Benefits Consultant - CocaCola - Atlanta, GA

Position Overview:
About The Coca-Cola Company

Everyone knows Coca-Cola. It’s the best-known product in the world. We’ve been making it since 1886 and it still tastes the same.

As a business, The Coca-Cola Company is constantly evolving – we develop new products, acquire great brands and pioneer new ways of doing things. We sell four of the world’s top five non-alcoholic sparkling drinks (Coke, Coke light, Sprite and Fanta) and 3,600+ products in over 200 countries, including water, juices, energy drinks, and even tea and coffee. Altogether, that adds up to more than 1.9 billion drinks around the globe every day.

Global Business Services (GBS)

GBS is The Coca-Cola Company’s multi-functional internal shared-services organization providing a wide range of transactional services across all Coca-Cola business units within functional areas such as: Finance and Procurement Operations, Human Resources Operations, Workplace Strategy and Operations, Controls and Compliance, Change Practice, Operational Excellence, Data Governance, User Experience and Content, and Creative Business Solutions. Our GBS main locations are Warsaw (Poland), Drogheda (Ireland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), San José (Costa Rica), Manila (Philippines), and Atlanta (Georgia, USA).

We offer our associates:
The Coca-Cola Company’s extraordinary heritage, our leading brands and the global scale of what we do.

The challenge of meaningful work – our unique global system offers constant opportunities to develop world-class skills and a truly international career.

A unique culture where people do what they love and live their values.

The kind of competitive compensation you would expect from a world leader.

At The Coca-Cola Company, our people have their own formula for turning passion into action. Together, that’s how we push the world’s greatest brands to new heights. What’s your secret formula?

Benefits Consultant

Atlanta, GA

Position Overview

Supports developing and finalizing best practices for benefit plans and programs, and ensures that benefit plans are written clearly and correctly and administered accurately and efficiently. Resolves escalated issues and communicates resolutions to relevant stakeholders. Works closely with vendors to ensure timely and accurate benefits processing (e.g. eligibility, payments, data valuations, etc.). Monitors metrics and service level agreements. Implements regulatory changes.

Assists in defining the issues and scope of assigned projects, and determines approach and methodology for implementation. Also serves as project manager during the execution phase. Benefit plans and programs may include health and welfare and retirement, and are structured as defined benefit and defined contribution, tax qualified and nonqualified, ERISA and non-ERISA, bargained and non-bargained, and cover eligible domestic employees, international service associates, and certain former employees.

Key Responsibilities

Provides accurate and consistent plan interpretation and recommendations for plan changes through in-depth research and knowledgeable consultation and discussion with others.

Timely and accurate review and approval of more complex escalations and ERISA claims and appeal responses.

Provides detailed, constructive impact analysis of proposed plan and legislative changes from legal, administrative, participant and other resources through in-depth research.

Develops and executes implementation strategies for plan changes and other benefits initiatives involving multiple customers and vendors through use of strong project management disciplines.

Develops group communications and training materials using depth of experience and proven proficiency in technical, marketing, and employee relations skills.

Develops timely legal notices in accordance with the Department of Labor’s participant disclosure requirements and ensures their proper distribution.

Serves as internal client relationship manager between the Company and third-party service providers.

Educates managers and employees on benefits plans and programs, practices, processes, and tools to ensure continual knowledge transfer, enhanced organizational capability, people development, and consistent service delivery.

Develops special benefits communications for sensitive employee situations.

Ensures communication channels (web sites, employee service centers, HR) are kept up- to-date of changes in benefit plans and programs, processes, and tools.

Education: Bachelor’s degree required

Related Experience: 10+ yrs of related work experience

Technical Skills :
Benefits Administration – Understanding of the administration, recordkeeping and operational aspects of multiple or single benefit plans. This includes the ability to interface with vendors, issue resolution, educate vendors, plan changes and initiate appropriate communications.

Benefit Determination – Understanding of plan provisions, eligibility determination, how to calculate the benefit, payment options, funding and payment process, reporting, applying all applicable laws governing payments (e.g., maximum limitations on contributions, benefits from qualified plans, pension offsets, reciprocity agreements, adjusted service).

Benefit Plan Design – Ability to design benefit plans including knowledge of eligibility issues, benefit formulas, tax impact, integration or coordination with government plans.

Benefit Communications and Training – Ability to develop communications (SPDs, SARs, newsletters) and training materials.

Compliance – Knowledge of regulatory laws that affect benefit plans. This includes knowledge of ERISA, FLSA , IRS and DOL to ensure consistency of application and legal compliance.

Financial Principles and Controls – Understanding financial aspects and Controls of benefit plans and programs, specifically actuarial, underwriting, benefits accounting and Sox.

Data Analysis – Knowledge of data analysis methods, which includes the ability to analyze and interpret data, identify trends and implications to the company.

Benefit Plan Reporting, Testing and Audit – Ability to prepare financial reports (5500s), conduct non-discrimination testing, support audits,

ISA Benefits – Knowledge of ISA benefits regarding integration with other company and local government plans.

Leadership Behaviors

DRIVE INNOVATION : Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business

COLLABORATE WITH SYSTEM, CUSTOMERS, AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS : Develop and leverage relationships with stakeholders to appropriately stretch and impact the System (Company and Bottler).

ACT LIKE AN OWNER : Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.

INSPIRE OTHERS : Inspire people to deliver our mission and 2020 Vision, demonstrate passion for the business and give people a reason to believe anything is possible.

DEVELOP SELF AND OTHERS : Develop self and support others’ development to achieve full potential.

That sounds appealing? Then start now – TASTE THE FEELING .

Please submit your application (CV and Cover Letter) in English.

Honesty and integrity have always been cornerstone values of The Coca-Cola Company. Our passion for people of integrity mirrors our spirited drive for total quality in our brands. These and other elements allow the company to sustain strategic practices and drive business performance. The Personnel Integrity Assurance Program is another step toward making The Coca-Cola Company the premier workplace. This process includes a pre-employment background investigation that applies to all applicants

employees

and contractors of the company. The scope of this inquiry may cover such elements as education

employment history

a criminal history check

reference checks

and a pre-employment drug screen. Designated countries or sensitive positions within the company may have more stringent standards.

At The Coca-Cola Company you can cultivate your career in a challenging and dynamic environment. We are the largest manufacturer and distributor of nonalcoholic drinks in the world-selling more than 1 billion drinks a day. Unlock your full potential with a future-focused company that is known and respected throughout the world.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.