The Benefits Specialist will be responsible for administering the Firm’s benefits and leave programs, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and a positive employee experience. This includes health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k, well programs, leaves of absence and retirement plans.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Manage benefits programs: Oversee the day-to-day operations of the benefit plans
- Process: new enrollments, terminations, and benefit changes; reconcile carrier invoices monthly.
- Facilitate: Firm’s 401(k) plan administration including: Reporting, quarterly match audits, loan confirmations, all plan audits, funding confirmations, internal communications, and bi-annual enrollment, etc.
- Organize: and facilitate wellness programming and firm-wide HR initiatives.
- Educate employees: Prepare and deliver presentations and materials for annual open enrollment, new hire orientations and new benefit information
- Handle inquiries: Respond to claims and enrollment problems. Answer questions about coverage, and eligibility.
- Compliance and reporting:- ensure that we are compliant in all our correspondence, processes, and programs from and ERISA, COBRA, ACA, state leave programs and HIPAA
- Conduct audits in conjunction with payroll: Perform routine audits of benefits data and plan information
- Maintain records: Ensure all employee benefits records are accurate, up-to-date, and confidential.
- Collaborate across departments: Work closely with other human resources functions, payroll, and finance departments to ensure seamless administration
- Manage leaves of absences –
- Intake and processing: Receive and process all leave requests
- Manage case lifecycle: Administer the entire leave process, from the initial request through the employee's return-to-work. This includes handling all required paperwork and communication.
- Coordinate with third parties: Act as the primary liaison with third-party administrators (TPAs) and insurance providers, such as those for worker’s compensation, short- and long-term disability claims.
- Employee and management support
- Provide guidance: Serve as the subject matter expert for both employees and managers, advising them on the interaction of various leave entitlements, documentation requirements, and timelines.
- Facilitate accommodations: In cases involving disabilities, in conjunction with the director of HR, engage in the "interactive process"
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Education
- 8+ years of Benefits and leave administration experience within a national footprint
- Hands on experience administering 401K plans: open enrollment, plan changes, loans, and regulations
- Prior law firm or professional services experience preferred
- Experience working with brokers and outside vendors
- Motivated, flexible to work extra hours as needed.
- Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail with a consistently high level of accuracy
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills to communicate with attorneys, staff, and clients.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite.
- College degree or related work experience
Salary range: $100-$125k.
The salary range does not guarantee, obligate, nor set expectations of an applicant’s salary in the event of hire. Actual compensation will depend upon a number of factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s years of experience, qualifications and skill set.
Please send your resume via email to: recruiting@bressler.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran