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PAYCIRCLE HIRES BARRYMATTHEWS CLOUD-BASED PAYROLL provider, Paycircle, has hired industry heavyweight, Barry Matthews, as bureau strategy partner. His role is to promote the benefits of Paycircle to bureaus and accountancy firms around the UK and help with integration at a practical level. Matthews, who is one of the most recognised figures in the payroll industry, joins the company after fifteen successful years at Star Payroll (now IRIS Payroll Professional following acquisition in 2018). Known for his forensic knowledge of the sector, no-punches pulled presentations, LinkedIn posts, and broader thought- leadership, he regularly hosts industry panels and events. Barry commented that: “Paycircle is in a league of its own. It’s ultra-intuitive to use, enables bureaus and accountancy firms to completely reposition their service, makes scaling up easy and injects a whole new colour and energy into an area that has traditionally been neglected. “This technology empowers payroll professionals like never before and embeds them in the heart of their
clients’ businesses. Paycircle have reinvented the entire payroll process and dragged it kicking and screaming into the 21st century.” Catherine Pinkney, co-founder Paycircle, said: “With more and more accountancy and bureau businesses understanding how new automation technology and collaborative working can drive efficiencies and make scalability effortless, payroll is rapidly transitioning from ugly duck to golden goose. “We will soon be announcing some major client wins and Barry is helping us to further accelerate the growth in our market share.” CO-FOUNDEROF PENSIONSYNCMOVESON WILL LOVEGROVE, who co-founded pensionsync in 2015, has moved on from Systemsync Solutions (see Industry News, page 36) and is now head of technology transfer at the University of Surrey.
In September 2019, Will wrote to CIPP’s chief executive officer Ken Pullar, saying: “I wanted to write and thank you, and your colleagues at the CIPP, for the support you gave to pensionsync over the past few years. “The CIPP’s lifetime achievement award was one of the standout highlights of my tenure. “Adoption of pensionsync proved to be much harder than I could have anticipated. Looking back, the software engineering was the simple part. Asking payroll and pension professionals to modernise the way they worked was much harder. “You may have read recently that I’ve been invited by the Money and Pension Service to join their ‘pension dashboard steering committee’. This will give me an opportunity to continue to help improve
pension outcomes for the public. I think the workplace (and so therefore HR and payroll) has some kind of role to pay in the roll-out of the pensions dashboard. The workplace is after all how many millions of new savers first engage with their pensions (via automatic enrolment).”
ACTIVPAYROLL APPOINTS KIMBERLYMORRISON
HMRC APPOINT
GLOBAL PAYROLL and tax compliance specialist, activpayroll, which is headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, has appointed Kimberley Morrison as payroll operation manager – Middle East – for its new office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Kimberly has been a member of the activpayroll team for over ten years working in both the USA and the UK before relocating to Dubai to take up her role. Her team consists of ten payroll specialists.
JIM HARRA IN OCTOBER 2019, Jim Harra was appointed as HM Revenue & Customs’
(HMRC) new chief executive and first permanent secretary, succeeding Sir Jonathan Thompson. Harra had covered the position on an interim basis. Jim has worked for HMRC for more than thirty years, rising through the ranks from initially being an inspector of taxes in 1984 to holding senior director-level positions before taking on the role of director general for business tax in 2012.
Sian Odgers, business services director of activpayroll, said: “Kimberly has been a respected member of the activpayroll team for a long time and has obviously played a key role in establishing the UAE operations.” Kimberly commented: “Having worked at activpayroll for over ten years, I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to establish the UAE operational hub. We have worked hard to ensure we have a great team of payroll specialists and look forward to supporting both existing and new customers delivering a high level of service and support.”
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