<p>Benefits Specialist</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>We are looking for a skilled Benefits Specialist to join our team on a contract basis in Greenwood Village, Colorado. In this role, you will manage and enhance global benefits and leave programs, ensuring compliance and delivering exceptional support to employees. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, knowledgeable in HR practices, and capable of navigating complex benefits administration processes.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p><br></p><p>• Serve as the primary contact for resolving complex employee benefits cases, including high-cost claims and eligibility exceptions.</p><p><br></p><p>• Lead the configuration and testing of open enrollment systems, ensuring accuracy and efficient collaboration with cross-functional teams.</p><p><br></p><p>• Conduct regular audits of benefits data to maintain accuracy and compliance, addressing discrepancies and implementing preventative measures.</p><p><br></p><p>• Oversee intricate leave scenarios, ensuring benefits and payroll deductions are managed correctly in collaboration with vendors and managers.</p><p><br></p><p>• Reconcile invoices and address variances, ensuring alignment between carrier invoices, payroll, and financial documentation.</p><p><br></p><p>• Develop and deliver targeted employee communications, including guides, FAQs, and training sessions, to enhance benefits understanding.</p><p><br></p><p>• Monitor and evaluate vendor performance, addressing service issues and recommending improvements to management.</p><p><br></p><p>• Update and maintain process documentation, implementing ongoing improvements to streamline operations and reduce errors.</p>
Senior Benefits Specialist We’re seeking a Senior Benefits Specialist for a contract opportunity to lead and support our global benefits and leave of absence (LOA) programs. This role is ideal for a experienced professional with 5–7 years of hands-on experience, advanced Workday proficiency, and a strong analytical mindset. You’ll be instrumental in managing complex cases, driving operational excellence, and ensuring compliance across diverse employee populations. <br> Key Responsibilities <br> Complex Benefits Administration & Escalations (35%) Act as the primary escalation point for high-impact employee cases (e.g., high-cost claims, eligibility exceptions). Interpret policies for unique scenarios and collaborate with carriers/brokers to resolve issues. Ensure accurate processing of complex enrollments, life events, and terminations in HRIS and benefits platforms. Open Enrollment (OE) Leadership (20%) Lead OE configuration, testing, and defect tracking in HRIS/benefits systems. Coordinate cross-functional efforts with Payroll, HRIS, IT, and Communications. Manage final reconciliations and ensure accurate payroll deductions post-enrollment. Data Integrity, Audits & Reporting (15%) Design and execute recurring audits (e.g., eligibility, deductions, EDI timing). Investigate discrepancies and implement preventive controls. Build advanced reports and dashboards to deliver actionable insights to leadership. Leave of Absence (LOA) Case Management (10%) Oversee complex LOA scenarios in partnership with vendors. Ensure accurate benefits and payroll handling throughout leave stages. Facilitate ADA interactive processes with HRBPs and managers. Invoice Reconciliation & Payroll Alignment (5%) Resolve variances and retros; align carrier invoices with HRIS and payroll cycles. Collaborate with Finance on monthly close and documentation. Employee Communications & Training (5%) Develop targeted communications, guides, and FAQs for employees and managers. Deliver training sessions and support benefits education initiatives. Vendor Management & Issue Resolution (5%) Monitor vendor SLAs and service quality; lead resolution efforts for systemic issues. Escalate trends and recommendations to Benefits Manager and broker. Process Documentation & Continuous Improvement (5%) Maintain and enhance SOPs and process maps. Mentor junior team members and promote best practices.
<p>We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Benefits Analyst in ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States. As a part of our team, you will be working in the financial services industry, utilizing your skills in a diverse set of roles including processing claims, maintaining customer records, and resolving inquiries.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Manages and maintains assigned book of business. Has a good understanding of relevant compliance regulations and stays up to date on changes and new legislation. Works within the guidelines, ensures compliance.</li><li>Develop and maintain key relationships critical to the sales process and negotiate with carrier contacts to seek competitive options for clients.</li><li>Coordinates with account team to understand client’s strategy, and to define roles and responsibilities including deadlines.</li><li>Prepares requests for proposals (RFP’s) for all submissions to market. Responds to all carrier and client requests.</li><li>Responsible for ensuring timely target renewal delivery. Collaborates with insurance carriers and vendors to obtain preliminary and/or firm renewals.</li><li>Analyze current benefits, evaluating coverage, effectiveness, cost, plan utilization and trends.</li><li>Analyze all marketing and plan option responses, evaluates for accuracy and completeness, and requests clarifications and revisions, as needed. Develops plan options to best meet client’s strategy.</li><li>Presents all final results to account team. Determines content and structure of renewal presentation and identifies what to include (i.e; marketing results, utilization review, contribution strategy, benchmarking, financial reporting, etc.). Prepares renewal presentation.</li><li>Gather, review and validate all information related to assigned clients for renewal analysis and marketing purposes to include cost and contract terms</li><li>Provide analysis of benchmarking, contributions, data analytics, network disruption, as applicable</li><li>Applies underwriting as needed for trend analysis, high-cost claim analysis, contribution strategy, etc.</li><li>Monitor administrative costs of benefit plans and programs. Recommend cost containment strategies, including alternative methods for administration and funding.</li><li>Work with internal team regarding negotiations with carriers</li><li>Manage outsourcing of vendors and ensure reporting and other service needs are met</li><li>Build custom financial/utilization reports as needed and update monthly or as needed. Provide written and oral summary of findings.</li><li>Stays abreast of market competitiveness, carrier products and services, rate trends as well as State and Federal laws and regulations.</li><li>Supports data audits.</li><li>Updates financial summary and benefit highlight comparisons with all final renewal negotiation results</li><li>Complies with agency management system CRM standards. Saves and documents work product.</li><li>Will work primarily with medium to large clients who are fully insured and self-funded. Will also assist with the small group book of business on an as needed basis.</li></ul>
<p>We are looking for a skilled Benefits Analyst to join our team in Broomfield, Colorado. In this role, you will play a key part in managing employee benefits, resolving complex cases, and ensuring smooth operations for systems and processes. This is a long-term contract position ideal for someone with strong attention to detail and experience in benefits administration and coordination.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Investigate and resolve advanced employee benefits cases escalated from support teams.</p><p>• Monitor and address system issues such as file feed errors, calculation discrepancies, and data mismatches.</p><p>• Assist with the implementation of benefits administration platforms, including upcoming system launches.</p><p>• Prepare and execute Open Enrollment processes, ensuring alignment with the plan year start.</p><p>• Run and analyze reports in PeopleSoft and manage data using Excel for manual workflows.</p><p>• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to support onboarding processes for seasonal employees.</p><p>• Maintain accurate documentation, track issues, and propose process improvements.</p><p>• Conduct compliance monitoring and support adherence to regulations like ACA, ERISA, COBRA, and 401(k) requirements.</p><p>• Develop and update standard operating procedures and internal process documentation.</p><p>• Partner with Payroll and Finance teams to ensure seamless benefits-related data integration across systems.</p>
