Federal Retirement and Benefits Counselor and Processor Lead

Federal Retirement And Benefits Counselor

GKG is seeking a Federal Retirement and Benefits Counselor to join our growing team in support of a federal agency. The position is fully remote. The Lead will work assignments, leave requests, track workloads and guide work of others.

Responsibilities

This role provides counseling services to Federal customers making decisions on their Retirement and Benefits. This includes providing one-on-one counseling services and supporting package submission to OPM and processing of internal Agency actions to complete out-processing.

Duties:

• Engage with employees to support assessment of retirement readiness, including regular, early, postponed, deferred, discontinued service, disability, relationship with programs like DRP.
• Interpret governing policies and regulations and counsel employees regarding the consequences of retirement readiness, timeliness, and decision to proceed. Counseling topics include:
• Eligibility for Retirement
• Determining High-3
• Computation of Annuity
• FERS Annuity Supplement
• Disability Benefits
• Crediting Civilian & Military Service
• Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA)
• Voluntary Contributions
• Special Group of Employees (Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, Congressional employees, etc.)
• Deposits/Redeposits
• Annual Leave Payment and Sick Leave Computation
• Application for Retirement
• Processing of Retirement Application
• Survivor Benefits
• Social Security
• Medicare
• Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
• Federal Group Life Insurance (FEGLI)Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB)
• Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP)
• Long Term Care Insurance (LTC)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Other Financial Planning Strategies
• Prepare Service Computation Date Reports and process the employees Change in Service Computation Date NOA in the HRIS.
• Review eOPF to extract information to calculate the Retirement Estimates.
• Identify gaps in eOPF and support records request actions.
• Identify and calculate Military and/or Civilian Deposit(s)
• Support completion of necessary required Forms and Reports and submit to the HRIS Deposit Section to establish the employees Military Deposit account or submit to OPM as appropriate.
• Prepare Retirement packages for the employees review/signature prior to processing the personnel action for SF-2806 creation.
• Rapidly respond to client communications to support timely employee package and preparation processing.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Experience developing or delivering Federal Retirement programs or;
• Experience delivering one-on-one Federal Retirement counseling, or;
• Experience Federal Retirement package preparation, submission, and processing.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in two or more of the requirements
• Experience across FERS, CSRS, Offset, VERA/VSIP, Discontinued Retirement, and LEO retirement programs
• Experience submitting retirement package on OPM portal