Global Payroll Awards: Zellis wins ‘Payroll Software Supplier of the Year’ for second year.

Zellis, the leading provider of AI enabled HR, workforce management and payroll software and services to the UK and Ireland, is proud to be named Payroll Software Supplier of the Year 2025 at the Global Payroll Awards, for a second year.

The Payroll Software Supplier of the Year award celebrates “innovation, customer success and reliability” and recognises comprehensive evidence of Zellis’ leadership in AI-enabled payroll solutions, demonstrating exceptional customer satisfaction, innovative technology development, and measurable business impact for customers.

David Woodward, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Zellis, said

“To win this award for a second year in a row is amazing and testament to the innovative work of our teams here at Zellis with their HCM AIR product.  Nick Clarke and Steve Elcock were able to showcase our leading realtime payroll capabilities, how we’ve added more intelligent features as well as using advanced AI that is able to query payroll data to support the complex queries that help the payroll user.”

Customer feedback submitted alongside the nomination from long-standing customers speak to the real-world benefits – reduced admin burden, increased accuracy, and enhanced value from payroll systems that evolve with their needs. These include;

“We’ve had lots of contact and lots of support from Nick and the team and Sheryl, our Customer Success Manager […] It’s almost like they know our service just as well as we do.”

• Sarah Hopper, Payroll and Pensions Manager, at St. Helen’s Borough Council.

“We were in a project room, cross-party. You couldn’t really tell where the Bupa team ended, and the Zellis team started. The project managers knew so much about our landscape, our roadmap, our tech ecosystem as our internal people did. It was quite surreal actually, the team worked so symbiotically together.”

• Katie Duxbury, Head of Pay and Reward Services, at Bupa.

“Gaining more than one week of time back each month from previously manual tasks to focus on other value-add activity is extremely beneficial, and we’ve only just scratched the surface of what we can automate!”

• Connor Hughes, People Services Lead, esure Group.

“MyView gives employees more control and autonomy, while lifting the burden on the managers. Ultimately, everyone is getting the information that they need,”

• Ian Hodson, Director of People and Culture, Housing 21.

About Zellis

Zellis powers organisations to achieve better outcomes through exceptional employee experiences. We are the leading supplier of AI-enabled human resources (HR), payroll and workforce management (WFM) software, and managed services, for UK and Ireland-based midsize to large size employers. In 2025 we acquired elementsuite, bringing together their AI-enabled HR and WFM suite with our own award-winning payroll and HR platform. Combined, we offer best-in-class tools and expertise through an end-to-end solution which delivers the AI-enabled HR, WFM, and payroll outcomes our customers need. Zellis was named Payroll Software Supplier of the Year at the Global Payroll Awards in 2024 and 2025. Our flagship solution, Zellis HCM Cloud has won the Payroll Software of the Year Award (CIPP 2020, 2021, and 2024) and Payroll & HR Software Product Award (The Rewards 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2024).