Assistant Retirement Benefits Specialist

Job Description

• Reviews manual and computerized qualitative and quantitative data related to the evaluation of health premiums for the City’s health benefits carriers and unions.
• Coordinates complex and detailed financial audits of health plan premium payments made to health insurance carriers and the unions’ annuity funds.
• Examines bills, payment statements, and payment vouchers.
• Evaluates supporting rate data from multiple sources which is used to compute final health benefit rates for all active employees and retirees.
• Notify Operations unit to update enrollment records for NYCAPS and Non-NYCAPS agencies based on health plans enrollment data.
  
  

Qualifications

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• 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.