Inherited Payroll: What You Really Acquire in an Acquisition, and How to Consolidate It Without Disruption.
You Didn’t Just Acquire a Company, You Acquired Its Payroll
When you acquire a company, you also acquire its payroll: local vendors, legacy systems, undocumented processes, sensitive data and compliance obligations in countries you may never have operated in. For enterprise buyers, that inheritance can put security, SLAs and employee trust at risk from Day 1.
Melanie Pizzey, CEO at GPA, moderates a conversation with Shay Ogunsanya, Managing Counsel, Commercial & Product at Remote, and Nicole Hennessy, Director, Payroll Client Services at Remote. They’ll explore what acquirers actually find when they open the payroll books, where integrations go wrong, and how a single global payroll partner can bring a fragmented estate into one compliant, secure process.
You’ll learn:
When you acquire a company, you also acquire its payroll: local vendors, legacy systems, undocumented processes, sensitive data and compliance obligations in countries you may never have operated in. For enterprise buyers, that inheritance can put security, SLAs and employee trust at risk from Day 1.
Melanie Pizzey, CEO at GPA, moderates a conversation with Shay Ogunsanya, Managing Counsel, Commercial & Product at Remote, and Nicole Hennessy, Director, Payroll Client Services at Remote. They’ll explore what acquirers actually find when they open the payroll books, where integrations go wrong, and how a single global payroll partner can bring a fragmented estate into one compliant, secure process.
You’ll learn:
- What you really inherit in an acquisition, and how to uncover it before close
- The legal and compliance risks of acquired workforces, including employee transfer rules, data transfer and inherited liability
- How to decide between consolidating immediately, running in parallel or phasing the transition
- How to protect the employee experience, starting with an accurate first payslip
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Remote is the financial operating system for the global workforce. We help you pay the world. Pay via our global infrastructure with one financial system of record. Remote owns the payroll platform and compliance systems, giving you one accountable partner whether you hire through our entities or manage payroll in your own. With Remote, payments are accurate and on time, hires are compliant, and new markets are within reach.
04.11.2026
15:00
Meet the presenters
Shay Ogunsanya, Managing Counsel, Commercial & Product at Remote
Nicole Hennessy, Director, Payroll Client Services at Remote
Melanie Pizzey, CEO at GPAMelanie Pizzey is the CEO of the Global Payroll Alliance (GPA), bringing together payroll professionals from around the world through education, events, research and industry collaboration. Passionate about raising the profile of payroll.
