Benefits Analyst

INEOS Group Benefits Analyst

Position: Benefits Analyst

Location: League City, Texas (hybrid)

Grade: H32/33

Salary Range: Starting at $74,000 (commensurate with experience)

How The Role Fits In

As a senior Benefits Analyst, you will be responsible for contributing to our benefits strategy by administering a full suite of benefit programs including retirement, health, welfare, leaves, and wellness programs. This position will report directly to the Benefits Manager and will play a critical role in shaping our benefits and driving our benefits philosophy. This role will require partnering with our vendors, brokers, and cross-functional teams in HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and Legal, as well as providing guidance to employees and helping them with their benefits needs. You will have the unique opportunity to enhance the benefit administration activities, leveraging your expertise to cultivate an unparalleled experience for our employees. Simultaneously, you'll collaborate closely with our HR team, contributing to a spectrum of initiatives.

INEOS's Benefit/Payroll/HCM team is a tight-knit team with varying backgrounds--our department includes early, mid, and career professionals. We're charged with bringing progressive, creative, and impactful strategies to the various companies supported by the department. This is a hybrid role that will give you a large variety of exposure to a wealth of activities within the benefits function.

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage benefit programs in partnership with benefit vendors and consultants ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.
• Utilize analytical tools and utilization data to identify emerging trends, patterns, and anomalies in claims and benefits usage.
• Utilize predictive modeling tools to develop alternative strategies, plan modeling, and cost reduction opportunities.
• Meet with HR and Management to explain financials, tax, and benefit strategy.
• Analyze data and systems including conducting periodic audits and reconciliation to ensure accuracy and integrity.
• Maintain benefits SharePoint site, including updating compliance documents, creating employee-facing communications, and organizing the website to ensure ease of use.
• Support benefits open enrollment activities including communication, system updates, employee education sessions, and targeted campaigns.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., Payroll, HCM, Finance, IT, Legal, benefits consultants) on plan renewals, implementation, testing, and rollout.
• Act as the primary point of contact for employee and HR questions, including managing and resolving inquiries, and escalating to management as needed.
• Identify and analyze gaps in our current processes, including reviewing internal and external controls, and propose recommendations for improvement.
• Support auditor, regulator, and other compliance requests including maintaining a compliance calendar, collecting and submitting data required for audits, and following up as needed to ensure completion.
• Assist with vendor RFPs, including working with external consultants, reviewing vendor responses, summarizing findings, and presenting to management.
• Assist with special projects and ad hoc data requests.
• Support the wellness program by collaborating on a quarterly wellness activity calendar, monthly wellness newsletter, facilitating employee wellness challenges in partnership with the vendor, propose new ideas and initiatives, research new vendors as needed, partner with HR for local initiatives.
• Support Benefits Manager and Department Director as needed with additional company and department priorities, reconciliations, audits, configuration, testing, communications, compliance, employee education and anything else needed for the department.

Skills & Knowledge Required

• 5+ years of prior relevant experience in benefits, payroll, and/or HRIS/HCM systems (retirement experience is a plus, and 4+ years business experience working for a chemical or oil and gas company is preferred).
• Bachelor's degree.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including creating and troubleshooting complicated formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and charts.
• Able to both write and trace through logic, coding, and configuration.
• Able to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with the versatility to manage multiple tasks, changing priorities, and addressing urgent issues successfully and simultaneously.
• Skilled in building rapport and communicating with employees and management at various organizational levels.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Able to work effectively in a team environment and able to collaborate and problem-solve both independently and with team members and other department colleagues.
• Strong attention to detail, prioritization, and follow-up skills with ability to identify and resolve problems.
• Self-Motivated. Exhibit a strong sense of initiative and drive to complete tasks independently.
• Able to handle confidential data with appropriate sensitivity.
• Capable of working independently while also contributing to team efforts towards common goals.
• Able to manage and complete tasks per company policies, processing guides, and other operating procedures.
• Proficient with HRIS platforms (Workday experience is preferred)

Physical Requirements

• Frequently (70-100%) sitting.
• Occasionally (30-60%) lifting and carrying up to 30 pounds.
• Infrequently (10% or less) ascending and descending stairs, bending, stooping, twisting, kneeling, and reaching at/below shoulder height.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; viewing a computer screen and extensive reading.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.
• This position requires the employee to always be alert, able to concentrate on their task at hand, and not impaired by medications (prescription, non-prescription, illegal or legal substances including alcohol), or any other mental condition which adversely affects alertness, concentration, or judgment.

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance. On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.