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Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States.
Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.
Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers. To learn more, visit vestwell.com
Who Are We Looking For?
Vestwell is expanding and we’re excited about adding a Specialist to our Document Compliance Team (Retirement Services Division) who is passionate about our mission to change the retirement FinTech space. At a high level, we’re looking for a dedicated specialist to assist our Operations team to manage plan document drafting, amendments and restatements. Ideally, you have spent a few years working with sponsors, recordkeepers and/or TPAs and have dedicated some or all of your prior experience supporting plan design and plan document services for 401(k) and 403(b) plans.
What Will You Be Doing?
A key component of Vestwell’s mission to empower retirement savings includes bundled plan services and oversight. As a Specialist on the Plan Documents Team, you will work closely with our Onboarding, Retirement Plan Administration, Client Success, and Employer Services Teams to handle plan design reviews, drafting plan documents, and preparing plan amendments while consulting with teams on their operational considerations.
Day-to-Day, You May Also Be Expected To:
- Provide Documents Compliance Team support - prepare plan documents including: discretionary and interim amendments, restatements, participant notices, and related disclosures
- Develop subject matter expertise - become familiar with ERISA rules and regulations through daily work and educational opportunities
- Support Team members by performing duties as assigned including support with process reviews, research, and documentation related to plan documents, operational corrections, audit support
- Project management - create processes for novel and recurring large-scale document projects; and assure successful, timely completion of each
- Provide Product support - contribute to discussions with various Product Teams to continually improve and iterate on our technology and to iterate automation for plan document creation and management
- Professional experience in defined contribution / qualified plan design & document drafting
- Understanding of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Department of Labor (DOL), Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations
- Keen attention to detail and deadlines
- Strong, demonstrated commitment to proactively managing workload while adhering to IRS/DOL deadlines
- Positive, collaborative, and proactive attitude
- Proficiency with Excel and Microsoft Office suite; Google Workspace; cloud-based client portals and internal network drives
- Knowledge of one or more plan document and its related draft system (e.g. FT William, Datair, ASC, Sungard Relius)
- Knowledge of Application Programming Interface (API) functionality
- Experience with SalesForce or similar Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software
- Qualified 401(k) Administrator (QKA) or higher credential from ASPPA, or equivalent career experience
This role will be based in either the New York City, Austin, King of Prussia office, and will be part of Vestwell's hybrid in-office operation.
The expected base salary range for this position is $55K - $65K base. This position is eligible to participate in the Company Bonus Pool and is eligible to receive new hire equity in the Company. Please note that salary bands are based on NY and other similar metro areas and may differ based on where the role is ultimately hired.
OUR BENEFITS
We’re an innovative, high-growth company, with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and generous vacation offering. We have adopted a hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in our Midtown Manhattan office, so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!
OUR PROCESS
It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1-2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recruiter to meet with a current or former supervisor and peer. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.
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