Help at Home is the nation’s leading provider of high quality care and support solutions. Our goal is to enable the highest level of personal independence and meaningful lives for our clients. Help at Home is committed to delivering a gold standard in care through our attentive and well-trained staff who support our clients comfortably and safely within their homes and communities.

Our company is on an incredible journey of growth and innovation. In the past year alone, we've double in size. The HR department is a hard-working team of professionals driven by our company's purpose; to serve others with compassion, love, and empathy. It's an exciting time to join our company as you can help pave the way and build best practices from the ground up. 

Job Summary:

The Benefits Analyst will be responsible for analyzing, communicating, and administering many benefits programs. In the pursuit of quality benefits administration, you will work with internal employees, HR partners, Payroll, external benefit vendors, and other related parties. The role is a key contributor in the Total Rewards function and reports to the Manager of Benefits.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Contributes to administration and analysis of benefit plans, well-being, and other programs.
• Analyze and compare vendor products, services and contracts. Support the vendor procurement and implementation with current knowledge of census data.
• Conducts audits of benefit invoices and payroll deductions to ensure the company’s processes are compliant and minimize health insurance costs.
• Prepare monthly benefits plan financial reporting
• Support the projects managed though third party providers and consultants to manage eligibility, communication and reporting materials including all SPD and SBCs as applicable.
• Review benchmark studies and other research; provide value added analyses and summaries.
• Support benefit program implementations and annual processes, such as open enrollment, retirement, annual vendor renewals, request for proposals, compliance updates, and other projects as assigned.
• Collaborate in the management of compliance requirements including but not limited to 5500 reporting, non-discrimination testing, Medicare Part D filing, ACA fees and penalties, PCORI fees and SPD review.
• Collaborate in the building of education and training materials for the Field and Field Support Center staff on benefit plans and programs, policies and systems.
• Focus on enhancing communications to employees and management via internal mechanisms and leverage third party providers with the goal to increase member understanding and improve utilization.
• Support the integration of new acquisitions. Develop plan comparisons and model cost impact and identify potential risks.
• Identify, implement, and administer new reporting to support the business needs.
• Support implementation new systems and processes.
• Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytic, quantitative, advance computer skills, especially with MS Excel.
• Detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills required
• Self-starter with a high level of persistence and strong results focus
• Excellent strategic planning skills, creative problem-solving capability, and project management skills.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS), preferably in Human Resources or Business Administration.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience administering health benefits and retirement plans for larger multi-state, multi-group organization.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions upon request.

Help At Home is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or religion or other legally protected status.