll being only a button-pushing job. The show gives space to career stories too. Guests describe long careers, leadership under pressure, NHS complexity, payroll careers found by accident, and the pride that comes from work that touches every employee. Some episodes are host-led interviews. Others feel like live panels or question-time sessions, with multiple speakers working through policy, systems, and practical risk. The pacing is brisk and occasionally crowded, especially when sponsor reads and event framing sit close to the main discussion. Still, the editorial center is clear. This is payroll people talking through payroll problems for listeners who need more than surface-level headlines. It suits professionals who want to understand the rule, the implementation challenge, and the reason it matters to real pay outcomes.
Made for: Payroll professionals, payroll leaders, HR and finance operators, and software teams who need practical context on compliance, systems, pay accuracy, and workforce trust. It is best for listeners who already care about payroll but want clearer language around its strategic value.
What sets it apart: The show treats payroll as a lived operational discipline, not just a regulatory checklist. It blends technical rule changes with career stories, leadership themes, and the recurring argument that payroll deserves a stronger voice inside organizations.
🚀 Elevate your payroll game with The Payroll Podcast! 🎧 As the first podcast exclusively for the UK and global payroll community, join host Nick Day for cutting-edge discussions with experts. Dive into complex topics like international legislation, technology, systems, leadership, compliance, payroll recruitment, career advancement and more! 🌐 Stay ahead of the global payroll curve with insights on AI, strategy, earned wage access, wellbeing, DEI and more. Perfect for payroll professionals and global payroll leaders looking to embrace the future and enhance their strategies. 👉 Subscribe now and help raise the profile and drive the future evolution of payroll! 👉 Need Payroll Staff? Conta…
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes payroll's hidden calculations, compliance risks and strategic decisions legible to the people responsible for getting pay right.
The Payroll Podcast follows payroll from legislation into the systems, calculations and workplace decisions that determine what employees actually receive.
Statutory sick pay gets a tax-year stress test here, so your briefing survives contact with payroll software.
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A Congress conversation about payroll moving from invisibility to influence, with fear, connection, and strategic value.
The episode keeps its focus on payroll moving from invisibility to influence, framing the function as more than a cost center and closer to a voice that can reach the boardroom.
A practical payroll roundup that turns policy change into day-to-day pay work.
This payroll briefing stays on the April 2026 changes, but it earns its keep by getting practical. It keeps circling back to what the rules mean for payroll teams and the people running the business, starting with tax pressure and the gap between pay rises and net pay before…
A payroll conversation about pride, language, and a more strategic future.
The discussion treats payroll as a field that wants to step out of the shadows. It opens with personal unease, then settles into a clear point: there is pride inside the profession, but not enough of it on the outside, and that gap helps explain why payroll still gets boxed in…
A grounded look at SSP reform, with the real pressure on transitional protection and the payroll rules around it.
SSP reform looks simple on paper, but the episode spends its time where the real work sits: transitional protection, HMRC guidance, and the awkward edge cases around the tax-year boundary.
Patient conversations on finance, climate, and purpose.
Jamie Phillips recalls learning he won Payroll Man of the Year only as the announcement narrowed toward him.
Fear sits close to the microphone here.
This March payroll briefing centers on the April 2026 changes.
Anita Letink hosts a conversation about payroll's place in the business.
Nick Day welcomes back Jason Sweeby to talk through SSP reform and the transitional protection tied to it.
A live panel discussion on pay transparency and gender pay gap calculations, featuring experts from reward, law, and pay transparency.
This episode explores how behavioral science can prevent payroll errors, featuring a guest expert and sponsored by Deel.
An interview with a payroll leader who built a decades-long career and led a team to win in-house payroll team of the year in a complex NHS environment.
An interview with a 51-year payroll veteran discussing the evolution and power of payroll in business.
Discussion on how AI and automation are transforming global payroll into a strategic business function.
An interview with a payroll leader discussing building trust, collaboration, and excellence in global payroll teams.
Interview with a payroll professional who built a successful firm while managing chronic illness and family crisis.
This episode discusses the growing compliance challenges of managing a global contingent workforce in payroll.
This episode discusses the link between financial stress and mental health, the shift of HR data roles to payroll, and the strategic importance of payroll teams.
This episode explores the blurring line between HR and payroll, focusing on compliance, data sharing, and the impact of new government regulations.
Host Nick Day discusses how AI-powered workforce agents simplify global payroll challenges with Amit Levi from Papaya Global.
Host Nick Day discusses the critical role of payroll in financial well-being and introduces a guest who helps raise the profile of global payroll.
Host Nick Day discusses the importance of payroll as a people-focused profession and introduces a sponsor, then welcomes listeners to the podcast.
Host Nick Day interviews payroll expert Michael Francis about AI and technology's impact on the payroll industry.
Host Nick Day interviews Richard George about the evolving role of payroll in business, emphasizing its importance and the changes in the industry.
Host Nick Day interviews Patricia Fripp on how presentation skills are crucial for payroll professionals, challenging the notion that public speaking only applies to formal presentations.
Host Nick Day interviews Kevin Fitzgerald about transforming payroll from a binary task to a strategic business function using technology and AI.
This episode explores how Deel is revolutionizing global payroll through technology, AI, and expert insights with guest Vic O'Callaghan, discussing the future of payroll and its impact on businesses worldwide.
This episode features an interview with Karen Thomson, focusing on her career in payroll and insights on becoming a partner in the field.
This episode features an interview with Max van der Klis-Busink about his new book on global payroll management, covering practical insights, payroll KPIs, and employee-centric approaches.
This episode explores how CloudPay is using AI and automation to transform global payroll processes, featuring insights from Chief Marketing Officer Nick Webb.
This episode discusses aligning payroll strategy with CEO vision and business growth, emphasizing investment in technology and compliance.
Discussion on elevating payroll as a standalone revenue-generating department and introduction of DEEL's global payroll platform.