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Senior Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Specialist

GuideStone Financial Resources · Dallas, TX · 1 mo ago
HybridHuman ResourcesFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings

for sections: About the role? The posting includes "Experience GuideStone! ..." but we need to extract sections: maybe "About the role", "Responsibilities", "Requirements", "Qualifications", "Skills", "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule". We must only include sections that have real content. Let's parse the posting: - Intro: "Experience GuideStone! We are an innovative organization that invests in the spiritual, relational, financial, physical and professional development of our employees. We have a culture that values excellence, teamwork, humility, integrity, compassion and stewardship. We offer employees a generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, the opportunity to be involved in community outreach and tuition reimbursement." This is about benefits and culture. Could be "About the role" or "Benefits". The posting includes "What We Offer You!" which lists benefits: generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, community outreach, tuition reimbursement. So we can have a Benefits section. - Then description of role: "The Senior Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Specialist is a highly skilled individual contributor responsible for the administration, operational oversight, and continuous improvement of nonqualified deferred compensation plans and related executive benefit arrangements. Operating with minimal supervision and wide latitude for independent judgment, this role serves as a technical and operational resource supporting executive-level participants, highly valued participants, plan sponsors, participant representatives, and internal business partners. This position independently oversees complex plan activity, resolves escalated issues, supports key quality-control processes, and contributes to implementations, system testing, remediation, and process-improvement initiatives that deliver meaningful results and drive outcomes that advance enterprise strategy. We serve those that serve the Lord with the integrity of our hearts and the skillfulness of our hands. (Psalm 78:72)" This is about the role, responsibilities. - Then "What You'll Do:" with sub-bullets: Plan Administration and Operational Oversight, Participant and Stakeholder Service, Quality Control, Risk, and Compliance, Project and Process Improvement, Team Support and Knowledge Sharing. Those are responsibilities/duties. - Then "What You'll Need:" with list of requirements: experience, education, professional designation, etc. That's qualifications/requirements/skills. - There's no explicit Pay or Schedule info beyond "flexible work schedules" mentioned in benefits. So we can include Schedule? The posting mentions flexible work schedules as part of benefits. Could include in Benefits section. No explicit pay. Thus sections: About the role (maybe "About the role" or "Responsibilities"? The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which headings to use based on content. We have content for: - About the role: description of role (the paragraph after intro). Could be "About the role". - Responsibilities: the "What You'll Do:" bullet list. - Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: the "What You'll Need:" list includes experience, education, designation, skills. Could combine into "Requirements" or "Qualifications". Probably "Qualifications" is appropriate. Could also have "Skills" but we can just use one. - Benefits: the "What We Offer You!" paragraph. - Schedule: not explicitly separate; flexible work schedules mentioned under benefits. Could we create a Schedule section? The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state flexible work schedules, but that's a benefit. Could still include Schedule section with that detail? Might be considered redundant. Safer to include only Benefits section covering flexible work schedules, community outreach, tuition reimbursement, generous benefits package. No separate Schedule. Thus we will output:

About the role

... paragraph ...

Responsibilities

  • ... each bullet ...

Qualifications

  • ... each requirement ...

Benefits

  • ... each benefit ...
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Need to keep details exactly as in posting, but we can format as list items. Let's extract the About the role paragraph: "The Senior Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Specialist is a highly skilled individual contributor responsible for the administration, operational oversight, and continuous improvement of nonqualified deferred compensation plans and related executive benefit arrangements. Operating with minimal supervision and wide latitude for independent judgment, this role serves as a technical and operational resource supporting executive-level participants, highly valued participants, plan sponsors, participant representatives, and internal business partners. This position independently oversees complex plan activity, resolves escalated issues, supports key quality-control processes, and contributes to implementations, system testing, remediation, and process-improvement initiatives that deliver meaningful results and drive outcomes that advance enterprise strategy. We serve those that serve the Lord with the integrity of our hearts and the skillfulness of our hands. (Psalm 78:72)" We need to keep that exactly. Now Responsibilities: Under "What You'll Do:" there are headings: - Plan Administration and Operational Oversight: then a paragraph describing many duties. - Participant and Stakeholder Service: paragraph. - Quality Control, Risk, and Compliance: paragraph. - Project and Process Improvement: paragraph. - Team Support and Knowledge Sharing: paragraph. We need to turn each into
  • items? The instruction: Use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make each heading as a list item, with the description inside the li (maybe as sentences). Could also break into multiple li for each duty but better to keep each heading as a li with its description. Thus:
    • Plan Administration and Operational Oversight: Serve as a senior subject-matter resource for nonqualified deferred compensation plans, including 409A plans and, as applicable, 457(b), 457(f), supplemental executive retirement, excess benefit, restoration, and other executive benefit arrangements.Administer and oversee the full plan lifecycle, including eligibility, enrollment, deferral and payment elections, contributions, vesting, notional investment allocations, participant data, distributions, forfeitures, beneficiary activity, reconciliation, reporting, corrections, and plan changes.Review and interpret plan documents, adoption agreements, participant elections, administrative forms, procedures, and related documentation; process complex, sensitive, and high-impact transactions carrying financial, regulatory, operational, or reputational risk.
    • Similarly for others. Now Qualifications: Under "What You'll Need:" there are bullet-like sentences separated by periods. We need to make each as
    • . Let's list them: - 5+ years of progressive experience in retirement plan administration, NQDC administration, executive benefits, recordkeeping, trust or custody operations, payroll, financial-services operations, or a related regulated environment. - Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, employee benefits, or a related field, or equivalent work experience. - Professional designation such as NQPC, CEBS, QKA, Retirement Plans Associate, or a comparable retirement or benefits credential, preferred. - Direct experience administering NQDC plans or executive benefit arrangements, with advanced knowledge of NQDC operations and working knowledge of Section 409A administrative requirements. - Ability to interpret and apply plan documents, adoption agreements, participant elections, procedures, and technical documentation. - Experience executing and verifying complex financial transactions, account corrections, distributions, reconciliations, and participant-data changes. - Experience researching operational failures, significant processing errors, data discrepancies, or complex participant issues and coordinating resolution. - Proficiency with retirement recordkeeping platforms, participant-accounting systems, operational reporting tools, and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. - Ability to analyze detailed financial, payroll, plan, and participant data and communicate conclusions clearly. - Strong organization, prioritization, and follow-through across multiple deadlines. - Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills. - Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage ambiguity, and make recommendations on high-impact issues. - Demonstrated commitment to confidentiality, data integrity, service quality, and operational control. - Must have complete confidentiality regarding GuideStone business matters. - Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. We need to keep all. Now Benefits: Under "What We Offer You!" we have: "We offer employees a generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, the opportunity to be involved in community outreach and tuition reimbursement." Also earlier: "We offer employees a generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, the opportunity to be involved in community outreach and tuition reimbursement." That's the same sentence repeated? Actually appears twice: first in intro: "We offer employees a generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, the opportunity to be involved in community outreach and tuition reimbursement." Then later "What We Offer You! We offer employees a generous benefits package, flexible work schedules, the opportunity to be involved in community outreach and tuition reimbursement." So it's duplicated. We should not repeat duplicated lines. So we just include once. Thus Benefits list items: - generous benefits package - flexible work schedules - opportunity to be involved in community outreach - tuition reimbursement We could keep as separate li. Now we must not include any boilerplate like EEO, etc. There's none. Now output HTML fragment only. Let's craft. Be careful to not include extra whitespace? It's fine. We'll output:

      About the role

      The Senior Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Specialist is a highly skilled individual contributor responsible for the administration, operational oversight, and continuous improvement of nonqualified deferred compensation plans and related executive benefit arrangements. Operating with minimal supervision and wide latitude for independent judgment, this role serves as a technical and operational resource supporting executive-level participants, highly valued participants, plan sponsors, participant representatives, and internal business partners. This position independently oversees complex plan activity, resolves escalated issues, supports key quality-control processes, and contributes to implementations, system testing, remediation, and process-improvement initiatives that deliver meaningful results and drive outcomes that advance enterprise strategy. We serve those that serve the Lord with the integrity of our hearts and the skillfulness of our hands. (Psalm 78:72)

      Responsibilities

      • Plan Administration and Operational Oversight: Serve as a senior subject-matter resource for nonqualified deferred compensation plans, including 409A plans and, as applicable, 457(b), 457(f), supplemental executive retirement, excess benefit, restoration, and other executive benefit arrangements.Administer and oversee the full plan lifecycle, including eligibility, enrollment, deferral and payment elections, contributions, vesting, notional investment allocations, participant data, distributions, forfeitures, beneficiary activity, reconciliation, reporting, corrections, and plan changes.Review and interpret plan documents, adoption agreements, participant elections, administrative forms, procedures, and related documentation; process complex, sensitive, and high-impact transactions carrying financial, regulatory, operational, or reputational risk.
      • Participant and Stakeholder Service: Serve as a senior operational resource for executive-level participants, HVPs, plan sponsors, and participant representatives; resolve escalated inquiries with professionalism, discretion, accuracy, urgency, and clear nontechnical communication, dedicating effort to communicate well, seek input, and contribute to shared goals.
      • Quality Control, Risk, and Compliance: Monitor plan activity for operational failures, documentation gaps, incorrect or late transactions, inconsistent elections, and data discrepancies; research issues and coordinate approved corrections with Compliance, Legal, Tax, Payroll, Finance, Technology, and other partners.Maintain and enhance quality controls, automated queries, exception reports, verification layers, reconciliations, data-validation routines, and peer-review processes; support audits, control testing, regulatory reviews, and compliance reporting.
      • Project and Process Improvement: Support new-plan setup, employer onboarding,
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