PARC Benefits Specialist

Leatherhead, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

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PARC Benefits Specialist

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

KBR employs approximately 29,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across two synergistic global businesses.

The UK Benefits specialist role within the UK People Advice & Resource Centre (UK PARC) is a key position for managing KBR UK’s employee benefits and pension plans, ensuring they are efficiently administered and align with best practices. The primary objective is to deliver outstanding outcomes for both the business and employees, while working closely with internal teams, including the UK-based and Chennai based UK Benefits team members. The role focuses on managing the benefits and pension plans for KBR UK entities and ensuring smooth operation of the Company’s online flexible benefits portal. The role holder will report to the UK Compensation & Benefits Manager in the UK. This is a permanent full-time position.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a point of contact for resolving basic employee queries related to pensions and benefits, managing and resolve Workday Help support tickets, ensuring excellence in service and employee satisfaction, acting as the liaison between employees, the UK benefits team within PARC, benefit providers, and other stakeholders.
• Support the operation of the UK online flexible benefits portal, reviewing and validating data files exchanged with HR, payroll systems, and benefit providers.
• Work with the customer success manager at the portal provider, to ensure the smooth running of benefits through the portal and resolve any arising issues.
• Maintain and enhance content on the benefits portal, ensuring it is up-to-date and user-friendly for employees.
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of benefit communications to employees, leveraging the online portal and collaborating with the US benefits team on global initiatives.
• Execute monthly operational processes, including benefit deduction and pension contribution reconciliations, auto-enrolment checks, and the calculation of benefit balances on termination.
• Collaborate with account managers or relationship managers from UK benefits providers and internal teams including the wider PARC, HR BPs, payroll, IT, finance, and accounts payable to ensure seamless processing of benefit-related operations and timely and accurate communication to employees.
• Manage the KBR UK Benefits email mailbox, the gateway for digital communication with all stakeholders
• Support in maintaining benefits documentation including brochures and guides and benefits process notes
• Assist HR teams and other corporate functions in managing pension and benefit needs for secondments, overseas assignments, TUPE transfers and other ad hoc requirements.
• Support annual and triennial reviews of benefit provider and insurance contracts
• Assist in strategic projects including the design and delivery of benefit improvements for the upcoming year
• Participate in benchmarking activities for benefits offerings, staying informed about global trends and suggesting innovative ideas for KBR's strategy.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of health and wellness programs to support employee well-being.
• Work with global teams on international benefits initiatives and projects to ensure consistency and alignment across regions
  
  

Experience

• Familiarity with UK benefits portals and benefits administration including data file interface processes.
• Experience with benefits renewals, annual enrolment windows, and managing benefit reconciliations.
• Understanding of auto-enrollment, pension contributions, and compliance with UK tax laws.
• Understanding of defined contribution and defined benefit pension schemes
• Experience with salary sacrifice schemes (pensions, cycle to work, childcare vouchers, company vehicles).
• Experience with Benefex’s OneHub system and Workday as a HR system - desirable
• Experience with time recording systems (SAP, Costpoint, Microsoft Dynamics - desirable)
• Previous experience with UK payroll systems (Workday, SAP, ADP - desirable)
• Experience of proactively suggesting improvements to benefit processes and employee experience (desirable)
• Experience in health and wellness program development and employee communications (desirable).
  
  

Technical Skills/Knowledge

• Strong communication skills for resolving employee queries and explaining benefits and maintaining relationships with pension and benefit providers.
• Knowledge of UK company pension plans and benefits programs, UK payroll systems including pay types and benefits codes and UK income tax and National Insurance tax
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and deadline management.
• Advanced Excel skills for data analysis and reconciliations (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables).
• Proficient in other Microsoft Office applications (Teams, Word, PowerPoint).
• Understanding of data security and confidentiality under GDPR.
  
  

KBR Company Information

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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