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Boulder, Colorado

Manage all aspects of Benefits Administration, Payroll Administration, HRIS (Paylocity) Administration, Leave Administration.Compliance, Employee Support.

Greater Denver Area

• Manage all aspects of administering health and welfare benefits, retirement plans, unemployment, workers’ compensation, and leave policies for 70+ employees.• Responsible for compliance as related to benefits, retirement plans, as well as, labor laws for multiple states, including California. • Manage annual renewal, including analyzing and recommending appropriate changes to existing programs and manage all aspects of Open Enrollment for all employee benefit plans.• Coordinate/ensure the administration, auditing and reconciliation of employee benefit programs and invoices.• Consult and advise employees on eligibility, provisions and/or other matters related to benefits, including problem resolution of all employee issues and concerns. • Process manual enrollments and terminations through all vendor portals.• Manage all aspects of the relationships with insurance carriers, payroll vendor, and the broker. • Manage Request for Proposal (RFP) and implementation processes.• Process semi-monthly and off-cycle payroll runs, ensuring that direct deposit, tax, salary and deduction information is accurate for all employees.• Responsible for compliance on tax filings.• Assist the Finance team with Accounts Payable.• Reconcile Contractor invoices to agreements and obtain approval for payment.• Research and/or manage HR related topics and report findings to management.• Train payroll and benefits backup.Accomplishments Successfully assumed the role of Account Payable and Payroll Administrator upon employee’s sudden departure. Implemented new payroll vendor – Paylocity. Implemented new HRIS – BambooHR. Transitioned 401K plan to a new vendor.

Boulder, Co

• Support the clients and their employees by administering benefits• Work with the carriers and vendors on behalf of the clients• Quote benefit options for the new plan year

Denver, Co

• Served as liaison between benefit vendors, department staff and employees. • Resolve escalated customer issues with vendors.• Identified service issues concerning the vendors and worked as a team for resolution. • Served as a key team member for two medical carrier implementations. • Developed and managed Request for Proposal (RFP) process for a benefit contract. • Successfully consolidated RFP responses to allow committee to disseminate information and choose the vendor. • Created procedural statement and managed a new retiree benefit. • Developed and provided content for the current Open Enrollment website. • Provide all areas of assistance prior to and during Open Enrollment, including reviewing benefit structure and associated documents, member of the internal project team and answering the calls during OE to assist the employees.• Counseled and informed university employees regarding health, life, disability and retirement plans.• Used HRMS (PeopleSoft) to research and update employee data. • Provided weekly new employee presentations.• Created matrix to document mid-year benefits changes by researching all plan documents and government regulations. • Advocated for formal policies and procedures, took the lead to research source information, create documents and finalize with management.• Volunteered to mentor and train new benefits counselor and create new training program.• Advocated for web based presentations for new employees. • Researched computer programs, learned Adobe Captivate 4, researched other institutions and lead team to create on-line presentation. • Served as a committee member to award a benefit contract. • Team member to create annual Employee Appreciation award nomination criteria and planned event.

Boulder, Co

• Provided timely, relevant and accurate information to Project Executives and Management teams in support of efforts to meet financial plan. • Worked closely with all levels of management, financial analysts and the Project Office. • Tracked three separate budgets totaling $35M. • Provided monthly cost analysis and reconciliation. • Created financial presentations and attended meetings with high level account executives and IBM management to provide budget information and financial forecasting.• Acquired knowledge of many IBM systems, including RMS (Resource Management System), BMS and Webstat (queries), and many other data gathering tools. • Acquired mature knowledge of business accounting principles and practices. • Took on the challenging lead by managing the business analyst role for three separate towers of business and reporting to two account managers. • Created tool to track detailed labor and non-labor costs and provide monthly and quarterly forecasts. • Assumed responsibility for Midrange server quotes.• Identified and corrected Fall Plan 2002 errors, which resulted in the ability to get an accurate plan for the entire account. • Covered for a co-worker in another tower for three months and trained the replacement.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology, 3.54

Activities and Societies: • Member and Treasurer of Psi Chi Honor Society (2005). • Dean’s List (2004). • Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor.

Associate'S Degree, Psychology, 4.0