Bilingual Benefits Specialist - Canada - Société Générale

Société Générale

Verified Company

Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Responsibilities:

ABOUT THE TEAM

With a team of over 50 highly-engaged, diverse, and innovative HR professionals located in the US, Canada, and Brazil, the Americas Human Resources team is dedicated to acquiring, developing, advising, and promoting talents focused on best meeting and exceeding the needs of our business partners.

As strategic partners to the Business, we are committed to providing staff with value-added programs and policies, a competitive compensation and benefits package, and a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe employee-centric environment where all can thrive to achieve their best potential.

The HR team is composed of 5 teams:
(1) Strategy, Transformation and Talent Acquisition, (2) Career Advisory, (3) Diversity, Talent and Development, (4) Total Rewards, and (5) Projects, Efficiencies and Analytics

ABOUT THE POSITION
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Responsible for directing and planning the day-to-day operations of group benefit programs.

This includes depending on the country, programs such as the group health, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, worker's compensation, life insurance, travel and accident plan, flexible spending plan, stock purchase plan, 401(k) plan, RRSP, DPSP and retirement plan).

Investigate new benefit programs, improve existing programs, supervise and monitor benefit administration. Design employee benefit plans. Provide analytical and technical support in the delivery of the benefit programs.
Enrollments in the different benefits programs such as Health Insurance, Pension Plan, Continuation of Health Coverage (COBRA), terminations and/or changes, in coverage, beneficiaries, disability, accident and death claims, rollovers,, distributions, loans, hardships and other
Oversee maintenance of employee benefit files and updating of employee payroll records.
Gather employee data and oversee the processing of monthly billings and the preparation of vouchers for payment of administrative fees for all group plans.
Promote and manage wellness activities for the region
Implement and maintain benefit records. Prepare regular benefit reports extracting data from the database. Provide the technical support, test system functionality and work with end users to provide system support and troubleshoot system problems.
Ability to research employee benefit plans and vendors to identify those that present the best value.

Profile required:

What you bring to our team:

Excellent communication skills in French and English and organizational skills.
Project and leadership skills and experience
Strong analytical skills and a thorough knowledge of plan designs. Ability to understand, evaluate and make judgment on the proposals (RFP's).
Computer proficiency and technical aptitude with the ability to utilize MS Word, Excel, Power Point.

EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or equivalent experience
36 years of work experience in Benefits or Employee Benefits Administration required
Strong understanding of the different regulations under Canada Federal and Provincial in Ontario and Quebec such as Employment Standard Act (ESA) CNESST regulations required
Good understanding of US regulations such as ERISA, COBRA, FMLA, Worker's comp a plus
For Canada, CPHR and for the US, PHR and CEBS professional designations is considered an asset.

What we do differently at Société Générale
Competitive compensation & benefits offering, including but not limited to:

Minimum of 20 Vacation days + 4 personal days
Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
Health spending ($2,000/year) and personal spending ($1,000/year) accounts with 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)
Fully sponsored virtual healthcare assistance and Employee Assistance Program to you and your immediate family
Various Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to engage with such as Pride and Allies, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.
A culture of continuous development by encouraging our employees various training programs (online training and coaching platform such as Coursera, GoFluent, Pluralsight, First Finance, and others)

Why join us:

Business insight:

OUR CULTURE:
At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes.

Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate.

D&I:

Our Diversity & Inclusion Mission:
Recruit, develop, a