• Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner, Part-Time

    City of New York (New York, NY)


    Job Description

    The New York City Employees’ Retirement System Finance Division is seeking a part-time Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner to work in the Banking Operations unit within the Finance Division. The Banking Operations unit processes all non-periodic (all payments except pensions) outflows: Electronic Fund Transfers (EFT) and checks for loans, refunds, death benefits, payments to vendors, and other authorized payments; and maintains the agency’s banking relationships.

    The Assistant Retirement Benefit Examiner is responsible for performing the following duties:

    - Prepare and email EFT Replacement vouchers to the City Comptroller’s Office requesting pension replacement checks.

     

    - Generate EFT rejection letters in NYCERS case management system.

     

    - Prepare letter of reclamation and transmit to the bank to recoup Automatic Clearing House (ACH) payments

     

    - Verify and close work items in the case management system

     

    - Review and respond to Banking Operations service requests from other units

     

    - Open to learning and performing new tasks

    ASSISTANT RETIREMENT BENEFITS - 40491

    Qualifications

    1. An associate degree or completion of 60 credits from an accredited college, including or supplemented by 9 credits in mathematics, statistics, accounting, and/or actuarial science; or

    2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and two years of satisfactory full-time experience performing mathematical, statistical, actuarial or accounting computations in one or more of the following: a) a retirement or employee benefits plan; b) customer service in a financial

     

    institution; and/or c) in a position requiring the application of laws, rules and regulations and the use of statistical, actuarial or similar tables; or

     

    3. A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience equivalent to “1" or “2" above. College education may be substituted for experience in “2" above on the basis that 30 semester credits from an accredited college may be substituted for each year of required experience. However, all candidates must posses a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and either 9 semester credits

     

    in mathematics, statistics, accounting and/or actuarial science from an accredited college or one year of experience as described in “2" above.

     

    Additional Information

     

    The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

     

    Salary Min: $ 26.32

     

    Salary Max: $ 30.27