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Sunland Asphalt & Construction, LLC · 3 days ago

Benefits Analyst

Phoenix, AZ

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Sunland Asphalt & Construction, LLC is an award-winning company committed to creating a dynamic and rewarding work environment. They are seeking a Benefits Analyst to administer employee benefits programs, ensuring compliance and providing support to employees regarding benefits offerings.

ConstructionIndustrialProfessional Services

Senior Management

Responsibilities

Administers and coordinates the employee benefits programs, including health, dental, vision, life, disability, retirement, wellness, and leave programs. This includes administering day-to-day activities such as enrollment, eligibility verification, and processing employee changes and terminations

Serves at the primary point of contact for employees regarding benefit inquiries, ensuring timely resolution. This includes serving as a liaison between employees and third-party vendors/carriers

Presents at new employee orientation on a regular basis educating on the company's benefit offerings. May also deliver open enrollment and/or other educational sessions to increase employee understanding and awareness of benefit and wellness offerings

Participates in the annual benefits renewal process, evaluating brokers, vendors, carriers, and plan design. Plays a key role an open enrollment, which includes but is not limited to, communications and systems planning and preparedness, coordinating onsite educational sessions, and serving as a key resource to employees throughout the enrollment election period

Assists with developing and administering ongoing communication and outreach to increase awareness and understanding of the company's benefits offerings

Serve as the primary contact for benefit vendors, managing relationships, resolving issues, and monitoring vendor performance. This includes verifying, processing, and reconciling invoices ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely payments

Partners with leave administration vendor to ensure leaders, employees, and other stakeholders to ensure leave programs comply with federal, state and local regulations

Assists with annual filing responsibilities ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, including preparing and filing Form 5500s, ACA filings, Summary Annual Reports, as well as the annual 401k audit

Assists with Merger and Acquisition (M&A) initiatives, including due diligence activities. Plays a key role in M&A integration efforts

Creates department standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other related tools and resources to support the daily administration of employee benefits programs

Supports the HR team with other special projects or initiatives, as needed

Performs other duties as assigned or apparent

Qualification

Benefits administrationVendor managementRegulatory complianceAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsOrganizational skillsOffice software proficiencyBilingual (Spanish)

Required

Must possess a strong knowledge in benefits administration as normally obtained through the completion of a bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or related field

Five years of progressively responsible experience administering employee benefits and retirement programs

Strong knowledge of benefits regulations, compliance requirements, and industry trends

Experience managing vendor relationships, ensuring member issue resolution and (vendor) optimal performance

Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and to support leadership to make sound business decisions

Must possess strong attention to detail

Requires strong oral and written communications skills, with the ability to effectively engage with employees at all levels

Ability to effectively present to small and large-size audiences delivering technical content in an easy-to-understand fashion

Must possess strong organizational skills and the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment

Must have a strong working knowledge of office software programs, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc