Senior Benefits & Compliance Specialist (HR)

Socket.dev; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options

Dental and vision coverage

3 weeks vacation + 11 holidays

401K with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Comprehensive training and advancement

Job summary

NAI seeks a Benefits and Compliance Specialist to perform HR duties across benefits, policy, employee relations, training, performance management, and legal compliance. You will handle monthly payroll/benefit reconciliations, open enrollment, and audits (401k, workers’ comp) while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities include administering HR plans, ACA data review, reporting duties, and collaborating with management to resolve issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Human Resources or related field.
• Minimum 5-7 years of progressive human resources experience with emphasis on statutory federal and state reporting and benefit administration
• Experience with ADP preferred.
• Understanding of federal and state employment law, benefits, and compliance regulations
• Experience in administering employee benefit plans with integrated payroll/benefit carrier connections and 401(k) plan administration. Working knowledge of workers compensation (including audits) required.
• Experience with payroll reconciliation and accruals required.
• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification a plus
• Bilingual in Spanish a plus

Responsibilities

• Administers various human resources plans and procedures for all company personnel, assists in the development of personnel policies and procedures.
• Performs benefits administration to include, change reporting, approving invoices for payment and addressing inquiries from carriers and employees.
• Ensures that annual benefit open enrollment meetings, materials, system updates, payroll changes, and carrier information requests are prepared timely and accurately. This includes coordinating carrier connections/EDI files.
• Manages and coordinates all leaves of absence activities to include FMLA, CRFA, PDL.
• Prepares leave of absence letters and explains leave of absence process to employees.
• Serves as a point of contact for the annual 401(k) audit and ensures that auditor requested reports are provided in a timely manner. Reconciles internal payroll records to Fidelity reports and investigates any discrepancies and/or addresses all auditor inquiries.
• Serves as a point of contact for the annual workers compensation audit and ensures that auditor requested reports and forms are provided in a timely manner. Prepares and reconciles requested reports and addresses inquiries made by auditor.
• Prepares monthly benefit allocation, PTO, Floating Holiday, and Hourly and exempt accruals in accordance with accounting department deadlines for entry into BaaN.
• Reviews employee and company ACA data in ADP and ensures form 1094-C and employee 1095’s are complete and accurate.
• Prepares and files statutory reports such as EEO-1, California Pay Data Reporting, multiple worksite reports, CMS reporting, and all other ad-hoc reporting as required.
• Investigates and collaborates with company management to resolve employee issues or concerns.
• Maintains human resources information records and compiles reports from the ADP database.
• Evaluates and recommends improvement to HR processes and procedures to continually meet the needs of the HR Department.
• Maintains compliance with federal and state regulations concerning employment.
• Maintains confidentiality and remains open to others’ ideas with willingness to try new concepts.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.
• Assists HR team with additional duties including recognition related activities as needed.
• Works with Safety department with employees that require workers compensation coverage, leaves of absence, etc.

Skills

HR policy knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Employee relations

Bilingual in Spanish

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or HR

Tools

ADP

ERP systems (BaaN)

Job description

NAI seeks a Benefits and Compliance Specialist to perform HR duties across benefits, policy, employee relations, training, performance management, and legal compliance. You will handle monthly payroll/benefit reconciliations, open enrollment, and audits (401k, workers’ comp) while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities include administering HR plans, ACA data review, reporting duties, and collaborating with management to resolve issues.