Employee Benefits Manager, Grade 26

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in human resources, accounting or a related field required; supplemented by five years of experience in payroll benefits and/or pension administration including progressively responsible supervisory experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Specific License or Certification Required: None.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all county or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position.

Purpose of Classification:

The purpose of this classification is to manage operations of the Benefits, Payroll and Pension units in the Finance Department. Responsibilities include overseeing work of staff administering benefits programs and payroll processes for active and retired employees, beneficiaries and dependents and serving as a liaison to other departments and agencies regarding employee benefits program issues. This classification is distinguished from Employee Benefits Supervisor in that this class manages and provides general administration over the Payroll, Employee Benefits, and Pension Programs, whereas the latter manages assigned staff in addition to overseeing the daily operations and activities of these programs.

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

Participates in acquisition of benefit, payroll, and pension vendors, administrators, service providers, and insured products: monitors effectiveness and makes recommendations for acquisition of professional services and products; manages activities of vendor service providers; serves as liaison for County-wide employee communications; coordinates with Payroll/Benefit representatives and department heads, committee assignments and prepares/makes presentations as required; and coordinates Division related training with Training Department.

Performs other related duties as required.

Performance Aptitudes:

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.

Human Interaction: Requires the ability to function in a managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit; includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.

Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions; to deal with several concrete and abstract variables; and to analyze major problems that require complex planning for interrelated activities that can span one or several work units.

Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving broader aspects of organizational programs and operations, moderately unstable situations, or the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.

Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or work station.

Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.

Fulton County is an Equal Opportunity and Equal Access Employer Encouraging Diversity.