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PayTalk is a monthly podcast created 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.
SPECIAL EPISODE: PayrollOrg on The Payroll Podcast
Laurel Serra, CPP, PayrollOrg’s Director of Education Services, joins Nick Day on The Payroll Podcast to discuss why every payroll professional must attend Payroll Congress.
EPISODE 61: The Mid-Market Global Payroll Challenge
In this podcast: (available May 2, 2025)
- Strategies to stay ahead of evolving global payroll regulations
- How to work with CFOs to achieve global payroll solution investments
- Skills development needed to become strategic leaders
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EPISODE 60: Mastering the Intricacies of Global Payroll Governance
In this podcast:
- Emerging global compliance trends
- Tension between standardized global processes and local requirements
- Actionable strategies for creating governance frameworks
EPISODE 59: Engineering a Successful Consulting Career
In this podcast:
- Types of projects consultants work on and its challenges
- Strategies for building credibility and gaining client trust
- Differences between corporate payroll and consultancy
EPISODE 58: PAYO’s Government Relations Task Force Gets Granular on State & Local Payroll Taxes
In this podcast:
- Most significant shifts in state approaches to taxation
- Common challenges remote work presents
- Latest in state tax legislation or policies
EPISODE 57: Building a Purposeful Payroll Career: Leadership, Influence, and Growth
In this podcast:
- Strategies to increase your credibility, influence
- Transforming yourself to navigate industry changes
- Taking the right steps towards a career
EPISODE 56: Global Workforce Management Survey Analysis: Insights Shaping the Future of Payroll
In this podcast:
- Key differentiators on how organizations are structuring WFM efforts
- How to leverage WFM data
- Best practices for process standardization
EPISODE 55: Elevating Your Payroll Career: Strategies for Growth and Visibility
In this podcast:
- How to strategically position yourself for future roles
- Actionable steps to increase payroll’s impact and value
- Leadership development and future trends
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EPISODE 54: Earned Wage Access Redefined: Expert Insights on CFPB’s New Role
In this podcast:
- Key EWA regulatory changes being proposed
- Challenges posed for EWA providers, employers
- Steps to take now to prepare >
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EPISODE 53: Navigating Payroll Year-End
In this podcast:
- Essential year-end tasks with preparation strategies
- How year-end insights inform strategic planning, forecasting
- Year-end approaches from corporate and consultant vantage points
EPISODE 52: The Pursuit of Happiness and Payroll Certifications
In this podcast:
- When the right time is to get certified
- How certification helps
- Certification resources
EPISODE 51: The Truth About Global Payroll: Service Models and Unified Platforms
In this podcast:
- Challenges of current global payroll systems
- What “cloud-washing” payroll solutions mean
- How global payroll can exist in a single platform
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EPISODE 50: Conversations With Industry Leaders Transforming the Global Payroll Landscape
In this podcast:
- Challenges and opportunities in global payroll
- Technology's transformative impact on the industry
- Global payroll's future
EPISODE 49: Strategic Data and Global Payroll Operations
In this podcast:
- Aligning payroll operations with organizational goals
- How to take data to the next level
- Biggest challenges global payroll teams face in the world today
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EPISODE 48: Global Payroll Operations: Outsourcing vs. In House
In this podcast:
- Expectations vs. reality for in-house global operations and outsourced teams
- Factors that impact the decision to outsource or keep multi-country payroll in house
- Risk profiles between outsourced and in-house global payroll operations
EPISODE 47: Mastering Payroll Communications
In this podcast:
- How to start now to improve your communication skills
- Key communication skills to elevate your career
- Tailoring your communication style for diverse teams
EPISODE 46: AI-Powered Payroll: Redefining the Future of WFM
In this podcast:
- How AI is reshaping the payroll industry
- Benefits/Risks of incorporating AI into payroll processes
- Advice on how to navigate AI integration, data analysis, and more
EPISODE 45: Merge With Caution: Emotional Intelligence in M&A
In this podcast:
- Areas of expertise payroll should focus on
- How to prepare for future M&A activity
- Tips for handling high employee emotions
EPISODE 44: Pay Transparency: Insights from the Robert Half 2024 Salary Guide
In this podcast:
- Pay transparency laws impact on employers, job seekers
- Guidance on salary, benefits negotiations
- Retention strategies for managers
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EPISODE 43: The Global Payroll Pulse Survey Special
In this podcast:
- Top priorities for global payroll
- How to address global mobility, nexus
- Leading-edge capabilities, trends payroll teams are talking about
EPISODE 42: From Payday to Any Day: Unpacking On-Demand Pay Impacts
In this podcast:
- The trends influencing companies to adopt
- Implementation best practices
- Compliance, legal implications
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EPISODE 41: Pairing Up to Pare Down: Streamlining HCM Complexities
In this podcast:
- How business sees HCM
- ERP systems and HCM apps
- Partner selection process
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EPISODE 40: Mastering the Global Payroll Game: Unveiling the Secrets of Operating Systems
In this podcast:
- Key features, functionalities of global payroll OS
- How the right payroll OS can help with compliance
- Best practices for a global payroll OS implementation
EPISODE 39: More Interviews With Global Payroll Leaders Shaping the Landscape of Tomorrow
In this special guest podcast:
- Challenges, opportunities with global payroll
- Technology's impact on the industry
- Payroll's Future
EPISODE 38: Interviews With Global Payroll Leaders Shaping the Landscape of Tomorrow
In this special guest podcast:
- Technology's impact on the industry
- The challenges and opportunities that come with global payroll
- Payroll's Future
EPISODE 37: Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part Two
In this podcast:
- More of the global skills needed
- Examples of global payroll nightmares
- Best pieces of global payroll advice, shared by our experts
EPISODE 36: Stepping Into Global Payroll: Part One
In this podcast:
- How to transition from domestic to global payroll
- Different processing models
- Skills needed, and more!
EPISODE 35: Developing Payroll Competencies - How to Promote Full-Time Compliance
In this podcast:
- Key challenges to ensuring compliance
- Identifying core competencies needed to master compliance
- Competency measurements, data to use, and more!
EPISODE 34: Accelerated Innovation in Payroll
In this podcast:
- The latest payroll innovations
- Global consolidated payroll data
- Self-service options, and more!
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EPISODE 33: Consulting With a Payroll Consultant
In this podcast:
- How to determine if consulting is right for you
- Skills needed
- Changes in, and future of, consulting
EPISODE 32: Business Leadership Skills for Future-Ready Payroll Pros
In this podcast:
- Lessons from the top
- Résumé refresher
- Staying in the know
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EPISODE 31: Borderless Hiring and Building the Best Team on Earth
In this podcast:
- Benefits to borderless hiring
- Common pitfalls
- Impacts on company culture
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EPISODE 30: Earned Wage Access: The Payroll of the Future?
In this podcast:
- The types of earned wage access (EWA)
- What payroll's role is in defining and creating EWA best practices
- The future of EWA
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EPISODE 29: The Best of Payroll Advice
In this podcast:
- Career trajectory
- Helpful resources
- Mentorship, guidance, and lots more advice!
EPISODE 28: A Primer in Data Analytics: Part Two
In this podcast:
- How HR can use data analytics for employee projections, retention
- Specific programs, other tools to use
- What questions to ask to get the right analytics
EPISODE 27: A Primer in Data Analytics: Part One
In this podcast:
- Ways payroll analytics can monitor business operations, prevent fraud
- How data analytics can be used to improve employee retention
- The technological tools to use
EPISODE 26: A Global Perspective on Family Leave
In this podcast:
- Antenatal leave
- Tax and social insurance implications
- Expat employees
EPISODE 25: Digitization, Global Payroll, and You!
In this podcast:
- The business impact when technology strategies are misaligned
- Key technology trends, and its future, in global payroll
- The problems, and how to fix them, of project implementations
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EPISODE 24: Working From Home ... Abroad!
In this podcast:
- Immigration issues
- Reporting obligations
- Cross-border enforcement of payroll responsibilities
EPISODE 23: The Joy of HRIS
In this podcast:
- The basics of HRIS
- How to expand your career or company into HRIS
- The intersection of payroll and systems technology
EPISODE 22: The Recipe for a Successful Payroll 2022: Part Two
In Part Two of this podcast:
- How technology helps make an efficient payroll professional
- Why payroll and HR make a great team
- The impact data has on global payroll operations
EPISODE 21: The Recipe for a Successful Payroll 2022: Part One
In this podcast:
- What team leaders can do to help a hesitant team prioritize self-care
- The secret ingredients to a successful payroll team
- The importance of relationship management in global payroll operations
EPISODE 20: Empathy, Technology & the Payroll Practitioner
In this podcast:
- Examples of digital innovations reshaping the employee experience
- The greatest technological impact for the year to come
- How technology is helping to enable the employee-employer relationship
EPISODE 19: The Best of the Best Practices
In this podcast:
- How to get into a best practices mindset
- Some key indicators of waste in a payroll department
- A payroll best practices road map, and more
EPISODE 18: Year-End Prep for Payroll Nomads
In this podcast:
- Remote work (nomads) impact on YE reporting (state nexus issues)
- Nontaxable fringe benefit incentives
- 2020 social security deferrals, and more
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EPISODE 17: Hybrid Workforce: Tempering Sweatpants and Socialization
In this podcast:
- The evolution of the hybrid workforce model
- Resources for supporting a hybrid workforce
- Potential billing or tax issues
EPISODE 16: Global Outsourcing Management
In this podcast:
- First steps to take when offshore expansion is occurring
- How to determine the right outsourcing model for your company
- What to look for in the right outsourcing partner
EPISODE 15: A Payroll Transformation Story
In this podcast:
- Emerging trends and transformation challenges to stay on top of
- Outsourcing by HR and payroll departments
- The transformation from domestic to global payroll
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EPISODE 14: Mergers and Acquisitions and Taxes, Oh My!
In this podcast:
- How to make sure the payroll team is part of the merger and acquisition conversation early
- First things a payroll department should do in a merger or acquisition
- Federal, state, or local regulations covering mergers and acquisitions
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EPISODE 13: How to Navigate Payroll's Legal Pitfalls
In this podcast:
- The most common legal payroll issues
- What happens in a payroll legal audit
- What to do if a lawsuit ensues
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EPISODE 12: An American Take on Global Payroll
In this podcast:
- Insight into setting up global payroll operations
- Where to find global payroll resources
- How to overcome challenges to global payroll
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EPISODE 11: The Evolution of Payroll's Technological Revolution
In this podcast:
- How payroll strategy and technology marry together
- What a modern global payroll manager looks like
- The things a payroll professional should be aware of as their work becomes more visible
EPISODE 10: Data Driven Storytelling in Payroll
In this podcast:
- Uncover the power of visual storytelling through data
- Learn the core technology competencies needed to harness data
- Find out the future of data collection and reporting
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EPISODE 9: Stoking a Passion for Payroll
In this podcast:
- What drives you to keep improving payroll
- How to stay engaged and have fun
- The skills and competencies most important for global payroll
EPISODE 8: 2020's Impact on Unemployment Insurance
In this podcast:
- The biggest changes to unemployment insurance
- Best practices to deal with employers operating across multiple states
- How these changes will continue to evolve in 2021
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EPISODE 7: Farewell 2020: Year-End Prep
In this podcast:
- Reconciliations – Why important, Who requires them
- Forms W-2 questions
- COVID-19 impact on year-end processes
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EPISODE 6: How Trends Today Help Define the Payroll of Tomorrow
In this podcast:
- Top three results from the Global Payroll Benchmarking Survey
- The need for a global payroll strategy
- The future of payroll with next generation technology, pay on demand, and more
EPISODE 5: Unlocking the Power of Payroll Certifications
In this podcast:
- Preparing for the Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) exam
- Benefits of a CPP designation for your career
- Tips to grow your career exponentially after the CPP
EPISODE 4: The Era of Payments as Policy: Part Two
In this podcast:
- Predictions for future Economic Impact Payments
- Insight into the pros and cons of prepaid cards
- A deep dive into the potential nightmare of physical check distribution
EPISODE 3: The Era of Payments as Policy: Part One
In this podcast:
- Nacha and the CARES Act
- Economic Impact Payment concerns
- Overall impact on pre-paid cards
EPISODE 2: APA’s Newest President
In this podcast:
- Find out how APA’s newest President begins her term virtually and what it was like being sworn in
- Learn the role volunteering plays in paving your path to success
- Explore the impact the pandemic has had on the payroll profession
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EPISODE 1: The Strategic Payroll Professional
In this podcast:
- Hear how the payroll profession has evolved
- Find out how the payroll professional helps to drive strategic decisions
- Explore those strategic decisions needed in today’s demanding compliance needs
About Our Host
Nina Talley is a creative content professional who has been developing engaging experiences for high-level topics like software and healthcare for more than a decade. In her downtime, you'll likely find her pursuing her creative writing, or petting a dog.
Interested in being a guest? Let us know.
Tel: (210) 226-4600 x2201 | Email: podcasts@payroll.org
