ASSISTANT RETIREMENT BENEFITS EXAMINER - job 1 of 2

The New York City Employees’ Retirement System is seeking three Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiners in the Membership and Service division in the Active Accounts Review and Service Processing units.

These candidates will be required to:
- Determine eligibility for Membership, Tier Reinstatement, Transfers, calculate years of service, account balances, required contributions, determine rate cancellation effective dates, Pre-member cost and compensation base.
- Review applications, forms and/or any related materials for completeness and accuracy. Enter, obtain, and/or update beneficiaries or pensioner data and information into the appropriate PROD system.
- Communicate and obtains information from/to members, other City and State agencies, NYCERS' Business units, and/or other Retirement systems.
- Perform a variety of administrative tasks such as drafting NYCEwork letters, payroll certifications, and payroll verifications, payment confirmations, preparing documents for scanning, archiving and attaching documents to cases.
- Review and maintain work items including taking ownership, updating work status, updating case notes, transferring work items, pending and close items in the worker and checker queues of the NYCEwork system.

ASSISTANT RETIREMENT BENEFITS - 40491

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.

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.