Bishop Fleming Celebrates Top Award for its Payroll Bureau

Top 30 advisory firm, Bishop Fleming and its Payroll Services bureau, have received the highest possible award in their accreditation under the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals’ (CIPP) Payroll Assurance Scheme.        

The firm, which delivers payroll, accounting, tax, corporate restructuring and advisory services to businesses and private wealth advice to individuals, scored the highest possible mark from the CIPP for its payroll bureau for the second successive time.

Bishop Fleming first obtained its CIPP Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) accreditation in 2015 and has now been re-accredited for the next 2 years. The scheme demonstrates that the firm’s payroll and associated processes are fit for purpose and comply with government legislation.

The accreditation also confirms that appropriate safeguards are in place to prevent payroll errors and to ensure that all relevant legislative and organisational changes are complied with. Further, it also shows that the firm has sufficient policies, processes and procedures in place relating to the development of its payroll staff.

Will Hanbury, Head of Bishop Fleming’s Payroll Services, commented: “We are delighted to have been re-accredited under the CIPP Payroll Assurance Scheme, the gold standard for the industry. The fact we scored the highest possible mark reflects the hard work that our Payroll team put in to making sure that our clients are serviced in the most accurate and efficient way. The PAS kitemark is formal acknowledgement of the high-quality payroll processing Bishop Fleming carries out, and which our clients can really trust.”

Mr Hanbury added: “This time around the CIPP not only looked at our processes and procedures, but also staff development and training. It was good to receive such strong positive feedback in this area too.”

CIPP Assessor, Annette Gibbons commented: “It was an absolute pleasure to visit such a welcoming payroll department. It’s very apparent talking to team members, ranging from new administrators to management, that they run an extremely efficient payroll department. There is a lot of thought into staff training, processes that make it easy to follow and easy to track where you are and that a payroll is correct. This is a payroll department that really sets up all of its staff to succeed.”

Bishop Fleming is celebrating its centenary year in 2019 and is currently ranked 26th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For, and is also ranked 29th in the UK accountancy league table.