Membership insight
Consult
5
At CIPP Consult, our experienced and qualified consultants specialise in reviewing payroll operations with a ‘fresh pair of eyes’ to recommend innovative improvements to processes and ways of working; leaving you to focus on ensuring that your employees are paid ‘on time and accurately’. For more information on the range of services we can offer, please visit cipp.org.uk or email consult@cipp.org.uk . Delivering tailored solutions for the payroll profession
Tim Kelsey CIPP’s international payroll trainer minutes with…
What is your role at the CIPP? I am the international payroll trainer and teach basic payroll rules for 25 countries, as well as specialist courses covering expatriate employees and global mobility. Can you give us an insight into your background? I worked for twenty years as a payroll manager for a publicly funded international organisation with employees across the globe. It was expected that I would understand and interpret payroll legislation in all of the countries in which we operated, and in an era before the internet existed this was a challenge. As well as a large expatriate population I also managed the UK payroll covering 7,500 employees and pensioners. So, whilst the UK provided me with that essential payroll background, over the years I have had the opportunity to see how payroll is practised in many countries. How does your role impact the CIPP’s overall strategy? I hope that my work plays a small part in raising the Institute’s profile on a global stage. For example, I recently spent time training a company’s in-house payroll team in Krakow, Poland. What does the future hold for the payroll, pensions and reward departments? Only one thing will be constant, and that will be change. Given my interest in international matters, I have to say that increased exposure to international issues
is likely to be a feature of our professional lives. Brexit will only make this more likely – this country will have to earn its living globally, and if we have decided to loosen ties with Europe we will have to expand in other regions. Where would you like to see the CIPP in five years from now? I would like to see the grassroots membership play a more active role in determining what the Institute delivers for members. I would also like to see us become more vocal in advocating policy changes that make employers’ lives easier. What has been your biggest career highlight? I expect most payroll managers have three of four things they are really proud. of, but for me it has to be setting up and then finally closing down an entity for my former employer in France. It is such a complex country to do business in, so the satisfaction of having seen the whole job through from start to finish some ten years later with no compliance issues is probably the thing I’ll most remember about my career to date. What do you do in your free time to unwind? Well, I like travelling which is just as well in a job that sees me spend about 100 nights a year in a hotel! I occasionally breed pigs and also specialise in Cypriot barbecue at village events serving up to 200 people a time. Quite different from payroll. n
cipp.org.uk
13
Issue 23 | September 2016
| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward |
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker