Employee Benefits Senior Advisor

Employee Benefits Senior Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become an Employee Benefits Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this influential role, you'll apply your deep knowledge of health and welfare benefits to design and support benefit programs that elevate the employee experience and align with strategic business goals. You'll be a key member of a collaborative team responsible for administering benefit plans for over 26,000 employees and retirees, leading efforts that ensure compliance, drive process improvements, and deliver high-value services. You'll spearhead or support RFPs, vendor transitions, and the financial management of our health and welfare plans. This role offers the opportunity to shape benefits strategy, influence major plan and vendor decisions, and make a lasting impact on the well-being of the company's workforce. As an Employee Benefits Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

Contributes to the development of comprehensive benefits strategy that supports business objectives and enhances employee satisfaction, partnering with HR and business leaders to seamlessly integrate total rewards into broader strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment and cohesion. Develops proposals for plan changes (including proposals for union negotiations), including supporting materials on prevalence, benchmark / survey data and short and long-term financial implications. Develops and monitors healthcare benefits financial metrics relative to plan budget. Validates vendor invoices for accuracy and questions any that are outside the norm. Ensures plan offsets, rebates and credits are accurately reflected; notes variances and explanations. Participates in identifying best practices and implements changes to streamline the administration of all health and welfare benefit plans requiring consultation with, and / or the management of consultants, vendors, and other internal departments. Designs employee experience efforts and helps support benefit change management programs. Assists in managing the outsourced vendor by participating in ongoing calls, call calibrations, SOW reviews and scorecard evaluations. Remains abreast of legislative changes and industry best practices to ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations related to benefits. Serves as the project manager or supports implementation of large scale, complex, high dollar health and welfare projects such as RFP / selection of new plan vendors. Includes review of business requirement documents, related processes and communications. Serves as the Company's HIPAA Privacy Official. A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

Ten or more years of experience in benefits administration. Bachelors' degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or a Finance-related field. Five or more years of experience with health and welfare plans, including analyzing plan design, managing vendor relationships, and interpreting relevant regulations. Experience with the financial management of health and welfare plans and related trusts. Advanced capability with data analysis and financial reporting experience supporting union negotiations and developing plan proposals. Experience leading or managing large-scale benefits projects, including RFPs and vendor implementations. Excellent written and oral communication skills and strong attention to detail. Strong analytical and organizational skills with a high level of initiative. Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation or other relevant benefits-related certification.

Additional Information

This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs. Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Relocation may apply to this position. About Southern California Edison The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We're fueling the kind of innovation that's changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you'll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world. Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.