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Elle Howden and Lauren Rowe join Ascedn Payroll

Elle Howden and Lauren Rowe join the Ascend payroll team

Our payroll team has grown again. Elle Howden joins Ascend as Senior Payroll Professional and Lauren Rowe as Payroll Professional, with the pair starting within days of each other. Here’s a bit more about them, how they found their way...

CIPP Awards Oct 26 - Ascend Payroll

Three for three at the CIPP Awards

Three shortlists. Three wins. Ascend Payroll came home from the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) Awards with every award we were up for. We picked up Payroll Service Provider of the Year (up to 20,000 payslips per month), Project...

Ascend Payroll win Reward Startegy Best Payroll Team award 2026

Ascend Payroll wins Team Excellence at the Reward Strategy Awards

Last night, Ascend Payroll was named the winner of the Team Excellence Award at the Reward Strategy Awards. An award that celebrates a team demonstrating outstanding collaboration, expertise and dedication to its clients. We are especially delighted to have won...

ICB Future Skills Challenge

Ascend Payroll joins the ICB Future Skills Challenge

We’re proud to announce that Ascend Payroll has been named a Partner Champion for the ICB Future Skills Challenge. Every year, payroll software does more of the heavy lifting. Compliance checks, calculations and reconciliations keep getting faster and more automated,...

Welcome Adele Blackham to Ascend Payroll

Welcome on board, Adele Blackham

We’re delighted to welcome Adele Blackham to Ascend as our new Head of Strategic Partnerships. Adele has spent her entire career in payroll, and she’s rejoining old colleagues Stewart Waddell and Richard Rowell, bringing a wealth of experience in client...

Grant Waters joins Ascend Payroll

Welcome on board, Grant Waters

We’re delighted to welcome Grant Water to the team as Payroll Professional.. Grant brings a broad base of payroll and tronc experience to Ascend, having worked across corporate payroll and specialist tipping schemes for clients spanning healthcare, hospitality and beyond....

George Serls Joins Ascend s Public Sector Pension Specialist

George Serls joins Ascend Payroll as Public Sector Pension Specialist

We’re delighted to welcome George Serls to the team as our Public Sector Pension Specialist. George brings a career’s worth of payroll and pensions expertise to Ascend, with particular depth in the education sector, where pension schemes like Teachers’ Pensions...

The importance of learning at work for Ascend Payroll

Learning at Work Week – what learning really looks like at Ascend Payroll

Learning at Work Week is a good moment to stop and think about what learning actually means in practice. Not just in theory, but day to day, in the middle of a busy payroll operation, whilst juggling multiple clients, hard...

Ascend Payroll is PAS accredited

Ascend Payroll is now PAS accredited

We’re proud to announce that Ascend Payroll has achieved the CIPP Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) accreditation – the gold standard for payroll processes and people in the UK. It’s a significant milestone for our team, and one we didn’t take...

daily sit downs - the ritual that keeps our payroll team connected

Fifteen minutes and a cup of tea – the daily ritual that keeps our payroll team connected

Payroll is a profession built on precision and deadlines. Every month brings another immovable date, another payroll to deliver, and another group of employees depending on us to get things exactly right. In that kind of environment, how a team...