Benefits Specialist - Health and Welfare
About The Position
The Professional, Benefit Specialist - Health and Welfare role performs moderately complex human resources services spanning data administration, learning administration, service delivery enablement, vendor management, benefits administration and other transactions to ensure the successful operations of the human resources administrative services. Under limited supervision, this job provides information to employees, managers and vendors, and integrates information flow within a service delivery model. This position also supports benefit service administration activities including open enrollment, system administration, new hire enrollment, leave management back-up support and other day-to-day and project-related work which could include complex benefit analysis.
Requirements
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.
- Minimum intermediate level experience in Microsoft Office Excel.
Nice To Haves
- Communication skills in AI tools.
- Previous benefit experience in highly complex union/non-union environment.
- Previous Leave Administration experience in a multi-state environment.
- Previous payroll experience.
Responsibilities
- Provides information to employees and managers to address questions and performs moderately complex transactions on employee benefits programs and policies, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, disability, life benefits, leave programs and paid time off.
- Back-up the Leave team as needed, involving complex payroll calculations, employee escalations and basic knowledge of US leave administration (additional training will be provided).
- Assesses the organization's benefits processes and standards and performance metrics, identifies impacts to the organization's benefits administrative services, processes and standards, and proposes improvements to leadership.
- Monitors employee related legislation compliance, including providing guidance on regulatory updates, and supplying to the development of guidelines and procedures to ensure compliance with regulations. Responsible for staying continuously updated on the latest legislative changes.
- Leads moderately complex projects related to process optimization and standardization, including implementing accountability measures and processes to ensure compliance, conducting analyses of human resources administrative services performance metrics, and identifying areas of opportunity to enhance services.
- Maintains and reconciles employee related data and benefits records, and verifies and administers other human resources records and data, ensuring exceptions and errors are resolved in a timely manner.
- Monitors and ensures consistent implementation of new hire, termination, open enrollment, qualified life events and other employee benefit lifecycle-related processes.
- Supports the partnership with key vendors and stakeholders to hold vendors accountable for service delivery standards and metrics, and ensures they stay updated on the latest technologies, tools and methodologies.
Benefits
- medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked
- Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
