Payroll Strategy & Compliance
Bruce Sullivan has over 30 years' experience in payroll technology across Australia and New Zealand. He has contributed to more than ten industry-first innovations in the ANZ payroll market, including the myPA Assistant and Payroll IQ Command Centre. Bruce writes about intelligent automation, systems architecture, and building technology that helps payroll teams move from reactive firefighting to proactive control.
Outside of work, Bruce collects gadgets at a great rate and splits his time between Melbourne and Auckland.
Seasonal workforces compress a whole employment lifecycle into a few months. How to handle mass onboarding, volume and piece work pay, labour costing, high-volume terminations, and rehiring returning workers without duplicate records.
Read the seasonal payroll guideFrom 1 July 2026, employers must report year-to-date qualifying earnings and super liability through STP at every payday. Learn what's changing and how Affinity is supporting compliance.
Read the pay day super July 2026 updateHR moves on AI cycles. Payroll moves on compliance cycles. When the two clocks diverge, forcing them into one system creates lock-in that slows both down.
Read the two-clocks strategy guideShould you buy HR and payroll from the same vendor? Learn why best-of-breed – specialist HR plus specialist payroll – often delivers better results for AU/NZ organisations.
Read the best-of-breed strategy guideAI-native platforms are changing the best-of-breed equation. When compliance validation happens continuously across rostering, time capture and payroll within a single system, you get lower risk and true end-to-end assurance.
Explore AI-native payroll integration