JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™

Planning has begun for Global PayFest '27 🌍 And early sponsor registration is now open! This year’s event brought together payroll, reward, and people leaders from across the globe for conversations that mattered. From compliance and transformation to AI, global mobility, employee experience, EUPTD, and the future of payroll leadership, the level of engagement exceeded expectations. In just 3 weeks, we've reached over 646,700 VIEWS! 👀 and for 2027, we’re going even bigger. We’re opening a limited number of early sponsor opportunities for organisations looking to position themselves in front of senior global payroll and HR decision-makers across EMEA, APAC, North America, and LATAM. Why join Global PayFest '27? • Build brand visibility with a highly targeted HR & Payroll audience • Align your business with one of the industry’s fastest-growing global event series • Generate meaningful conversations with senior decision-makers • Showcase thought leadership alongside recognised global experts • Access multi-channel promotion before, during, and after the event This isn’t just event sponsorship. It’s an opportunity to become part of the conversations and thought-leadership that is shaping the future of global payroll and people operations. Several partners have already expressed interest following this year’s success, so early registration is recommended. If your organisation wants to be part of Global PayFest 2026, get in touch to request the sponsor pack or arrange an early conversation. ✉️ natalie@jgarecruitment.com

When people talk about workforce data, the conversation usually starts with HR. But some of the clearest insight into what is really happening across a business often sits inside payroll. Overtime trends. Retention risk. Absence patterns. Hiring pressure. Workforce stability. Employee trust. Payroll contains a huge amount of operational and people data that many organisations still underuse. In this latest article for HRM Outlook, Nick Day explores why payroll is becoming increasingly strategic, and why businesses that continue viewing it as purely transactional could be missing some of the most valuable workforce insight they already have. As AI and workforce complexity continue to evolve, the organisations that connect payroll, HR and workforce strategy most effectively will likely have a major advantage. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/epeVsz2B #Payroll #HR #PeopleAnalytics #FutureOfWork #WorkforceStrategy

Although still slightly jet-lagged from #PayrollCongressNashville, I’m looking forward to hearing what’s happening in the world of UKG tomorrow. Even if it does mean spending the day behind enemy lines at the Spurs Stadium👀 If any of my UKG friends are at #UKGAspire, give me a shout. JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™ #GlobalPayroll #WorkforceTech #Hiring

An incredible morning at the PayrollOrg (formerly the American Payroll Association and GPMI) Executive Summit 2026 in Nashville, where our CEO, Nick Day led the panel talk on: “The $50 Billion Question: Why Payroll Still Has No Seat at the Table — And How AI Finally Changes That.” Joined by Joe Ranzau from Grant Thornton (US), Nathan Male from Deloitte and Gregory Russell Harmer from CVS Health, the session uncovered how over $46B in valuation has flowed into payroll and workforce infrastructure through deals involving Dayforce, Deel, Rippling and others… Yet inside many organisations, payroll is still treated like an administrative support function. That contradiction became the heartbeat of the session. Joe challenged the room with the idea that payroll’s greatest untapped asset isn’t processing capability — it’s trusted workforce data and governance. Nathan pushed hard on the reality that most organisations are dramatically underprepared for the EU AI Act and that many payroll-adjacent AI use cases may already fall into “high-risk” territory. Greg brought the operator perspective: “AI works best where work is repetitive, rules-based and measurable. Payroll is naturally suited to that. But governance maturity is nowhere near where vendor marketing says it is.” That line got a visible reaction across the room. And perhaps the biggest theme of all: Payroll leaders don’t need to become technologists. But they do need to become orchestrators. The conversation evolved far beyond payslips and processing into: • AI governance • workforce intelligence • data ownership • risk accountability • multinational operational design • strategic credibility at board level One thing that shone through is that AI will not automatically give payroll a seat at the table. But it will expose which organisations understand that payroll already sits on one of the richest operational and workforce datasets in the enterprise. The future belongs to the organisations that govern it properly. #globalpayroll #executivesummit #artificialintelligence #paycon26

We’re at the Sage People Experience event today and it’s already been brilliant seeing so many HR, Payroll and People leaders together sharing ideas and insight! If you’re attending, make sure you stop by and chat with the JGA team in the Discovery Zone. Steve Yardley, Freddy J. Moorhouse & Alexandra Walker are there throughout the day. We’ve also got some freebies waiting for you too 👀 Come and say hello! #SagePeopleExperience #HR #Payroll #PeopleTechnology

Mental Health Awareness Week is a reminder that mental health is something all of us have, and all of us need to look after. Life can move quickly. Work, relationships, pressure, uncertainty, expectations, social media, trying to stay on top of everything. Sometimes people are struggling far more than they let on. This year’s theme focuses on turning awareness into action. That action does not always need to be huge. Sometimes it’s checking in on someone properly. Sometimes it’s asking for help yourself. Sometimes it’s setting boundaries, slowing down, getting outside, or simply being more honest about how you’re feeling. A lot of people carry things quietly. Kindness, empathy and genuine conversations can make more of a difference than we realise. Look after yourself, and look out for the people around you too. Learn more about Mental Health Awareness Week here: https://lnkd.in/eXsXtmdw Mental Health Foundation #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #TakeAction

It’s been 1 week since Global PayFest ’26, and honestly, it was bigger and better than we ever expected! 24 hours. 24 countries. Global payroll leaders joining from across the world to share practical insight, real experiences and honest conversations about where payroll is heading next. Across the event, we explored everything from payroll risk and compliance in Australia to the growing impact of AI, automation and global payments on the future of payroll. Sessions focused on pay transparency, payroll data strategy, workforce management, implementation challenges, payroll transformation and scaling global operations without losing control. We also discussed leadership, operational resilience, payroll maturity, retention challenges linked to payroll accuracy and what it takes to build truly global, future-ready payroll functions. The level of insight shared throughout the day was incredible, and the feedback from the payroll community has been amazing to see. A huge thank you again to all of our speakers, attendees and sponsors who helped make Global PayFest ’26 possible: WH People | JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™ | BIPO | TransferMate Global Payments | XperienceHR | Silver Cloud | Payslip | Remote | Deel | Dayforce | VISTRA | PayrollOrg (formerly the American Payroll Association and GPMI) | Sage | Papaya Global | ADP And if you missed any sessions, you can now watch the full event on demand via YouTube: https://lnkd.in/em5SCwNg Global payroll isn’t slowing down. Neither are we. #GPF26 #GlobalPayFest #GlobalPayroll #PayrollLeadership #PayrollInnovation

Payroll is changing. The way it’s delivered, the role it plays, the expectations around it. JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™ are pleased to be supporting Flow Payroll in their search for a Head of Product & Operations. Flow is live, processing thousands of payslips a month. The platform is built. The customers are real. The next chapter is scale. This hire is about bringing deep payroll expertise and operational rigour to a business that’s already moving - and accelerating it. The role is focused on: • Translating complex payroll challenges into product decisions that hold up in the real world • Owning the relationship between customers, delivery, and product direction • Working closely with engineering to drive meaningful improvements at pace The right person knows payroll inside out - and wants to apply that knowledge somewhere it will genuinely shape what the industry looks like next. Remote-first. Equity on offer. Direct access to the founders. Read more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/g2hF8ynd Feel free to reach out to Tom Croughton for a full brief and an informal conversation. #Payroll #HRTech #ProductLeadership #Hiring