Senior Total Rewards Analyst

This is a Full Time Job

Senior Analyst, Total Rewards Player 15 Group & PHX Arena Phoenix, AZ

At Player 15 Group, we aren't just building a team: we're crafting a legacy.

We're a collective of visionaries who consistently put people first, knowing that true greatness is forged through shared passion and purpose. Service focused to our core, we're driven by an insatiable desire to innovate and elevate every experience. Our strength lies in unity, where diverse talents converge to achieve extraordinary feats, and we infuse every endeavor with genuine joy. Here, a relentless pursuit of growth isn't just encouraged-it's the very air we breathe. If you're ready to transcend expectations, unlock unparalleled potential, and dedicate your energy to something truly special, your moment to make an indelible mark on the future of sports and live entertainment starts now.

Guided by the Player 15 Group Values and Principles, the Senior Analyst, Total Rewards is a detail-oriented and people-focused partner who provides meticulous facilitation in the day-to-day tasks of our benefits programs, owns the buildout and enhancement of our wellness initiatives, while also delivering intermediate support to compensation activities across all departments and teams (Suns, Mercury, Valley Suns, and PHX Arena). This People & Culture (P&C) role helps ensure each team member has an amazing experience, feeling the value of our total rewards program from when they are first offered a role and continuing through the lifetime of their employment. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Total Rewards this role will focus every day on educating and empowering our team members to get the most out of our full suite of total rewards offerings.

This is a great opportunity for a person who delivers exceptional attention to detail, and also brings a balanced, empathetic approach to their communication with a wide variety of stakeholders. Ideal candidates will be energized by the opportunity to forge relationships with our team members early in their tenure and build process efficiencies that enhance our programs even further. The initial focus of the role will require heavy emphasis on the Benefits programs and Open Enrollment, while laying the foundation to create enhancements to our Wellness initiatives. Growth and exposure to our Compensation administration is expected to increase significantly after 6-8 months during the planning phases of our next fiscal year.

What You Will Do:

Benefits Programs:

Process administrative, training, and analytical tasks related to employee benefits programs, including:
• Owning the execution of the annual Open Enrollment process (see Scheduled Projects)
• Delivering group presentations on the organization's full total rewards program offerings.
• Educating individual team members on health benefit offerings and eligibility criteria.
• Enrollments and audits of new hire, open enrollment, and qualifying life event instances.
• Terminations and COBRA processing due to separation or change in eligibility status.
• Enhancing the relationship with benefits broker to identify employee trends and escalate enrollment / eligibility situations when they arise.
• Auditing enrollments, terminations, and vendor reporting for accuracy.
• Coordination with team members to obtain dependent verification documents.
• Provide backup support on 401(k) plan actions and funding transactions.

Leave & Disability Programs:

Serve as the primary point-of-contact to submit and respond to claims involving Disability, Leave, and Worker's Compensation programs.
• Issue documentation packets with pre-populated demographic information, including federal FMLA forms, insurance carrier claim forms, and internal reporting templates.
• Interact with carrier representatives to facilitate the follow-up submission of claim documentation and/or connect directly with impacted team members.

Wellness Initiatives:

Oversight on the full scope of the organization's wellness initiatives, including:
• Owning the execution of the organization's annual Wellness Olympics (see Scheduled Projects).
• Developing and delivering a schedule of small and mid-sized events on a regular basis to align with monthly, quarterly, and annual calendars.
• Collaboration with internal Team Member Experience colleagues to connect wellness to larger organizational events.
• Conducting team members surveys to identify gaps or enhancements to the program.
• Screen and build relationships with wellness vendors.

Scheduled Projects:

Deliver against assigned major project initiatives on a semi-annual basis:
• Manage annual benefits Open Enrollment process from October through January.
• Develop and collaborate on communications plan schedule and implementation.
• Ensure 100% completion from all employees during 2 weeks of active Open Enrollment period.
• Compile and review enrollment census data in advance of carrier submissions by end of November.
• Conduct post-implementation audits of all carrier enrollments by the end of January.
• Provide event management role for annual Wellness Fair in mid-summer:
• Establish schedule and external vendor participation.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders on communications plan and facility usage plans.
• Create activities to ensure employee engagement beyond simple participation during event activities.

Relationship Initiatives:

Collaboration with internal & external stakeholders on data integrity initiatives:
• Ensure accurate entry of benefits deductions in HRIS system for weekly Payroll processing.
• Conduct weekly invoice reconciliation with Accounting department to ensure insurance carrier and vendor payments are made on a timely basis.
• Calculating and submitting funding to brokers or financial institutions for numerous welfare / retirement benefits each week.
• Contributing to periodic internal audit activities through report generation and review.
• Provide tracking and reporting for all periodic Total Rewards functions with pass-through for Executive leadership team presentations.
• Collaborate with P&C Business Partners on employee relations issues that include impact to benefits, leave, and/or payroll reporting.

Compensation Activity

Support the organization's Compensation Administration initiatives, including:
• Monitoring, reporting, and implementation of part-time team members wage adjustments in collaboration with P&C Business Partner team.
• Conducting compensation analysis to generate candidate offers for Talent Acquisition team.
• Collaborate with People Operations and leadership on the preparation of documentation around annual merit and bonus cycles.
• Supporting the Senior Manager, Total Rewards on data entry and validation of wage information for semi-annual total rewards surveys (Mercer).

What We Need from Our Senior Analyst:
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills – we live our principle to ''Be Curious, not Perfect'' but strive to minimize self-inflicted errors.
• Demonstrated skill in Business Acumen to connect task / process with program strategy.
• Advanced analytical and mathematical skills to calculate complex functions involving employee wage determinations and high-dollar vendor funding transactions.
• This includes proficiency with keyboard shortcuts and 10-key capabilities to process and audit a high-volume of demographic entry requirements.
• Strict adherence to confidentiality

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