Welcome to a team of caring and passionate people who work each day to meet the needs of our members and clients. At Health Benefits, you will be part of an organization committed to offering custom self-funded health benefits plans that manage costs – without compromising benefits – by offering innovative solutions, flexibility, transparency, and customer support. We are now a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation, the largest customer-owned insurance company in the United States and a strategic partner of Health Benefits since 2018, giving us access to increased national scale and support. This is an exciting time to join our team and enhance our culture that emphasizes caring, diversity and inclusion, mutual respect, collaboration, and service to our communities.  

Health Benefits is seeking a EDI Coordinator. This position involves analyzing a vendor file layout(s) and the needs of the particular vendor, writing business requirements, meeting with vendors and programmers to ensure understanding, creating test plans and testing scenarios, documenting testing results and collaborating with programmers to achieve the end result and finally providing user sign off for deployment of files to production.  This position requires analytical and critical thinking skills to ensure that programming is accurate based on the needs of a client’s vendor.  In addition this position works with team members and other internal customers and external customers by analyzing a question or issue to either provide an explanation or determine if programming changes are needed and work with programmers to implement a change when needed.  Problem solving and sound decision making skills are needed.

You will be eligible to work from home in a hybrid capacity of 2 days in the office and 3 days work from home.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Understand the overall purpose of why a vendor needs a particular file(s)
• Analyze a vendor file layout(s) field by field
• Meet with vendor and/or client to obtain additional information when needs are unclear
• Facilitate ongoing communication with vendor and/or client
• Write detailed business requirements
• Meet with programmers to ensure understanding of needs for each field on a file layout
• Create test plans for a specific file(s) based on client and vendor criteria
• Create testing scenarios in the test region
• Perform review of test files field by field and document testing results. The review and testing cycle may occur multiple times. Collaborate with programmers on solutions to achieve the end result needed.
• Track progress and ensure due dates are met
• Provide final user sign off after all requirements have been met so programming can be deployed to the production environment
• Review and audit 1st production files to ensure production turnover accuracy
• Work collaboratively with team members, other internal departments and external customers to analyze and research a question, determine a solution and provide an explanation or request programming changes when necessary.
• Other duties as needed/assigned

 JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent experience
• Prior work experience 
• 4 years of Prior experience working in the insurance or TPA industry in a technical role working with EDI files and/or analyzing and testing electronic data files or relevant technical experience 
• Understanding of EDI terminology and file structures
• Ability to read, understand and interpret file specifications
• Experience with SQL and compare tools like UltraEdit
• Proven problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills are essential
• Ability to determine solutions and resolve issues with minimal supervision
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and other internal departments as well as external vendors 
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize workload in a frequently interrupted environment 
• Proficient with Excel and Word
• Strong written, verbal, collaboration and interpersonal communication skills
• Sound decision making skills
• Customer service focused

Come join Health Benefits! Join a team that will not only utilize your current skills but will enhance them as well.

If you are a Colorado or New York resident and this role is a field-based or remote role, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, age, veteran, or disability.

Required Skills Required Experience

Prior experience teaching in a law school and practice experience in international estate planning is strongly preferred. 

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY HR WEBSITE.

Applicants should email a letter of interest and a resume to the Director of the Graduate Tax Program at gradtax@bu.edu

ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 1, 2021.  

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.