Also, if you’re a global employer and you want your employees to have the same experience whether they’re sitting in Iran, sitting in South Africa, or in Zimbabwe, your compensation team needs to be looking at whether they’re going to change rules in those countries to line up with the rules that are changing somewhere else. Overall, I believe providing consistency in terms of quality and risk in every single BDO office around the world allows us to be a service provider of choice. GPA: Who has been the most influential in helping you with your career? Sharon Tayfield: For me, as a woman, becoming a company’s first female director brought me fear. I thought: “Everybody’s looking at me now. Am I going to get this right?” And yet the members of the board there were very supportive and encouraging. They helped instill me with the adage that there is nothing that you cannot achieve if you have ambition and you give it 100%. Second, Michele Honomichl’s enthusiasm for payroll, her sort of get-up-and-go attitude and the way that she approached day-to- day business was phenomenal. She taught me a lot.
Third, the CEO of the outsourcing firm that I fired early on and ended up working for, who was really supportive in terms of how we grew the business. He was always willing to invest in technology to ensure that we could meet the growing demands of operating globally. I loved working with him. He recently retired. GPA: What do you wish people outside of payroll knew about payroll? Sharon Tayfield: That payroll is the center of the universe! It touches so many other aspects of an organization. It touches HR, it touches finance, it touches the business strategy. If you look at payroll as a profession or as a For me, as a woman, becoming a company’s first female director brought me fear. I thought: “Everybody’s looking at me now. Am I going to get this right?”
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