Payroll Services Alliance goes global

Australia-headquartered Ascender, a payroll provider in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, has joined the Payroll Services Alliance. The alliance, established by SD Worx and Aditro in 2010 to gather leading payroll companies with the aim of offering consistent multinational solutions, has become global with the addition of Ascender, which offers integrated, multinational payroll solutions.

"By adding Asia, Australia and the Middle East to the Payroll Services Alliance reach, we strengthen the position of the Alliance in the global payroll market and challenge our competition. Most importantly, we offer our clients the best of both worlds: global governance with local expertise, with a consistent level of services across countries," says Steven Van Hoorebeke, CEO of the SD Worx Group and cofounder of the Payroll Services Alliance. 

With Ascender joining the partnership, the Payroll Services Alliance has a strong leadership presence in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Payroll BPO Services. Ascender, SD Worx and Ceridian are all positioned in the top quadrant, representing three of the five leaders in this analysis. 

The Ascenders cloud-based platform enables the company to tackle very large, complex clients that require process re-engineering, process standardisation and automation, and extended payroll solutions. Ascender also offers learning solutions to their clients, focusing on new methods such as adaptive learning and gamification. The company is a leader in online learning in Australia.

Rishabh Mehrotra, CEO of Ascender added, "We are excited to be part of the Payroll Services Alliance as we continue to scale our business to be the leading payroll provider in Asia Pacific. We see a lot of opportunity to deliver increased value to our clients through this alliance of regional experts, which is disrupting the typical force-fit model that can be experienced from many global payroll providers."

The Payroll Services Alliance now services 130,000 clients with over 32 million employees via Ascender (Asia-Pacific and Middle East region), Aditro (Northern Europe); Ceridian (US, Canada); Elanor (Central and Eastern Europe); F2A (Italy); SD Worx (Western Europe); Seresco (Southern Europe); and Trianon (Switzerland). The Payroll Services Alliance also delivers services in Africa and Latin America through a network of subcontractors.