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Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Benefits Analyst - Health and Welfare provides consultation, education and guidance to employees, managers and senior management related to complex employee benefit issues and services.   The Senior Benefits Analyst works closely with third-party vendors to manage and resolve employee benefit appeals and other service issues in a timely manner.  Additionally, this role leads significant benefit projects and has a deep understanding of annual benefits open enrollment, development of employee communications and compliance.  The person in this role partners closely with  internal and external stakeholders to include benefit vendors, payroll, accounting, legal, IT, Total Rewards and others to resolve issues . 

Key Accountabilities

• Standards and procedures to handle employee escalations and transactions and provide consultation and guidance related to the Cargill Benefit programs.
• Under minimal guidance, coordinate benefit services and file integrations between the human resource information system (HRIS), payroll system, outside vendors, program managers and IT technology specialists.
• Support management of the organization's employee Health and Welfare benefit programs.
• Collaborate to form a key element of operational strategy through specialist expertise and insights, to ensure that the strategy meets business needs.
• Contribute to analyzing statistical data and reports to identify and determine causes of benefit administration problems, contributing to developing recommendations to improve organization's benefit policies and practices.
• You will work under minimal supervision and independently handle complex issues while referring only the most complex issues to higher-level leaders. 
• Responsibilities include working with third-party vendors to manage and resolve escalated issues, ensuring benefit payroll deductions are accurate, management of related interfaces between the company and other vendors.  The Sr. Benefits Analyst will maintain, develop, and revise all HRIS functionality including manuals, tables, configuration and documentation related to Benefits and LOA. The Benefits Analyst must have a proven analytical background as the role also requires regulatory reporting, census reporting & cost analysis to be provided to Senior Management.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Demonstrated experience in benefits reporting and compliance
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to identify and successfully implement process, policy, and procedures
• Demonstrated technical and analytical skills
• Experience working in a large company with a unionized workforce
• Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) certification
• Experience working in an HR Service delivery organization
• Vendor management experience
• Experience in highly matrixed complex work environment
• Strong customer relationship building, team leadership and collaboration skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with employees, managers, and business leaders at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and successfully manage competing priorities
• Continuous improvement experience