Benefit Specialist - GA, On Site

Benefits Specialist - Open Enrollment

Performs and administers all aspects of open enrollment for clients and their work site employees. Essential duties and responsibilities include serving as the primary benefit contact for clients during open enrollment, supporting sub-departments with renewal preparation, validating client benefit plans for accuracy, providing guidance to ensure regulatory compliance, presenting and delivering client renewals with minimal oversight, communicating and educating clients on all benefit offerings and products, working directly with insurance carriers and vendors with specific plan questions, advising employees on their options and helping them navigate complex decisions about their benefits, reviewing and providing various reports using internal tools to update progress of open enrollment, reviewing the accuracy of employee benefits data within HR information systems, and performing post open enrollment validation.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include strong organizational, analytical, time management, and problem-solving skills, experience working with HRIS platforms and ability to quickly learn new software systems, demonstrated leadership abilities, ability to listen, understand, read, and communicate effectively both in writing and verbally in a professional environment, experience leading others and project/task management, and ability to de-escalate roadblocks using effective communication and best practices.

Education and experience include an associate degree or above and 2-5 years of group benefit experience in the PEO industry preferred.

Physical demands include frequently required to sit; occasionally required to stand and walk. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. Frequently required to talk and hear. Moderate concentration/intensity, which includes prolonged mental effort. Average memory, taking into consideration the amount and type of information. Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This position is eligible for the following benefits: health insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, and other benefits including life insurance, short term disability, long term disability, employee assistance program (EAP), flexible spending account (FSA), health savings account (HSA), identity theft protection, critical illness, accident, cancer, hospital protection, legal and pet insurance. Additional compensation may include signing bonus and commission structure if applicable.