Benefits Associate

Location: Mexico City (Hybrid)

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers. We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon.

As a Benefits Associate supporting the Employee Benefits team, you will provide Tier-1 colleague support for benefits-related questions and transactions across assigned countries or populations. The role serves as a first point of contact for routine inquiries, case intake, and basic issue resolution, while coordinating with payroll, external vendors, and the Global Benefits COE to ensure timely and accurate service delivery.

This role supports day-to-day benefits administration activities, including enrollments, changes, terminations, vendor coordination, and payroll-related benefits updates. A key responsibility of the position is performing reconciliation work, including colleague census, eligibility, pension contribution, invoice, and premium reviews, to help ensure records and payments are accurate.

In this role, a typical day will include:

Customer Support and Case Management

• Serves as a Tier-1 point of contact for colleague benefits questions, routine issue resolution, and case intake through the HR Service Center.
• Escalates complex cases, exceptions, plan interpretation questions, and non-routine issues to senior team members, payroll, vendors, or the Global Benefits COE as appropriate.
• Supports claim administration and collect documentation needed to facilitate submissions or follow-up with colleagues, beneficiaries, and vendors, as applicable.

Benefits Administration

• Supports day-to-day benefits administration activities, including new hire enrollments, benefit changes, life event updates, terminations, and other colleague transactions in accordance with established procedures.
• Collects and processes required documentation for enrollments, dependent or beneficiary updates, claims support, and other benefits transactions where applicable.
• Supports periodic enrollment windows, flexible benefits administration, and country-specific benefit processes as assigned.

Coordination Support (Payroll, Vendors, Stakeholder)

• Coordinates benefit-related data updates and communications with payroll, benefit vendors, and internal stakeholders to support accurate administration.
• Coordinates benefit-related payroll inputs and follows up on payroll deduction or contribution issues to help ensure accuracy and timely resolution.
• Supports administration of benefits or voucher programs that are not fully managed by external vendors, following defined processes and controls.

Reconciliation and Financial Administration

• Performs reconciliation work, including colleague census, eligibility, pension contribution, invoice, and premium reviews, and follows established processes to investigate and resolve routine discrepancies.
• Processes and reconciles benefit invoices, premium payments, allowances, reimbursements, and other assigned transactions in coordination with finance, payroll, and vendors.
• Prepares, distributes, and reconciles eligibility, enrollment, and other recurring reports used for benefits administration and vendor processing.

Retirement Programs

• Supports retirement and pension administration activities for designated countries or programs, including contribution updates, coordination with vendors, and related administrative follow-up, with training and guidance provided.

Process, Documentation & Continuous Improvement

• Maintains and updates process documentation, templates, and service resources to support consistent and effective service delivery.
• Performs additional related duties as assigned by the manager or in coordination with the Global Benefits COE.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (Accounting, Finance, Administration, Psychology, or related)
• Advanced level of English
• Experience: prior experience in customer service, shared services, HR operations, benefits administration, payroll support, or other administrative work is preferred.
• High level customer service orientation and ability to communicate clearly with colleagues, vendors, and internal stakeholders
• High level attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through, especially when reviewing and reconciling data
• Comfort working with data, reports, and common business software such as Excel and Word
• Experience with HR systems or service management tools is preferred

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:

• Opportunity to join a growing, early-stage organization built within a mature, stable global company.
• Friendly working environment and a diverse and highly motivated team
• Individual career development plan and possible career growth within a newly created account
• Truly international environment and daily interactions with colleagues and stakeholders from all over the world
• Attractive benefits & compensation package
• Flexible hours and remote work possibilities (min 3 days per week office-based)

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