The Payroll Playbook: A Buyer’s Blueprint for Global Payroll Transformation

What separates payroll transformations that succeed from those that stumble?

In this insightful session, Lara Smart, Director at LSC Group, takes the audience through a practical blueprint for navigating global payroll transformation with clarity, structure, and confidence.

Drawing from real-world lessons, Lara breaks down the common reasons transformations fail, from poor communication and lack of stakeholder buy-in to unrealistic timelines, budgets, and insufficient resource planning. She emphasizes why the foundation of any successful transformation lies in structured planning, communication, and risk management.

Here’s what you’ll take away from this session:

• Why lessons from past projects are your most valuable guide forward, 
• The two stages of transformation: Pre-Implementation and Implementation​​​​​​.
• How to assess your current state (AS IS), design your future state (TO BE), and bridge the gap through structured impact analysis
• Key factors to evaluate: technology, integrations, people, data, service delivery, and controls
• How metrics, case management, and team utilization shape the business case and drive optimization
• The role of governance and structured change management after go-live

With a compelling Everest analogy, Lara underscores a critical truth: transformation without a method is a risk too great to take. Great transformations happen when innovation meets structure, and payroll is no exception.

Watch this session to gain an actionable playbook for a payroll transformation that doesn’t just launch but lasts!