Calculation Programmer

The role is to provide calculation/automation services programming expertise and support to client implementations and day-to-day operations of systems for internal and external clients in an efficient and professional manner.

Essential parts of the role:
Meeting the business requirements and implementation needs of clients in an accurate and timely manner and in accordance with any agreed standards and procedures.
Expand their knowledge within their discipline by working with internal and external colleagues.
Have a good knowledge and understanding of the pensions industry, legislation and calculations
Following agreed standards and procedures, program calculations to a high standard based on specifications and test examples provided.
Complete sufficient unit testing to ensure a high quality output and provide evidence of testing
Have an understanding of our administration platforms and the requirements to enable effective calculation programming.
Work with relevant stakeholders/teams to identify functional changes to our core products, standard tools and processes that are required to ensure business needs are met and to ensure these are formally documented.
Proactively identifying solutions to optimise and improve performance across all applications and services.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Strategy
Assist with improving & standardisation of processes, tools and documentation for all Calculation/automation related deliverables.
Actively share knowledge to reduce key main risks across Implementations and wider teams to enable self service with Pensions Admin.
Collaborate with the core product and development teams to identify and help with delivering cross-departmental improvements for Pensions Admin UK.

Delivery
Working with your team leader to ensure the quality of all the implementation services meet the required criteria and are delivered to time and within budget.
Be aware of work that may not be included in the fee agreements for clients, escalating any change in scope appropriately.

Execution
Understand the business requirements and develop / code the necessary client configurations to a high standard.
Document developments and participate in the drafting of specification, test packs and user guides.
Work in a logical and disciplined manner.
Produce neat, dated, referenced and fully documented work which is easily checkable and can be followed up at a late date.
Ensure that all deliveries are fully reviewed prior to completion.
Maintain an understanding of changes to pensions legislation that may impact the functionality of our products / systems and processes / procedures.
Provide regular work in progress updates to the Tech Solutions Teams / Project Manager.
Make a positive contribution to the productivity, efficiency and morale of the team.

Governance and control
Identify and advise on areas where improvements to existing systems, processes and procedures can be achieved and will bring efficiencies to improve productivity.
Identify problems or deficiencies in documentation and propose and implement solutions.
Maintain an accurate record of working time through Jira and Time Recording Engine.
Adhere to all relevant company and departmental procedures.
Attend any relevant internal or external training course to ensure personal development.

Stakeholders
Help maintain the business users through their UAT cycle.
Participate actively in team/departmental meetings and any technical forums.
Active collaboration with stakeholders, working with teams across multiple locations and departments.
Buld and maintain internal relationships to ensure knowledge/skill sharing and reporting.

Experience and Education Requirements
Essential:
Minimum of 2 years experience administering or programming pension calculations
Analytical skills and ability to work within prescribed frameworks and timescales.
Must be highly numerate, methodical and logical, with a high level of problem solving skills and excellent attention to detail
Enthusiasm for and commitment to producing high quality work within the prescribed frameworks.
Interpersonal and communications skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team and cross departments with the ability to adapt and react to demand changes.
Good technical knowledge of pensions and legislation.
Familiarity with pensions administration software.
Actively staying current with trends in the programming community.

Desirable:
Experience within the Employee Benefits and/or Life & Pensions industries.
Understands the methodologies used in a software development and support environment e.g. Agile, Waterfall, ITIL.

Key Competencies

Technical:
Good knowledge of product/applications and implementation processes.
Good understanding of calculation programming principles
Good communication skills
Identification and management of Change control.
Solid working knowledge of Microsoft suite and other analytical applications.
Represent the team/department as subject matter expert on a wide range of projects.

Behavioural:
Good communications skills with the ability to build working relationships with different stakeholders
Driving Change & Improvement.
Positive and adaptable, responds well to feedback and need for change.
Operates within organisational values.
Big Picture Thinking.
Strong interpersonal skills.
Ownership and contributing actively.