Senior Benefits Specialist

Overview

Job Title: Senior Benefits Specialist

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)

Aptean is changing. Our ERP solutions are transforming a huge range of global businesses, from food producers to manufacturers. In a world of generic enterprise software, we provide targeted solutions that bring together the very best technology and drive greater results. With over 3500 employees, 60 different products and a global client base, there's no better time to advance your career at Aptean.

Are you ready for what's next, now? We are! If being part of a dynamic, high growth organization excites you and you are a Senior Benefits Specialist, and eager to learn and grow, then this opportunity is for you! Our fast-paced environment and dynamic global Human Resources department is eager for a mover and shaker to step into this role and become an integral part of our team.

About the role

The Senior Benefits Specialist is responsible for administration of Aptean's North American benefits programs, including health and welfare and retirement (US, Canada).

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Manages relationship with third party brokers in the creation, implementation and administration of all US/Canada health/wealth fare and retirement programs
• Manages, investigates, and corresponds to employees regarding benefit issues and concerns
• Proactive in identifying, monitoring and correcting processes and procedures impacting benefit administration or employee benefit programs
• Validates benefit programs through reporting, cost analysis and specializing in Retirement Plan administration
• Presents benefit programs to Leaders, HR teams, Managers, and employees
• Facilitates in the open enrollment, financial workshops and wellbeing processes and activities, including HRIS program changes, updating communications, drafting annual rate sheet, and ensuring rates are updated in system.
• Collaborates with HRIS and third-party providers to ensure current and new programs are tested, updated prior to implementation
• Primary contact with internal and external partners for oversight, escalations and day to day operational issues or compliance; including audit responses and requests for data specializing in Retirement Plans
• Subject matter expertise for all benefit programs for inquiries: Health and Welfare, Leaves of Absence, PTO, EAP and Retirement and pensions
• Ensures that Aptean's benefits programs are administered in compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Reconciles and processes benefit and retirement invoices for payment
• Assists with the RFP processes, implementations and internal and external vendor or system changes

About you

You will be an experienced Benefits Specialist with the technical expertise and interpersonal skills required to successfully administrate Aptean's North America benefits programs. This role typically requires 5+ years of related experience in employee benefits administration, pension administration or benefits accounting and a Bachelor's Degree in business, finance, human resources or related field.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Self-insured benefits program administration experience preferred
• Experience processing complex benefits issues including Explanation of Benefits, Contracts, Service level agreements for reconciliations, validations and account coding preferred
• Experience with HR information systems and reporting
• Experience responding to 5500 audits and non-discrimination testing, 1095 reporting
• Experience with Oracle HCM
• CBP/CEBS certification or CBP/CEBS coursework preferred
• Demonstrated working knowledge of benefit laws and regulations, including ACA requirements, ERISA and Section 125 Cafeteria plans, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to establish rapport and effective working relationships with business partners, supervisors, and peers
• Demonstrated ability to present ideas logically and concisely to diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality, prioritize tasks successfully work in a group environment
• Demonstrated aptitude for analytics and problem solving
• Demonstrated successful ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing tasks and meet numerous internal and external deadlines
• Proven ability to use computer software and applications, including Office365applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), to share, retrieve, research and present business information

If you share our mindset, you can share in our success. To find out more about joining Aptean, get in touch today.

Learn from our differences. Celebrate our diversity. Grow and succeed together.

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other group status protected by law. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.

"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." - TVN Reddy