What are the responsibilities and job description for the Benefits Administrator position at Long Island University?
Long Island University invites applications for the role of Benefits Administrator. Reporting to the director of benefits, the applicant will assist with benefits enrollment, COBRA administration, tuition remission and tuition assistant programs, employment verification, and updating and maintaining employee data in the human resources information system.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Assist the Director of Employee Benefits with leave administration. Meet with employees going out on leave to explain leave processes, answer questions, and process leave forms (FMLA, NYS Disability, and NYS PFL).
- Assist with the processing of all benefit enrollment changes. Handle new hire enrollments, terminations and qualifying life events.
- Assist with the audit of all weekly, biweekly and monthly payrolls. Prepare payroll wires for TIAA, Cigna HSA Bank and WageWorks.
- Process all COBRA enrollments.
- Process all monthly WageWorks commuter changes.
- Process and deposit COBRA and Direct Bill payments.
- Monitor all applicable Health Waiver Forms, supporting documentation and waiver payments.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Experience working in the human resource benefit's field.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to develop interpersonal relationships with employees at all company levels.
- Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Familiarity with federal, state, and local laws regulating employee relations practices.
- Ability to travel as needed
LIU is an equal opportunity employer. LIU is committed to extending equal opportunity in employment to all qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our academic community. LIU encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, veteran or military status, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal laws . Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States.
Salary : $58,400 - $74,000