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Overview
Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members “do better.” Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it’s about being a part of the PenFed family.
PenFed is hiring a Benefits Administrator (Remote) at our Alexandria, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this position is to be responsible for the administration of PenFed’s group health and welfare benefit programs while ensuring excellent customer service and quality benefits are provided to all employees. This position is the primary point of contact for group benefits administration across the organization as well as for plan vendors and third-party administrators. This position will also administer employee benefit plans including eligibility and enrollment, billing and reconciliation, and coordination of Open Enrollment activities and Wellness Programs.
Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
Responsible for administration and support tasks related to all leave of absence programs, including family medical leaves (FMLA and/or state specific), non-medical leaves, and the claim process for short term and long term disability.
Serve as a point of contact for HR team and vendors in managing STD/LTD claims and adherence to FMLA and worker’s compensation rules.
Responsible for the day-to-day administration of all group benefits, including processing of all timely benefit invoices (medical, dental, vision, ancillary, FSA, HSA, and other voluntary plans).
Serve as a contact and partner for benefit consultants/brokers, plan vendors and third-party administrators.
Collaborate with the shared services team in daily tasks related to benefits administration including improving and managing automated processes, and assisting employees utilizing benefits administration and HRIS systems.
Manage relationships with benefits vendors to ensure quality services are received.
Coordinate efforts for annual open enrollment including responding to inquiries from employees.
Assist benefits team to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements including PPACA, COBRA notifications, HIPAA certifications, distribution of annual reporting and notifications for the health & welfare plans.
Provide customer service support to internal and external customers.
Assist HR department with activities and projects as needed.
Qualifications
Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or a related field is preferred.
Minimum 1 – 3 years Broad HR functional experience.
Proven experience with championing change is required.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.
- Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds. *
Travel
Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may be required.
Special Message Regarding COVID 19
PenFed is continuing to hire and train exceptional individuals to help us serve our 2 million members both here and around the world. In light of the current situation with novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we have modified our hiring, onboarding, training, and deployment protocols in order to comply with current local and state guidance around social distancing.
About Us
Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2 million members and over $26 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam, Puerto Rico and Okinawa. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.
We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity
PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same.
PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at 240-224-4256.
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