Pension Administrator

at  Saskatchewan Teachers Federation

WHAT WE DO

Working with the Federation is more than a job. It’s about contributing, through your professional background, to quality public education. It’s about providing exceptional programs and services that support Saskatchewan teachers and their profession.

OUR PURPOSE

The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation has advanced the interests of teachers and advocated for excellence in public education for more than 80 years. We are a professional organization representing over 13,500 teachers employed in PreK-12 schools across the province who are trusted and respected leaders and partners in education.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

This position supports a wide range of pension activities to assist with the pension plan administration and record management of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Retirement Plan (STRP) and the STF Employees’ Pension Plan (EPP).

Responsibilities include:

• Categorize member requests, initiate the STRP workflow and run variance checks for accuracy of data.
• Respond to certain member pension inquiries.
• Review incoming applications for retirements, terminations, service purchases, transfer deficiency payouts, and reciprocal payments; determine if application is completed appropriately, and follow-up with members for any missing documents or information required.
• Prepare data for member calculations.
• Assist with finalizing calculation packages and updating related tracking spreadsheets.
• Track reciprocal transfer requests and follow up with members and other pension plans on outstanding requests, prior to applicable deadlines.
• Assist with monthly payroll changes, including changes to pension amounts, banking information changes, tax information changes, and coordination of monthly pensioner information statements.
• Preparing monthly and quarterly account reconciliations and data verifications, weekly income tax remittances and government filings.
• Reconciliations and calculations of Pension Adjustment Reversals, including filing with the government on a quarterly basis.
• Upload manual monthly pension remittances received from school boards.
• Review accuracy of data used to populate annual tax forms such as T4’s, T4A’s, and NR4’s.
• Reconciliation of tax data to the general ledger and government tax notice.
• Prepare and complete member search requests through CRA.
• Complete voluntary contribution calculations.
• Manage and maintain the paper and electronic files for STRP and EPP.