Senior Benefits Administrator

About the role

The Senior Benefits Administrator serves as a strategic and operational partner in planning, administration and continuous improvement of the organization’s employee benefit offerings. Working closely with the Senior Manager – Total Rewards and cross-functional teams, this role helps drive the Total Rewards strategy by managing complex benefits programs, leading open enrollment, supporting vendor relationships and ensuring regulatory compliance across all offerings.

Responsibilities

• Benefit Systems & Support
• Maintains Benefit Inbox and vendor sites, acting as main contact for employee's benefit administration and support.
• Provides superb customer service, resolving benefit inquiries from employees, HR Business Partners and vendors in a timely manner.
• Monitors UKG File Transfers for completeness, addressing and resolving errors as needed or escalating and coordinating error resolution with UKG case management, as needed.
• Documenting details and providing case updates to team/vendors/manager.
• Gathers employee data, processes benefit invoices and performs monthly billing and enrollment audits.
• Supports the annual open enrollment process including preparing the open enrollment module in UKG, updating UKG benefit rate tables, coordinating updates to the benefit guidebook and open enrollment communication materials, coordinating open enrollment information sessions, tracking, implementing open enrollment changes, performing open enrollment audits and scrubbing data to prepare for the new year and partnering with benefits vendors, and HR Business Partners, as needed.
• Serves as Subject Matter Expert for Darigold benefits. Keeps abreast of federal, state and local laws affecting company benefit programs. Informs, updates and maintains programs for compliance.
• Ensures awareness of collective bargaining agreement provisions to aid with benefit related matters.
• Supports wellness programming and related events including benefit fairs, financial and wellness solutions, retirement education seminars and immunization clinics.
• Reporting & Compliance
• Facilitates annual 401k and financial audits by providing records and documentation to auditors.
• Responsible for completion of Darigold’s annual compliance filings including, but not limit to: ACA reporting, H&W 5500, RxDC, CMS, FSA Plan Non-Discrimination Testing and state and local required benefit-related reporting.
• Ensures accurate and timely processing of employee and employer 401k contributions (1st Reviewer and Submitter for Approval).
• Supports 401(k) Plan administration by supporting plan non-discrimination testing, annual audit, financial statements, Form 5500 preparation and filing.
• Independently researches issues, gather data and advise on findings.
• Manages and maintains up to date procedural documentation for all job duties.
• Buils and maintains cross-functional relationships with stakeholders such as Benefits, Leave, HRBPs, Finance, Legal and Tax.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business or related field from an accredited college, or equivalent experience/combined education.
• 5+ years in HR, Payroll, business systems administration or related experience required.
• Experience with UKG Pro, including HRIS administration, reporting and open enrollment configuration.
• Exceptional attention to detail and superior organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex problems and maintain confidential HR work.
• Self-starter, able to work independently to resolve problems and implement new initiatives in support of team goals.
• Stays current on innovative practices and trends in HR, employee benefits and payroll.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to effectively leverage HRIS Reporting, Excel & BI tools to manipulate large sets of data to identify trends, summarize data concisely and provide insights.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office, advanced Excel skills required including the ability to format data, utilizing formulas and pivot tables.
• Ability to leverage new technology to bring process efficiencies.
• Industry certifications such as CEBS, PHR/SPHR, SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP or CBP/CCP coursework are a plus.
• Business Intelligence experience is highly desired.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail and strong organizational abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local labor laws.
• Experience with UKG Pro and HRIS administration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office, advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Benefits

Compensation range: $87,561 - $131,341.59 (individual wage based on previous experience, knowledge and skills)

Pay

$87,561 - $131,341.59 (individual wage based on previous experience, knowledge and skills)

Schedule

Full-time

Company Information

Darigold is the fifth largest dairy cooperative in the United States based on milk volume and one of the largest privately held organizations headquartered in the state of Washington. Since 1918, our producers have taken pride in producing dairy products with unsurpassed quality. Today, we are one of the nation's largest agricultural cooperatives, producing over 8.5 billion pounds of milk every year. Through innovative technology and our efficient, flexible production capabilities, we deliver value added products and customer-driven solutions. Darigold is now known throughout the world for bringing fresh, wholesome dairy products and ingredients from the Northwest to people all around the globe.