Plan Document Consultant-5
About the position This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA’s family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results. This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting. The anticipated term of this engagement will be 11 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs. Plan Compliance Consultant II The Plan Document Compliance Consultant reviews new or amended retirement plan documents for clients to ensure compliance with organization products and services. Working under limited supervision, this job is responsible for the development, implementation and auditing of adherence to federal, state, local and organization-specific policies, practices and procedures as they relate to retirement plans. Responsibilities • Conducts ongoing audits of existing retirement plan policies and practices in order to comply with legislative changes on the federal, state, or local level. • Oversees responses to client requests for plan document amendments and/or restatements. • Consults with clients on unique and complex issues relating to the ERISA, IRS, DOL and SEC laws and regulations with respect to qualified and non-qualified retirement plans reporting and Form 5500 filing requirements. • Maintains current awareness and understanding of legislative changes, IRS rulings and expert opinions related to the processing of retirement plans. • Ensures that the organization’s operational and contractual processes are in alignment with the legal retirement plan document. • Provides regulatory feedback on client produced legal plan documents to the client and internal business partners. • Possesses thorough knowledge of defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans, laws, and regulatory issues such as non-discrimination testing, fiduciary responsibilities, audit guidelines, ERISA reporting and disclosure requirements, SEC, IRS, NASD, SIPC, MSRB and DOL requirements. • Collaborates with internal business partners to remediate identified plan document/operational variances by providing the necessary direction to get the legal plan document and TIAA operations into alignment. • Will address questions from Plan Sponsors, Consultants, and internal related to the Plan Document Restatement process and documents. This will be administered via an 800# routed to the team. Requirements • 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred Apply tot his job