How Clover scaled multi-country payroll with a lean team using Deel

With payroll for thousands at risk of disruption, the business faced a real threat to employee trust and operational continuity.

Managing multiple separate payrolls across several countries, serving between 5,000 and 10,000 employees, with a central payroll team of fewer than six people, Clover had to source, implement, and onboard all company-level users onto a new platform, under significant time pressure.

• Migrated all payrolls across multiple countries onto Deel Payroll, with a team of fewer than five managing the full transition end-to-end
• Rolled out bulk upload functionality and granular role-based access controls across a medium-sized company-level user base, with permissions configurable by user, location, cost centre, and function
• Deployed Employee Self-Service (ESS) and Manager Self-Service (MSS), enabling employees to manage payslips, leave, and claims, and managers to track their teams, all integrated directly with payroll
• Leveraged Deel's in-country compliance teams across all operating markets to maintain tax and legislative compliance throughout the transition and beyond

• A team of fewer than five now confidently runs payroll for 5,000–10,000 employees across multiple countries, even as overall team headcount decreased
• Saves the payroll and HR team 8+ hours per week on administrative tasks previously handled manually
• Full reporting flexibility with role- and location-based access, giving every stakeholder exactly the visibility they need: No more, no less
• Tax and legislative compliance handled on time across all markets, removing a significant governance burden from a lean central team

What started as a forced migration became a platform for long-term stability and scalable growth.