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Hon. Stuart Nash was elected Labour MP for Napier in 2014. He was sworn in as Minister of Police, Revenue, Fisheries and for Small Business in October 2017 following the general election.

Mr. Nash first entered politics in 2008 as a list MP and has been the Labour spokesperson for Police, Energy, Revenue, Forestry, Economic Development and Land Information.

In his maiden speech Mr Nash described himself as first and foremost a public servant, employed by the people of New Zealand; and as a social democrat committed to sustainable economic development and growth.

Prior to entering politics Minister Nash worked in senior management in small and large organisations in both the private and public sectors. His wide-ranging career has included roles in IT, sales and marketing, business strategy, resource planning, strategic planning and general management.

Mr. Nash completed a Bachelor of Arts (History) at Victoria University before moving to Canterbury University where he gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Forestry and a Masters in Forestry Science. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma and Master’s Degree in Business Management and a Master of Law.

He is the great grandson of the third Labour Prime Minister Sir Walter Nash, and grew up in Napier where his father was a local lawyer and his mother was a school dental nurse.

He attended Napier Boys High School where he was a prefect and captain of the debating team and where his sporting interests included rugby, cricket and representative tennis. He is married to Sarah and has four children. He is currently a member of the Parliamentary cross-party rugby team, and enjoys all sports but these days more from an armchair than a court, pitch or field.

Winner of “Female Comedian of the Decade” at the 2010 NZ Comedy Guild Awards, Michele A’Court is a fulltime professional stand-up comedian and freelance writer.

Her work turns up everywhere – on stage, television, radio; in newspapers and magazines – and she is in demand as a comic, an event MC, and also as a social commentator across all media.

Michele’s solo comedy show, “Stuff I Forgot To Tell My Daughter”, was a sold-out hit at the 2013 NZ International Comedy Festival and the 2014 World Buskers Festival. Michele continues to the tour the show.

In 2015, the show became a bestselling book published by Harper Collins, debuting at number one on the Indie Top 20, and sitting cheerfully on the Booksellers Top Ten list for three months.

Combining a unique blend of non-traditional magic, insane stunts, original quick wit comedy, cheeky pickpocketing to create not just a show but an experience that will not be forgotten anytime soon and has made him an audience favourite of thousands worldwide! To produce his work, Brendan works alongside some of the top minds on the planet.

In 2018 Brendan was nominated for Variety Entertainer Of The Year and was recently made the recipient of NZ’s Top Comedy Magician Award, making him the youngest to ever receive it. He constantly travels around New Zealand, Australia and Asia appearing and headlining at high end corporate events, conferences, festivals, private events and on touring production shows.

Most recently Brendan was cast on the prestigious touring show “World Festival of Magic” as the youngest member of the cast. This show has brought the world’s top magic and variety acts to Australia and New Zealand for the past 30 years making it the longest running show of it’s kind in the world.

Debbie is recognised around the globe as one of the top business productivity experts as well as being one of the most in-demand speakers and trainers in Australasia. She sits in the top 7% of motivational speakers worldwide, and is famous for her entertaining, motivational yet practical and how-to presentations on how to get more done in less time; grow business turnover and improve communication.

A native New Yorker, Debbie graduated with honours in economics and geography. She worked on Wall Street for AIG, before being whisked to New Zealand as a bride. There Tower Corporation created a marketing manager position for her; then she helped found Jardine Fleming NZ.

Debbie is a best-selling author of sixteen books which include Marketing in Today’s Wired World; Make Your Database Your Goldmine; Conquer Your Email overload; 101 Quick Tips Effective Communication and 101 Quick Tips Create A Great Customer Experience.

With over 20 years’ experience, Debbie has worked with most industries and government departments. She’s sharpened the activity of millions worldwide through her presentations, quick tip newsletters, articles, books and videos. Always innovative Debbie started the first online newsletter in New Zealand and Australia as well as being one of the first to use online training.

Named Ms Productivity by the media it’s not just for her work; Debbie is also a mother of six children including twins and triplets!

Pin-Ying Liao

Pin-Ying Liao is an Intelligence & Insight Specialist at Inland Revenue. She has more than 11 years of experience in delivering payroll system reviews including systems used by government departments, universities, large enterprises and Payroll Intermediaries. In recent years she has developed tools for analysing payroll data extracted from Inland Revenue and customers’ systems.

Kay Workman

Kay Workman is an Intelligence & Insight Specialist at Inland Revenue. She has more than 17 years experience in delivering system reviews of accounting & payroll systems across both the government and private sectors. She has worked with IR’s Software Developers Liaison Unit on payroll developer forums and liaises with developers in her work with software audits and also has been an IR presenter at the NZPPA for a number of years now.

Angeline Yeoh (Compliance Analyst, Datacom)

Upon graduating with law and commerce degrees, Angeline worked for the Serious Fraud Office and Immigration New Zealand. With her background in law and extensive understanding of fraud and compliance requirements, she now works alongside Datacom’s dedicated compliance team to ensure that Datacom’s payroll products and services are developed and maintained with a high level of integrity so that they are always compliant with current legislation requirements and future proofed for future legislative changes as they occur.

Presentation Topic: Tips to prevent and mitigate common payroll fraud schemes

Title for Presentation: Fraud – the hidden risk to your workplace 

Duration: 30 minutes

Chris Mar (Manager – Strategy & Compliance, Datacom Employer Services)

Chris has been with Datacom for over two decades and was the driving force behind the successful construction and implementation of Datacom’s Enterprise Payroll product DataPay as well as being the lead behind the rejuvenation of our 15 year old Cloud Payroll system NetPay, specifically designed for the SME market.

Chris now works on our business strategy and, in particular, the legislative compliance of our payroll products and services. Chris has been on several government working groups related to tax calculations and employment law in Australia and New Zealand.

Presentation Topic: Converting annual leave balances into weeks. Things to consider, decide on and communicate

Title for Presentation: Annual leave in weeks conversion projects – Stories from the front line

Duration: 40 minutes

Tessa Bailey (Payroll Business Analyst, Fletcher Building, New Zealand)

Tessa started with Fletcher Building in 2017 on the Finance Graduate Programme having completed her Degree in Business Management at Cardiff University. Tessa joined the Payroll team at the beginning of 2019 as a Business Analyst having worked in several other areas in Fletchers Finance, Performance and Strategy team. Tessa is building on her experience working on a variety of projects across multiple stakeholders and businesses at Fletcher Building.

Tessa draws on the knowledge and skills she has acquired since starting her career and has achieved NZPPA Certification and APMB Agile BA while continuing with her CPA Qualification.

Tessa enjoys working with people, promoting agile ways of working and is a key driver of the payroll optimisation journey that Fletcher Building is on.

Claudia Linares (Payroll Compliance Analyst, Fletcher Building, New Zealand)

Claudia is a payroll and finance professional with over 8 years’ experience in Colombia, Chile and NZ, holding a degree in Economics and a Diploma in Business Management IT in NZ. Claudia has held payroll, finance and treasury roles within the global pharmaceutical industry and has led large payroll projects including time and attendance improvements. Now in the building and construction industry, she has a special interest in the fulfilment of relevant employment legislations and the application of agile methodologies in a payroll environment. 

Sheetal Patel (Payroll Projects Lead, Fletcher Building, New Zealand)

Sheetal Patel has been a Business Analyst since 2013. Her career started off in the UK after completing a BA Hons degree in Criminology and Sociology. Sheetal started out as an Intelligence Analyst for a number of years with Leicestershire Police and then took a slight career change to become a Business Analyst. She moved to New Zealand 5 years ago and worked with Auckland Council under the Financial Systems and Processes Team. She has managed and supported on a number of successful projects using agile methodology throughout her career. Her current position at Fletchers as a Payroll Projects Lead focuses on the delivery of a number of projects and initiatives which are a part of a very exciting payroll transformation journey. Sheetal has recently completed her NZPPA level 2 qualification and now holds CPP accreditation.

Barbara Houlbrooke (Payroll & HRIS Consultant, Auckland)

Presenter for: Understanding leave entitlements provided under the Holidays Act 2003

Barbara is an independent consultant who has been working in the payroll and financial area for over 30 years. She values the work of the of the NZPPA and has been a member from the start. Barbara has used and implemented payroll, rostering, time & attendance and human resource solutions. Barbara’s payroll experience includes roles as an end user, manager and consultant. She has worked with many software solutions across multiple industries and with payrolls numbering from 5 to 10,000 employees. Client engagements have included business requirements, RFP and scope documents, process analysis and improvements, system and compliance audits. Most recent engagements have involved Holidays Act compliance reviews, remediation and go-forward solutions.
Barbara loves working with payroll people and is passionate about getting payroll right. Her hands-on approach and experience ensure projects are successful.

Contact 021 330311 or [email protected]

Angela Grylls

NZPPA Certification & Assessment Manager, Payroll Consultant (National Certificate in Adult Education & Training and a PhD in practical payroll experience)

Angela Grylls has a vast amount of payroll expertise behind her and spent nine years working for APN News & Media, a large Trans-Tasman media company, where she held the challenging role of Trans-Tasman Payroll Manager. She also spent a year working for a payroll bureau and completed a number of payroll implementations.

Angela specialises in payroll management, process and best practice reviews, payroll implementations and personnel learning and development.

She has carried out extensive payroll consulting work for companies and has worked in other payroll, accounting and health and safety roles.

Angela is currently the NZPPA Certification & Assessment Manager which involves being the primary online payroll SME tutor and NZPPA assessor for the assessment of NZQA unit standards for all NZPPA certificates, programmes and NZPPA payroll certification.

Angela also acts as editor of the NZPPA Payroll Practice Guide to ensure it is relevant and practical for payroll professionals. Alongside all of the above, Angela works on a range of new developments and NZPPA projects including acting as a payroll auditor.

Angela is passionate about payroll and wants everyone she encounters to be the best payroll practitioner they can be.

As always NZPPA annual conferences are held at the top conference venues in Auckland and this year our conference is being held at the Stamford Plaza.

Stamford Plaza Auckland

22-26 Albert Street, Auckland 1010

• Telephone: +64-9 309 8888
• Toll free NZ: 0508 658 888

Reservations email: [email protected]

If you wish to stay at the conference venue here a link to a special rate for the accommodation:

http://bit.ly/SPAK-NZPPA1019

Driving instructions to venue:

• The approach into the hotel must be from CUSTOMS STREET via QUEEN STREET or from Port Exit along Beach Road and Customs Street.
• It is a LEFT turn from Customs Street onto Albert Street. There is NO RIGHT TURN from Customs Street into Albert Street.
• There is NO RIGHT TURN into Stamford Plaza Auckland from Albert Street.

Get access a map to the venue and parking use this link: https://www.stamford.com.au/spak/location

Special conference accommodation rate:

The venue will be offering a special attendee rate if you wanted to stay at the conference venue (link to be added soon).