COMPLIANCE
Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS)
The prestigious gold standard accreditation for your payroll processes and people Developed in partnership with HM Revenue and Customs and launched in 2012, the PAS is the only industry kitemark to ensure your payroll processes and people are compliant and robust.
Examining over 60 facets of your payroll operations, the scheme is consistently evolving and not only shows that lifelong learning and development is planned and encouraged, but that you’re dedicated to compliance and best practice in payroll, a huge accolade for staff, as well as ensuring procurement is much easier.
Every issue we want to recognise and celebrate those organisations which have successfully achieved, or retained, their accreditation. This month we would like to congratulate: l MP Payroll Solutions Limited (re-accreditation) l Crown Prosecution Service (re-accreditation) l Hodgsons l IRIS FMP (Slough) (re-accreditation) l Cintra HR and Payroll Services (re-accreditation) l Payplus Limited (re-accreditation) l NES Fircroft Group (re-accreditation) l Kingdom Housing Association Ltd l Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (re-accreditation) l MHA Moore and Smalley LLP.
Our chief executive officer, Jason Davenport, said, “Huge congratulations to all the organisations that have achieved or retained their PAS accreditation. This process takes time and effort but is crucial in demonstrating commitment to your teams, customers and to the payroll industry.”
TESTIMONIALS Hear from a few of our accredited organisations, on how PAS has benefited them.
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd.: “Within the Hays payroll team, we take pride in the strong processes we’ve developed which enable the team to deliver great customer service, while remaining compliant with statutory legislation. Knowing your processes are strong and that your strategy for delivering payroll is all within best practice is important, and being able to demonstrate this by having this reviewed by the CIPP using PAS is rewarding and gives recognition to all the efforts made by the payroll team. “We’ve been accredited at Hays since 2015 and look forward to continuing this as PAS evolves in the future.”
Natwest: “We were overjoyed when we received the news that we’d been accredited by the CIPP. This is a great result, which involved various teams collaborating to produce the required information. It’s given confidence to our wider business that our processes, systems and people are operating at industry recognised standards. This is a huge morale boost to the payroll team, who now proudly display the accreditation wherever possible on all pay-related correspondence.”
Aviva: “The PAS is the prestigious gold
standard for both people and payroll processes and is the much-coveted award in the payroll industry. We invest a huge amount of effort into managing our people and processes to enable our payroll professionals to provide customers with the highest level of value and service possible.The team are all committed to delivering excellent customer service and accurate payrolls based on the information supplied. “The PAS award has confirmed to the business that we are committed and dedicated to compliance and best practice in payroll. I am proud with all the work we have done in the team to get us where we are today.” Ann Henwood, payroll lead
Karen Strand, RC&I team lead
Paul Mitchell MCIPP, payroll manager
To find out more, visit our website or contact our PAS team:
www.cipp.org.uk/PAS compliance@cipp.org.uk
| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward | December 2021 – January 2022 | Issue 76 16 October 2023 | Issue 94
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