To see further than others and act purposefully and confidently to achieve the goal is Nick Ganzha’s roadmap to success. From an early age, he admired the boundlessness and freedom of the Ukrainian nature, and today, his company, Express Global Employment (Acumen International), allows others to be boundless in their global growth and expansion. His international talent acquisition and management organisation, Express Global Employment, provides global HR and employment solutions that enable companies to hire overseas personnel easily and risk-free (in compliance with all legal norms) without establishing their own legal entities in each country. Global Employer of Record Solutions changes the way companies operate internationally.
The Birth of a Global Employment Industry Pioneer
Nick Ganzha’s business journey began with a Ukrainian staffing and recruitment agency in 2001 when a request came in from Procter & Gamble. The task was challenging because, at that time, the concept of personnel outsourcing didn’t exist in Ukraine. However, Nick had a strong background thanks to his experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture, and he created a business model that helped to win the client. As a result, Nick Ganzha is considered the pioneer of staff outsourcing projects in Ukraine.
In fact, what started as a local company has grown into a leading global Employer of Record Solutions provider, operating in 190 countries worldwide.
“Serving our clients, I recognised that companies expanding globally need a trusted partner who could help them navigate the complexities of global employment, tax, and compliance. The critical factor that has contributed to the success of Express Global Employment over the years was my decision 12 years ago to internationalize our business. The journey continued with a simple yet powerful idea: to help businesses achieve global growth.”
From Local to Global
By 2012, Acumen International covered 33 countries where Ganzha’s team provided a complete employment cycle in compliance with local labour legislation. And by 2017, it had already grown into Express Global Employment, covering 190 countries.
It was exciting and challenging as the company built its global network. Nick maintains that international business is always difficult and risky, but with a trusted partner, it turns gratifying.
We Are the Uber of the Global Employment Industry
And Nick Ganzha loves facing challenges. Today, his company is a powerful organization that enables businesses of any size, budget, or growth stage to operate anywhere in the world via global personnel hiring: “Employ based on skills, not on geography. The whole world is now your talent pool,” he says. “It’s vital for businesses to expand their limits to become successful. Finding the right people is crucial for your company’s success. Don’t let your city or country boundaries limit your talent pool.”
One of the factors that makes Nick’s company stand out is that they excel in exotic countries, areas that are either underserved or hard to operate in.
We have a well-established infrastructure in these countries, a global knowledge base, and we can provide services there. This is our strength,” he says. He highlights that this factor enables the company to build partner relationships with competitors: “Express Global Employment offers a very robust and integrated Global EOR solution that even our competitors come to us when they need excellent global HR and compliance support in the most underserved or hard to hire locations.
Nick Ganzha invested much of the company’s efforts, time, and money in gaining expertise and creating a global knowledge base. It was a future-focused investment, so they would be prepared to face any challenges. “A successful person stands out from the rest by being ready to seize opportunities when they arise.”
Express Global Employment provides unique services and tools, such as allowing companies to officially onboard and payroll staff in any of 190 countries within 3-10 working days. Thanks to their Express services, clients can start operating worldwide almost immediately without establishing their own business entities.
Global Payroll Calculator
Moreover, the company has created the innovative Global Payroll Calculator that allows businesses to instantly estimate total employment costs across countries to compare and assess various market entries easily. The Calculator was innovative and won the prestigious GPA Award 2022 for Payroll Innovation. In addition, GPA recognized Acumen International as the 2020 PEO (Professional Employer Organization) of the Year.
The Global Payroll Calculator is a SaaS tool by Express Global Employment that the company has been developing for almost four years. Express Global Employment developed its Global Payroll Calculator covering 190 countries to simplify their sales and service teams’ lives and the daily payroll calculations they make for clients to foster their efficiency. With this, the company streamlined its order-taking and quote formation, making Express Global Employment a client of themselves. “The best possible quality test and success story ever, self-evaluated”, is their tag-line. Today, offering the Calculator to a global audience, Ganzha’s team helps clients automate the way they get their global payroll calculations, providing them with instant insights to:
• Make informed decisions about global hiring;
• Save time & cost on cost-of-hire estimation in 190 countries;
• Allocate budgets for planned global expansion – easily comparing the cost-of-hire in 190 countries and choosing the best to expand their business;
• Attract top global talent, regardless of location: attractive job offers with employees’ net take-home salary calculations.
Innovating the Future of Global Employment
Gradually, Nick’s ideas drew like-minded individuals to work with him, resulting in a powerful team that helps to develop the company – and Express Global Employment is always on the lookout for new talent. Nick says, “When new people come, they bring fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and a gust of change.” The company’s headquarters is in London, the UK, with a global operations centre in Nicosia, Cyprus. The company also has offices in Ukraine, Estonia, and the United States. Express Global Employment is pioneering in the global employment industry, transforming how international business and hiring are conducted. Today, its solutions support their clients’ global expansion strategies via international talent acquisition and management and
revolutionize the global HR and payroll field in 190 countries. Nick Ganzha aims to realize his ideas, helping others experience greater freedom.
International business is always challenging and risky, but with a trusted partner it turns very rewarding. We are your reliable partner in ensuring compliant global talent management in 190 countries.
A Beacon of Corporate Social Responsibility: From Childhood Dreams to Global Impact
Since childhood, he has strived to achieve something remarkable and seemingly unmeasurable, inspired by the great Ukrainian pasture in front of his grandparents’ country house in the Poltava region. Today, Nick Ganzha dreams of peace in Ukraine and helps to bring Victory closer through his unwavering support of Ukrainians during these challenging times. Along with his company, Nick has donated over $200,000 and will continue to donate until the Victory is achieved. What started as Nick’s personal drive has now transformed into the collective engagement of the entire Express team, showcasing their corporate social responsibility as a business before the Ukrainian people and the entire free world.
Since February 24, 2022, Express Global Employment has been assisting Ukrainian and international companies in retaining the talents that were forced to leave Ukraine due to the full-scale russian invasion. With the company’s solid global HR solutions, their client companies can continue to legally employ and pay their employees abroad without establishing a physical office. Thus, they prevent the loss of key personnel, ensure business continuity, and avoid project breaks.
The Victory of Ukraine is inevitable, as the entire Ukrainian nation stands for it, and Nick Ganzha strives to represent this through his business and his life. He is a Ukrainian who is changing the perception of what is possible, globalising business and uniting the world.
This article was initially featured in the book Top USA Entrepreneurs with Ukrainian Origins.
Further Reading: The Global Employer of Record: Ukraine’s Beacon in Turbulent Times