Chelsea Purkal

Experience

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  University Bookstore - Purdue

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2017

  Sales Cashier and Apparel

  •Managed money and provided excellent customer service at the register.•Ordered, stocked and managed apparel for campus bookstore.

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  Segal

  May 2017 - Aug 2018

  Actuarial Intern

  • Worked as an Actuarial Intern in Retirement Practice for Summers of 2017 & 2018 - Winter of 2017.• Completed Form 5500 Schedule MB's and Form 8955 SSA's for clients.• Performed withdrawal liability calculations and annual funding notices.• Edited data requests, auditor's requests, zone certifications and actuarial valuation reports.• Worked on beginning stages of a mortality study for a new client.• Assisted with 3,000 pension benefit calculations as part of a benefit improvement project for a large client. Show less

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  Segal

  Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

  • Provide financial analyses and consulting services to multiemployer and public sector clients to help address employee coverage needs, develop health benefit strategies and control health care costs.• Manage multiple client teams simultaneously to deliver projects on time.• Deliver quarterly experience reporting, plan design and financial analyses, self-pay COBRA and retiree rates calculations, and insured renewals for medical, dental, and stop-loss services for a client of over 10,000 individuals.• Prepare and present annual budget projection reports for multiemployer clients.• Compose insured renewal negotiations for medical, dental, vision, stop-loss and other health management related services. Show less • Completed annual budget projection reports for multiemployer clients.• Developed plan design analysis, claims analysis, incurred but not reported (IBNR) calculations, and self-pay rate calculations.• Assisted another office within the company on a merger study analysis.• Reviewed large claimant reports to determine how budget projections would be impacted by major medical diagnoses.• Worked on large plan design study that helped client not allow assets and reserves to fall below targeted levels in future years. Show less

  • Senior Health Benefits Analyst

    Apr 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Health Benefits Analyst

    Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
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  Mercer

  Jan 2023 - now

  Senior Health & Benefits Consulting Analyst