Benefits Specialist

Seaboard Triumph Foods; Sioux City, Northern (IA, KY); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Seaboard Triumph Foods in Sioux City, IA seeks a Benefits Specialist to support the Sr. Benefits Manager, employees, and management with benefits administration and regulatory compliance.

You will handle leaves, COBRA, ACA reporting, open enrollment, and data analytics in Excel, partnering with insurers and vendors. A strong customer service mindset and the ability to work in a fast-paced team are essential.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent; benefits administration experience preferred.
• Accounting exposure beneficial for invoice reconciliation.
• Strong written and verbal communication; bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Process benefits enrollment and administration of leaves, COBRA, and other required regulations.
• Routinely audit enrollment data and correct as needed.
• Prepare reports and correspondence between employees, managers, HR, and vendors.
• Coordinate health/welfare plans and open enrollment cycles; handle ACA and 401(k) testing.
• Present benefits information to new hire orientations.
• Resolve eligibility, enrollment, and claim issues with employees, insurers, and providers.

Skills

Benefits administration

Data analysis

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Internet

HRIS

Job description

The Benefits Specialist is responsible for administrative support and assistance to the Sr. Benefits Manager, employees, and additional management as directed.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This list is not intended to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Process time and content sensitive material in daily changing environment to include administration of QMCSO, COBRA, Leave of Absences, FMLA requests and usage and other issues as required by our in-house regulations and legal requirements.
• Routinely audit benefits enrollment information and correct enrollment data as necessary.
• Compose reports and correspondence to ensure proper communication between employees, managers, human resources, and outside vendors.
• Coordination of health and welfare plans, new-hire and annual open enrollment, HIPAA and 401(k) Plan.
• Present Benefits information to New Hire Orientation classes.
• Research and resolve eligibility, enrollment, and claim issues varying in degree of difficulty, and communicate effectively with employees, insurers and medical providers.
• Compile, audit and submit data for ACA reporting and 401k Non-Discrimination testing.
• Coordinate wellness initiatives for the company.
• Excellent customer service skills required, excellent attitude and ability to work in a fast paced team environment is necessary for success in this position.
• Computer literate with strong Excel skills (ability to download and manipulate data), PowerPoint, and Internet based web applications.
• General office skills, including but not limited to filing and data entry.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the work environment, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required or preferred. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Previous benefits administration experience preferred. Accounting exposure beneficial for invoice reconciliation.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to think, communicate in a fast-paced environment. Must be able to effectively communicate with maintenance, production and management personnel. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents in the English language such as procedure manuals. Must be able to effectively communicate with employees and managers as well as others within and outside of the organization. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to apply mathematical applications to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, diagram, written and/or verbal form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Ability to use computers and all standard programs used by the industry and the ability to learn and effectively use any and all other computer programs that are or will be made available.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to move about the facility. The employee is required to sit; use hands to finger; handle; or feel/hold objects; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; speak, hear, taste, and smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vison, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Individual must be able to effectively work in a normal production environment where temperatures and noise levels may vary. Generally the incumbent must be able to sit and use a computer for extended periods of time.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment includes normal office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

NORMAL WORK SCHEDULE

The hours and days of work are established as needed by operations and at the discretion of management and may be changed (increased or decreased) by management as required.

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