Job Information
City of New York Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner in New York, New York
Job Description
The New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) seeks to hire several Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiners within the Retirement and Pension Benefits Division. The selected candidates will be responsible for, but not limited to:
Calculate years of service, compensation base, required contributions, review account balances and determine member’s eligibility for retirement.
Review forms, applications and/or any related materials for completeness and accuracy.
Enter, obtain, and/or update beneficiaries or pensioner data and information into the appropriated PROD system.
Communicate and obtain information from/to pensioners, other city and state agencies, NYCERS' work units, and/or other retirement systems.
Performing a variety of administrative tasks.
Review and maintains work items including taking ownership, updating work status, updating case notes, transferring work items, pending and close work items in the worker, checker and supervisor queue of the NYCEwork system.
Qualifications
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
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
- 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.