Pension & Benefits Advisor

Role overview

Location and work arrangement

• The role is hybrid, combining remote and in-person work, primarily at Enterprise Square in Edmonton.

Employee benefits support

• Advise and educate employees about benefit offerings, costs, elections, enrollment, changes, terminations, eligibility, and related questions.
• Manage daily benefit-event maintenance and open enrollment, and check reports for correct initial benefit selections.
• Enroll employees in optional benefits upon receipt of completed forms and process changes related to significant life events.
• Work with Leave Administrators to advise employees when leaves and life events affect benefits.
• Calculate premiums for employees who prepay benefits during unpaid leave and resolve coverage or claims issues with providers.
• Administer annual programs including academic child care, student declarations, and health and personal spending account allocations.

Pension, systems, and reporting

• Work with Functional Analysts on business and reporting requirements, plan maintenance, and PeopleSoft HCM processes and functionality.
• Manage member terminations and retirements in third-party pension enrollment systems for UAPP and PSPP.
• Coordinate year-end pension data validation and updates, review benefit rate and program-table changes, and test setup against business requirements.

Required qualifications

• Related post-secondary certificate, diploma, or degree.
• Experience with UAPP, PSPP, LAPP, or another defined contribution pension plan.

Desirable qualifications

• Human Resources Management credential, CEBS, PPAC, or equivalent designation and experience are desirable.
• Two to four years working with benefit and pension plans in a large, unionized employer is desirable.
• The available PeopleSoft HCM experience requirement is truncated, so its status cannot be determined from the source text.

Term

• The position is for a two-year term from the date of hire.