Benefits Analyst - Union

Compensation

$75,000-85,000.00 per year plus competitive benefits and 401(k) match

About the role

Position is on site at our Pomona or OCTA location.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with the Unions TPA to ensure employees eligibility is current and accounted for
• Foster a collaborative relationship with the Trusts and TPA’s utilizing strong persuasion skills to achieve company goals
• Works with mobilization/demobilization teams to create a smooth transition of benefits related action items
• Capable of leveraging existing company-sponsored benefits during the bargaining process
• Ensures reasonable implementation timelines are set forth and agreed upon
• Identify and document end to end internal administration processes including defining role ownership and accountabilities
• Ensures the company fully understands, executes, and complies with all benefits related components of the various Union CBAs – renewal dates, administrative responsibilities, retirement plan nuances etc.
• Acts as the benefits department recordkeeper for all Collective Bargaining Agreements
• Works in partnership with Union TPAs to ensure billing and eligibility processes are running smoothly and timely
• Maintains deduction accuracy and timeliness in UKG
• Fully functional in Excel, capable of performing complex audits and billing reconciliation
• Works in tandem with local HR staff to fully support employee population
• Ensures appropriate communications surrounding the union’s benefit offerings are being provided to employees
• Audit benefit carrier invoices to ensure eligible and noneligible are being charged accurately
• Pull down monthly invoices from carrier’s websites and prepare for processing, ensuring accurate billable rates and any retro adjustments are correct
• Prepare GL rollups for Finance, defined by employee, are provided with the backup sent to accounts payable
• Maintain the monthly Benefit Budget Tracker by ensuring all invoices sent to AP are accurately and timely recorded
• Provide the local Finance teams with requested back up for the specific locations
• Review invoices at the start of each year to ensure the rates being billed are accurately reflecting the agreed upon amounts
• Run and distribute monthly Headcount and Budget reports to all locations
• Annual Open Enrollment: Pulls benefit enrollment data for the broker to assist with the renewal process
• Aids in the review of the benefit offering and new year’s rates
• Aids in testing of the new plan years’ configuration
• Audits new plan years rates once loaded to bswift
• Aids in the review of all communications for the new plan year (Benefit Guides, Emails, Texts and posters)
• Aids in the shipping of all new plan year vendor collateral materials to locations based on need
• Aids in the distribution of all vendors specific materials with the locations
• Aids in the systems testing and onboarding of new mobilizations, produces needed reports to the new location and monitors enrollment activity
• Other duties/projects as assigned

Skills

• Strong communication and writing skills
• Strong customer services and analytical skills
• Organized ability to perform mathematical calculations in computing rates, premiums, and adjustments
• Ability to work in a face-paced environment with multiple priorities
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion

Physical Demands And Work Environment

• Long periods (potentially exceeding 8 hours per day) of walking, standing, sitting, bending, pushing, pulling, climbing, lifting, balancing, stooping, twisting, squatting, handling materials, repetitive hand-wrist motions, and traversing uneven surfaces
• Exposure to both extreme heat and cold
• Exposure to loud noises, fumes, and airborne particles