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WE’RE HAPPY to announce that, on 1 February 2024, we welcomed Sam Jones to the CIPP as payroll advisory team leader, to oversee our amazing Advisory Service team. Sam joins us fresh from his role as payroll tutor at MBKB Training and has over a decade of payroll experience under his belt. On the appointment, Sam commented, “I’m extremely excited to be starting my role as the team leader in the CIPP’s
Advisory Service team. After spending 17 years in various payroll-related roles, I’m looking forward to helping the payroll community and playing a part in maintaining high standards in our industry. I completed studying for the CIPP’s Foundation Degree in Payroll Management in 2019 and have a passion for learning new things. I can’t wait to see what challenges there are and I hope to also pick up some new skills. “I live on the south coast of England with my two dogs, a Jack Russell called Layla and a Jackapoo named Pip.”
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We received a letter from a long-standing member of the CIPP, who wanted to provide some details regarding his career in payroll. Tony Walker writes: “I oversaw payroll and various other functions at the London borough of Redbridge up to my retirement towards the end
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of the 90s. My old governor, Berkley Meredith (who retired in 1983), like myself and our staff, was very keen to provide a good service to all the authority employees. We liked to promote our services whenever we were able to. “Our view was that an employee might query their pay just once in a decade, but we wanted them to know that their query was important to us. We tried to have good relationships with all the different service managers, headteachers, councillors etc. That relationship extended to the local union leaders, who would come to us if there were any problems relating to our area of work. “Berkley Meredith also attended the first meeting of the Association of Payroll and Superannuation Administrators (APSA) in 1980. We were all very proud of the payroll service we delivered. Payroll and pensions moved under the umbrella of personnel in the mid- 90s, and Redbridge retained our payroll services but made their own provision for human resources. When I retired, we had some excellent payroll staff, and at this time, both payroll and pensions were on a commercial software pay system with the personnel side still being performed manually. “Since retirement from Redbridge, I helped a friend with looking after a company payroll up to around 2012. I still help any family members or friends if they have any problems or don’t understand their pay. Admittedly, though, I’m now rather out of touch in the areas of tax benefits and company cars.”
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| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward |
Issue 99 | April 2024
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