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Course overview
This payroll training course for non-payroll professionals gives a high-level overview of the day-to-day obligations of the payroll function, including the fundamentals of payroll, statutory and voluntary payments, and deductions.
Please note: Materials for this course will be made available via an online platform, however a selection of these materials will need to be printed off and brought with you on the day. Login details for the online platform will be sent to you 10 days before the course start date. If you have any problems or questions, please email admin@cipp.org.uk.
- 7 CPD points
- Part of the Essential payroll group
Course fees:
- CIPP Non-members price: £495.00 + VAT
- CIPP Members price*: £395.00 + VAT
What you'll learn
To provide a broad overview of the mechanics and requirements of the payroll function so delegates can interact and collaborate with their organisation’s payroll team more efficiently and effectively.
- Identify how the Payroll department’s work interacts with others across the organisation
- Consider how inter-departmental communications and processes contribute to achieving payroll tasks and deadlines
- Improve services to employees.
- Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the range of payroll functions.
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class

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Duration study load
- Two consecutive half-days
Course time: 9:30 AM – 13:00 PM
Entry requirements
- None essential.
- It is preferential that delegates work in a role which entails some involvement with the payroll department, either in a coordination or supervisory capacity.
Pathways
- Introduction to PAYE & NIC’s
- Introduction to Statutory Payments
- Introduction to payroll
- Holiday pay and leave
Testimonials
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Tina WhelanPayroll for non-payroll professionals"The trainer did very well in tailoring the course to our needs and allowed us to dictate what we wanted to know more about. I found this extremely beneficial. I found the trainer to be a very knowledgeable and helpful. Overall it was one of the best courses I have done!"
Who's it for?
Payroll is invariably responsible for the largest expenditure for organisations through overseeing the payment of wages to employees and associated costs to other organisations, such as pension contributions and Employer’s NICs. It is an increasingly complicated, yet often poorly understood profession that requires the close collaboration of many other departments.
This course clarifies the role of payroll and the mutual needs and expectations between it and other departments such as HR, finance and IT. Delegates are then provided with a broad overview of the mechanics of payroll including income tax, NICs, statutory payments, student loans and the provision of minimum wage.
The focus throughout remains not the technical rules payrollers must understand, but what other professionals need to know to enable them to work closely with payroll, to the benefit of all stakeholders.
HR Co-ordinators, HR Managers, Finance Managers, Reward Managers, IT Managers, Financial & Management Accountants.
This course is not designed for those actively working in payroll in an administrative role which requires skills such as gross to net calculations. Such delegates should be directed to either the Payroll Technician Certificate or Introduction to Payroll courses.
Subjects
- Awareness of the payroll department’s communication requirements.
- Recognising the payroll department’s internal & external clients.
- Distinguishing positive and negative payrolls.
- Identifying the information requirements for payroll.
- Distinguishing between permanent and temporary data.
- Identifying data protection principles for the payroll department.
- Identifying the key legislation that impacts on payroll.
- Identifying case law that impacts on payroll.
- Ascertaining what makes a deduction from pay lawful.
- Classifying the three types of deductions.
- The administrative considerations for voluntary deductions.
- Considerations for effective management of deduction processes.
- Recognising the principles of PAYE.
- Categorising different tax codes.
- Distinguishing Scottish tax codes.
- Recognising the names and current amounts of NIC thresholds.
- Identifying the current NI category letters in operation.
- Recognising the principles of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
- Recognising the principles of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP).
- Recognising the principles of Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP).
- Recognising the principles of Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP).
- Recognising the principles of Shared Parental Pay (ShPP).
About CIPP
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) is the Chartered Institute for payroll, pensions and reward professionals in the UK. With more than 9,500 individuals benefitting from the CIPP's membership benefits and CIPP-approved qualifications and training, the Institute is dedicated to raising the profile of payroll in businesses across the UK.
IPP Education Ltd (IPPE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the CIPP. IPPE is an education and training provider specialising in payroll, pensions and reward, that develops, delivers, assesses, and awards its products to the relevant industry standard.
Why choose IPPE?
- All content is developed in liaison with employers and industry leads within payroll, pensions and reward.
- All of IPPE’s products are CIPP-approved for quality and legislative compliance.
- Our training courses are delivered by professionals active within the payroll, pensions or reward industries.
- Our end-point assessments are conducted by qualified assessors active within the payroll industry.
- Our qualifications are delivered and assessed by qualified tutors active within the payroll, pensions or reward industries.