Simon Brandt

Technology Manager

Support, Communications

Role

Simon is responsible for PSGS’ technology roll out, development and support for the team.

Background & experience

Simon’s pensions career began in 2005 as a pensions administrator at Xafinity Consulting. In 2011, he moved to Interserve PLC’s in-house group pensions department as a senior administrator, looking after a defined benefit (DB) pension arrangement with several sections, acquisitions and mergers.

In 2018, Simon joined National Grid UK pensions operations. His responsibilities included administration of DB pension schemes, supervising junior staff and dealing with members, advisers and stakeholders.

Simon was seconded to a project in 2020 and subsequently became a change & systems integration analyst. With the projects team, he planned and delivered change projects for the UK pensioners operations team.

Simon also has practical experience as a business analyst at Trafalgar House Pensions Administration.

Simon volunteered for the annual Pride in London festival for five years. He managed the recruitment, resourcing, communication and training of over 300 volunteers.

Qualifications: Open University honours degree in Computing & IT (currently studying)

Areas of specialism

• Microsoft & Sharepoint 365
• database design
• administration systems
• computing
• IT
• Adobe creative cloud
• programming