MY CIPP
Being payroll
Sunmola Adeyamo MCIPPdip, senior payroll specialist, City of London University, looks at the benefits of being part of the CIPP
Why did you become a member of the CIPP I wanted to progress in the payroll field so I looked for where I could do that. I went online found the CIPP and went into the website and looked at what they had. I was attracted to the Foundation Degree course they had. What made you choose to study with the CIPP? I looked at the course content. It was going to be three years to do the Foundation Degree, but I knew it was going to be worth it because every year it had different models that were going to shape me into progressing in my career. Tell us a time when you felt CIPP membership has helped your organisation So, because I am now graduated and have access to the CIPP’s Advisory Service, I usually call the team when we get stuck in the office on how to do some calculations sometimes. The last testing that we had to do for the new tax year, we got stuck because the tables for the manual calculations were not yet on the GOV.UK website. I called the Advisory Service and we talked through from the old tables to the figures that were going to be used for the new tables – and when the new tables were released it worked out exactly as the calculations that we had done with the Advisory Service team. For someone who is thinking about joining as a member, what would your advice be for what they would gain from joining? I would say that they would gain a lot, and their confidence level would go up. When I joined the Institute and started studying, I found that when conversing with other payrollers my confidence level went up. When I went for interviews, I always had answers to all
Why is it important to you that you became a member of the CIPP? It was important to remain a member even after I finished my study because I knew I could get access to the CIPP’s Advisory Service. I knew I would be up-to-date with payroll updates and with legislation before other payrollers most times and for networking purposes.
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of the questions asked; and even if I didn’t have the answers, I had the confidence to tell them I knew where to get the answers, so that helped me a lot.
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