Benefits Analyst

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD's coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.


Position Description:
The Benefits Analyst supports the design, administration, and compliance of ATD's employee benefits programs, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, retirement (401(k)), FSA/HSA, COBRA, and wellness initiatives. This role serves as a day-to-day subject matter resource for associates, HR Business Partners, and vendors, ensuring data integrity, accurate enrollment processing, and timely resolution of benefits-related issues. The Benefits Analyst works independently on routine and moderately complex assignments and contributes to process improvement and communications within the Total Rewards function.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer employee benefits enrollments, eligibility determinations, and qualifying life event changes across all benefit plans.
• Oversee administration of FSA, HSA, COBRA, and 401(k) programs, ensuring accurate processing and compliance with plan requirements.
• Coordinate with plan recordkeepers and vendors to manage contributions, reconciliations, funding confirmations, and required notices.
• Reconcile benefits invoices against enrollment data, approve vendor payments, and provide reporting support to Accounting.
• Maintain benefits data integrity within Workday, including plan configurations, eligibility rules, and workflow accuracy.
• Conduct audits of enrollment records, dependent eligibility, and carrier file feeds to ensure alignment across systems and vendors.
• Partner with HRIS and Payroll teams to support integrations, troubleshoot file feeds, and implement system updates.
• Support compliance with ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, Section 125, and other applicable federal and state regulations.
• Assist with preparation of regulatory filings, disclosures, and benefits documentation, including Form 5500 and ACA reporting.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, identifying opportunities to strengthen controls, consistency, and process efficiency.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with benefits vendors and carriers, resolving eligibility, claims, billing, and service issues.
• Serve as a primary resource for employee benefits inquiries while supporting open enrollment communications, education, and issue resolution in partnership with HR, Payroll, and external vendors.

Competencies

• Action Planning - The ability to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Compensation and Benefits - The ability and skill to develop, design and implement fit for purpose reward and recognition systems that are equitable, market based and cost effective including appropriate comp/benefits software solutions
• Compliance Management - Ability to plan, organize, control, and lead activities that ensure compliance with relevant laws and standards.
• Contract Management - The ability and skill to administer, monitor and manage the provision of services in line with an agreed contract.
• Data Collection and Analysis - The ability and skill to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making including proficient use of aligned software (e.g., Tableau, etc)
• Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Policy & Procedures - The ability and skill to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures and ensure their alignment with organizational strategies and work objectives.
• Reporting - The ability and skill to create reports for various audiences as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of reports.
• Writing Skills - Ability to express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, & policies by means of clear and effective writing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 2 years of related experience preferred.

Skills

• Communicates Effectively
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Plans & Aligns
• Policy & Procedures
• Reporting
• Situational Adaptability
• Tech Savvy
• Writing Skills

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

Physical Demands Category: Office

Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: As required by the position.

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.

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