Benefits Analyst in Bengaluru, India

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in a Human Resource or Benefits role.

• Experience in project and program management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Benefits or Compensation role.

• Ability to engage with clients (e.g., employees, HR stakeholders) to understand their needs and manage escalated benefit issues.

• Ability to work collaboratively and manage multiple internal and external stakeholders.

• Client-service orientation, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and work well in an environment with competing demands.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present data and insights in a clear and succinct manner.

Google’s known for our innovative technologies, products and services — and for the people behind them. Whether you are making our staffing systems more efficient, planning for our growth, building relationships on college campuses or cultivating the next generation of computer scientists, you have an eye on the staffing needs of Google and the broader hiring landscape. You are focused on cultivating outstanding candidates for Google’s long-term hiring needs, and work across a cross-functional and international group of staffing teams. You are both scrappy and resourceful, creative and driven — and excited to share the magic of working at Google.

In this role, you will join the India Compensation and Benefits team, and manage the delivery of Google’s benefits programs. You will partner with internal stakeholders, HR partners, and service providers to deliver benefits programs. You will manage several projects at once, combining data and feedback with the latest industry research to help make data-driven decisions that impacts Google in a meaningful way.

Great just isn’t good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as “Human Resources”). We bring the world’s most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field. You’ll play an essential role advancing a more diverse, accessible, equitable, and inclusive Google through our hiring, promotion, retention, and inclusion practices.

• Support the India Compensation and Benefits (C&B) team in managing the Benefits portfolio for the market. This includes owning and managing identified benefit programs working closely with the India C&B Lead and team.

• Partner with stakeholders and colleagues in HR Operations to provide seamless delivery of programs, robust mechanisms to review program performance.

• Own relevant provider relationships, including overall performance metrics, uptake and financial metrics.

• Coordinate annual programmatic interventions such as budget planning, actuarial valuations, payments and invoicing as well as partnership with HR operations and stakeholders in managing benefits query support. Consult with employees on eligibility, coverage, and claims procedures.

• Contribute to the overall rewards communication and engagement strategy, including communications planning and execution. Ensuring benefit programs adhere to relevant regulatory and compliance requirements.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.