Speaker: Ian Giles, Global Payroll & Workforce Strategy  and Advisory

Topic: The Future Payroll Professional: Skills, Mindset, and Career Paths for the Next Decade.

 The payroll profession is changing fast. Automation, AI, globalization, analytics, compliance complexity, payments innovation, and new service models are reshaping what organizations need from payroll teams.

This session explores the skills, mindset, and career paths payroll professionals will need for the next decade. Attendees will examine how roles are moving beyond processing toward governance, advisory, analytics, transformation, vendor management, employee experience, and strategic workforce support.

Payroll’s future will not belong only to those who keep the engine running. It will belong to those who understand where the vehicle is going… and have the confidence to help steer it.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify the skills payroll professionals will need over the next decade.

2. Understand how payroll career paths are evolving across operations, strategy, technology, and advisory roles.

3. Learn how individuals and teams can build future-ready payroll capability.

About the Speaker: 

Ian Giles is a Global Payroll Strategist and Advisor with more than 25 years of experience across international workforce management and business transformation.

His career spans payroll operations, implementation, target operating model design, vendor management, advisory, sales, and marketing within start-up, scale-up, TIME100, FTSE 250, and Fortune 500 organizations. He has provided leadership and strategic direction for payroll and workforce programmer across 170+ countries. A regular speaker, writer, webinar contributor, and podcast guest, Ian is recognized for cutting through complexity and turning global payroll, workforce management, compliance, and transformation challenges into practical outcomes. He has been named among the payroll industry’s ten leading voices to follow for two consecutive years and ranked number one among the Top 50 HR Industry Creators worldwide. Ian also serves on several industry advisory boards and task forces and is a passionate advocate for elevating payroll from a back-office function into a strategic organizational asset.

**All registrations will be billed unless cancellation is confirmed 72 hours prior to the meeting.**