Job Description

Benefits Manager

A very high end large international law firm is seeking to hire a Benefits Manager. This role supports many functions across Benefit including the following responsibilities with room for advancement.

Duties:

• Assist with the administration of employee benefits in all the firm’s operations.
• Provide special guidance and support to all locations on a global scale regarding various legal and administrative staff benefit plans.
• Oversee the administration of employee benefit programs such as retirement plans, disability claim administration, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Survey the legal industry to determine the firm’s competitive position in employee benefits through market data analysis and firm wide surveys.
• Develop, recommend, and install new or modified plans and employee benefit policies.
• Monitor cost control procedures to assure maximum coverage at the least possible cost to the firm and employee.
• Communicate plan provisions and structure on an ongoing (annual) and new hire basis, when necessary and requested.
• Account for the development, maintenance, and delivery of new hire orientation meetings. Ensuring effective communications of benefit programs for new lawyers and staff.
• Oversee the benefit enrollment and open enrollment processes. Monitor the benefits-related components in the firms HRIS system (Workday), and the firm’s intranet.
• Oversee the annual audit and nondiscrimination testing processes.
• Act as the primary liaison between the pension actuary, 401(k) record keeper and the plan’s trustee and auditors. Ensure client service agreements with vendors and manage outside vendor costs.
• Oversee all government filings (5500, etc.) for retirement plans, ensuring accurate and timely reporting as required by law.
• Manage overall 401(k) plan design, in coordination with ERISA counsel. Ensure all plan documents and amendments are accurate and current, and made available to plan participants.
• Serve as the point of contact for plan participants and retirees. Respond to inquiries in a timely manner and constantly seek ways to enhance communication with partners.
• Manage testing (non-discrimination and coverage)/actuarial funding valuations for all plans, as applicable. Coordinate with outside vendors as appropriate and maintain procedural documentation records related to all plans.
• Assure company compliance with provisions of Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Affordable Care Act. Supervise preparation of reports and applications required by law to be filed with federal and state agencies (i.e. Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, insurance commissioners, and other regulatory agencies). Review and analyze changes to state and federal laws pertaining to benefits, and report necessary or suggested changes to management.
• Serve as a Workday HRIS super-user for the department (provide training to the Benefits Department, and provide technical support to end-users, etc.).
• Evaluate the firm’s benefits needs for the Workday HRIS system and ensure that the system design continues to meet requirements, while supporting maintenance of the system as it relates to benefits administration.
• Support the health and welfare functions of the department by auditing monthly bills and annual carrier census files.
• Assist with ad hoc projects, reports, and other tasks as needed.

Everyone is friendly, treated really well and most stay there because they're happy to be part of such a positive culture and firm. Base salary and benefits are one of the best in the industry plus a nice bonus each year and a hybrid work schedule.

If interested, please send your resume and we'll reach out to discuss.

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