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The Benefits Analyst provides support to the administration of health and retirement benefits. In this role, you will research, evaluate, and administer benefit plans. In addition, you will stay up-to-date on applicable benefits legislation to ensure compliance with ERISA, HIPAA, and other regulations that pertain to employer-sponsored benefit programs.

The ideal candidate possesses the following:

• Flexibility: you adapt slightly depending on the situation and are open to new ideas and people.
• Energy: you like to work and are willing to invest time and effort to achieve your goals.
• Teamwork: you are a team worker, but you can also work on your own
• Problem-solving orientation: you can identify and analyze an existing/potential problem and find suitable solutions for each situation.

Health and Welfare Benefits Administration

• Responsible for managing our suite of voluntary benefits and wellness programs.
• Develop and recommend metrics to measure the impact and results of wellness and benefits programs.
• Responsible for periodically auditing the benefit enrollment records to ensure the accuracy of premium deductions, HSA/FSA, and Savings Plan (401k) funding and expense calculation.
• Responsible for strategically scheduling and communicating webinars and other benefit-related items.
• Manage the monthly tracking and processing of benefit costs and ensures projections are updated as needed.
• Manage and reconcile the payroll and vendor File management for 401K, HSA, FSA, etc.
• Work closely with the benefits team, benefits consultants, and insurance vendors to implement approved new plans or changes to existing plans by preparing announcement materials, gathering plan summary documents, updating the employee intranet, and other media for communicating plans to employees.

Post-Employment Benefit Administration

• Responsible for maintaining annual pension census data, invoices, and other retiree benefits, including internal and external audits and annual pension valuation.
• Manage the Retiree HRA and Life programs, including the annual internal and external audit processes.

Compliance

• Collaborate with the Benefits team on Compliance-related projects: ensure the programs are meeting all legislative requirements including, but not limited to, 5500 filings, PBGC, Annual Funding Notice, PCORI, Medicare Part D filings, ACA reporting, Non-Discrimination Testing, distribution of required notices (including Summary Annual Reports (SARs), Summary of Benefits Coverage (SBC), fee disclosure, Summary of Material Modifications (SMM) and all forms of communication materials relating to benefit plans).
• Actively remains current on industry and regulatory changes through training and available literature.
• Assist with special projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 years experience in a corporate environment
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Basic knowledge of applicable laws and regulatory requirements
• Demonstrated confidence in communicating information to all levels of employees
• Ability to analyze data with a high level of accuracy and consistency
• Ability to handle multiple projects with confidence and diplomacy

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of benefits or related benefits administration
• Project management and vendor management experience
• Experience with pension plan administration
• Experience with self-insured benefit plans

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