Jennifer Humphryes Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Gb

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Section leader for team responsibile for the creation and maintenance of automated reports extracting data from the in-house pensions system. Line management of 4 team members and responsible for work planning and prioritisation.Consultant on project work and carrying out more complex documentation builds.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Highlights of my time as a Pensions System Analyst for Equiniti include:• Successfully developed new calculation functionality to cope with 2016 changes to Client’s Annual Allowance requirements, including changes to Pension Input Period dates, new output requirements for reporting and accommodation of dual scheme membership.• Developing the clients annual benefit statement softwareRoutine tasks involve:• Analysis and interpretation of scheme rules, actuarial instructions & the production of basic calculation specifications including first & second event processing.• Use of SQL to; query and extract process and member data from the system, to examine results sets and tables, and to insert data and variables onto tables for use in calculations. • Programming calculations to resolve issues and add new functionality for client. • Compiling, preparing and releasing calculation changes into different working environments and updating centrally held calculation maps to ensure latest version is held on the database. • Triage and escalation of day to day calculation issues raised by the client. • Carrying out defect analysis to propose fixes. Provide impact analysis for use by clients to determine work priorities and project content. Finding work around solutions for clients to allow them to carry out work whilst fixes are developed. • Developing calculations to meet changing needs of legislation and client scheme rules. • Unit and regression testing fixes to identify and where necessary prevent knock on impact on other calculations and system tasks. • Working in close cooperation with other system analysts working on other programming areas to find solution to issues spanning multiple areas of the program. • Reviewing calculation requirements to allow member online functionality using the internal in-house system• Developing the standards and best practices

Highlights of my time as a Pensions Administrator for the University of Manchester include:• Daily administration of a defined benefits scheme specialising in carrying out all aspects of the retirement process• Responsible for processing all death notifications, ill health retirement applications and relevant procedures• Development of the pension process maps, documentation and calculations for the introduction of the universal pensions management system (UPM), for the University of Manchester superannuation scheme (UMSS)• Assist in staff training on the UMSS pension software as a superuser and maintain processes, profiles and documents on the system• Carry out month end contribution reconciliation for UMSS scheme• Prepare member movement figures for year-end audit and accounting• Act as a liaison between the University and its external pension providers USS, GMPF and NHS• Assist with the yearly pension increase process- For the past 2 years I have carried out production of associated communications to members and payroll• Approved authoriser for checking colleagues work• Assisted in the implementation of auto enrolment for the University of Manchester

Leeds, United Kingdom

During my time at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) I progressed from an Administrative Officer to an Executive Officer (Section Manager). Highlights of my time at the MOJ include:• Daily interaction with clients and the pension administrator (Capita)• Managed the workload and personal development of 10 members of staff• Administered the MOJ’s Voluntary Early Departure (VED) exercise, as part of the wider MOJ restructuring and cost reduction exercise. This required liaising with the pension (Capita) and payroll (Liberata) administrators and regular interaction with senior civil servants• Deputising for my manager including representing him in London at high level meetings, receiving good feedback from senior managers • Ensuring the work of the team and its handling, storage and communication of personal and sensitive data was carried out with adherence to departmental policy and Data Protection legislation• Composing and proof reading management reports and other correspondence using personnel databases, work trackers and Discoverer Reporting tool. Production of mail merge documents for issuing correspondence to individuals and mass audiences• Compiling and interpreting a range of complex data using information from multiple sources and communicating to intergovernmental staff, managers, HR Advisers Business Partners and customers• Training/advising staff and managers on relevant technical and procedural processes

Foundation, Project Management, Pass

203 Defined Benefit Schemes

Diploma In Employee Benefits And Retirement Savings

Comprising: 201- Providing for Retirement 301- Employee Compensation and Benefits

Retirement Provision Certificate

Nvq Level Ii Customer Service

Ma, Ancient History And Archaeology, 2.1 (Hons)

Education record

A Levels: Law (A), Sociology (A), Classical Civilisation (B) AS Level: Business Studies (A) CLAIT PLUS ICT Certificate

Education record

GCSEs: Science Double Award (AA), Religious Studies (A), Maths (B), English Literature (B), English Language (B), Business Studies (B).