Hybrid Benefits Analyst 1 – Healthy Wallet

at Nordstrom

• Job title: Benefits Analyst 1 – Healthy Wallet
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Seattle, United States

About the role

• Benefits Analyst at Nordstrom supporting Healthy Wallet programs and delivering seamless benefits experience. Collaborating across teams for effective benefits administration and compliance support.

Responsibilities

• Effectively partners and collaborates with cross functional teams, including benefit plan owners, payroll, and HRIS
• Provides operational and administrative support for Nordstrom retirement plans, including ownership of vendor billing, contribution and loan repayment funding, reconciliation support and error correction, audits, participant fee allocations and other ongoing plan administration activities
• Supports compliance related projects by ensuring adherence to established repeatable regulatory and policy requirements through consistent execution of standardized processes and controls
• Ensures documents are current and accurately reflect plan rules
• Supports surveys and benchmarking for the Nordstrom retirement plans as well as other periodic benefits surveys
• Provides operational support for commuter benefits, including vendor coordination, billing reconciliation, eligibility support, and issue resolution to ensure a smooth employee experience
• Manages the Nordstrom Adoption Assistance Program including maintenance of policy and other program documentation, support of employee escalations and supports communications, as needed
• Supports the Nordstrom Employee Relief Fund and Nordstrom Disaster Relief Fund including program strategy and recommendations, policies and forms, benchmarking and metrics, as well as day-to-day application reviews and other operational activities
• Raises trends and complex escalations to appropriate plan/program owners
• Provide administrative support, such as maintaining and filing benefits documents and escalations and back-up for other benefits functions and projects as needed
• Reporting and tracking of various benefits programs, projects, and initiatives

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in human resources, benefit administration, payroll, compensation, trust accounting or related field
• Experience managing projects or programs of moderate to medium complexity
• Effective collaboration skills, including establishing and maintaining effective working relationships at all levels of the organization and with external vendor partners
• Effective time management and organization skills enabling ability to deliver on multiple competing priorities
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently in a team environment
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills including the ability to deliver presentations
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred

Benefits

• Medical/Vision, Dental
• Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources