Sr. Benefits HRIS & Payroll Systems Specialist

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The Benefits HRIS Specialist is responsible for the implementation, integration and maintenance of Lucid benefit systems. Ongoing tasks and responsibilities include benefits administration platform maintenance, EDI troubleshooting, data transmittal and analysis, systems and data QA.

You Will:

• Owns testing, and implementation of integrations; collaborates with functional and technical staff (Benefits, Payroll, HRIS, IT) to coordinate applications
• Provides ongoing tactical support, maintenance and resolution for issues that are reported for the benefits system and payroll for benefits, insurance carrier and third-party service provider database connections including but not limited to UAT in test and production environments, and UI/UX efficiencies
• Manages and escalates project risks and issues and develops proactive mitigation strategies
• Participates in cross-functional team meetings where new Payroll, HCM and other systems impact benefits data collection and processes
• Partners with internal/external technical analysts to review technical specifications, and validates EDI, EDT and API requirements for successful data transfer
• Ensures quality assurance and data integrity by performing data file and path inspection activities, performs detection and resolution of problems, and the delivery of desired data processing outcomes
• Provides production support, including researching and resolving Benefit and associated Payroll issues and process flaws
• Generates reports, queries, and analyses to support HR and the business
• Seeks ways to create more efficient processes
• Proactively prototypes/models optimal functionality in the benefit system; leverage unused functionality to automate, streamline, meet business needs, and address areas for improvement
• Recognizes, uncovers and manages the interdependencies between Benefits and Payroll data points and processes; streamlines data processing
• Performs other duties as assigned

You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Human Resources, Business Administration or other closely related field or equivalent experience
• 10 years of related work experience in a large employer (5,000 + employees) organization
• HCM and Payroll experience required (hands-on Benefitfocus/Benefitplace and Dayforce/Ceridian platforms preferred)
• Experience implementing and integrating HRIS/Payroll/Benefits systems/procedures required; experience with Ceridian, SAP/SuccessFactors a plus
• Experience reporting and analyzing HR data required
• Experience optimizing and automating HR/Benefit processes for better efficiency and employee experience
• Strong experience with Microsoft Excel, data analysis and validation required (e.g., pivot tables, vlookups, conditional formulas, data tables, etc.)
Skills and Competencies
• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to communicate clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical teams, vendors/service providers
• Familiarity with benefit concepts, operations and interface with payroll
• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and communicate relevant options/issues/solutions that is understandable to the audience(s)
• Ability to work as part of team as required to meet timelines and deadlines
• Ability to apply technical task management to track and manage jobs progress
• Results-oriented/ownership mindset to root out problems, act with urgency to find remedies for desired outcomes
• Ability to build rapport in a collaborative environment with vendor and cross-functional teams on implementation, integration and enhancement projects

Salary Range: The compensation range for this position is specific to the locations listed below and is the range Lucid reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensatio