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The Illinois Tollway has an Employee Benefits Specialist position open. The Employee Benefits Specialist (EBS) is responsible for administering employee benefit programs, including health insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement plans, disability, and other ancillary benefits. This position provides direct support to employees and retirees, ensures compliance with state and federal regulations, enrollment processes, and policy implementation. The EBS also ensures that employees receive proper benefits packages, and serves as an intermediary between health care providers, external vendors, third party administrators (TPA) and employees.
As an HR professional you are responsible for enrollment and administration of the group health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), group life, COBRA, flexible spending account (FSA), wellness programs, employee assistance program (EAP), credit union, deferred compensation/investment planning, tuition reimbursement, and other related employee benefit programs. Salary range for this position is $58,000 – $63,000. For benefits details, click on the benefits tab on job listing.
Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and service to employees, retirees, and dependents regarding benefit plans, eligibility, and enrollment.
• Educate employees on benefit options during onboarding and open enrollment periods.
• Assist with wellness initiatives and benefit communications.
• Reconcile benefit invoices and resolve discrepancies with vendors and payroll.
• Process benefit enrollments, terminations, changes, and qualifying life events.
• Oversees the maintenance of employee benefit records, including creating and maintaining individual employee benefit files.
• Participates in new hire orientation, prepares and provides benefit package options and other enrollment materials.
• Ensures that all employees are properly enrolled in selected benefit plans.  Processes all life event enrollment changes and maintains employees Benefits files.
• Prepares deduction/contribution reporting for payroll.
• Administer, interpret and apply state policies and federal benefit laws (COBRA and HIPPA) in accordance with applicable laws and policies for employee distribution.
• Reconciles monthly health plan eligibility and premium reports.
• Responsible for entering employee data into the HRIS system for new hires and other employee benefit changes.
• Participate in audits, benefit plan renewals, and RFPs for benefit vendors as needed.
• Processes all tuition reimbursement requests and provides counseling to employees when needed.
• Support annual open enrollment process by preparing documentation and inputting changes into the HRIS system.