Jennifer Rodriguez
Sr. Benefits Manager
Orlando, FL
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Seeking a position that will effectively leverage and maximize over twelve years’ of experience in benefits administration, management, building relationships, project management, conducting new hire benefit orientations, counseling employees regarding eligibility and benefits plan coverage, ensuring the benefits website is up to date, and managing all new implementations and testing with regards to benefits and new systems, and extracting relevant information from financial reports; to quickly learn, grow, and effectively utilize and transfer these skills to contribute to the success of your organization.
Experience
2017
May
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Present
Sr. Benefits Manager,
TAVISTOCK RESTAURANTS GROUP AND FREEBIRDS WORLD BURRITO / Orlando, FL
- Oversee the review, communication, and implementation of the annual open enrolment process and the annual total compensation review.
- Ensure compliance with all governmental regulations related to compensation, retirement, and benefits programs.
- Lead special projects to clean benefit data and create all statements, plus calculate benefits, to support enterprise-level benefit program upgrade.
- Manage the strategic design and development of Health and Welfare programs such as Medical, Dental, Vision, Wellness, AD&D and Retirement programs
- Analyze and evaluate services, coverage, and options available through insurance and investment companies to determine programs best meeting needs of the organization.
- Coach, mentor, and manage daily work of Benefits Administrator and Assistant
- Travel for business benefits consulting and or conferences purposes.
- Manage Wellness program across the company
- Work with PeopleMatter, PeopleSoft, UltiPro HRIS systems and Oracle systems. Maintain personnel records and files ensuring security, confidentiality, and proper records retention.
2015
May
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2017
May
Benefits Administrator
TAVISTOCK RESTAURANTS GROUP AND FREEBIRDS WORLD BURRITO / Orlando
- Provide benefit orientations, enrollments and claims processing.
- Analyze and recommend solutions to employee benefits packages
- Manage benefit plan audits in excess of $15 billion of assets, including preparation of audits for retirement and health and welfare plans
- Finalize and review 1095c forms for all employees before printing
- Utilize out of the box thinking and multi-lingual skills to interact with employees
- Manage vendor broker consulting relationships
- Arrange meetings, seminars, presentations, etc., for employees during Open Enrollment and throughout the year
2006
Jul
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2012
Dec
Sr. Benefits Supervisor
AON / Orlando
- Managed Health & Welfare, 401k, Pension, FMLA and Medicare.
- Worked with my team to make sure Open Enrollment was processed and handled in a timely matter
- Assisted Head Executives with record tracking and auditing reporting.
- Supervised a team of 30 employees and managing over 30,000 employee accounts such as Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and the Red Cross.
- Negotiated contracts and maintained strong relationships with vendors and broker
Education
2009
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2012
University of Central Florida
Business Management / Management
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