Insurance & Benefits Operations Specialist

ezHIRE•Fort Lauderdale, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for a highly organized, tech-savvy, and resourceful Insurance & Benefits Operations Specialist to join an established employee benefits brokerage and advisory firm. This is a hands-on, client-facing role for someone who takes ownership, thinks critically, and enjoys figuring things out independently. You’ll work directly with clients, employees, insurance carriers, and company leadership while managing the day-to-day operational processes that keep the agency and its client accounts running smoothly. Accuracy, follow-through, and initiative are essential. The firm helps businesses design, implement, and manage employee benefits programs, including group health, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage, working directly with leading insurance carriers. In addition to group benefits, the firm provides financial planning, retirement income strategies, and individual insurance solutions. As the organization continues to grow, this position will play an important role in supporting its clients, strengthening internal operations, and helping the firm continue to deliver a high level of service. You will take ownership of the day-to-day service and administrative processes supporting the agency’s employee benefits clients. You’ll manage group health enrollments and terminations, carrier follow-up, claims and billing issues, reconciliation, compliance activities, and ongoing client service from beginning to end. You’ll also work closely with the company owner and have significant visibility into the agency’s overall operations. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced insurance, employee benefits, or administrative operations professional who thrives on ownership, accuracy, problem-solving, and independently managing a high-volume workflow.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in employee benefits, an insurance agency, an insurance carrier, or HR benefits administration is strongly preferred. Experience within a P&C insurance agency may also be considered.
Strong Client-Service Orientation: Comfortable serving as a primary point of contact and communicating professionally with clients, employees, and insurance carriers.
Exceptional Attention to Detail: Takes pride in getting things right the first time, carefully reviews work, and can manage multiple priorities without sacrificing accuracy.
Proactive and Persistent: Comfortable making outbound calls and following up repeatedly until an issue is fully resolved. Does not consider a task complete until the appropriate confirmation has been received.
Resourceful and Self-Directed: Takes initiative, thinks through problems independently, and looks for solutions rather than waiting for someone else to tell them what to do.
Coachable and Adaptable: Welcomes feedback, follows established processes, and adapts quickly as business priorities evolve.
Ownership Mindset: Takes responsibility for workload, manages time effectively, and ensures important deadlines, client requests, and outstanding issues are addressed and followed through to completion.
Bilingual (English & Spanish): Fluency in both languages, spoken and written, is required. Must be confident handling client and employee communications independently in Spanish.
Strong Excel skills, including formulas, sorting, filtering, and cleaning imported data.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft 365.
Comfortable learning and adapting to new technology and software.
Able to work confidently with data across multiple systems while maintaining accuracy.
Comfortable using modern technology, including AI-powered tools, to research, solve problems, streamline workflows, and improve efficiency.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Employee Navigator is strongly preferred.
Experience with Salesforce, Airtable, Zoho Desk, or similar CRM/workflow platforms is a plus.
Florida 2-15 Life & Health license preferred, or willingness to obtain it within 12 months. Licensing costs will be covered by the firm.

Responsibilities

Manage new-hire group health enrollments and weekly terminations from start to finish, including verifying elections, entering information into carrier portals and Employee Navigator, reporting COBRA events, and obtaining written carrier confirmation.
Advocate on behalf of employees with insurance carriers to resolve claims issues, billing errors, denied or missing claims, and EOB requests.
Serve as the first point of contact for client service requests by phone, email, and portal.
Manage the client follow-up queue and ensure outstanding issues are tracked through resolution.
Build and maintain client groups in Employee Navigator, including plans, rates, and carrier feeds.
Maintain accurate records across carrier portals and internal tracking systems.
Reconcile carrier invoices monthly and resolve eligibility and billing discrepancies.
Conduct post-enrollment audits by comparing payroll censuses against carrier enrollments.
Manage recurring service activities, including monthly age-change reports, billing reconciliations, and compliance notice distribution.
Support open enrollment cycles through data entry, census reconciliation, document preparation, and coordination with the enrollment team.
Perform general administrative duties and provide executive-level administrative support when needed.