• Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner

    City of New York (New York, NY)


    Job Description

    The New York City Employees’ Retirement System is recruiting for one (1) Full-time Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner, in the Retirement Calculations Unit within the Retirement and Pension Benefits Division. The selected candidate will be responsible for the following:

     

    - Calculate compensation base, years of service, account balances, required contributions and determine member’s eligibility for retirement

     

    - Review forms, applications and/or any related materials for completeness and accuracy.

     

    - Enter, obtain and/or update pensioner’s data and information into the appropriated PROD system

     

    - Communicate and obtain information from/to pensioners, other city agencies, NYCERS’ work units, and/or other retirement systems

     

    - Perform a variety of administrative tasks

     

    - Review and maintain work items including sort, transfer, pend and close items in the worker and checker queues of NYCEPAS system

    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: $ 48,097.00

     

    Salary Max: $ 55,312.00