What are the responsibilities and job description for the Benefits Technology Specialist, Employee Benefits - Burnham Benefits position at Baldwin Group Colleague, Inc.?
Burnham is a team of talented and dedicated consultants uniquely equipped to solve the biggest challenges facing your organization and its people. Our expert advisors craft custom solutions to address your needs in the areas of employee benefits, risk mitigation, and wealth management. Over 25 years, the innovative solutions and bottom-line results we’ve secured for our clients has earned us an unparalleled reputation for partner loyalty and longevity.
The Benefits Technology Specialist works alongside the technology team and the Employee Benefits business segment by configuring and maintaining the benefits eligibility management system offered to clients. The Benefits Technology Specialist is responsible for ensuring data accuracy within the system, providing client demonstrations, and training clients on use of the site. The Benefits Technology Specialist builds and maintains colleague and client relationships, undertakes new opportunities, and learns and researches independently as needed.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Builds and customizes Eligibility Management System for assigned group and/or locations
- Manages multiple EDI and Data Exchange File Implementations taking full responsibility for timeliness and communications with EBG service team and insurance partners for assigned group and/or locations
- Manages specific EBG books of business and offboarding process for all groups
- Maintains knowledge of Eligibility Management System capabilities
- Develops systems training materials and conducts training for assigned clients and internal colleagues
- Assists in maintaining the e-learning library
- Monitor technology email and manages complex issues from clients and EBG Team
- Facilitates, creates, and files ongoing support/services related to ACA Perform system audits for clients and EBG team
- Perform system audits and conduct transactional and system analyses to resolve EDI discrepancy reports
- Provide contracted support (i.e. EN maintenance)
- Defines insurance partner/vendor EDI file specifications
- Assist colleagues and clients in resolving and monitoring program data and/or reporting issues
- Aids in analyzing, evaluating, and prioritizing requirements to deliver business process or automated application solutions, including end user acceptance testing of automation, to address business needs.
- Documents all activity in on-line client file to ensure quality and responsiveness
- Act as secondary resources to the Employee Benefits Team and/or clients
- Maintains a concern for timeliness and completeness when interacting with clients, firm and insurance company partners to minimize potential for errors and omissions claims
- Cultivates strong relationships with insurance company partners and is responsible for knowing carrier requirements and attributes.
- Looks for opportunities to improve the firm, business segment and processes; brings issues and discrepancies to the attention of appropriate leadership
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- 2 plus years of working experience with benefit administration, payroll, and/or HRIS systems
- Superb client relations/customer service skills
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Possesses an advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including the ability to manipulate data, compare and contrast two data sets, perform pivot tables and lookups
- Demonstrates strong organizational skills and high attention to detail
- Demonstrates effective presentation skills through both verbal and written communications.
- Possesses the ability to learn appropriate insurance company and firm software systems.
- Possesses the ability to grow in benefits product knowledge.
- Demonstrates the ability to multi-task and prioritize workloads while maintaining deadlines.
- Demonstrates the ability to interact and communicate effectively within a team environment to share knowledge and manage workflows.
- Current Florida 2-15 License, as required by the State Department of Insurance to provide risk management consulting or risk transfer solutions as necessary in states where the firm functions
- Must demonstrate core values, exuding behavior aligned with the firm’s culture.
The starting pay is $60,375 annually. Salary is negotiable upon time of hire.
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