Benefits Specialist

Keeley Companies is looking to hire a Benefits Specialist to our team in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Support the day-to-day administration of team member benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement, and other company-sponsored benefits.
• Assist team members with benefit questions, enrollment issues, eligibility questions, billing concerns, and general benefit education.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the company’s benefit offerings to provide accurate and timely support to team members and managers.
• Process and review benefit enrollments associated with new hires, qualifying life events, and other eligibility changes.
• Support the annual Open Enrollment process, including enrollment administration, communications, system updates, and issue resolution.
• Assist with the annual benefit renewal process, including gathering information, coordinating documentation, and supporting implementation of plan changes.
• Assist with the administration of the company’s self-insured health plan, including reporting, reconciliation, audits, and related administrative activities.
• Support benefit financial processes by gathering data, reconciling information, researching discrepancies, and preparing information for review.
• Conduct monthly benefit audits to ensure enrollment, eligibility, deductions, and carrier information are accurate.
• Review daily UKG-to-CMIC feeds and assist with researching and correcting benefit-related discrepancies.
• Monitor daily API transactions for errors and coordinate resolution of benefit-related issues.
• Manage weekly WEX contribution files and reconcile contribution information as needed.
• Monitor benefit eligibility for Class 2 team members and provide managers with monthly updates regarding eligible team members who have not completed enrollment.
• Administer dependent eligibility verification, including SSN validation, supporting-document review, and approval or denial of verification requests.
• Process and maintain benefit-related documentation, including triggered document uploads to the appropriate document management system.
• Coordinate annual physical documentation uploads and tracking associated with company benefit and wellness programs.
• Support administration of the company’s 401(k) plan, including enrollment approvals, rollover forms, quarterly entry communications, and team member questions. 
• Coordinate quarterly 401(k) eligibility and new entry communications 
• Work collaboratively with benefit carriers, brokers, third-party administrators, Payroll, HRIS, and other People Operations team members to research and resolve benefit-related issues.
• Support benefit compliance activities, audits, reporting, recordkeeping, and required documentation.
• Maintain confidentiality of team member benefit, dependent, financial, and health-related information.
• Support benefit-related projects, vendor implementations, system enhancements, audits, and other People Operations initiatives as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• 1-3 years experience
• Spanish speaking would be a plus
• UKG experience would be a plus
• Ability to travel to assist with onsite enrollment

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