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Retirement Benefits Analyst 1

Salary

$2,922.00 - $5,734.00 Monthly

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

LASERS-07082501

Department

LA State Employees' Retirement System

Opening Date

07/09/2025

Closing Date

7/18/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

This is a Customer Service Representative/Retirement Benefits Analyst position within the Member Services Division. Applicant must provide a high degree of accuracy, attention to detail, critical thinking, and possess excellent customer service skills. Must be dependable and self-motivated with a good attitude, good organizational skills, and the ability to work well with others.

Applicant’s work primarily entails counseling members on the phones and in person. Answers members questions regarding retirement benefits. Provides members with written estimates on available retirement options, different beneficiary designations, and all available retirement plans.

Minimum Qualifications

Three years of experience in employee benefits; OR

Six years of full-time experience in any field; OR

A bachelor's degree.

EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:

Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as one year of experience towards the six years of full-time work experience in any field. The maximum substitution allowed is 120 semester hours which substitutes for a maximum of four years of experience in any field.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere.

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

Counsels individual members during scheduled appointments in-house. Provides scheduled appointments with written estimates on available retirement options and different beneficiary designations, including, but not limited to, DROP, IBO, regular retirement, actuarially reduced retirement, and disability retirement. Also provides the members with calculations, if applicable to that member that includes service purchases, transfers, reciprocals, and repayment of refunds.

Completes preparatory work for appointments. This includes reviewing members’ entire files, preparing service credit reviews, verifying the final average compensation, and processing preliminary estimates prior to the appointment.

Assists walk-ins regarding W4-P (Tax Withholding) changes, address changes, direct deposits, requests for duplicate 1099Rs, income verification requests, DROP/IBO withdrawals, and other retirement issues, including providing estimates when appropriate.

Position-Specific Details:

LASERS requires all new hires to serve a minimum of eighteen (18) months not to exceed twenty-four (24) months in probational status including permanent state employees.

The Retirement Benefits Analyst 1 position has a Special Entrance Rate of $40,164.80 /annually

This position is a training series; therefore, if the employee development is successful, it allows the employee an opportunity to promote to an RBA 2, RBA 3, RBA 4 and Retirement Benefits Specialist.

Customer Service Retirement Benefit Analyst positions are eligible to receive premium pay for all hours worked. After 6 months of employment premium pay is $1.50. This will increase to $2.00 after 12 months of employment.

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS THE FOLLOWING COMPETENCIES :

Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and

ideas.

Displaying Expertise: The ability to exhibit specialized skills or knowledge gained from experience or training

Making Accurate Judgments: The ability to form an opinion objectively and decisively based on relevant information and in accordance with established standards

Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.

Managing Time: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.

Thinking Critically: The ability to objectively question, analyze, interpret, and evaluate information to form a conclusion.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Andrea H. Rogers

Baton Rouge, LA 70804-4213

[email protected]

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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Phone

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