<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><strong>Data Management & Compliance</strong></p><ul><li>Extract data from company systems based upon defined criteria</li><li>Manage data submissions to third-party PEC evidence company(s); evaluate and problem-solve issues via written and verbal communication with company(s); escalate to management as needed</li><li>Identify and implement improvement opportunities to increase the efficiency and availability of data for the PEC Program</li><li>Contribute to the development, maintenance, and improvement of policies and procedures</li><li>Input data into multiple internal spreadsheets with accuracy; update progress reporting for applicable project(s)</li><li>Research and obtain data for customer/sales related PEC inquiries</li><li>Document investigation method, assess impact, and implement correction(s) for PEC non-conformance records</li><li>Revise PEC documentation and route for approval per company procedure</li><li>Reconcile data from multiple sources, identify inconsistencies, and communicate with management</li></ul><p><strong>Project Execution</strong></p><ul><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, organize, and execute time-sensitive project tasks to achieve project milestones and deadlines</li><li>Organize project tasks into categories and identify the appropriate process flow for efficient task completion</li></ul><p><strong>Supplier Management</strong></p><ul><li>Directly communicate with suppliers; instruct suppliers on PEC evidence or material data required; escalate issues to internal sourcing partners and management as needed</li><li>Review PEC evidence for completeness and validity</li></ul><p><strong>Additional Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Work from verbal and/or written instructions</li><li>Act independently to determine daily activities</li><li>Perform other related duties as assigned</li></ul><p><br></p>
We are looking for an experienced Senior Compensation Analyst to join our team in Loveland, Colorado. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping and implementing compensation strategies that align with organizational goals and industry standards. As part of a long-term contract position, you will have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive success. If you have a passion for analytics, policy development, and strategic planning, we encourage you to apply.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Partner with various teams, including HR, finance, payroll, and business leaders, to advance and refine enterprise-wide compensation strategies.<br>• Develop tools and solutions to support compensation advisors in delivering exceptional consultation to HR business partners and organizational leaders.<br>• Design and maintain compensation policies and procedures to ensure consistency and compliance across the organization.<br>• Lead the annual compensation process, including project management, system readiness, training, communication, and budget analytics.<br>• Analyze market trends and industry data to optimize compensation program design and administration.<br>• Provide data-driven insights to evaluate the competitiveness of compensation programs aimed at attracting and retaining diverse talent.<br>• Conduct comprehensive data analytics and create visualizations to enhance compensation program effectiveness.<br>• Perform independent market pricing and administer compensation standards to determine job levels and competitive pay structures.<br>• Participate in compensation surveys, benchmark industry standards, and analyze large data sets to provide actionable recommendations.<br>• Oversee the annual market data process, collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and deliver results.
