[Remote] Lead Compliance Consultant - Employee Benefits (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alliant Insurance Services is one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the U.S., dedicated to providing employee benefits solutions. The Lead Compliance Consultant will offer technical compliance guidance, lead team members, and develop content addressing compliance legislation for clients and internal staff.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic decision making about compliance content development and deployment
• Uses independent judgment to respond to difficult client and account team situations
• Develop subject matter expertise and responsibility for supporting the team, and acts as a subject matter expert during staff trainings
• Leads and may supervise team members, delegates and monitors work, handles escalated inquiries, conducts staff training and fields questions
• Timely develops content addressing new compliance legislation on behalf of the national Compliance team for distribution internally and to clients in a straightforward, practical way; includes educational webinars, seminars, alerts, white papers, checklists, frequently asked questions (FAQs) etc.; includes review and ability to understand and summarize regulatory source material
• Partners with other members of the Compliance team to ensure Compliance portal content is current
• Partners with brokers, managing directors, and service teams on key accounts; includes attending meetings and participating in conference calls per established national Compliance engagement protocol
• Engages with local operational lead to assess local client compliance needs and account team training needs
• Contributes significantly in developing Compliance content for the national Compliance team, for client distribution and to educate staff on compliance issues that ensures competence
• Provides timely daily compliance question and answer support for local Alliant employee benefits practice based on regional or office assignments in a timely manner; ensures issues are triaged and addressed per established national Compliance engagement protocol
• Contributes in developing processes and a templates library to support client service teams, updating them as needed
• Participates in prospect meetings per established National Compliance engagement protocol to present Alliant Compliance capabilities
• Performs all duties in accordance with all company policies and procedures, and all federal, state and local laws, wherein the Company operates
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Eight (8) or more years of related work experience in the employee benefits and compliance areas
• Experience drafting white papers on benefits compliance issues and written legal analysis
• Experience in public speaking, including developing and delivering benefits compliance training content
• ATT-JD - Attorney
• Active State Bar License
• Command of employee benefits laws and regulations that includes a practical understanding of how they relate to benefit program administration with specific knowledge of the ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA and Medicare
• Understanding of regulatory agencies and rulemaking processes that can impact employee benefits
• Basic understanding of leaves of absence and time off policy requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex topics in a practical way and provide practical answers to client questions
• Excellent problem solving, organizational and prioritization skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and timely deliver content in keeping with established processes
• Ability to lead or take direction, as appropriate

Benefits

• We are proud to provide comprehensive, high quality employee programs to meet employees' needs now and in the future, including a very competitive financial package.

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