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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

WageSafe automates payroll compliance, delivering an extra layer of assurance to your payroll accuracy, whilst also providing intelligence to help you prevent underpayments.

PayGroup is a Global Payroll and HCM company. Listed on the ASX, PayGroup supports customers across 80+ countries. We employ 500+ team members across 14 global offices and support over 2,500 customers on our end-to-end payroll and HCM solution. Key Responsibilities: - Top-Level Leadership of PayGroups Australian operation - Managing the successful integration of IWS with PayGroup- Supporting the integration of PayGroups’ other Australian based acquisitions- Driving new sales growth throughout Australia and New Zealand- Management of key customers - Supporting the development and deployment of new products and innovations - Presenting to the market on AU performance - Supporting the ultimate acquisition of PayGroup by Deel Inc in November 2022

Sydney, Australia

IWS is a tech enabled service company who are pioneers of the Software WITH a Service delivery model. We leverage best in class, cloud-based tech and couple this with specialist service and expertise. We are passionate about helping organisations ‘run their businesses better’ via our Rostering, Payroll and Bookkeeping solution. With a focus on supporting the franchise sector, IWS supports 1000+ organisations across 3 continents._____________THE JOURNEY:_______________

In 2015, we ran a process to recapitalise IWS. This was in an effort to build out our team, upgrade our tech-stack and to drive revenue growth. We successfully closed this transaction within 3 months by way of private equity. This not only allowed us to execute on our high growth strategy, but also introduced some amazing people into our organisation. This 6-year period would see IWS: - Reinforce its position as the only organisation who could deliver an end-to-end Rostering, Payroll and Bookkeeping solution throughout Australia and New Zealand; - Continue to add highly impressive organisations to our stable of clients (such as Nike, Laser Clinics, Subway, Red Roster, Oporto and Zambrero); - Upgrade all of our internal systems (including the development of our own proprietary platform);- Employ 70+ team members across our Australia, India and Sri Lanka offices; - Demonstrate a highly scalable business model. In 2021, having successfully executed our recapitalisation strategy, we were subsequently acquired by ASX listed Payroll and HCM provider PayGroup (ASX:PYG). PayGroup provide payroll and HCM solutions in over 80 countries and proved a perfect fit for IWS and our rapidly growing customer base. Partnering with PayGroup enabled IWS to start supporting customers on a global basis. For example, we very quickly helped one of our largest customers expand into the UK, Singapore and Canada shortly after the transaction had been completely. This acquisition represented 5 x growth in business value from the recapitalisation we completed 6 years earlier and delivered a significant return to shareholders.

After the grind of building out our initial customer base and bedding down strong recurring revenue, we set our mind to consolidating the mess that tends to come with operating a lean start-up for so many years.We had become the premier provider of cloud-based rostering and payroll solutions in Australia and so we focused heavily on ensuring that our people, processes and systems put us in a position to scale. It was at this point that we decided to introduce Bookkeeping into our solution and also expanded into New Zealand.

We started with the simple idea of developing a solution that would help small business owners better manage their people and their payroll. With very little initial capital, we boot-strapped and fought our way through to achieving a strong proof of concept, a handful of loyal customers and a small recurring revenue stream. The following years would see us continue to reinvest in building out a high quality, robust solution that was unlike anything else in the market.

Partnering with business owners to help drive their business performance. Operational Support / Financial Analysis / Leadership Coaching / Marketing Support / Strategic Planning.