I spent some years there before I determined that EOR (Employer of Record services) was the next bandwagon that I needed to jump on. While there wasn’t even a role posted, I was able to interview at one growing EOR firm and became the VP of their payroll operations. That was an exciting journey. I learned a ton overseeing 112 countries from an EOR perspective. What I’ve learned is that for global payroll outsourcing, there’s things that you do and things that really fall to the client, but in EOR, everything falls on you, the provider. I always say: “When you’re an EOR, everything’s your problem.” I now have moved out of the EOR business and into consulting. I’m really grateful because I was the first leader outside of the Netherlands to be hired in to support Payrollminds. GPA: Tell us about your current role. Kira Rubiano: I was recently brought in to lead the expansion of Payrollminds into the U.S. market. I’ve already built a great team here and we are growing! My role is to not only lead
business development efforts, thought leadership, marketing, and brand awareness, but also to ensure proper execution and support for clients. Everything that’s tied to being able to support clients that are U.S.-based or who need U.S. resources, as well as anything tied with raising brand awareness within the U.S. market, is my responsibility. GPA: What intrigues you most about what you are doing now? Kira Rubiano: It’s intriguing that, in this day and age, and especially with so many technological advancements and so many different solutions available, that we still have a huge chunk of organizations that are struggling because of yesteryear processes.
The environment is such that broken processes still exist, and there remains a lack of alignment between stakeholders, meaning payroll and HR still tend to go at each other’s throats.
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