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Director – Benefits/Wellness Programs
Retirement Benefits Specialist
At Brown Brothers Harriman, we believe no job is too big or small for any of us to handle if it helps our clients. We value passionate, committed people who enjoy collaborating with others to find new solutions to complex business challenges. We are looking for the type of person who speaks their mind, truly listens and steps outside their role to add value wherever they can. Someone who is driven to get things done and views obstacles as an exciting challenge that demands a creative solution. Above all, we seek someone who takes great pride in their work and is inspired and motivated by their role in protecting and enhancing our client’s financial well-being.
If you are looking for an entrepreneurial environment where you can learn and thrive, Brown Brothers Harriman is the right place for you
Join us as a Retirement Benefits Specialist
Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting a Retirement Benefits Specialist to join our Human Resources team. In this role you will support operational and governance excellence for BBH’s 401(k) and Pension Plans. The Retirement Benefits Specialist will support day-to-day administration, operational evolution and compliance filings/audits for the US Retirement function while also interfacing with employees and managers at all levels of the organization to support employee engagement (i.e. supporting well-being initiatives, managing our Perks program and new hire orientation).
Some of your key responsibilities include:
- Proactively monitor internal and external benefit processes and seek to identify issues and breakdowns in process
- Support 401(k) integration files, funding and payroll related processing
- Support payroll related functions including ongoing administration, and special projects to ensure the accuracy of payroll deductions, configuration and vendor integration
- Maintain records and manage compliance filings for pension and 401(k) Plans in line with company guidelines and state, federal, or other agency regulations
- Coordinate the audit of benefit programs to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and escalate potential shortfalls, if necessary.
- Support escalated employee concerns
- Provide support to HR on special benefit related requests
- Assist in developing employee training and communications about benefit programs and compliance notices
- Coordinate new hire orientation
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of professional experience
- Prior 401(k) Plan administrator experience (minimum 3 years)
- Excellent communication/interpersonal skills (verbal, written, auditory) with the ability to comfortably interface at all levels, both internally and externally
- Highly collaborative and team-oriented
- Ability to manage multiple and conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment, while meeting deadlines
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential employee data with discretion and professionalism
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (strong excel skills required)
- Prior Fidelity, HRIS or Workday experience is beneficial to the role
What We Offer :
- A collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can
- Direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world
- Opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself—without leaving the firm
- A culture of inclusion that values each employee’s unique perspective
- High-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind
- Rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage
- Volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others
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Benefits Adminstrator
Celonis, New York, NY 10001
Are you ready for a new challenge?
Celonis is the leader in business transformation software. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, with a developer studio and platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manage every facet of execution management from analytics, to strategy and planning, management, actions and automations. For Global 2000 companies, transforming to an intelligent enterprise has become a key strategic priority. Celonis disrupted what had previously been a manual, time-consuming and expensive consulting-driven approach to jump-start and operationalize change in transformation initiatives. Celonis has thousands of global customers including ABB, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Coca Cola, Citibank, Dell, GSK, John Deere, L’Oreal, Siemens, Uber, Vodafone and Whirlpool. All rely on Celonis technology to unlock their full execution capacity and drive change to business processes. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York, New York, and has in total 15 offices worldwide. The company has grown 5,000% in 4 years and 300% in the past year. In 2019, Celonis reached a $2.5 billion valuation, after receiving a $290 million Series C funding round. Since opening its US headquarter in New York in September 2016 it has quickly added blue chip customers like Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, Honeywell, and Mars to its client roster. The US is the fastest growing region for Celonis and will soon exceed 50% of its total revenue, and therefore expanding US offices in New York, San Francisco, Raleigh, Ann Arbor, as well as Latin America.
Celonis is a fast growing company, and we need great talent that can scale to help us succeed! We are looking for a Benefits Administrator that will develop and maintain a best in class benefits plan that allows us to attract high-quality employees, reduce turnover, and enhance employee experience. They will serve as the main point of contact for the day-to-day administration and compliance of health, wellness and retirement plans and programs
Benefits Administration
- Lead the effort to design, implement and administer Celonis’s US benefit plans, including medical, dental, flexible spending, vision, life, AD&D, disability, COBRA, EAP, 401(k).
- Oversee leave policies and programs including Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Paid Family & Medical Leave, short and long term disability and Leave of Absence administration process. Counsel employees on leave options based on their individual situation. Prepares leave paperwork and ensures medical certifications and return to work paperwork is received by the deadline.
- Process benefit enrollments and terminations and ensure employee changes are completed in a timely and compliant manner. Audit our plans to ensure data is accurate and up to date. Oversee vendor file feeds and data file reviews.
- Manage new employee benefits eligibility calendar, coordinate sessions that introduce Celonis benefits to new employees, and track and follow up on new employee enrollments/missing paperwork.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for employees on all things benefits. Research, resolve and address employee’s benefit inquiries; communicate findings and recommendations/resolutions to employees.
- Manage annual renewal and open enrollment process to include employee communications and training.
- Collaborate with payroll, people partners, and insurance providers to ensure all programs and processes run efficiently. Reconcile benefits accounts by approving billing statements
Compliance
- Ensures company compliance with provisions of ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, ACA, FMLA, and other federal and local regulatory and legislative requirements.Manage all benefits compliance issues and obligations. Remain current with pending and future benefit law changes and regulations. Make recommendations on potential changes to plan design based on regulatory changes.
- Ensure 401K plan is fully compliant at all times. Manage annual audit, administration and 5500 reporting. Ensure employee deferral changes are included in payroll.
Training and Education
- Serve as a subject matter expert on all aspects of employee benefits, including health and welfare, defined contribution (401K), and defined benefit (pension) plans. Provides guidance on policy and plan interpretation.
- Ensure employees understand how to utilize resources and tools available to them in order to maximize coverage and minimize out of pocket expenses. Create and deploy training programs for all benefit offerings.
- Design and implement communication programs to enhance the value of benefit programs and increase employee understanding and engagement.
Auditing & Reporting
- Review vendor and service provider invoices, ensuring they are accurate each month and any needed adjustments and reconciliations are taken care of.
- Track benefits benchmarking data to ensure our benefits remain competitive with the market and authentic to the needs of our employees.
- Conduct analysis on employee satisfaction, benefits utilization, overall effectiveness of employee benefits programs, cost analysis and provide findings and recommendations to leadership.
- Lead annual plan audits.
Vendor Relations
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with multiple health and welfare benefit vendors, serve as a liaison to benefit carriers, brokers and vendors to address escalations and identify changes to design and process. Acts as key contact for benefit vendor requests for administrative items.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration or other related field
- 5 years of experience in benefits administration, preferably working in the tech industry, or a similar fast-paced and leading edge environment
- Extensive experience with federal and state benefits regulations (e.g. HIPAA, COBRA, ERISA, FMLA, etc.) laws, policies and procedures. Ability to stay current with benefits trends and regulatory changes.
- Knowledge of medical plan design, 401(k) compliance and STD/LTD/FMLA leave programs.
- Strong organization/project management skills including demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and timelines
- Strong focus on employee experience, customer service and ability to demonstrate high EQ
- Experience working with benefits software systems or platforms
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. excellent communication and active listening skills, clear and concise written communication skills; ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and tact;
- Professional certification in employee benefits a plus, e.g. Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) or Certified Benefits Professional (CBP) designation (strongly preferred).
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Manager, Benefits Administration (Flexible Location)
At The Mission Continues, we empower veterans to continue their service and empower communities with veteran talent, skills and preparedness to generate visible impact. We’re investing in veterans, equipping them with the tools and resources to lead a growing veteran volunteer movement. Through networks, training, and pathways, veterans can continue to serve while creating meaningful impact in under-resourced communities.
THE OPPORTUNITYThis is your opportunity to be a Finance and Talent team member with a passion for human resources, who enjoys developing systems, managing problems to solution and projects to completion. We have a highly motivated team of 50+ professionals in multiple locations across the country. You will be the organization’s north star for customer service, managing all aspects of the intersection of our team members’ benefits, payroll, HRIS and corresponding documentation, policies and procedures. The Manager, Benefits Administration will have a dual reporting structure to both the head of Finance and the head of Talent. This position can be based anywhere within the lower 48 contiguous states.
YOUR MISSION WILL BEBenefits Administration
- Partner, coordinate and collaborate ongoing with our broker in the evaluation of benefits programs and costs, review competitive bids, and make recommendations
- Plan, manage and execute to completion the organization-wide annual benefits open enrollment process, including design of plan to educate staff members on benefit offerings and organizational policies
- Serve as the first point of contact for all employee questions regarding our HRIS system, benefit plans/enrollment/life changes, employment verifications and personnel policies, including 401(k)
- Lead on administration and management of team members’ 401(k) questions, distributions, reporting etc.
- Partner with the Talent & Culture team to develop and manage systems to ensure that staff entering, onboarding and departures are processed effectively and efficiently, to ensure compliance and a positive staff experience, including management of all (current and past) employee files
Payroll & Accounting
- Partner with the Talent & Culture team to identify, document, track and calculate payroll related changes (e.g. annual adjustments, non-recurring payments, entering, exiting etc.)
- Work within HRIS to ensure all payroll changes are reflected and tracked accurately and timely
- Prepare payroll files for review and provide direction and oversight to ensure accurate payroll processing and compliance
- Check timesheets for all non-exempt employees to ensure overtime is paid correctly
- Prepare 401(k) contribution files for review and upload
- Serve as a resource and interact with employees to resolve payroll related inquiries and concerns
- Manage employee vacation and paid time off accrual and balances
- Reconcile employee benefit deductions to invoices paid to vendors and deposits made to benefit accounts
- Reconcile all health insurance and employee benefit invoices and draft monthly journal entry for benefits allocation
- Draft all payroll related journal entries, to include salaries, benefits, 401(k), tax accruals and allocated entries
- Draft quarterly vacation accrual entries
- Update salary allocations files
- Develop policies and procedures related to payroll and ensure continuous process improvement
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FORYou Are…
- A culture and core values champion; you know what your organization, team and you yourself look like when they’re at their best and you approach all your work with that vision as your north star
- Someone who strives to ensure that diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging show up in your work everyday, regardless of how big or small your tasks and projects are
- A customer service-obsessed teammate who is motivated by the bigger connection of your managerial, administrative work to your teammates’ experience, success and impact
- A people/talent partner with 3-5 years of relevant experience and/or degree or HR certification
- An operations leader with experience managing a mid-to-large sized HRIS system (experience with Paylocity a plus)
- A veteran and/or someone with a passion for supporting our service members and their communities
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS (Outside of a global pandemic)Must have the ability to travel occasionally (3-4 times per year) to cities throughout the United States. Multi-day and/or weekend travel may be required on program or team event dates for in-person events, and online for virtual events. Flex time is available.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTSThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. If you require a reasonable accommodation in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Caitlin Zbikowski, Manager of Talent Acquisition & Onboarding at czbikowski@missioncontinues.org.
If the above speaks to you, we’re excited to learn more about you! The Mission Continues recognizes that diverse employees, veterans and supporters are critical to our workforce and mission. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all team members are valued and have the opportunity to reach their full potential. We want a team that reflects our diversity, so that we can approach every mission with integrity, compassion and authenticity. Compensation is competitive and is commensurate with experience. The Mission Continues offers exceptional medical, dental, vision, life and long term disability benefits for all team members. All successful candidates for this position will be required to submit to a criminal background check.