EMEA Benefits Advisor

Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Global Benefits Team in our London office?

In this role, you will support the Firm’s benefits programmes across the EMEA region, ensuring effective, compliant, and consistent delivery. You will establish efficient operations and programme implementations, creating a positive experience for employees and partners. This involves setting the strategy and standards for delivering benefits to partners and employees worldwide.

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional with domestic benefits experience to step into an international role. You will work with a global team, engage in complex, cross-border benefits delivery, and contribute to a high-performing team with a real impact on employee experience.

As part of our global People team, you will utilise and develop your skills across various roles, including advisor, project manager, recruiter, talent manager, and benefits expert. We combine traditional HR tasks with strategic initiatives to attract, retain, and engage top talent. Our team is recognised for its high-performance work ethic and for fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture. Working closely with partners and business leaders, you will gain extensive experience, helping our teams perform at their highest level and deliver exceptional client service.

Key Responsibilities

• Benefits Administration, Renewal Processes and Pension Reporting
• Managing the administration of benefits programmes in alignment with Firm policies and regional requirements
• Ensuring all benefits-related content on relevant internal and external systems is accurate and up to date
• Supporting annual benefits renewal processes, including vendor management, data analysis, reporting, and communications
• Managing the monthly partner pension reporting process, ensuring timely and accurate upload of contribution files for the UK Pension plan
• Escalation Point and Process Improvement
• Acting as the escalation point for our HR Shared Services team to resolve complex employee and partner benefits queries
• Continuously documenting and refining current processes, identifying opportunities to streamline operations and improve efficiency
• Annual Bonus Exchange
• Leading the annual bonus exchange process, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure smooth execution, accurate processing, and compliance in the UK
• Data Analytics:
• Leveraging data analytics through tools like Microsoft Power BI and the broker’s technology platform to enhance benefits reporting and drive strategic decision-making
• Partnerships and Collaboration:
• Developing successful partnerships with external vendor contacts
• Establishing strong collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders, including People Advisory (HR) colleagues, Partner Resources, Compensation, Payroll, and HR Operations teams
• Ensuring concerted efforts to deliver excellence to our partners and employees

Qualifications And Skills

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant benefits experience, including experience with UK benefit administration and vendor management of pension, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail and outstanding critical thinking skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-service environment
• Experience with Benifex and Workday preferred
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative, and communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with all levels of partners and employees

What We Offer

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a Benefits professional, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

Location and Reporting

This role is based in our London office and reports to the Manager, Benefits - EMEA.

Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a current requirement for 3 days in the office per week.

Firm Benefits

We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include:

• Private medical insurance
• Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
• Yearly wellbeing fund
• Income protection
• Holiday purchase
• Life insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Private GP services
• Travel insurance
• Dental coverage
• Cycle to work
• Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment)

Equal Opportunity Statement

White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us. We will be happy to work with you.

Note to recruitment agencies: Our internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction.

Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the London Recruitment team.

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