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Job Summary
The Senior Director, Benefits Risk & Retirement Governance leads risk and governance across Comcast’s global retirement and financial wellbeing portfolio. The role operates across a complex international landscape, bringing a consistent enterprise perspective to fiduciary obligations, regulatory requirements, and plan outcomes.
This is a highly analytical role that provides independent challenges and establishes clear standards for prudent decision-making. The Senior Director must be comfortable evaluating participant-level data, identifying meaningful patterns and assessing how plan decisions may affect outcomes across a diverse employee population. These insights will inform recommendations for leadership, strengthen governance, and help shape financial wellbeing priorities.
Candidate Profile
Deep knowledge of retirement fiduciary governance and applicable ERISA, Department of Labor, and IRS requirements.
Experience managing risk in a complex retirement or benefits environment; international exposure is preferred.
Strong judgment and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear recommendations and constructive challenges.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
Retirement Governance & Risk
- Oversee retirement investment and fiduciary governance, assessing whether strategy and provider performance deliver appropriate value for the risk and fees incurred.
- Manage retirement and financial-wellbeing providers through scorecards and quarterly business reviews, with oversight tailored to each provider’s role.
- Maintain a defensible record of fiduciary decisions, including the evidence considered, challenge applied and resulting action.
- Apply a consistent due diligence framework to material plan and provider changes, testing recommendations against credible alternatives and their fiduciary and financial implications.
Regulatory, Legal & Compliance Oversight
- Monitor regulatory and enforcement developments, determine their impact on Comcast’s plans and drive required changes with counsel and plan administrators.
- Oversee a risk-based compliance program that connects reporting, operational testing, and remediation.
- Ensure material issues are escalated and resolved with supporting evidence, using recurring themes to strengthen controls.
International Retirement & Benefits Risk
- Maintain an enterprise view of international retirement arrangements and coordinate defined-benefit and post-employment obligations with Global Benefits Products, Finance, and local leadership.
- Oversee actuarial and funding work, including trust governance, and support accurate consolidated balance-sheet reporting.
- Monitor local developments and independently review material plan changes to ensure appropriate governance, competitive value, and effective implementation.
Candidate Profile
- Deep knowledge of retirement fiduciary governance and applicable ERISA, Department of Labor, and IRS requirements.
- Experience managing risk in a complex retirement or benefits environment; international exposure is preferred.
- Strong judgment and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear recommendations and constructive challenges.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
- Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
- Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
- Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
- Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
- Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
- Drive results and growth.
- Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
- Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Skills
Collective Bargaining, Data Analysis, Fiduciary Management, Financial Governance, Financial Modeling, People Management, Regulatory Compliance
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Education
Bachelor's Degree
Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +
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