Experience

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  West Yorkshire Pension Fund

  • Bradford, United Kingdom

  • Member Services Manager

    • Jan 2018 - Present
    • Bradford, United Kingdom

    Member Services Manager - Yeam Fire overall responsibility for the team who administer WYPF’s portfolio of Fire Clients. Responsible for ensuring the capabilities in the Team match the needs of a varied portfolio of clients.Planning the resources and training to help with the delivery of the Sargeant and Matthews projects. Provide technical guidance to team members to deliver on the new legislation.

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  Staffordshire County Council

  • Stafford

  • Senior Pensions Team Leader-Fire Team

    • Jul 2014 - Dec 2017
    • Stafford

    Responsible for the administration of the Firefighters' Pension Schemes for Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service.

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  The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals

  • Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom

  • Tutor

    • Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
    • Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    My role is to provide support to pension professionals who are studying with the CIPP to further their pensions knowledge.

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  Bupa

  • Salford Quays, Manchester

  • Pensions Technical Support Consultant

    • Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Salford Quays, Manchester

    Working within Bupa's in -house pension section on a range of projects .

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  Staffordshire County Council

  • Stafford

  • Senior Pensions Officer

    • Apr 2013 - Jan 2014
    • Stafford

    Interim role to provide additional resource to assist with the preparations for the 2014 LGPS changes.Whilst working at the County Council I have undertaken the project lead role dealing with the preparatory work for the migration of the administration from an outsourced third party administrator to the Pension Services section.This involved setting up the project management framework within which the project could be run. Including drafting the project plan, managing the monthly project group meetings, and providing documents such as agendas, minutes and action point summaries. Along with providing ad hoc specialist technical input to the client.

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  Go Pensions Limited

  • Staffordshire

  • Pensions Consultant

    • Sep 2011 - Feb 2013
    • Staffordshire

    Consultant on a variety of projects including:Implementation of a new CARE section to an existing DB scheme.Implementation of the workflow system module onto an existing administration system enabling the team to process work more efficiently.Quality assurance on a first time outsource of administration services to a third party administrator.Audit of third party administration provider's administration systems and practices, providing a written report to feedback the findings to the client.Evaluation of the results of a sourcing project to assist the client in selecting the right administration provider.Researched, wrote and presented on various topical pensions issues

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  Northgate Arinso

  • Pensions Team Leader

    • Jan 2007 - Sep 2011

    Responsibility for the administration of a portfolio of pension schemes comprising DB,DC and public sector statutory schemes.Supervisory responsibility for a team of administrators, including managing and monitoring their workload, ensuring adherence to the service level agreements and performance management. Deputising for the pensions manager in their absence.

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  Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service

  • Pensions Manager

    • Jun 1999 - Dec 2006

    Control co-ordination and administration of the Firefighters' pension scheme for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service.Liaison with the County Council Pension Scheme section regarding current and future members of the Local Government Pension Scheme.Member of the Department of Communities and Local Government National Communications Working Group on fire pensions.Represented the service at external medical appeal boards.Set up the Regional Firefighters' Pension Scheme Practitioners Group for the West Midlands.

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  Ernst & Young

  • Pensions Administrator

    • Oct 1994 - May 1996

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  GMBC

  • Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • Pensions Administrator

    • Sep 1992 - Sep 1994
    • Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  Noble Lowndes (Mercers)

  • Pensions Administrator

    • Sep 1989 - Aug 1992

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  Equitable Life Assurance Soc

  • Graduate Management Trainee

    • Sep 1988 - Aug 1989