Employee Benefits Counsel

About the role

Responsible for monitoring and communicating ongoing and changing laws affecting health and welfare plans, including ACA, ERISA, the Code, HIPAA, and COBRA. The individual in this role will be responsible for the development and presentation of materials on various health and welfare compliance related issues to internal sales teams, as well as external clients.

USI is one of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the world, with approximately $3 billion in revenue and over 10,500 associates across approximately 200 offices nationwide. The firm offers the USI ONE Advantage®, a value proposition delivering risk management and benefit solutions with bottom-line financial impact. USI has been nationally recognized as a top insurance employer, including Insurance Business America’s Top Insurance Employers (2018–2025), Business Insurance’s Best Places to Work in Insurance (2020–2025), Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance (2024–2025), and Great Place To Work certified (2024–2025).

Responsibilities

• Establish effective working relationships with internal partners, clients and carriers
• Function as part of a national team of Employee Benefit Attorneys to meet the overall objectives for the health and welfare compliance team
• Research, read, evaluate and edit articles, alerts and other materials for publication or distribution to internal and external clients
• Gather material, perform research, and assist client service team in the formulation of strategy to solve client problems related to ERISA, ACA, the Code, HIPAA and state issues affecting health and welfare plans
• Develop and maintain compliance education tools for health and welfare compliance
• Create and deliver presentations to internal staff and to external clients and prospects
• Monitor and identify legal developments such as relevant statutes, regulations, case law and legal articles affecting employee benefit plans
• Maintain and update compliance library resources, including cross checking and validating that information is up-to-date

Requirements

• College degree and J.D. required
• 4–8 years experience working on compliance issues of employer-sponsored welfare benefits plans
• Prior experience in employee benefits law or compliance consulting on these issues required
• Full competence with MS Office Suite products and Adobe products
• Thorough understanding of laws impacting health and welfare plans including ACA, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA, Internal Revenue Code and insurance laws affecting these programs
• Strong leadership skills
• Comfortable in public speaking environment; ability to convey complex information simply and organized to diverse audiences
• Strong research and writing skills with experience interpreting statutes and regulations
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, organizational, and time management skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal instruction and high accuracy
• Ability to set priorities and manage workflow for efficient, timely, accurate production
• Ability to quickly assess and learn organizational roles, responsibilities, and process flows
• Some travel required (10–20%)

Benefits

USI offers a full suite of competitive benefits including medical, wellness, dental and vision, 401(k), flexible spending and health savings accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, and other unique employer-sponsored and voluntary programs. Generous paid time off policy, paid family leave benefit, and paid holiday time.

Pay

$150,000 – $185,000