Job Description

The Benefits Specialist is responsible for the overall management of benefits administration while providing essential day-to-day support to employees and leadership.

Position: Benefits Specialist

Salary: $60,000 - $70,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: Corporate Office, St. Louis Park 55416

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable}
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

• Manage benefits within systems in coordination with finance and workforce departments; including new hire enrollments, life events and carrier exceptions
• Manage organizations leave of absence process, claims submissions, vendor relationship and employs/leader support.
• Assist with Benefits 101 and informational training for employees on benefits enrollment.
• Coordinate and support open enrollment process and communications.
• Monitor all carrier reporting and files for benefit enrollment and/or changes.
• Complete ongoing auditing and report keeping for all financial records related to benefits.
• Complete HSA, FSA, and 401K funding and reconciliation.
• Manage ACA Dashboard including end of year 1095 process.

Qualifications:

Education

1. Associate or bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, and/or minimum of three years’ experience in human resources or benefits environment, preferably health care oriented.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

1. Possess good interpersonal skills: Communicate clearly and confidently, coach and motivate others, handle employee issues, etc.
2. Responsible, mature, and flexible.
3. Ability to be a functional member of an interdisciplinary problem-solving team and foster good interdepartmental relationships.
4. Have good problem solving and decision-making skills.
5. Possess the ability to evaluate cost effectiveness and preventative measures.
6. Possess ability to balance day to day management of priorities of people, projects, and deadlines.
7. Oral and written communication skills.
8. Ability to prioritize and work independently.
9. Seeks and accepts feedback regarding the performance of job duties.
10. Respect’s confidentiality of resident and employee information

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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