Senior Director, Benefits Risk & Retirement Governance
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.
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Skills:
Regulatory Compliance; Collective Bargaining; Fiduciary Management; Data Analysis; Financial Modeling; Financial Governance; People Management
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Our Benefits
We’re proud to offer comprehensive benefits to help you live your best life:
- Medical, prescription, vision, and dental insurance for eligible employees.
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to the first 6% of your pay.
- Paid time off including eight observed company holidays and flex time.
- Exclusive perks + discounts, including tuition assistance, commuter benefits and more!
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