Job Information
City of New York Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner (Part-Time) in New York, New York
Job Description
The New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) Retirement and Pension Benefits division seeks to hire (2) Part-Time Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner’s. The selected candidates will be responsible for, but not limited to:
Reviewing documents and/or related materials for completeness and accuracy.
Entering, obtaining and/or updating pensioner’s data information into the appropriate computer system.
Calculating beneficiary and pension benefits.
Communicating and obtaining information from/to pensioners, other City/State agencies, NYCERS business units and/or other retirement systems.
Performing a variety of administrative tasks such as drafting Ad-hoc letters, NYCEwork letters, preparing documents for scanning, and/or review various listings.
Reviewing and maintaining work items including taking ownership, updating work status, updating case notes, transferring work items, pending and close work items in NYCEwork system.
Responding to call center requests, or direct inquiries to other staff for their response.
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.