Leave of Absence and ADA Accommodation Specialist/Benefits Specialist

Swoon is actively hiring a Leave of Absence & ADA Accommodation Specialist/Benefits Specialist to join the team!

What your day-to-day will look like?

• Manage employee leave cases from start to finish, including FMLA, ADA, short- and long-term disability, state leave, and company-sponsored programs.
• Lead the ADA accommodation interactive process, evaluate complex requests, collect documentation, and partner with employees and managers to determine reasonable accommodations.
• Monitor and audit the third-party administrator’s performance, reviewing leave records, employee communications, case statuses, data accuracy, and SLA compliance.
• Coordinate leave pay, benefit deductions, return-to-work requirements, and employee status updates with Payroll, HR, Benefits, managers, and outside vendors.
• Administer employee benefit programs, including enrollments, qualifying life events, terminations, open enrollment, disability, retirement, and wellness benefits.
• Maintain accurate information in the HRIS, ideally Ceridian Dayforce or Absence Pro, while preparing reports, reconciling data, and identifying overdue or incorrect cases.
• Ensure compliance with FMLA, ADA, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, ACA, DOL requirements, and multi-state leave laws while documenting procedures and improving leave and benefits processes.

What’s Required / Technical Skills

• End-to-end, in-house leave-of-absence administration-, including FMLA, state leaves, and company-sponsored leave programs.
• Strong knowledge of ADA accommodations and the Strong interactive process, including evaluating complex or unclear cases.
• Experience administering short-term and long-term disability programs.
• HRIS experience managing leave records, employee statuses, documentation, reporting, and data accuracy.
• Third-party administrator and vendor management, including auditing cases, communications, data, and SLA performance.
• Knowledge of federal and multi-state leave regulations, including FMLA, ADA, DOL requirements, and applicable state laws.
• Proactive and independent case-management skills, with the ability to prioritize overdue work and improve processes without requiring close supervision.

Highly preferred skills

• Ceridian Dayforce experience.
• AbsencePro or ComPsych experience.
• Employer-side/in-house leave administration rather than exclusively TPA experience.
• Benefits administration, including enrollment, life events, open enrollment, and vendor coordination.
• Reporting, analytics, audits, and advanced Excel skills.
• Experience creating SOPs, policies, and leave-administration guidelines.
• CEBS, PHR, SHRM-CP, or CLMS certification.

What else you should know?

Job Title: Leave of Absence & ADA Accommodation Specialist/Benefits Specialist

Contract – 1-year contract to hire role based on performance

Remote – MUST reside in the United states – No outside work can be done!

Hourly Rate - $30-35 an hour

Work Authorization -US Citizen or Permanent Resident Only not available for Visa Sponsorship or C2C /C2H

What’s Next?

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