1. Finance Brief January 2016

2. Christmas £10 towards a team meal
Expenses
Christmas £10 towards a team meal
Please remember that all claims for reimbursement where your own function has been arranged must be approved by 4th March 2016.
There are strict tax rules so please read the: - Christmas contributions guidelines - the process - the Q&A before claiming. (Group Services/ Finance /Pay Support / Expenses)
Questions? - Pay Support team or

3. It’s Easy to view your payslip
From March, Payslips will only be online through Easy. Paper payslips will cease February 2016.
What can you do?
If you have never used Easy before, you need to:
Contact Service Desk on to gain access to your account if you don’t normally use it.
Then click here to register to use Easy with your NHSBT address while logged in to the NHSBT network.
Once registered, you can access your Easy account anytime/anywhere without being logged into the NHSBT network.
Contact Pay Support on (internal 54455) with any queries.

4. Procure to pay – customer service improvements
We are planning to implement Service Now for Procure to (supplier) Pay.
We will then develop the system to make it easier for customers to find answers to their questions and access our services.
If you’d like to know more about this project or be involved to give a customer perspective please contact Linda Haigh x or Mike White x 87074

5. Changes in the Business Support Analysts Team
This team perform accruals and adjustments and produce all NHSBT Budget Holders reports.
Recently Falak Naz Ahmed took over leading this team x
Team structure January 2016
If you have any questions about your budget reports or which team member supports your team please contact Falak x
Business Support
Team Leader
Falak Naz Ahmed
Business Support
Analyst
Kinga Krasnicka
Business Support
Analyst
Umar Naweed
Business Support
Analyst Bryan Chapman
Business Support Analyst
Mohammed Junaid

6. Payroll Errors
The table below shows payroll errors by month and cause.
In November there was a good reduction in pay errors caused by managers.
Thank you for your help and support in reducing these.
Going forward if you can remember to notify Pay Support of leavers as soon as they hand in their notice and also notify Pay Support of contract changes as soon as they have been agreed.

7. Pay Support E-Mail addresses
ESR addresses update
Your enquiries can now be ed on outlook to the following addresses:
Pay Support - Helpline
Pay Support - Changes
Pay Support - Terminations
Pay Support – Expenses
These addresses replace the ESR Business Support addresses that are no longer available. The ESR forms on the intranet have been updated to reflect this change.

8. Home address
From April 2016 there HMRC will be introducing the Scottish rate of Income tax (SRIT)
HMRC will be using the home address in ESR to manage this.
Can you please ensure that if you have recently changed address that a personal changes form (ESR-FRM-102)is completed to ensure that the system is holding the correct details.
Any question please contact Pay Support x 54455