Great opportunity with a local union to manage the Union Benefit Funds, including self-insured Health and Welfare Plan, Defined Benefit and Defined Contributions Plan and a NYS approved Joint Apprentice Fund. Working closely with the Senior Administrator and Trustees, the Benefits Administrator will be groomed to succeed the Senior Administrator upon retirement.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Manage multiple Funds for active and retired employees
- Ensure Funds’ compliance with ERISA, IRS and DOL regulations governing qualified retirement and health plans
- Understand and interpret Summary Plan Documents
- Contribution processing, including processing payroll contribution files
- Customer support, including answering phone calls and e-mails
- Manage record keeping and reporting
- General ledger accounting
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or Human Resources
- Minimum 4-6 years work experience in benefits administration
- Experience with Taft-Hartley benefit funds.
- Extensive experience managing self-insured employee benefit plan programs.
- Strong knowledge of Federal and State regulations governing the administration of employee benefit plans, including COBRA and HIPAA.
- CEBS certification preferred
- General ledger accounting experience
- Must be detail-oriented, highly organized and willing to learn
- Ability to maintain confidential and sensitive information and work closely with employees, vendors, consultants, management and union representatives.
** Local candidates only
