One framework, one solution for everyone, any business, every payroll.
Global Payroll is a complex business process with many functions to manage. We all know this—you know it, and I know it. By viewing your global payroll holistically, we can overcome these challenges and break the status quo together.
Where to start?
The Global Payroll Management Framework (GPMF) is the basis for all Max's services, whether consultancy, education, or keynotes. The GPMF is a framework (including supporting examples, templates, and insights) that has been continuously developed since 2015, adopted by many multinationals, published in magazines and published my own book about it.
The GMPF serves as the foundation for Max's recognition as Global Payroll Leader, having been honoured with the Global Vision Award in 2018.
Four big building blocks, with four components each
The GPMF has four big building blocks, each with four components. If all are designed, deployed, and operated, they will lead to a global payroll function that meets the highest industry standards. Let's take a closer look.
- Global Payroll Strategy: an inspiring purpose statement, design principles guiding key decisions and driving standardisation, strategic objectives for efficiency, effectiveness and compliance, and service delivery models balancing process, technology, services and providers.
- Global Payroll Governance: aligning the organisational structure (who, where, what), setting fit-for-purpose policies and standards, risk & control, ensuring compliance and audit readiness and clearly defined roles & responsibilities.
- Global Payroll Operating Model: tracking payroll's performance with KPIs that matter, optimising how data travels between all systems in driving automation and digitisation, agreeing on ways of working in a global environment and managing the providers.
- Global Payroll Delivery: documenting and operating payroll processes (e.g., processes, playbooks, improvement logs) for pre payroll, run payroll and post payroll while systematically driving continuous improvement. Doing the doing very well!
The GPMF is proven to deliver these results for any organisation and global payroll function, such as:
- Strategy aligned to the overall business and future-proofing any global payroll function and the fundamental basis for any multi-year global payroll transformation.
- Achieve 100% audit readiness with well-documented processes, risk management, and controls that meet the highest governance standards.
- Process redesign, optimisation, and harmonisation, including a detailed discovery of the current people, processes, technology, and payroll provider landscape.
- Identify capabilities and the skills required in the people organisation, using a pragmatic yet holistic approach to determine where work gets done and by whom.
Whether Max supports you through consultancy, collaboration to deliver education or keynotes, the GPMF is at the heart of tailored services. Getting global payroll right every time is just the start!
Do you want to get started yourself? Order my book "The Global Payroll Manager's Playbook".
Find out what the GPMF can do for you!
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