Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner, PART-TIME - job 1 of 2

The New York City Employees’ Retirement System is recruiting for one (1) Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner, Part-Time in the Survivor Benefits Unit within the Retirement and Pension Benefits Division. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the following duties:

- Calculate pensioners/ members years of service, account balances, required contributions, and beneficiaries’ benefits
- Review documents and/or related materials for completeness and accuracy
- Enter, obtain and/or update pensioner’s data information into the appropriate computer system
- Communicate and obtain information from/to pensioners, other City/State agencies, NYCERS business units and/or other retirement systems
- Review draft outgoing letters to NYCERS clients, other relevant third parties, and making appropriate revisions prior to release
- Perform a variety of administrative tasks such as typing letters, preparing documents for imaging, exporting scanned documents, creating a file for each case, and preparing various listings
- Review and maintain cases including taking ownership, updating work status, updating case notes, transferring cases, pending and closing cases in the NYCEPAS system
- Respond to call center requests, or direct inquiries to other staff for their response.

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.