Howard Parks, Shrm-Cp Email & Phone Number

Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for the administration of all retirement plan programs, including pension, voluntary and employer sponsored 403(b) and executive compensation 457(b) plans for 4,500+ employees ($1B+ in assets).
• Ensured regulatory compliance with various aspects of pension administration, such as ERISA, SAR's, PBGC payments; initiated the filing of government forms, such as Form 5500.
• Primary point of contact to employees, retirees and vendors for escalated issue resolution related to… Show more
• Primary point of contact to employees, retirees and vendors for escalated issue resolution related to various health and welfare benefits, pension and vendor invoice remittance (average of 400 per month).
• Partnered with Corporate Compliance in the development, implementation and administration of health and welfare policies and processes to ensure regulatory compliance with state and federal law.
• Conducted bi-monthly Benefits Orientation sessions for 40~50 newly hired employees.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Improved efficiencies by creating detailed and accurate systems and processes regarding financial transactions and retirement plans.
• Vendor management of $20M+ in benefits financial transactions annually to more than 40 vendors.
• Facilitated the payment of pension benefits under the HSS Cash Balance Pension Plan ($360M+ in assets).
• Partnered with the Finance Department to ensure timeliness and accuracy of all benefit related expense payments and retirement plan transactions.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Working with senior management, prepared the annual human resources benefits budget, providing monthly analysis and reporting of actual expenses and budgeted projections for budget modifications, forecasts and cost.
• Coordinated and effected payment and reconciliation of all health and welfare premiums and fees for 5,000+ employees to 25+ vendors.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Managed payment transactions for all health and welfare premiums for 6,000+ employees within multiple business units under the NYU corporate umbrella; worked with health and welfare benefits carriers to reconcile plan.
• Initiated the payment of all self-insured medical claims with health and welfare benefit carriers.
• Performed monthly trend analysis of actual and projected human resources benefits expenses to make recommendations for budget modifications; prepared the… Show more
• Performed monthly trend analysis of actual and projected human resources benefits expenses to make recommendations for budget modifications; prepared the preliminary annual fiscal forecast for fringe benefit expenses..