Christopher Bateman Email & Phone Number

Coventry, Gb

Coventry, Gb

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Coventry, United Kingdom

As a Technical Support Assistant• Uploading various bulk interfaces into the system and liaising directly with clients in relation to anydiscrepancies• Running half-yearly calculation of increase on contributions• Updating RPI and CPI across all systems on a monthly basis• Creating Data Dictionary and Line Definition items to use for various calculations and reports inPensionsOffice• Updating the monthly MVA and yields spreadsheets• Centralising all factors across all schemes for ease of use• Creating new transfer-out calculations to implement across all schemes in PensionsOffice and Excel• Using SQL’s in InfoMaker to:o Create and produce payslipso Produce quarter end membership statistics and reconciliationso Creating Library items to generate various reportso Extracting reports for clients and internal useo Assisting other users with complex system amendmentso Creating backup tables when importing interfaces• Using Sybase too Reset users passwordso Creating new test PensionsOffice databases• Assisting in yearly pension increases and benefit statements productions• Creating an easy to access Knowledge Bank for instant information on all schemes

Coventry, United Kingdom

As a Senior Pensions Administrator:Administration duties to reach Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) including:• Calculation of frozen benefits in order to issue retirement quotations to deferred members of variousschemes• Calculation of retirement benefits to issue quotations to active members of various schemes• Liaising with HMRC with any CA queries in order to make correct payment of members benefits• Responsible for the current administration work of the Northern Powergrid Group of the ESPS

Administration duties to reach Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) include:• Calculating the revaluations of deferred pensions (including estimates/projections and current values)• Calculating and issuing quotations to deferred members reaching retirement (early, normal and late)• Dealing with Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) queries for retirements, step-ups and widows pensions• Contacting Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to query any GMP discrepancies and to confirm theamounts at Scheme Cessation• Dealing with deaths of both deferred and retired members of the Scheme• Ensuring that both members and widows pensions are setup in time for the relevant payroll• Liaising with the Trustees of the Scheme to draw conclusions on Discretionary Decisions• Miscellaneous day-to-day queries, such as change of addresses, bank details…etc.• Calculating and issuing quotations for transfer-outs, and making sure that all information adheres to thePensions Liberation• Processing transfer-outs and liaising with the technical department when dealing with a QualifyingRecognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS)• Calculating and issuing divorce quotes to deferred members• Liaising with other members, departments and 3rd parties over the phone, email and via post