Benefits Specialist

Our Newest Opportunity

To make sure our customers can hire, onboard, and understand their benefits for themselves and to their employees. You will own your book of assigned clients and be responsible for developing their knowledge and maintaining compliance on their behalf. You will help define goals and visions for the benefits department. Integrity, a sense of urgency, and honesty are key drivers to success in this position. The Benefits team is a highly energetic and collaborative environment. Benefits Specialists should be regarded as subject matter and service experts within Resourcing Edge.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with specifications, development, testing and implementation of new plan designs for renewal or clients adding on new plans (setting up benefit plans with multiple tiered pricing structures).
• Reports, policies, and procedures that relate to benefits administration and service.
• Support the benefits team as needed and daily support of client account managers, payroll and sales as needed.
• Work collaboratively with the team coordinating compliance and systems for clients.
• Maintain data integrity and system functionality of all benefits information to ensure accuracy of all benefits enrollments and benefits related data in system of record to provide vendors and the organization with accurate information.
• Optimize the performance of our benefits admin system, including gathering and analyzing data, developing, and implementing new benefits process, documenting processes, and making recommendations for improvement.
• Responsible for performing benefits analysis, validations, and audits to ensure quality control and adherence to established procedures.
• Resolve client inquires, provide relevant information as requested internally and externally.
• Organizes and prioritizes work to ensure timely, effective, efficient, and economic delivery of services, including delivering or coordinating the delivery, as appropriate, of Resourcing Edge compliance and administrative solutions.
• Manages open cases to ensure problem resolution in the shortest amount of time possible, while keeping clients regularly advised of status and anticipated resolution date.
• Documents customer interactions in the CRM system.
• Ensures proper triage, escalation, and effective resolution of all inquiries.
• Responsible for taking initiatives and action towards professional development, taking on stretch assignments and additional projects, as well as staying advised of statutory and regulatory payroll and compliance practices.
• Provide ACA configuration and support (1095's)
• Designing and implementing workflows supporting routine benefits tasks.

Key Measurables

Preferred Skills

Required Experience

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in an indoor office environment.