Considering a career in HR? One of the most interesting options you should look to explore within a human resources environment is a change management job.

Change Management jobs involve a professional taking overall responsibility for organisational change. When an organisation decides to make a radical overhaul of employment or business practice, the Change Manager will oversee all projects relating to the change.

Read on to learn more about the types of work involved with Change Management jobs.

Change Management Jobs: An Overview

A Change Manager tends to take on a leading role within a company when a major event sparks a significant upheaval in company practice – for instance after an acquisition or merger. It can be a tough job, which often involves the difficult task of informing existing staff from both companies of redundancies. However, there are various tasks aside from employment issues involved with this challenging job role.

Additional responsibilities will include making plans with senior management as to best practice in terms of restructuring a company, training staff in readiness for the transitional period, developing strategies for the departments most affected by the plans, and consulting with departmental managers to brief them on how the changeover will be handled.

Change Management can almost be viewed as a ‘coaching role’, rehearsing staff for the impact of a major change to ensure the process can be carried out as smoothly and effectively as possible, without inflicting damage on a company’s reputation or staff morale.

To succeed in this particular role, you’ll need to have superb diplomatic skills – the impact of change can be tough for all parties involved, so empathy, patience and understanding are all required to succeed in this often challenging HR role.

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Considering HR jobs in payroll? For any company, payroll jobs are a hugely important part of an organisation, ensuring all staff within a company get paid correctly and on time.

To work in payroll, you’ll need a mathematical mind and the ability to concentrate on figures for long stretches of time, as the guide to jobs in payroll below explains.

Payroll Job: What the Work Involves

Anybody working in a payroll department can expect to carry out the following duties:

• Monitoring all aspects of company finance
• Supervising the payroll team (management only)
• Ensuring employee tax guidelines are followed
• Creating and reviewing payroll procedures on a regular basis
• Inputting payroll data
• Analysing employee benefit and pension schemes
• Carrying out pay equality reviews
• Issuing pay and pay cheques
• Deducting NI from employee wages
• Reviewing sick, maternity and holiday pay
• Checking employee  expenses and associated procedures
• General office admin and paperwork
• Organising payrol and personnell files

Payroll Jobs: Salary Guide

• Entry level candidates can expect to command an annual sum of between £13,000 and £20,000 a year.
• Payroll professionals can expect an average salary of £20,000-£25,000 a year with experience.
• Senior payroll managers can earn in excess of £40,000 a year, depending on the size of an organisation.

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A quarter of a million workers at 400 universities, higher education colleges and associated institutions face cuts in their pensions.

A range of changes to members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) are being proposed to cut a £17bn fund deficit.

They include raising the pension age and increasing the amount members must contribute. Read more »

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