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# Be Payroll
Mandar Naik ACIPPAssoc CIPD, head of payroll UK and Ireland , at LKQEuro Car Parts Ltd , talks about his career and his experiences of the CIPP
How has membership of the CIPP helped you in your career? In February 2019, I became a CIPP member as part of the Foundation Degree in Payroll Management. The CIPP has encouraged me to execute my duties more effectively. Membership has allowed me both to nurture my abilities and skills as a payroll professional and to put the knowledge that I gain on a regular basis, into practice within my workplace. It has enabled my employer and the payroll department to gain recognition over the past year. I’m sincerely grateful (and always will be) to the CIPP for nurturing my knowledge to develop myself as an individual and a payroll professional. If it wasn’t for the CIPP, I wouldn’t be what I am today. For me, CIPP membership means empowering, strength, and identity. To everyone thinking of become a payroll professional, CIPP is what you need!
I’ve been head of the payroll department – UK and Ireland. Since becoming a CIPP member I’ve been nominated for awards in 2019 and 2020 and last year helped my employer achieve the CIPP’s Payroll Assurance Scheme.
How did you first get into payroll? As all payrollers would say, I ‘fell into’ payroll.
Payroll becomes quite emotional especially on payday, so having robust methodologies to deal with human emotions and resolving them allowed me to explore and love payroll. For anyone who’s wondering what payroll is about, if you have a passion towards providing services to employees and clients (come what may), effectively managing their expectations, payroll is your career. What course are you currently studying? I am currently pursuing the Foundation Degree in Payroll Management, and by March 2021 I’ll submit my last work-based project assignment. This qualification/training course helped me immensely in my career so far. In less than two years I have achieved much, and also ensured that the team and the company benefit from my qualification and training courses. The CIPP and their qualified trainers and tutors have helped me gain payroll knowledge in less than two years, and my confidence has kept increasing. What advice do you have for someone who is thinking of studying a qualification with us? The most important quality you should have is passion towards payroll! Whilst studying, and each time you complete a module workshop, tutorial, assignment completion, you can most certainly notice that your confidence level gets stronger and stronger. This includes dealing with pay queries, audits, discussing with key stakeholders within the business too such as directors, HR and finance heads. CIPP’s qualifications are designed to ensure you become an effective payroll manager. It changes the way you think, and your ideas automatically become more strategic. All of this aids in benefiting yourself and your employer too. Dedicating yourself completely and having a good well-balanced schedule between your professional and educational life must be your top priority whilst pursuing the qualification. n
What have been your most useful benefits of membership?
The Advisory Service: having someone to speak to, who can guide and point you in the right direction, when in doubt or before you implement any changes within your company, is just fantastic. At times, we all need to just bounce off ideas – and who better to speak to than CIPP’s advisors. Especially during 2020, the Advisory service has been at the forefront to guide all members through the transition. Another useful membership benefit is Professional magazine, which allows me to keep myself and the team updated with everything that is going on in the world of payroll on a regular basis. Reading this magazine in detail, highlights queries from all payrollers that CIPP’s Advisory Service answer, along with articles on compliance, upcoming/proposed legislative changes, pensions news, cautioning employers and many more. Also, I eagerly wait for the daily CIPP newsletter, which keeps all payroll professionals (including myself) well-prepared in advance of any forthcoming changes. Any news which impacts us are discussed during our next team call enabling knowledge sharing and relevant steps to capture these changes accurately. I’ll be ensuring that two colleagues in my team are CIPP members within the next few months, to give them similar opportunities. Can you describe your payroll career/journey to us so far? I started working as payroll coordinator in 2011 and in 2013 was promoted to payroll manager. In 2016, I was moved into a human resources role focusing on business partnering; and since July 2018
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| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward |
Issue 68 | March 2021
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