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Systems overview System Status Recruitment Administration System University Payment System Cambridge Casual Worker System (CCWS) Web Recruitment System Temporary Employment Service (TES) System Integrated Reward System

Employee Self-Service

Employee Self-Service overview Email formats Frequently Asked Questions

CHRIS HR System

CHRIS HR System overview Log in (Managers and Administrators) Frequently Asked Questions

CHRIS Helpdesk

CHRIS Helpdesk overview Check List for Users

Key Contacts

Key Contacts overview Expanded Duties of Key Contacts

CHRIS Training

CHRIS Training overview

CHRIS Training Manuals

CHRIS Training Manuals overview Institutional Staff HR Staff Grading and Reward TES Payroll Staff Pensions Staff

Systems Development

Systems Development overview Agile Delivery
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Systems

Systems overview
    System Status Employee Self-Service CHRIS HR System Recruitment Administration System University Payment System Cambridge Casual Worker System (CCWS) Web Recruitment System Temporary Employment Service (TES) System Integrated Reward System

Systems Development

Systems Development overview
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Systems

  • Systems overview
  • System Status
  • Employee Self-Service
  • CHRIS HR System
    • Log in (Managers and Administrators)
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • CHRIS Helpdesk
    • CHRIS Training
      • CHRIS Training Manuals
        • Institutional Staff
        • HR Staff
        • Grading and Reward
        • TES
        • Payroll Staff
        • Pensions Staff
  • Recruitment Administration System
  • University Payment System
  • Cambridge Casual Worker System (CCWS)
  • Web Recruitment System
  • Temporary Employment Service (TES) System
  • Integrated Reward System

Payroll Staff

  • CHRIS for Institutions Manual Feb 2023 (PDF)

Please note the following material is from July 2009, screenshots are not updated

CHRIS Training Manuals for Payroll Staff

Introduction to CHRIS

  • Introduction to CHRIS course manual

Individual sections

  1. Introduction
  2. Navigation
  3. Action Pane
  4. Display Pane
  5. Searches
  6. Inheritance
  7. Keyboard Shortcuts

Demonstrations of the content covered in the Introduction to CHRIS manual are available.

Sickness and Maternity

  • Sickness and Maternity course manual

Individual sections

  1. General Principles
  2. Entering New Absence Details
  3. Sickness
  4. Maternity
  5. Paternity Leave
  6. Adoption Leave
  7. Other Absence Types
  8. Average Earnings Summary
  9. Absence Exclusions
  10. Absence Values
  11. Entitlement Summary
  12. Working Patterns
  13. Searching for Absence
  14. Absence Summaries

Leavers

Individual sections

  1. The Payroll (Leaver) Process Chain
  2. Leaving Circumstances that Require Additional Consideration
  3. Leaver Process for Pensioners
  4. Temporary Suspension of Pay due to End of Limit of Tenure
  5. P45s

HR for Payroll

Individual sections

  1. Introduction
  2. Inheritance
  3. The Pensioners Structure
  4. Create a Post for the Individual in the Pension Organisation
  5. Costings

People and Payroll

  • People and Payroll manual

Individual sections

  1. Introduction
  2. New Payroll Starters
  3. Tax Information
  4. Student Loans
  5. Checking an Individual's Date of Birth
  6. National Insurance
  7. Payslips
  8. Review Elements
  9. Checking Pay Calculations
  10. Payroll New Starter process chain (short version)
  11. Troubleshooting: The Process Message Log
  12. Court Orders

HR Systems

Contact Information

Email:chris.helpdesk@admin.cam.ac.uk

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