Benefits and Leave of Absence Specialist
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$72K - $82K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Benefits and Leave of Absence Specialist
Lucet
• Administer and enhance employee benefits programs, including enrollments, life events, renewals, open enrollment, and vendor partnerships, ensuring accurate, compliant, and employee-focused delivery. • Serve as the primary resource for benefits, workers’ compensation, disability, and accommodation programs while managing communications, reporting, payroll coordination, and program improvements. • Manage leave, disability, workers’ compensation, and accommodation cases from intake through return-to-work, ensuring compliance, documentation, and effective case management. • Interpret leave regulations, coordinate pay impacts, and partner with leaders, HR, Payroll, Legal, and vendors to deliver consistent, compliant administration and policy improvements. • Develop and lead the organization’s wellbeing strategy, fostering employee engagement, wellness, and a healthy workplace culture. • Ensure compliance with benefits and leave regulations through audits, reporting, policy administration, data integrity, and stakeholder collaboration. • Manage HR systems, vendor relationships, SOPs, employee self-service resources, and process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and employee experience.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
- Proficiency in calculating and reconciling complex calculations associated with leave, disability, PTO, and other pay-impacting programs to ensure accurate administration and compliance.
- Exceptional organization, follow-through and case management skills, with the ability to track multiple leave cases, monitor deadlines, and proactively follow up at each required touchpoint.
- Strong process orientation, with the ability to document, follow, evaluate, and improve processes while considering accuracy, compliance, employee experience, and downstream operational impacts.
- Demonstrated ability to independently research, learn, and apply new concepts, systems, regulations, and processes, while assessing potential risks, impacts, and downstream implications.
- Comfortable using technology, data, and AI-enabled tools to research, analyze, problem-solve, improve efficiency, and support thoughtful decision-making.
- Ability to confidently present information, facilitate discussions and explain complex benefits, leave and HR process topics in a clear, engaging and audience-appropriate manner.
- Proven analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills with ability to make strategic recommendations.
- Must be comfortable with general analytics and reporting methodologies.
- Proficient with MS Word, Outlook, and Excel.
- Ability to pass background check upon hire and throughout employment to include criminal felony & misdemeanor search, SSN validation/trace search (LEIE), education report (highest degree obtained), civil upper and lower search, 7-year employment report, federal criminal search, statewide criminal search, widescreen plus national criminal search, health care sanctions-state med (SAM), national sex offender registry, prohibited parties (OFAC) (terrorist watchlist), and a 10-Panel Drug Screen.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefit options: Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with competitive employer match
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Paid parental leave and wellbeing incentives
- Generous paid time off, including volunteer time
- Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
- Professional development opportunities and tuition reimbursement
- Remote work flexibility (role-dependent)
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