Assistant Retirement Benefits Examiner

City of New York • New York City, NY

12d

About The Position

The New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) is seeking (2) candidates to work in the Pension Payroll unit and Pension Verification & Recovery unit within Retirement & Pension Benefits division.

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• All candidates must possess 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.

Responsibilities

• Daily review and maintain cases
• Calculate pensioners and beneficiaries’ overpayments and Income Limitations
• Respond to call center requests or directs inquiry to other staff for their response
• Retrieve and report the deaths of pensioners and beneficiaries received via Lexis Nexis
• Enter, obtain and/or update pensioner’s data and information into the appropriate computer system
• 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 for use in determining eligibility requirements, and/or beneficiary entitlements
• Communicate, provide and obtain information from members, beneficiaries, agencies, other NYCERS’ work units, and/or other retirement systems
• Review forms/applications and/or related materials for completeness and accuracy, prior to performing calculations
• Manage the daily check-mailing process, ensuring 100% accuracy in review and preparation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree