Benefits Analyst

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Benefits Program Coordination

• Effectively communicates with faculty, administrators, and staff, acting as the primary contact for employees on all benefit programs and information.
• Partners with external vendors, provides feedback and participates in planning sessions to ensure proactive service delivery to meet the needs of the College in concert with the overall mission, vision, and values of the College.
• Delivers coordinated programs including, but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), voluntary ck and insurance offerings, Long Term Disability (LTD), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Workers Compensation, wellbeing, and retirement.
• With guidance from leadership, creates processes to engage and educate faculty, staff, and administrators for successful administration of the benefit portfolio.
• Participates in regular meetings with the Benefits Team to collaborate and to provide status updates.
• Participates in planning meetings, renewal meetings, and clinical reviews for the purposes of training, learning, and engagement with the Benefits function.
• Provides recommendations to leadership based on trends and analysis of employee issues.

Administration & Analysis

• Works closely with the Benefit team, leadership, payroll, IT, other HR departments and external vendors to prepare, reconcile, and process benefit and retirement data, and invoices with accuracy.
• Audits and updates the data between all systems, HR, Benefits Platforms, Retirement Systems, and vendors.
• Reviews renewals and legislative updates, and appropriately updates all applicable systems.
• Updates reporting and creates documentation to support changes and workflow.
• Reviews projects for completeness and accuracy.
• Performs audit processes and maintains statistical data relevant to premiums, claims, and costs.
• Resolves administrative discrepancies. Confirms or creates change management processes, as it relates to the daily works of the position.
• Identifies process improvements for accuracy and timeliness of daily work.
• Maintains required benefit, FMLA, ADA, Workers Compensation and retirement documents, contracts, and files as required by internal practices, governing regulations, including routine audits of relevant files.
• Complies with all laws related to all areas of benefits.

Project Coordination

• Coordinate the completion of projects in order to deliver them within the scope, within budget, and with high levels of quality throughout the project lifecycle.
• Actively participates as part of the benefit team to create deliverables and complete project tasks, as assigned.
• Serves as liaison to faculty, administrators, and staff.
• Identifies and organizes projects such as open enrollment, renewals, annual reporting, interpreting services, and benefit strategies in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Establishes agreement with team members on due dates and quality expectations.
• Reviews and facilitates high level deliverables.
• Confirms accuracy of deliverables with stakeholders.
• Works with the designated team to ensure the creation and accurate delivery of work.
• Consults with leadership regarding complex and/or highly sensitive benefit information.
• Proactively works with the employee to resolve benefit and retirement issues within the scope of the policies and legal requirements.

Culture of Respect

• Fosters and maintains a safe environment of respect and inclusion for faculty, staff, students, and members of the community.

Additional Duties & Responsibilities:

• Attends all required department meetings and trainings.
• Ensures College name and image are perceived positively by external as well as internal audiences/stakeholders.
• Manages multiple assignments of varying complexity with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the College and business partners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources or closely related field.
• Three (3) years of HR experience