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Grant Ilsley

Commercial Director at Affinity

Grant Ilsley is the Commercial Director at Affinity, with over 20 years' experience across Australian and New Zealand technology markets. He works directly with payroll, HR, and finance leaders to solve complex payroll challenges – from multi-entity consolidation and award interpretation to intelligent automation and system integration. Grant's career has spanned major international software vendors and SaaS companies, giving him deep insight into the specific needs of large organisations and government entities.

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What Grant Writes About

  • •Enterprise payroll solution design and architecture
  • •Multi-entity and complex payroll consolidation strategies
  • •Australian and New Zealand compliance requirements
  • •Implementation and migration planning
  • •Building business cases for managed payroll services
  • •System integration across HR, workforce management, and finance platforms
  • •Change management and adoption strategy

How Grant Works

  • •Customer needs assessment and discovery
  • •Solution architecture and design workshops
  • •Implementation strategy and migration planning
  • •Integration planning across enterprise systems
  • •Government and enterprise sector consulting
  • •Building trusted, long-term customer relationships

Outside Of Work

Outside of work, Grant enjoys maintaining a large wine collection, and has two British Bulldog fur babies.

Articles by Grant Ilsley

Strategic Guide
Strategy
Updated •8 min read

When is the best time to outsource payroll?

There's no perfect time to outsource payroll – but there are clear warning signs: recurring errors, key person dependency, rapid growth, and compliance uncertainty. Learn when to act.

Read the timing guide
Strategy Guide
GuideStrategy
Updated •7 min read

Managed vs supported vs in-house: which model fits?

Choosing how to run payroll is one of the most important decisions an enterprise can make. We compare the three operating models side by side.

Explore managed vs supported payroll
Strategic Guide
Strategy
Updated •7 min read

The democratisation of pay: HR's new priority

Employees expect consumer-grade pay experiences. Learn how to close the gap between expectations and reality with unified systems and data-driven insights.

Explore the democratisation of pay