Employee Benefits Senior Advisor

Description

• Assists in managing the outsourced vendor by participating in ongoing calls, call calibrations, SOW reviews and scorecard evaluations
• Designs employee experience efforts and helps support benefit change management programs
• Contributes to the development of comprehensive benefits strategy that supports business objectives and enhances employee satisfaction, partnering with HR and business leaders to seamlessly integrate total rewards into broader strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment and cohesion
• Develops and monitors healthcare benefits financial metrics relative to plan budget. Validates vendor invoices for accuracy and questions any that are outside thenorm. Ensures plan offsets, rebates and credits are accurately reflected; notes variances and explanations
• Serves as the project manager or supports implemention of large scale, complex, high dollar health and welfare projects such as RFP/selection of new plan vendors. Includes review of business requirement documents, related processes and communications
• Develops proposals for plan changes (including proposals for union negotiations), including supporting materials on prevalence, benchmark/survey data and short and long-term financial implications
• Serves as the Company's HIPAA Privacy Official
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
• Participates in identifying best practices and implements changes to streamline the administration of all health and welfare benefit plans requiring consultation with, and/or the management of consultants, vendors, and other internal departments
• Remains abreast of legislative changes and industry best practices to ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations related to benefits

Requirements

• Excellent written and oral communication skills and strong attention to detail
• Five or more years of experience with health and welfare plans, including analyzing plan design, managing vendor relationships, and interpreting relevant regulations
• Strong analytical and organizational skills with a high level of initiative
• Advanced capability with data analysis and financial reporting experience supporting union negotiations and developing plan proposals
• Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation or other relevant benefits-related certification
• Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or a Finance-related field
• Ten or more years of experience in benefits administration.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Experience leading or managing large-scale benefits projects, including RFPs and vendor implementations
• Experience with the financial management of health and welfare plans and related trusts

Benefits

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance