Do you feel passionately about ensuring employees have a top-notch benefits experience? Are others impressed with your depth of expertise about employee benefits and your gift for teaching others about them? The Archdiocese of Baltimore, America's first Catholic diocese, has an opening for a Benefits Analyst at its Catholic Center in Baltimore, MD. In this role, you will work closely with director and other teams to provide analytical support and recommendations for enhancements to our business. You will also administer the employee benefits program, and serve as a resource to our employees in Central Services, parishes and schools to answer benefit-related questions and resolve issues. Essential Functions include (but are not limited to): Analyze employee data issues, and implement process improvements to improve data integrity and flow. Work closely with the director and other teams to identify and correct discrepancies; create reports for use by management; conduct research and report on findings as assigned.Insure accurate updating of benefit information with review of daily reports, audit data and make corrections as necessary. Implement process improvements to prevent eligibility and claim errors.Manage FSA and HSA plans, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and annual limits. Includes entering new enrollments and changes for Central Services.Assist with annual open enrollment process, changes and contributions to vendors. Review and correct errors on a timely basis.Run monthly benefit bill, including import of adjustments and error correction. Assist with uploading employer benefit bills to HRMS, and create and send monthly benefit update to business managers.Process quarterly 403(b) employer contributions, including auditing data, calculating pro-rated contributions, and adding, deleting and adjusting contributions based on audit.Maintain and update priest benefit data based on transfers, assignments and ordinations.In collaboration with director and team, and consistent with Affordable Care Act requirements, analyze relevant reports and determine employee benefits eligibility for 1095 reporting.Assist with advising employees of plan changes; draft letters, forms and other documents as needed and insure receipt by eligible employees and business managers on a timely basis.Conduct comprehensive benefit orientation and enrollment for newly hired employees of Central Services. Serve as a resource to newly hired employees in other Archdiocesan locations to answer questions and resolve benefit related issues as needed.Others duties as assigned Required Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field; CEBS certification preferred. Minimum five (5) years' experience in benefits administration in a large organization (1,000 employees or more) preferred; experience in health and welfare and retirement benefits administration with a multi-location employer strongly preferred. Required Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Comprehensive working knowledge of full range of employee benefit options, plan design, pricing and processing, and benefit contracts.Comprehensive knowledge of all relevant Federal and State regulations and filing and compliance requirements.Comprehensive working knowledge of defined contribution retirement plans required.Ability to coordinate with Human Resources Management Systems, Field Staff, Fiscal Services and Human Resources for maintenance of employee benefit records.Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, specifically advanced Excel skills, and utilization of databases related to job duties. Knowledge of UltiPro desired.Excellent analytical skills; ability to understand and interpret benefit contracts.Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work with all levels of employees and management effectively.Ability to maintain confidentiality required.Knowledge of the Catholic Church, its mission and structure, preferred.