Benefits Analyst

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

As a Benefits Analyst, you'll play a pivotal role in managing and optimizing our benefits programs. Your responsibilities will include providing support to employees, performing analytics and routine audits, ensuring compliance and developing communications relating to employee benefits.

What You’ll Do:

• Develops employee benefit communications, including creating and editing materials, email campaigns and internal newsletters.

• Assists with updating and maintaining the employee total rewards website to ensure accurate and timely information, including creating new content and updating existing information.

• Performs routine compliance audits and tasks to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.

• Oversees and manages the company’s ACA measurement process by tracking employees’ eligibility status and offering eligible employees benefits in accordance with ACA regulations.

• Assists with preparing annual 1095-C forms for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance, including gathering necessary data, reviewing accuracy, and ensuring timely submission to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

• Provides support with the annual open enrollment cycle, including assisting with the development of communication materials, conducting employee meetings, answering employee questions, updating Workday with new rates and plan information, and processing enrollment changes.

• Reviews plan documents for accuracy, including summary plan descriptions and other related materials.

• Completes annual non-discrimination testing for employee benefit plans, including preparing data and reports, and analyzing test results.

• Completes annual benefit surveys accurately and timely.

• Administers HIPAA compliance training for applicable roles and track attendance.

• Compiles and distributes annual notice packets.

• Performs routine audits to ensure employee benefit records are up-to-date and accurate, including identifying and resolving data discrepancies within Workday and with insurance carriers and vendors.

• Tracks stop loss reimbursements, including responding to carrier claim inquiries, and providing monthly reporting to corporate finance.

• Responds to employee questions as needed, including addressing escalated questions or concerns that require coordination with insurance carriers, and ensuring timely resolution.

• Reviews benefit changes in Workday and approve them according to established rules and polices as needed.

• Participates in the annual strategy evaluation of the company’s benefits program, review utilization and identify areas of improvement.

• Audits carrier integration files and review error reports to identify and resolve data discrepancies, ensuring accurate and efficient processing of employee benefit transactions.

• Reviews bi-weekly payroll reports and audit employee benefit costs to ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll deductions.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business or related area and 3 years benefits experience, or

• In lieu of education, 7 years relevant experience

What You'll Bring:

• Analytical and reporting ability

• Detail-oriented

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• Demonstrated customer service skills

• PC proficiency (MS Word, Excel, Outlook)

What We Prefer:

• 5 years of HR or benefits expereince

Additional Information

Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards

Click here to learn more about EOE including disability and vet

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Kansas City, MO, Overland Park, KS (Sprint Parkway)

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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Human Resources Group

ReqID: R-20555