Nick Day is joined on The Payroll Podcast sofa by Jim Kohl, Head of Payroll Operations at Check. Jim has a mantra: "To Improve lives one check at a time!"

An experienced leader focused on growth, tapping into potential and motivating teams, Jim is a Certified Payroll Professional with a history of working in the Software as a Service industry.

Jim is knowledgeable about payroll, current industry trends, and the wave of innovation and disruption entering the global payroll space.

Jim has an excellent Payroll Twitter account (which we recommend you all follow) and he is well known global payroll leader who has been with Check for nearly 3 years now and so Nick has invited him to the Payroll Podcast today to talk about how infrastructure and data innovation is rapidly changing profile of payroll.

In this “Is Infrastructure and Data Changing Profile of Payroll?” episode with Jim Kohl on The Payroll Podcast, we also explore:

What does the word payroll mean to you?
How is data innovation making payroll admins/employees' lives easier?
How and why has infrastructure and data innovation changed payroll rapidly in the past 3 years?
What factors have combined to make embedded payroll possible, and what do you advise people thinking about it?
Tell us more about the future of payroll systems?
Why do API-based systems offer greater opportunities for payroll professionals?
Tell us more about Check
Why is the Check SaaS proposition so unique and innovative in the world of payroll right now?
How do payroll innovations cater to markets previously unaddressed?
Given your experience across different parts of the payroll chain, what makes embedded payroll different / what's new that it is enabling?
If you could predict the future 5 years from now, what will payroll look like?

Links highlighted in this “Is Infrastructure and Data Changing Profile of Payroll?" episode are included below:

Jim Kohl's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-kohl-406674122
Check Website: https://www.checkhq.com/
Jim Kohl's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheJimKohl
Nick Day LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickday/
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