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Who owns payroll when everyone touches it?
A candid dinner on accountability, risk and authority in modern payroll.
Payroll outcomes are shaped across HR, Finance, Legal, Technology, Operations and external providers. This dinner brings those perspectives together to explore how shared ownership can work better in practice.
Why this conversation
Payroll outcomes are shared. Ownership and authority need to work across functions.
Accurate, compliant and trusted payroll depends on decisions made across Payroll, HR, Reward, Finance, Legal, Technology, Operations and external providers. Each function sees a different part of the same system—and can experience the same handoff very differently.
This private dinner gives those leaders rare space to compare perspectives, surface where expectations diverge and explore how clearer decision rights, relationships and escalation can improve the outcome for everyone.
Around the table
The questions we will explore together.
Shared accountability, uneven authority
Where one function carries an outcome but another controls the decisions, data or behaviours creating risk.
The handoffs that create exposure
Where responsibility changes hands across HR, Finance, Legal, IT, Operations and external providers.
Data, systems and provider boundaries
Who owns data quality, change control and escalation when several teams shape the same payroll result.
An operating model that works
What clearer decision rights, stronger relationships and useful escalation routes look like in practice.
Select a question to focus the conversation on the issue closest to your role.
Who should be in the room
Senior leaders shaping payroll outcomes from different parts of the organisation.
The room is deliberately cross-functional. It will bring together senior leaders from Payroll, HR, Reward, Finance, Technology, Operations and Transformation in organisations operating across at least seven countries. The value comes from hearing how the same ownership challenge is understood on each side of the handoff—perspectives these functions rarely have the space to exchange candidly.
- Responsibility for a decision, process or dependency that shapes payroll outcomes
- Experience of complex cross-functional and multi-country environments
- A live question about ownership, authority, data or collaboration worth exploring together
What you take back
Not a set of answers. A clearer way to challenge the problem.
See the whole system
Understand how upstream choices are experienced downstream—and where each function sees risk, delay or rework differently.
Test the operating model together
Compare how different functions distribute ownership, authority and escalation across complex international organisations.
Build clearer agreements
Leave with sharper questions for clarifying decision rights, dependencies and collaboration across the payroll system.
The format
A hosted dinner, not a presentation.
Approximately 15 guests
A deliberately small group selected for relevance.
Facilitated discussion
Enough structure to stay useful, enough space to be candid.
No slides or pitches
Hosts listen and contribute to the same conversation.
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The setting
Sartoria, Mayfair.
A discreet private dining setting just off Savile Row, chosen to support an unhurried conversation, attentive hospitality and a room that feels distinct from a conference.
Hosted with
Different expertise. One shared challenge.
Preos and Change Associates are collaborating with HR Insight Forum to bring complementary perspectives together and explore how shared payroll ownership can work better in practice.
Preos brings experience across Workday implementation, optimisation and post-go-live support spanning HR and finance.
Change Associates brings global payroll, transformation, operating-model and change expertise across people, process and technology.
HR Insight Forum curates the guest group, facilitates the discussion and protects the no-pitch standard.
Practical questions
Before you request a place.
Is attendance complimentary?
Yes. Attendance is complimentary for approved guests. Every request is personally reviewed so the room remains relevant for everyone attending.
What is the purpose of the dinner?
To bring senior peers together for an open, facilitated discussion around a shared challenge. Guests can explore new ideas, compare approaches and hear how others are navigating it—leaving with fresh perspectives they can apply within their own organisations.
Who will be in the room?
The dinner is designed for approximately 15 senior leaders from Payroll, HR, Reward, Finance, Technology, Operations and Transformation. The group will be intentionally mixed, with every guest selected because they shape or carry responsibility for international payroll outcomes.
How private is the conversation?
The evening is designed for candid peer exchange. The participation and attribution approach is explained at the start, and comments are not attributed publicly without permission.
Complimentary · By invitation
If you help shape the outcome, should you be in the room?
Share your professional details and confirm the roundtable you’re interested in. We review every request personally to build a balanced room with relevant perspectives from across the system.