Experience

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  Indiana university bloomington

  Aug 2004 - Dec 2007

  Peer instructor - educ-x 158
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  Indiana department of education

  May 2009 - Oct 2010

  Legal review support specialist
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  Barnes & thornburg llp

  Jan 2010 - Oct 2022

  • Benefits Manager

    Jan 2019 - Oct 2022

  • Legal Administrative Assistant - Government Services & Municipal Finance

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2019
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  Simon property group

  Oct 2022 - now

  Benefits manager

  • Lead the annual open enrollment process including coordination with key stakeholders for system configuration, testing, file feeds and employee communications. • Oversee all aspects of benefit programs including medical, dental vision and ancillary plans. Ensure all programs meet compliance and regulatory requirements. • Manage the overall leave process including ADA, FMLA, non-FMLA and disability administration. Partner with 3rd party administration to track and update leave statuses and provide ongoing support for employees out on leave.• Monitor and respond to benefit inquiries via benefit email account and benefit voicemail. Prepare FAQs based on common inquiries to mitigate frequency of known inquiries and improve overall employee benefits experience. Draft employee facing communications across all health & welfare and retirement programs.• Stay abreast of current/pending regulatory agendas to ensure Simon benefit plans are compliant with all federal/state/local mandates.• Support the benefits director in identifying retirement education opportunities. Regularly attend vendor meetings and actively engage account management team for participant communication initiatives. Prepare communication/education project plan and present to benefits director as part of retirement wellbeing strategy.• Prepare and present recommendations based on due diligence and data analysis across all benefit programs. Review, monitor and track benefit dates for new hires, rehires, transfers and employment status changes. This includes reviewing benefit service dates, time off service dates, continuous service dates, vacation and sick plans or state mandated sick plans, vacation calculations and exception tracking, sick time payout and full-time status audits etc.• Regularly reconcile integrations against deduction registers for funding of retirement plans, HSA and FSA. Review and respond to vendor eligibility or funding error reports to maintain data integrity. Show less