Benefits Analyst

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees are empowered to make a difference?

Position:
Benefits Analyst

Location:

League City, Texas (hybrid)

Grade: H32/33

Salary Range:
Starting at $74,000 (commensurate with experience)

How the Role Fits In:

As a senior Benefits Analyst, you will be responsible for contributing to our benefits strategy by administering a full suite of benefit programs including retirement, health, welfare, leaves, and wellness programs. This position will report directly to the Benefits Manager and will play a critical role in shaping our benefits and driving our benefits philosophy. This role will require partnering with our vendors, brokers, and cross‑functional teams in HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and Legal, as well as providing guidance to employees and helping them with their benefits needs.

You will have the unique opportunity to enhance the benefit administration activities, leveraging your expertise to cultivate an unparalleled experience for our employees. Simultaneously, you'll collaborate closely with our HR team, contributing to a spectrum of initiatives.

INEOS’s Benefit/Payroll/HCM team is a tight‑knit team with varying backgrounds—our department includes early, mid, and career professionals. We’re charged with bringing progressive, creative, and impactful strategies to the various companies supported by the department. This is a hybrid role that will give you a large variety of exposure to a wealth of activities within the benefits function.

Responsibilities

Administer and manage benefit programs in partnership with benefit vendors and consultants ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.

Utilize analytical tools and utilization data to identify emerging trends, patterns, and anomalies in claims and benefits usage.

Utilize predictive modeling tools to develop alternative strategies, plan modeling, and cost reduction opportunities.

Meet with HR and Management to explain financials, tax, and benefit strategy.

Analyze data and systems including conducting periodic audits and reconciliation to ensure accuracy and integrity.

Maintain benefits SharePoint site, including updating compliance documents, creating employee‑facing communications, and organizing the website to ensure ease of use.

Support benefits open enrollment activities including communication, system updates, employee education sessions, and targeted campaigns.

Partner with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., Payroll, HCM, Finance, IT, Legal, benefits consultants) on plan renewals, implementation, testing, and rollout.

Act as the primary point of contact for employee and HR questions, including managing and resolving inquiries, and escalating to management as needed.

Identify and analyze gaps in our current processes, including reviewing internal and external controls, and propose recommendations for improvement.

Support auditor, regulator, and other compliance requests including maintaining a compliance calendar, collecting and submitting data required for audits, and following up as needed to ensure completion.

Assist with vendor RFPs, including working with external consultants, reviewing vendor responses, summarizing findings, and presenting to management.

Assist with special projects and ad hoc data requests.

Support the wellness program by collaborating on a quarterly wellness activity calendar, monthly wellness newsletter, facilitating employee wellness challenges in partnership with the vendor, propose new ideas and initiatives, research new vendors as needed, partner with HR for local initiatives.

Support Benefits Manager and Department Director as needed with additional company and department priorities, reconciliations, audits, configuration, testing, communications, compliance, employee education and anything else needed for the department.

Skills & Knowledge Required

5+ years of prior relevant experience in benefits, payroll, and/or HRIS/HCM systems (retirement experience is a plus, and 4+ years business experience working for a or oil and gas company is preferred).

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including creating and troubleshooting complicated formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and…