Health and Benefits Senior Associate in Irvine, California

Responsibilities:

Play a lead role in the design and management of group medical, dental, wellbeing, life, disability and absence management benefits for clients. Responsibilities include:

Materially contributing to and/or leading project management; monitoring progress against established objectives, budgets, timelines, deliverables and quality standards; and serving as day to day contact for clients

Proactively advising clients and providing superior client service
Contributing to the creation of benefit plan analysis, design, cost savings and funding strategies
Playing a key role in vendor procurement, negotiation, implementation, and optimization activities

Providing benefit enrollment support, including preparing materials and presentations, verifying policy and plan information, and updating internal systems as necessary
Ensuring client compliance adherence by managing completion of reports and administrative actions for clients including Form 5500 filings, policy checking and delivery, monthly reporting of client and carrier information, summary plan descriptions and certificates
Engaging specialist resources and subject matter experts in health management, absence and disability management, pharmacy, data analytics and compliance

Reviewing financial analyses including but not limited to developing pricing and employee contributions strategies, modelling plan design alternatives and calculating reserves