James Sumner Email & Phone Number

Wallasey, Gb

Liverpool, Gb

I am responsible for Workday HCM system administration and configuration ensuring that the system is fit for purpose and functions as required to support our stakeholders and business requirements.This involves troubleshooting, issue remediation and supporting end users to fix issues. I ensure that all business process’ and the configuration of Workday works correctly, identifying areas of improvement to increase efficiency of the system by enhancing existing functionality.Proactively looking for opportunities to introduce new functionality, this may be to support a new HR process or regulatory compliance, also to review the 2 annual releases, identifying what would benefit the business most and taking the steps required to configure, test and roll out the new functionality with cross functional support from stakeholders.With responsibility for HR Workforce Information including the development and delivery of HR reporting through Workday, this includes creating custom reports, calculated fields & custom dashboards to support various stakeholders at all levels through self service reporting.

Liverpool, Gb

Working to support the payroll and pension providers to ensure an efficient payroll and pension service is provided to our internal customers. Responsibility to ensure the monthly payroll is checked capturing any potential overpayments or other errors in net pay, managing the sign off process to ensure employees are paid correct and on time.Supporting the payroll assistant in the provision of payroll data to our external provider and responding to escalation of queries were required, this may include performing manual calculations or dealing with queries of a more complex nature involving pensions, taxation and overpayments.To run a comprehensive set of accurate workforce reports on a monthly and ongoing basis which support the organisation in workforce planning and budget forecasting. Also providing reports to internal teams such as internal comms and IT.Continually developing and building on the reports provided to the organisation to meet the changing priority's and reporting needs. Reporting also provided externally to key customers within the wider civil service.As part of my role I also provide support to projects such as end of year accounts, pay award, finance reconciliations and any other projects that arise that require MI and Payroll implementation. Currently working as the lead for HR to ensure the function is compliant with the forthcoming GDPR.

Liverpool, Gb

Within the HR team at CCS I was responsible for all HR processing - New Starters, Leavers, Reporting Line Changes, Input and Changes to Allowances, Secondment Extensions and Terminations, Input of P46 & P45’s & Recurring Payments & Deductions.I had a key input to improvements in the HR processes and the updating of all our HR correspondence such as offer letters, amendments to employment and contracts.I was responsible for running reports for the HR Business Partners and Management team, among the reports I was responsible for collating was analysis of Absence data such as cost and averages across the business, FTE and Recruitment figures. I have also managed some key activities within the HR team such as end of year bank holiday calculation for all our part time staff and coordinating the rolling out of our new technology project within the HR operations team.

London, Gb

My role involved end to end co-ordination of key HR activities that require a high level of organisation and prioritisation. Liaising with my stakeholders whom HRBP’s, Consultants and Leaders to deliver a high quality output of work to the timescales set. Some of the activities I was responsible to Coordinate were Organisational change within the business such as TUPE, Redundancy’s and Restructures, end of year salary and bonus review and all other projects that require Coordination of activities within HR Services.I would then contract with our HR Service leaders to secure the required resources within the teams and then manage the resource provided directly to deliver tasks on time. Regularly reviewing progress in the form of weekly meetings, checklists and daily progress updates where required to ensure as a function we will meet the timescale set by the business. Among my daily duties was providing advice to my stakeholders regarding policy, employee’s personal information and other general topics. Providing MI and other ad hoc data such as FTE reports, Employee redundancy costing’s and all other data as and when requested. Setting up complex spreadsheets where required using automated formulas such as Vlookup, Sum and IF arguments, displaying data in a format as requested by my stakeholders.

London, Gb

Within the HR team at RSA I was responsible for all HR processing onto SAP including - New Starters, Leavers, Reporting Line Changes, Input and Changes to Allowances, Secondment Extensions and Terminations, Input of P46 & P45’s & Recurring Payments & Deductions.I also had responsibility for Employment References, Letters, Issuing of Eye Care Vouchers and general employee filing of records.Being a first point of contact by telephone and email offering HR and Payroll advice to employees which can include making manual calculations on pay and tax for the employee and working out pro rata pay and holidays among other daily queries.

Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, Gb

I worked at Shop Direct within the Payroll team I was responsible within a team for running 2 weekly and 5 monthly Payrolls on the Oracle system. I had full responsibility for processing the payroll through to BACS performing all payroll checks such as high nets, tax change and negative nets and completing the process with post payroll reports for communication to finance.My other responsibilities were tax administration of P9s, P6s, P45s and P46s. Also responsible for overtime and bonus input this is done both manually and by excel data loads.Working on projects such as process improvement working to improving employee forms and ways of working, using flowcharts and checklists to ensure all data can be monitored by the team to remove the need to make BACS payment for missed input of bonus payments or overtime.One of the projects I worked on was designing and building the new Shop Direct Payroll intranet page creating a new presence for the payroll department providing first point of support for P11d, Tax, Payroll FAQ's and also online forms to request information such as duplicate P60's and Statement of Earnings.

Liverpool, Gb

Responsible for all Bank Staff timesheets coming into the payroll office, Checking of timesheets for errors and then calculating total hours worked in the current pay period before inputting this into Excel ready for upload onto Oracle. Once this is done I will then need to check the report to ensure all hours have copied over correctly.I am also responsible for pay queries over the telephone regarding the Bank staff. I Also help within the payroll office with post duties, checking and distribution of payslips to general offices to be distributed to employees.

London, Gb

Working at Mouchel Ltd providing payroll administration and support to a high volume monthly payroll, Working with SAP Processing all payroll input from New Starters, Variations to Terms, Allowances/Deductions, Parental Leave, Tax changes and Leavers. Daily manual calculations were also part of my role to issue BACS & CHAPS payments and work out pay queries.Along with payroll input I also had responsibility for issuing Contracts of Employment, References, Letters and general employee filing. My responsibilities were also extended to providing telephone and email support to employee's queries and supporting the HR team and Business partners.

I worked within personal taxation at HMRC within a team of 12, I worked following procedures and guidelines set out to deal with personal tax records including Employee Records, Pension Records, Self-Assessment records and Employer Records.My responsibilities were Collecting underpayments through PAYE codes, Calculating and issuing personal tax codes including calculating K codes. I would also be responsible for processing Self-Assessment forms and calculating the tax due. I was also responsible for the issue of forms and letters to taxpayers.