What You'll DoResponsible for the overall administration and day to day operations of India employee benefits offering, including time off policies. You will be a member of the Global Benefits team and will support the annual review and renewal process as well as research new benefit trends, implement new programs, oversee wellbeing campaign, resolve benefit related issues, data management and collaborate with other departments and external vendors.
Job Duties
Key Responsibilities
Tasks
Employee Communication and Engagement
- Email/slack communication around benefits/wellness on an ongoing basis across all business entities.
- Resolve benefit-related issues and respond to queries and requests promptly or direct to TPA/Broker.
- Advise employees on benefits and leave programs available to them.
- Lead the administration of all onsite events, such as benefit fairs, educational sessions, and wellbeing events.
Annual Renewal Process
- Work with global benefits team and Tech team to plan annual enrollment timeline including all activities leading up to enrollment window and post enrollment testing.
- Workday testing to ensure accurate workflow between benefit plans and payroll.
- Plan and execute any communication campaigns required based on plan changes.
Ongoing Benefits and Leave Administration
- Validate and maintain employee benefits records with all relevant information (date of birth, marital status, years of service, etc.).
- Maintain ongoing payment process for all vendors and track invoices.
- Schedule onboarding sessions for insurance in collaboration with local partners
- Ensure timely enrollments of new joiners/annual enrollments.
- Run audits on WD and ensure accurate vendor data.
- Create utilization dashboard using utilization and vendor reports to review with management team.
Vendor Management
- Handle vendor onboarding, purchase order/invoice processing, ensuring payments on time, and keeping a track of the budget utilization.
- Support the team with vendor evaluation process as needed.
- Request proposals from vendors, scheduling meetings with the team along with the scope, commercials, and comparison, and enabling decision-making
Other
- Support the US and EMEA benefits teams in other day to day activities such as invoice management, workday reports, and ad hoc projects.
What You'll Need to be Successful
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in any field.
- At least two years’ experience in a benefits administration role
- Proficient in English
- Proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Skill Set – Workday, MS Office, particularly PowerPoint, Word & Excel
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Must be a team player, self-motivated.
- Should be a good problem-solver, works well with processes and details, and have strong analytical skills.
- Should be able to communicate effectively to all levels, within the business and outside the company.
About The Team
Come and be part of the Global Benefits Team! We are a global team spread across North America, EMEA and India.
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.