Leave of Absence Specialist

Beachwood, OH - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Leave Specialist will serve as the subject matter expert for leave and disability management and drive operational excellence through our leave processes. This role will focus on redesigning the leave process to enhance the associate and leader experience and drive efficiency while ensuring compliance with federal state and local regulations.

Responsibilities:

Redesign leave and disability administration to deliver a positive associate experience while reducing administrative burden through streamlined compliant processes.
Administer end-to-end leave and disability processes including FMLA ADA and other statutory or company-specific leaves partnering closely with HR to resolve escalated cases.
Collaborate with HR Legal and Payroll to ensure accurate processing and seamless integration of leave policies and end-to-end processes.
Partner with external plan administrators to deliver high-quality efficient services that feel like an extension of our internal team resolving escalated issues quickly and preventing them in the future.
Establish and own key metrics that measure the effectiveness quality and efficiency of the leave and disability processes identifying misses and implementing improvements both internally and with the external plan administrator.
Investigate data transmission issues to identify root cause and partner with cross-functional teams (such as Digital & Technology and external plan administrators) to implement improvements to eliminate data issues going forward.
Relentlessly identify and implement opportunities to improve processes to eliminate errors manual touches and fragmented experiences.
Conduct regular and ad hoc reviews audits and reporting of benefits and leave programs to ensure compliance.
Provide high-quality service to associates leaders and HR on leave inquiries.
Partner with the workers compensation administrators to deliver a cohesive compliant leave process.
Support implementation of new benefit and leave programs and/or administrators ensuring accurate data conversion and establishing new administrative processes.
Develop and deliver simple and effective total rewards communication materials.
Educate HR and leaders on leave programs and processes driving clarity awareness and compliance.
Monitor leave trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
Ad-hoc projects as assigned

Qualifications :

Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business Finance or related field preferred
2 years of experience in benefits administration leave administration or related areas
Strong technical skillset with experience in different systems including HR information systems (Workday preferred)
Strong skills across the Microsoft programs especially Excel
Strong analytical organizational and project management skills
Detail oriented with a high level of accuracy and confidentiality
Excellent communication skills with a focus on detail
Experience handling routine to complex inquiries
Experience owning and leading an end-to-end process effectively collaborating and driving improvements
Ability to multi-task and prioritize work on various projects simultaneously
Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Additional Information :

Equal Employment Opportunity

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is an equal opportunity employer. MasterBrand Cabinets LLCs policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability/handicap status marital status military status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other basis protected by federal state or local laws. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasterBrand Cabinets LLCs policy to comply with all applicable federal state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Reasonable Accommodations

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment please contact us at .

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

Responsibilities:

Redesign leave and disability administration to deliver a positive associate experience while reducing administrative burden through streamlined compliant processes.
Administer end-to-end leave and disability processes including FMLA ADA and other statutory or company-specific leaves partnering closely with HR to resolve escalated cases.
Collaborate with HR Legal and Payroll to ensure accurate processing and seamless integration of leave policies and end-to-end processes.
Partner with external plan administrators to deliver high-quality efficient services that feel like an extension of our internal team resolving escalated issues quickly and preventing them in the future.
Establish and own key metrics that measure the effectiveness quality and efficiency of the leave and disability processes identifying misses and implementing improvements both internally and with the external plan administrator.
Investigate data transmission issues to identify root cause and partner with cross-functional teams (such as Digital & Technology and external plan administrators) to implement improvements to eliminate data issues going forward.
Relentlessly identify and implement opportunities to improve processes to eliminate errors manual touches and fragmented experiences.
Conduct regular and ad hoc reviews audits and reporting of benefits and leave programs to ensure compliance.
Provide high-quality service to associates leaders and HR on leave inquiries.
Partner with the workers compensation administrators to deliver a cohesive compliant leave process.
Support implementation of new benefit and leave programs and/or administrators ensuring accurate data conversion and establishing new administrative processes.
Develop and deliver simple and effective total rewards communication materials.
Educate HR and leaders on leave programs and processes driving clarity awareness and compliance.
Monitor leave trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
Ad-hoc projects as assigned

Qualifications :

Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business Finance or related field preferred
2 years of experience in benefits administration leave administration or related areas
Strong technical skillset with experience in different systems including HR information systems (Workday preferred)
Strong skills across the Microsoft programs especially Excel
Strong analytical organizational and project management skills
Detail oriented with a high level of accuracy and confidentiality
Excellent communication skills with a focus on detail
Experience handling routine to complex inquiries
Experience owning and leading an end-to-end process effectively collaborating and driving improvements
Ability to multi-task and prioritize work on various projects simultaneously
Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Additional Information :

Equal Employment Opportunity

Reasonable Accommodations

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

Key Skills

Photography
Color Correction
Shot List
Adobe Photoshop
Photo Shoots
Youtube
Camera Movement
Cinematography
Audio Equipment
B-roll
Camera Operation
Final Cut Pro
Digital Media
Video production
Web Series

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MasterBrand Cabinets LLC

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