Senior Specialist, Benefits (MENA & APAC)
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About the Role
Checkout.com is looking for a proactive Benefits Expert to design, implement, and enhance benefits programs for the APAC and MENA regions. The role involves managing vendor relationships, driving strategic planning, and ensuring seamless benefits delivery.
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Responsibilities
- Lead Benefits Administration: own and execute day to day operations of regional benefits programs in APAC and MENA, including enrollments, payroll integrations, compliance, and employee inquiries
- Manage Vendors and Systems: serve as primary point of contact for external benefits providers, negotiate contracts, oversee invoices, and manage benefits systems like AON
- Drive Strategic Planning and Benchmarking: research market trends, use data to analyze plan utilization, and recommend improvements
- Manage Renewals and Implementations: take full ownership of benefits renewals and new program implementations, including employee surveys and communications
- Solve Problems and Handle Escalations: act as go to expert for benefits issues, troubleshoot system errors, resolve complex employee escalations, and streamline processes
- Collaborate Cross Functionally: partner with Payroll, People Onboarding, Finance, Accounting, and Procurement to ensure smooth execution of benefits programs
- Take Full Ownership: work with high degree of autonomy ensuring both operational excellence and long term strategic enhancements
Requirements
- Extensive experience managing end to end benefits programs with deep understanding of benefits strategy, design, and administration in MENA and APAC Region
- In depth understanding of key health, welfare, and retirement benefits administration functions including vendor coordination, handling employee changes, processing qualifying life events and appeals, and managing annual enrollment
- Proven ability to manage vendors, negotiate contracts, and oversee benefits systems and platforms
- Experience using data to analyze trends, benchmark against the market, and recommend strategic improvements
- Hands on, proactive approach to managing projects and solving problems autonomously; comfortable leading benefit renewals and new implementations with minimal guidance
- Excellent communication, presentation skills, and ability to articulate complex benefits information with empathy
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to connect with employees and management
- Advanced Google sheet/Excel skills, ability to implement automations and streamline processes
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced work environment
- Experience using Workday and/or an alternative benefits platform, including launching Open Enrollment, updating benefit plans, and running reports
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Company Description
- Checkout.com enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.
- The company powers payments for businesses like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony.
- With 20 offices across six continents and London as HQ, Checkout.com is shaping the future of fintech.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead Benefits Administration: own and execute day to day operations of regional benefits programs in APAC and MENA.
- Manage Vendors and Systems: serve as primary point of contact for external benefits providers, negotiate contracts, oversee invoices, and manage benefits systems.
- Drive Strategic Planning and Benchmarking: research market trends, use data to analyze plan utilization, and recommend improvements.
- Manage Renewals and Implementations: take full ownership of benefits renewals and new program implementations.
- Solve Problems and Handle Escalations: act as go to expert for benefits issues, troubleshoot system errors, resolve complex employee escalations.
- Collaborate Cross Functionally: partner with Payroll, People Onboarding, Finance, Accounting, and Procurement.
- Take Full Ownership: work with high degree of autonomy ensuring both operational excellence and long term strategic enhancements.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience managing end to end benefits programs with deep understanding of benefits strategy, design, and administration in MENA and APAC Region.
- In depth understanding of key health, welfare, and retirement benefits administration functions.
- Proven ability to manage vendors, negotiate contracts, and oversee benefits systems and platforms.
- Experience using data to analyze trends, benchmark against the market, and recommend strategic improvements.
- Hands on, proactive approach to managing projects and solving problems autonomously.
- Excellent communication, presentation skills, and ability to articulate complex benefits information with empathy.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to connect with employees and management.
- Advanced Google sheet/Excel skills, ability to implement automations and streamline processes.
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced work environment.
- Experience using Workday and/or an alternative benefits platform.
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