Manager, Retirement Plans & Benefits

About the role

The Compensation and Benefits group at Alvarez & Marsal provides a full range of compensation and benefit services and solutions, including Internal Revenue Code compliance for retirement plans and executive compensation, M&A, due diligence, operational reviews and enhancements, and compensation benchmarking analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provide consulting expertise to clients on matters such as plan design, merger and acquisition activity, fiduciary responsibility, and operational compliance
• Conduct complex nondiscrimination testing for qualified retirement plans, including issues related to complex controlled groups with multiple qualified plans
• Avoid compliance issues in qualified retirement plans, calculate corrections and draft submissions for the IRS and DOL correction programs
• Perform tax research and draft summaries of conclusions
• Review the calculations and work product of peers for accuracy and reasonableness, serving as a thorough reviewer of data and results, and draft correspondence to clients
• Interpret and apply laws, regulations, judicial precedent and other guidance
• Draft memoranda detailing the application of complex tax and ERISA provisions
• Review work of project team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Juris Doctor, Masters in Tax, licensed CPA, or specialty compensation and benefits certification preferred
• 3-5 years of experience working with technical issues regarding qualified retirement plans
• Experience in a management role
• Strong PC skills, including Microsoft Office applications, especially Microsoft Excel
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Must be able to take active role as part of a team
• Excellent research and writing skills
• Strong ability to explain complicated concepts in an understandable manner to a variety of audiences
• Capacity to learn quickly and willingness to try new things