They will act as an ambassador, positively championing the payroll profession and encouraging others.
This might be through mentoring, offering advice, answering questions, sharing experience freely, or being the person others turn to when they need guidance and reassurance. They make the people around them better, and the profession stronger.
This year, for the first time, this award is open to anyone in the wider payroll community, not just ABM members. Because great support doesn’t stop at a membership boundary.
If you know someone who fits that description, nominate them. They probably have no idea how much of a difference they make. It’s time they found out.
Is there someone in your world who gives generously to others and asks for nothing in
OUTSTANDING SUPPORT AWARD - Sponsored by Brain Payroll
The Outstanding Support Award recognises individuals who consistently give their time, knowledge and energy to support others in the payroll bureau world – not because it’s their job, but because it’s simply who they are.
Recognising excellence across the payroll bureau sector
The Bureau Management Awards celebrate the people and teams building stronger, better, more confident payroll bureaus.
Payroll bureau professionals do business-critical work every day. They keep employers compliant, employees paid, clients supported and teams moving through constant change. The best bureaus do more than process payroll – they lead, improve, innovate, support clients and strengthen the reputation of the whole sector.
These awards recognise that excellence in practice.
The winners will receive one of six hand-crafted metal awards – designed to stand out proudly on any desk or display.
ABM Awards 2026 entries are now closed
What our 2025 winners had to say!
I couldn’t be prouder that our Team were recognised as ‘Change Makers’ at the ABM Annual Conference in Manchester this week. 💛
It was an incredible day and I couldn’t be happier to have our team recognised amongst such amazing giants across the industry.
Here’s to the future of payroll… driven by all ‘change makers’ in the industry - who dare to challenge the status quo.
Tracy Jerram, Cox & Co Payroll - Change Makers
The Awards. Crafted to be kept. Earned to be proud of.
A symbol of excellence, built to last.
Every winner of a Bureau Management Conference Award receives something truly special, a hand-crafted metal award designed to reflect the standard of achievement it represents.
Striking in stature and precision-made, each piece is a permanent reminder of what exceptional performance looks like in a high-performing payroll bureau. These are not off-the-shelf trophies. They are bespoke, beautifully engineered awards that carry real weight in every sense.
Displayed on a desk, a shelf, or in a boardroom, an ABM award sends a clear message: this is a business, a team, or an individual that leads with excellence, delivers with confidence, and has been recognised by their peers for it.
Because in a profession that keeps Britain’s workforce running, excellence deserves to be celebrated — and seen.
🏆 Outstanding Support Award : Judging Criteria
What it recognises: exceptional contribution to others within the payroll community
This award recognises individuals who consistently support others in the payroll bureau world by sharing their knowledge, experience and time, freely, generously and without expectation of reward.
It is not about formal roles or responsibilities, but about a genuine willingness to help others succeed. This might be through offering advice, answering questions, mentoring peers, or simply being someone others can rely on when challenges arise. Nominees do not need to be ABM members… this award is open to anyone who makes a meaningful contribution to the payroll bureau community.
Those recognised will be passionate advocates for the profession, championing high standards, supporting the people around them and helping to build a stronger, more connected payroll bureau sector.
Criteria:
Consistency of Contribution
Regular, ongoing involvement in supporting others over time – not a one-off gesture, but a sustained pattern of generosity.
Willingness to Help
Actively offers guidance, advice or reassurance without expectation of return. Shows up for others because it’s the right thing to do.
Practical Impact
Clear examples where their support has helped others solve problems, build confidence or move forward in a meaningful way.
Contribution to the Community
Plays a visible role in strengthening connections, raising standards or contributing to shared learning within the payroll bureau world.
Approach and Mindset
Demonstrates generosity, professionalism and a collaborative spirit that others find genuinely inspiring.
The strongest nominations don’t just answer these questions – they bring them to life with real examples, supporting evidence, and the kind of clarity that makes a judge sit up and take notice.
Stories are memorable. Lists of activities are not.
Be inspired by the work of a community of professionals who have won previously.
It’s about your team seeing their hard work acknowledged by the people who genuinely understand what it takes. It’s about your clients knowing they chose well. It’s about standing in a room full of your peers and feeling, perhaps for the first time, that the effort you put in every single day has been seen.
The payroll bureau sector is full of talented, dedicated professionals who are quietly brilliant at what they do, and far too modest about it. These awards exist because that needs to change.
So if you’re sitting on the fence, ask yourself this: is there someone in your world – a colleague, a team, maybe even yourself — who deserves a moment like that?
We think there probably is.
Nominate today and give them the recognition they’ve earned.
