Leave and Benefits Specialist

Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA; hybrid schedule with 4 days onsite and 1 day remote. This position is not eligible for fully remote work.

Company

hirify.global provides recycling, waste, environmental, and sustainability services across North America.

What you will do

• Administer employee leave of absence programs and monitor leave and disability cases.
• Process, validate, and reconcile daily integration files between leave and disability vendors.
• Coordinate vendor escalations, complex cases, service issues, and process improvements.
• Support health and welfare benefits, including eligibility changes, benefit continuation, reinstatement, and payroll deductions.
• Reconcile data across leave vendors, benefits platforms, HRIS, and payroll systems.
• Support open enrollment, employee inquiries, documentation updates, and issue resolution.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience working with Microsoft Excel, large data sets, audits, and data analysis.
• Experience in leave administration, benefits administration, HR operations, or with third-party leave and benefits vendors.
• Experience supporting both leave administration and health and welfare benefits.
• Familiarity with HRIS, benefits administration platforms, payroll systems, and absence or case-management platforms.
• Strong Excel skills, including sorting, filtering, formulas, lookups, and data reconciliation.
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving, organization, communication, and follow-through in high-volume processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
• Short- and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Retirement plan with company match and employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off, employee assistance, and discount programs.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.