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Helen Livesey MBA MREC CertRP Business director, Hays Payroll Management
Firstly, a massive congratulation to each and every one of you on your CIPP qualification. I would imagine you have all worked so hard and you and your families must be so proud of your amazing achievement. Secondly, the market for quality professionals like yourselves is very much in your favour, with more opportunities available than ever before. For the last eight years, it has been the busiest period in the history of the payroll and pension profession. Here in the UK we have all been dealing with real time information, automatic enrolment, shared parental leave, gender pay reporting, IR35 to name a few, and these continued regulatory and legislative changes have kept all of the payroll and pension profession extremely busy. The heavy workload of pension and payroll professionals is set to increase further as the economy continues to grow and employers look to hire quality professional support. In our new Hays Salary Guide Report for 2019 , which we are just in the middle of launching, 95% of organisations tell us they expect their business activities to increase or remain the same and nearly 60% of employers said they do plan to recruit over the next twelve months. On top of this, salaries have grown for the eighth year running and growing at 4.2% which is incredible. With your CIPP qualification – you will be massively in demand in the market. Everyone in this room celebrating today has worked hard to gain their CIPP qualification and to add another dimension to their career choice as a payroll or pension professional. At Hays, we believe that employers and the payroll and pension profession need to work together to find ways to open up this function as a career choice to a broader range of people, including school leavers into apprenticeships and graduates, as this will help the profession have more choice of candidates in the future, plus growing the CIPP and payroll and pension community. To summarise, you will find that your payroll and pension skills will stay in massive demand into 2019, putting pressure on employers to address the shortage of suitable candidates. Employers are keen to keep their payroll and pension professionals, so are increasingly making counter-offers to individuals who have secured another job offer. In order to retain good people, it is also important for payroll professionals to feel confident that their current employer is committed to investing in their future over the medium to long-term and offering training and degrees through the CIPP is an absolute must for any organisation wanting to stand out as an employer of choice.
With your CIPP qualification – you will be massively in
demand in the market!
Congratulations again and enjoy your celebration.
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