Senior Benefits Analyst

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for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content. We have job description: "Skyward Specialty is seeking an experienced Senior Benefits Analyst to support the administration, compliance, and continuous improvement of our employee benefits and leave of absence programs. This role serves as a key subject matter expert for employee benefits, with a strong emphasis on multi-state leave administration. The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing complex leave programs across multiple states, including New York and New Jersey leave and disability requirements, while supporting a geographically dispersed workforce. In addition to leave administration, this role supports health and welfare benefits, retirement programs, vendor management, compliance, reporting, employee communications, and process improvement initiatives. The Senior Benefits Analyst partners closely with Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and external vendors to deliver a compliant, efficient, and employee-focused benefits experience." That's about the role. So we can put that in

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. Responsibilities: The "Principal Duties And Responsibilities" section includes bullet-like sentences. We need to extract duties and put into

• . The text includes multiple paragraphs: "Leave Administration & Compliance" then a series of sentences separated by periods. We can split into list items each sentence? Better to keep each duty as separate
• . Let's parse: - Serve as the primary subject matter expert for all leave of absence programs, including FMLA, ADA accommodations, short- and long-term disability, state-paid family and medical leave programs, and unpaid leaves. - Manage the full leave lifecycle, including intake, eligibility review, documentation, payroll coordination, return-to-work processes, accommodations, and case resolution. - Monitor federal, state, and local leave regulations and recommend policy, process, and communication updates to maintain compliance. - Partner with managers, HR, Payroll, Legal, and third-party administrators to address complex leave situations and escalations. - Maintain leave reporting, audits, and employee communications. - Benefits Administration: Administer health and welfare, retirement, and voluntary benefit programs. - Manage benefit enrollments, vendor file feeds, billing, invoicing, audits, and payroll-related reconciliations. - Support benefit plan operations, employee inquiries, and vendor issue resolution. - Assist with open enrollment planning, employee education, and ongoing benefits communications. - Analysis, Reporting & Operations: Develop and maintain reports related to benefits, leave, compliance, and workforce trends. - Analyze data to identify discrepancies and opportunities for process improvement. - Support compliance requirements, audits, plan documentation, and regulatory reporting. - Leverage technology, reporting tools, and approved AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency and enhance service delivery. We can put these as list items under Responsibilities. Requirements: The posting has "Required Qualifications Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities" then bullet list. We need to separate maybe Requirements and Qualifications sections? The instruction says use headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. Typically "Required Qualifications" could be Requirements. Then "Preferred Qualifications" could be Qualifications. Skills could be extracted from required qualifications (Advanced Excel skills, strong analytical, etc.) but we could also put them under Skills. However we must not create thin sections. Let's see content: Required Qualifications Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - 5+ years of progressive experience in employee benefits and leave administration. - Significant hands-on experience administering complex multi-state leave programs, including FMLA, ADA, disability programs, state-paid family and medical leave programs, and New York and New Jersey leave and disability requirements, while partnering with third-party administrators and insurance carriers. - Experience administering health and welfare benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. - Advanced Excel skills and experience working with benefits, payroll, and leave-related data. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential information with discretion. Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - Workday experience, particularly Benefits and Reporting functionality. - Experience administering retirement benefit programs. - Knowledge of ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and related benefits regulations. - Experience supporting a large, multi-state workforce. - Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and technology used to improve reporting, research, and operational efficiency. We could map: - Requirements: the required qualifications list (maybe as
  ). - Qualifications: the preferred qualifications list. - Skills: maybe extract skills like Advanced Excel skills, strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication skills. But that overlaps with required qualifications. Could combine required qualifications into Requirements and Qualifications sections, and maybe not create a separate Skills section if it's thin. However we have skills content; we could put them under Skills heading as a list. But we must avoid thin sections; but we have enough for Skills: Advanced Excel skills, strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication skills. That's maybe enough. But we also have Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections. Benefits: we have description of benefits in "Compensation & Benefits" paragraph: health and welfare benefits, tuition and professional certification assistance, 401k savings, elective participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program, paid time off, paid holidays, child bonding leave, other employee assistance. That's substantive. So we can create Benefits section with list. Pay: The compensation: base salary $90,000 - $110,000, plus performance-based incentives. That's substantive. So Pay section. Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should NOT create Schedule section. Also we might need About the role section (we have). Responsibilities (we have). Requirements (required qualifications). Qualifications (preferred qualifications). Skills (maybe we can extract from required qualifications but we could also put under Requirements; but we already have Requirements. To avoid duplication, maybe we put skills under Skills and keep Requirements as experience/education? But the instruction says use headings for those categories; we can decide. Let's structure:

  About the role

  ...

  Responsibilities

  • ...
  ...

  Requirements

  • 5+ years of progressive experience in employee benefits and leave administration.
  • Significant hands-on experience administering complex multi-state leave programs, including FMLA, ADA, disability programs, state-paid family and medical leave programs, and New York and New Jersey leave and disability requirements, while partnering with third-party administrators and insurance carriers.
  • Experience administering health and welfare benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience working with benefits, payroll, and leave-related data.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Workday experience, particularly Benefits and Reporting functionality.
  • Experience administering retirement benefit programs.
  • Knowledge of ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and related benefits regulations.
  • Experience supporting a large, multi-state workforce.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and technology used to improve reporting, research, and operational efficiency.

  Skills

  Maybe we could list: Advanced Excel skills; strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills; ability to manage sensitive and confidential information. But that duplicates with Requirements. Could we instead not have Skills section and put those under Requirements? The instruction says we can use those headings but not required to use all. It says "Use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It's a list of examples, not mandatory to include all. So we can omit Skills if we think it's thin or duplicate. However we have skills content; but we could incorporate them into Requirements and Qualifications. That would avoid a thin Skills section. Let's see if we have enough content for Skills separate: we have Advanced Excel skills, strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication skills. That's maybe enough for a Skills section. But we already listed Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical etc under Requirements. If we move them to Skills, Requirements would be just experience items. That might be better: Requirements: experience items; Qualifications: education/preferred; Skills: technical/soft skills. Let's do that. Thus: Requirements (experience): - 5+ years of progressive experience in employee benefits and leave administration. - Significant hands-on experience administering complex multi-state leave programs, including FMLA, ADA, disability programs, state-paid family and medical leave programs, and New York and New Jersey leave and disability requirements, while partnering with third-party administrators and insurance carriers. - Experience administering health and welfare benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Qualifications (preferred): - Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - Workday experience, particularly Benefits and Reporting functionality. - Experience administering retirement benefit programs. - Knowledge of ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and related benefits regulations. - Experience supporting a large, multi-state workforce. - Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and technology used to improve reporting, research, and operational efficiency. Skills: - Advanced Excel skills and experience working with benefits, payroll, and leave-related data. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential information with discretion. Benefits: List items: health and welfare benefits, tuition and professional certification assistance, 401k savings, elective participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program, paid time off, paid holidays, child bonding leave, other employee assistance. Pay: - Base salary range: $90,000 - $110,000. - Eligible for performance-based incentives. We should not include Schedule. Now ensure we preserve all substantive information. Also include the initial description under About the role. Check for any other info: The role serves as key SME, emphasis on multi-state leave administration, ideal candidate brings deep experience managing complex leave programs across multiple states, including NY and NJ leave and disability requirements, while supporting geographically dispersed workforce. In addition to leave administration, this role supports health and welfare benefits, retirement programs, vendor management, compliance, reporting, employee communications, and process improvement initiatives. The Senior Benefits Analyst partners closely with HR, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and external vendors to deliver a compliant, efficient, and employee-focused benefits experience. We already captured that in About the role paragraph. Ensure we didn't lose any detail: mention of "continuous improvement", "subject matter expert", "strong emphasis on multi-state leave administration", "deep experience managing complex leave programs across multiple states, including New York and New Jersey leave and disability requirements", "supporting a geographically dispersed workforce", "In addition to leave administration, this role supports health and welfare benefits, retirement programs, vendor management, compliance, reporting, employee communications, and process improvement initiatives.", "partners closely with Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and external vendors". All covered. Now produce HTML fragment. No extra markdown. Just raw HTML. Let's craft:

  About the role

  Skyward Specialty is seeking an experienced Senior Benefits Analyst to support the administration, compliance, and continuous improvement of our employee benefits and leave of absence programs. This role serves as a key subject matter expert for employee benefits, with a strong emphasis on multi-state leave administration. The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing complex leave programs across multiple states, including New York and New Jersey leave and disability requirements, while supporting a