Employee Benefits Consultant
Job Summary
To serve as the primary control and coordination point for P&C benefits administration within country. Manage the end-to-end benefits value chain through accurate transaction processing financial reconciliation and
vendor management. Provide advisory support to employees / line managers on benefit offerings and support Pension Board activities to ensure compliance data integrity and a positive employee experience within the Payroll and Core Master Data systems.
- Oversee the end-to-end administration of medical retirement and risk benefits to provide employees with consistent and reliable access to their contracted value proposition.
- Manage the enrolment of all eligible employees into specific benefit schemes to maintain immediate coverage and compliance with employment contracts.
- Perform regular reconciliation of benefits payments against internal records verifying pre-payment requirements and conducting post-payment quality reviews to identify and resolve financial discrepancies variances and exceptions.
- Execute first-line quality assurance checks on all benefit-related data captures within P&C systems to maintain a high standard of data integrity and accuracy.
- Monitor service provider performance against established Service Level Agreements to uphold the quality of support and service delivery provided to bank employees.
- Act as the primary point of contact for employee benefits-related queries providing guidance on processes like bursaries and funeral claims to deliver a positive employee experience.
- Maintain accurate benefit master data on the P&C Payroll and Core Master Data system to provide a reliable source of truth for payroll processing and statutory reporting.
- Generate comprehensive benefits reports for EXCO and management forums to inform strategic decision-making regarding benefit utilisation and associated costs.
- Facilitate benefit awareness sessions and develop communication materials to educate employees on the full value and correct utilisation of their available benefits.
- Identify opportunities for automation within the benefits data management process to increase operational efficiency and reduce the risk of manual processing errors.
Qualifications :
Type of Qualification: Business Commerce Finance and Accounting Human Resources
Psychology Social Sciences
Post Graduate Degree: Finance and Accounting Human Resources
Experience Required
5-7 years experience in P&C Operations with a strong focus on Benefit Administration Payroll
or Financial Reconciliation. Proven experience handling large-scale data sets and complex vendor reconciliations.
Additional Information :
Behavioural Competencies:
- Adopting Practical Approaches
- Articulating Information
- Challenging Ideas
- Conveying self confidence
- Checking things meticulously
- Team working
- Influencing stakeholders
- Documenting facts
- Providing insights
- Generating Ideas
- Interpreting Data
- Producing Output
Technical Competencies:
- Business acumen
- Challenges thinking & Assumptions
- Research & Information Gathering
- Compensation & benefits
- Consulting agility
- Employee centricity
- International remuneration
- Knowledge of P&C polices
- Labour relations & procedures
- Organizational awareness
- P&C process improvement
- P&C Operations technical knowledge
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
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