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Alison Clynes
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...
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Alison Clynes
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...
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Josh Donner
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...
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Adele Blackham
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,...
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Alison Clynes
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...
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Josh Donner
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....
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Stewart Waddell
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...
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Victoria McKay
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...
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Josh Donner
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...
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Victoria McKay
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...

