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Guest Speaker, Rachel Harris: What Happens When Payroll Goes Cloud-Based - A practical look at our move to BrightPay Cloud.

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Payroll isn’t hard. But let’s be honest… it can be heavy. And when you’re running payroll for a growing team (or multiple clients) that weight compounds quickly.

This webinar is led by Rachel Harris, founder of seven-figure accounting firm striveX Accountants and @accountant_she. Her firm supports hundreds of growing businesses across the UK, and payroll is something her team lives and breathes every single month.

striveX has just migrated from desktop BrightPay to BrightPay Cloud, and in this session Rachel shares that journey openly and honestly — what prompted the move, what changed straight away, and what surprised the team along the way.

Rachel will also be answering your questions on the day, so whether you’re curious about collaboration, controls, client payrolls, or simply whether cloud payroll is the right next step for you, you’ll leave with clarity.

BrightPay Cloud looks like BrightPay. It feels like BrightPay. But the way it behaves inside your business is very different.

What to expect

What prompted the migration — and the exact problems the team was trying to solve
How cloud-based payroll changed collaboration inside the firm (including multiple people working on payroll at once, without chaos)
What it’s like not worrying about data hosting, backups, or security
How batch processing works in practice when running payroll at scale
How employee self-service quietly removes back-and-forth emails
Auto-enrolment alerts that actually do what they’re supposed to do
Paying employees and HMRC directly through the software, without jumping between systems
How payroll journals flowing straight into accounting software removed an entire layer of admin the team hadn’t realised was draining them

Who this is for

This session is ideal if you’re:

An accountant or bookkeeper running payroll for clients
A business owner with a growing team
Already using BrightPay and curious about the move to cloud
Feeling like payroll takes up more mental space than it should

If payroll is one of those jobs that quietly drains your energy every month… this session is for you.

What you’ll leave with

A clear, practical understanding of BrightPay Cloud
Real insight into the migration process (what was easy, what needed thought)
Confidence around whether cloud payroll is the right next step for your business
And a calmer way of thinking about payroll as a system you trust

Speakers

Rachel Harris

Founder @ACCOUNTANT_SHE

Named as one to watch on the 35 under 35 list, winner of the Accountancy Personality of the Year 2023 (PQ Magazine) and winner of Breakout Star of the Year 2023 (Accounting Excellence), Rachel Harris is disrupting what it means to be an accountant, what it feels like to have an accountant and what being an exceptional role model in accountancy looks like, too.

As a Director and Trustee of AAT, the governing body for accountants in the UK, Rachel takes her leadership and ambassadorship role in the industry seriously. After launching the first ever corporate bursary scheme which funds underprivileged applicants who would like to study towards an accounting qualification but without the access to funding, Rachel continues to demonstrate her philanthropic commitments to the accounting industry.