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We’ve made it to February and thankfully the January blues are over once again. We are looking towards spring and bidding farewell to winter. This year is well underway, but have you kept your New Year’s resolutions or did the long January payday affect your willpower this time? February sees many of us mark Valentine’s Day, the month of love in which we celebrate our relationships old and new.
Relationships are an important part of our role in payroll too – from employees to internal stakeholders, external stakeholders and government bodies such as HM Revenue and Customs, it’s important that we build and grow these relationships. Through my many years in payroll, I have made lots of professional relationships that have helped me through my career journey. Attending events such as National Payroll Week celebrations and the CIPP’s Annual Conference and Exhibition are key networking opportunities for enhancing old relationships and making new ones. The articles in this issue will help share best practice on building and developing relationships, as well as good advice on how we can grow our existing relationships. There are also lots of CIPP events coming up which are excellent ways to grow your network and build relationships, so remember to check the website to find out more.
Clare Warrington MSc FCIPPdip AFHEA (clare.warrington@cipp.org.uk) Chair, CIPP
CEO’s message Welcome to this issue of Professional magazine. As another tax year marches on, it may also be a good time to build plans with your stakeholders for the next financial year. Whether you deliver in-house, as an outsourced provider or as a payroll bureau service, taking account of your budgeted costs, plans for
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the future and how best to articulate those in either an internal or an external setting is very important to overall success. This not only ensures you lay the foundations for the year well but also drives overall collaboration. Stakeholder management is such an important part of the day job for all payroll, pension and reward professionals. It ensures the businesses you serve (whether internal our outsourced) are understanding of your goals and expectations for the year. It will also mean they’re supportive of any key strategic changes you plan to make and the reasons behind those. If you have technology changes ahead or staffing and development costs to consider, better to have clear plans built with enough time to discuss them with those who you consider to be your stakeholders. Also, when thinking about planned changes, allow stakeholders to contribute to the planning process, as they may have ideas or information available to share with you that will benefit the plan. If your stakeholders feel engaged in the process, they are much more likely to support you as changes take shape and the year evolves. With the budget implications of employers’ costs increasing in the new tax year, you may also want to either enhance your reporting or ensure the current reports produced are showing the full cost of employment for broader decision making. You may also have plans for your payroll team and their own development, training and qualifications or to enhance and improve their membership category or even your own; the team here is standing by and ready to help. I plan to put in my application for Fellow soon, so fingers crossed that proceeds successfully. As always, I would be delighted to hear from you about your plans for the year ahead.
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Jason Davenport MCIPP MIoD (jason.davenport@cipp.org.uk) Chief executive officer, CIPP
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