Compensation and Benefits Manager

**SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE** The Compensation and Benefit Manager will manage health benefits, payroll, leave programs, performance, quality pay, professional development, employee events and retirement programs. This position will also perform compensation research and analysis, provide data to the Human Resources Director and college administration regarding market trends and competitiveness of salaries and benefits. The salary range for this position is $52,000-54,500. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities:** **Compensation** - Manage the semi-monthly payroll administration and reporting processes using the current HRIS system (Paycor), ensuring accuracy, time sheet approval, compliance, and timely processing. Maintain employee salary, hourly rates, bonuses, create annual staff salary letters, create, distribute and track faculty FT, PT and overload pay each semester. - Manage paid leave and holidays, deductions and withholding, tax requirements and demographic changes. - Manage the development, implementation and administration of compensation programs. - Monitor the effectiveness of existing compensation practices and recommend changes that are cost-effective and consistent with compensation trends and college objectives. - Provide advice on pay decisions, policy interpretations, and job evaluations. - Design creative solutions to specific compensation-related programs and incentive plans. - Conduct research and analysis, compiling, preparing and presenting data. - Participate in salary surveys and monitor salary survey data to ensure college compensation objectives are achieved. - Mange the college Quality Pay program. - Evaluate job descriptions and align with current market trends and research. - Lead calendar year end payroll activities to include W2 creation and distribution and other federal filings including ACA (IRS 1095) look back accuracy and complete out of state tax reporting for remote employees. - Ensures compliance with federal, state and local compensation laws and regulations. - Manage documentation to initiate payroll deductions. - Compute garnishments and other court-ordered payments each pay period. - Review payroll reports and documentation for completeness and accuracy and correct discrepancies. **Benefits** - Manage employee benefits programs (health, dental, vision, STD, LTD, 403b, wellness, etc.). - Ensure accurate HRIS file feeds and uploads for seamless execution of health benefit and retirement contributions. - Serve as the primary point of contact for employees, managers and third-party administrators regarding benefits. - Manage the enrollment of new employees in benefit plans, process open enrollment election changes annually and process benefit terminations for separating employees. - Manage and assist current employees with retirement planning. Assist former employees with benefit inquires and billings issues. - Ensure accuracy of all benefits enrollments in the current HRIS system and provide vendors with accurate eligibility information. - Respond to employee benefits inquiries regarding plan provisions, enrollments, status changes and other benefit related questions. - Work closely with accounting and reconcile monthly benefit provider invoices for payment, verify accuracy and resolve discrepancies. - Lead open enrollment administration and benefit fair planning, including employee education and partnership with benefits broker and providers. - Responsible for billing and collecting retiree benefit receivables on a monthly basis. **Leave** - Serve as the primary point of contact for employees, managers and third-party administrators regarding leave status and procedures. - Manage a variety of leave accruals and balances, including vacation, sick, catastrophic, child educational, FMLA, float days, maternity, military, juror, workers compensation, leave transfer and leave payout. - Adhere to and enforce company policies and federal, state, and local leave laws (e.g., FMLA, ADA, Workers Comp,…