The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System offers an exceptional opportunity for the right candidates to serve this historic, well established City Department by engaging in interesting and rewarding mission critical work. Established in 1889 as a fund for families and orphans of firefighters and police officers, today the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System serves more than 75,000 active, vested and retired employees of the City and County of San Francisco and their survivors. 

Our Mission

The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System is dedicated to securing, protecting and prudently investing the pension trust assets, administering mandated benefits programs, and providing promised benefits to the active and retired members of the City and County of San Francisco.

Specific information regarding this recruitment process is listed below:

Application Opening: May 10, 2022
Application Deadline: May close at anytime, but not before May 17, 2022
Salary: $73,086 - $88,894 annually
Recruitment ID: 120914 - RTF0120913

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as this announcement may close at any time after May 17, 2022.

Appointment Type:
This permanent exempt position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.

Under general supervision, the SFERS Quality Assurance Auditor Assistant assists in planning, organizing and conducting routine operational compliance and performance audits.

Examples of primary duties may include:

• Conducts research legal mandates and other background information, determines needs of key stakeholders, identifies potential risk areas, understands relevant internal controls, and identifies potential sources of evidence under close supervision.
• Interviews staff in the Operations Division to gather information.
• Assists in developing audit scope and objectives and detailed audit programs; prepares time budgets and milestone dates.
• Performs audit fieldwork, including collecting, analyzing, and documenting audit evidence as it relates to the audit objectives.
• Reviews internal controls.
• Assists in analyzing audit findings and makes recommendations that are fully supported by analysis.
• Prepares written audit reports that effectively communicate the audit results.
• Assists in preparing audit results.
• Conducts audit follow-up activities.
• Maintains the appropriate level of confidentiality and sensitivity.
• Maintains professional proficiency through continuing professional education and participates in professional associations.
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in public or business administration, accounting, finance, economics, social sciences, education, or related field, or other areas closely related to specific department program or function.

Substitution: May substitute up to two (2) years of the required education with additional qualifying experience in program/office/operations management, budget development and/or administration, or contract/grant administration. One year (2000 hours) of additional qualifying experience will be considered equivalent to 30 semester units/45 quarter units.

Desirable Qualifications:

The stated desirable qualifications may be used to identify job finalists at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.

• Experience working with a private or public defined benefit plan or defined contribution plan.
• Experience processing and handling numerical data records.
• Extensive customer service experience.
• Working knowledge of Oracle PeopleSoft.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Word using mail merge, and Microsoft Excel creating formulas and creating links between cells on the same or different worksheets. 

Verification:  

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at http://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements.

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. 

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.

Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

Selection Procedures:

Applications will be screened for relevant qualifying experience. Additional screening mechanisms may be implemented in order to determine candidates’ qualifications. Only those applicants who most closely meet the needs of the Agency will be invited to participate in the selection process. Applicants meeting the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement in the selection process.

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About The Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview  
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

How to Apply:

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process.

Visit careers.sf.gov and begin the application process.

• Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

All applicants must submit a completed job application (all sections, including Experience and Education, must be completed) in order to be considered. Resume will not be taken as a substitute for completing the application. 

If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the recruitment analyst, Karen Perez, at [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT:  All City and County of San Francisco employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Someone is fully vaccinated when 14 days have passed since they received the final dose of a two-shot vaccine or a dose of a one-shot vaccine. Any new hire must present proof of full vaccination status to be appointed. Any new hire who will be routinely assigned or occasionally enter High-Risk Settings, must provide proof of having received a COVID-19 booster vaccine by March 1, 2022, or once eligible.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.