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Benefits and Leave Management Specialist
Posted: 07/20/2026
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 32133
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: SVCS - Services
Job Description
Position Title: Benefits and Leave Management Specialist
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting FTE Benefits and Leave Management Specialist opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting FTE Benefits and Leave Management Specialist opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support employees with leave request. Ensure employee understanding of the eligibility, documentation, and leave schedule.
- Oversee tracking, documentation and timely responses for active leave of absences and incoming requests.
- Work closely with employee Managers to support employees who go on leave
- Field and answer all leave related questions about state and federal regulations, healthcare providers
- Arrange approval of employee leaves and project code to properly track in the system of record according to the leave types
- Lead as subject matter expert on all aspects of state and federal leave mandates as well company leave policies and benefits
- Ongoing development of leave management and compliance knowledge; stay current with changes in leave regulations and continually update company policy, procedure, guidelines
- Evaluate, update and develop leave related policies and forms, documents, or communications with compliance of company policy and state, local, federal law.
- Coordinate with the Payroll team to ensure pay and use of PTO (or other leave codes) is reflective of the actual leave schedule and collaborate on the true-up and reconciliation process when the employee returns to work.
Job Qualifications:
- At a minimum, four year BA/BS degree in General Business, Finance, HR
- A minimum of three to five years of benefits and leave administration experience including FMLA, health, disability, life, and 401(k) as well as ancillary benefits
- Customer service oriented in high growth, high touch organization
- Accuracy, time management, and timely follow-up
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel and able to quickly adapt to other Finance and Accounting systems (ADP, Netsuite, Oracle Enterprise Cloud)
- Working knowledge of payroll systems, experience with ADP preferred
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; high degree of accuracy
- Ability to multi-task. Handle benefits projects and ad hoc requests timely and accurately
- Capable of quickly comprehending new information and technologies
- Capable of working in a fast paced environment
- Strong communication skills, comfortable working with operations team/non-accounting professionals
- Ability to keep payroll and Human Resource information confidential
- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect with a desire to foster teamwork
- Travel Required: 0-10%. #TerraPro
Job Details:
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Salary Range: $87,686 - $131,529
- Location: Bellevue, WA
- Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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