MY CIPP
Both Jason and Natasha have shared their 'duvet flips' with Jack Parsons at the Duvet Flip team. Read some of the highlights from their films below and view the full shows via the QR codes and links.
What would you say to young Jason? Some of the key pieces I’d be saying to myself are to believe in yourself. Always back yourself and trust your instincts. Be prepared to go the extra mile. A lot of people have said to me going through my career that I’ve been lucky. I think luck has an element to it for everybody but actually being prepared to step forward is a big part of that. When opportunities come your way, lots of people shrink back and don’t know how to take it. For me, it was always about stepping forward and saying, “Yeah, I’ll have a go at that.” How did payroll used to work? We used to have tin templates, and everybody’s name would be pressed
Why don’t some people know how to read their payslip? I think it’s because financial awareness should start at school, and throughout that period we ought to be doing so much more to help new generations understand their payslip as one element of work. Understanding banking arrangements, credit facilities, the big things that happen when you leave school, and you start work... That education and that financial awareness should start a lot sooner than it does. I feel I have a duty to drive that forward, as part of a number of different projects to try and bring that awareness to as many students as we can.
into the tin, then their works number pressed. We’d run those plates through a machine that had carbonised paper, and that would create the payslip, so you’d end up with three copies of the payslip. You’d have that starting point with name and works number and then you’d handwrite the hours that they’d worked, the different agreements that they might be getting paid extra allowances for, etc. Then you’d build out the tax tables, you’d build out the National Insurance due, and anything else like pension deductions. That would go off to a comptometer then come back to us. We’d then fill the payslips with cash, so you’d actually be putting notes and pence for handing out.
See Jason’s video in full here: https://ow.ly/7PYn50VNHZi.
What was the first job you had that paid you a bit of money? Working in Primark. I was only doing it for about a month before I got my first full-time apprenticeship. First ever job, working in Primark, on a Saturday, just four hours a week. I did it for the independence after finishing school and just wanted to do something. I didn’t want to sit around and it’s always nice to have a little bit of pocket money. What is the payroll industry? It’s the silent industry. Everyone knows that you go to work to get paid but so many people don’t understand how you get paid. They think that it’s just a case of someone transferring you some money on payday but there’s so much more to it than that. For me, it’s the silent industry that’s
very misunderstood, even for those that directly work with payroll but don’t know the intricacies. What does your job role look like on a day-to-day basis? I look after the CIPP’s consultancy service and our Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS). So, I don’t process payroll myself or get involved at that granular level but what I do is help organisations make sure that they are compliant, that their payroll departments are doing what they should be doing, and I support the departments with any changes or transitions they need to make. So, making sure that the organisation is doing it correctly for their employees. With the PAS, we award organisations with a gold standard, to show they’re doing everything correctly.
Ensuring organisations are doing what they should, to be compliant so that the employees ultimately get paid what they should, and organisations are making the correct payments to HM Revenue and Customs is why both PAS and Consult are important. What’s your favourite thing about payroll and your job? The passion within the industry, which sounds really cheesy, but everyone in the payroll industry is so passionate about what they do and about getting it right. So many people I talk to outside of payroll don’t have that same level of passion, that same level of care that those within the payroll industry have.
See Natasha’s video in full here: https://ow.ly/1QuO50VNI6P.
PROFESSI NAL in Payroll, Pensions and Reward
16
June 2025 | Issue 111
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker