HR Advisor-Payroll & Benefits

This position serves as a key member of the Human Resources team, with primary responsibility for payroll administration, benefits administration, HRIS data integrity, and employee support. The ideal candidate is a highly detail-oriented HR professional with demonstrated payroll and benefits expertise, comfortable working across multiple HR systems and supporting employees and managers in a fast-paced, multi-site environment.

Responsibilities

• Payroll Administration – Approximately 40%
  • Support and/or process payroll activities using ADP Workforce Now.
  • Review employee timekeeping, payroll changes, deductions, earnings, taxes, and other payroll-related transactions for accuracy.
  • Process new hires, terminations, transfers, compensation changes, bonuses, deductions, and other employee changes impacting payroll.
  • Audit payroll data prior to processing and research discrepancies.
  • Partner with managers to resolve timekeeping and payroll issues.
  • Respond to employee questions regarding pay, deductions, taxes, direct deposit, and payroll procedures.
  • Support payroll reconciliation, reporting, audits, and year-end activities.
  • Maintain accurate payroll records and documentation.
  • Ensure payroll practices comply with applicable federal, state, and local requirements.
  • Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, and data accuracy.
• Benefits Administration – Approximately 25%
  • Support day-to-day administration of employee health and welfare benefit programs.
  • Serve as a primary point of contact for employee benefit questions and enrollment issues.
  • Process and monitor benefit enrollments, changes, qualifying life events, and terminations.
  • Support annual Open Enrollment activities, employee communications, and benefit education.
  • Work with benefits administration platforms, brokers, insurance carriers, and third-party vendors.
  • Coordinate and reconcile benefit eligibility and enrollment information between HRIS, payroll, benefits platforms, and vendors.
  • Assist with life insurance and related benefit programs.
  • Review benefit deductions and resolve discrepancies between payroll and benefit systems.
  • Support COBRA, leave-related benefit changes, and other benefit continuation processes as applicable.
  • Maintain appropriate benefits documentation and support benefit-related audits and compliance activities.
• HRIS & Data Administration – Approximately 20%
  • Maintain accurate employee data within Workday and ADP Workforce Now.
  • Process employee lifecycle transactions, including hires, terminations, transfers, promotions, compensation changes, organizational changes, and personal information updates.
  • Audit information across HR systems to identify and correct discrepancies.
  • Maintain data integrity between Workday, ADP, benefits systems, and other HR platforms.
  • Prepare recurring and ad hoc HR, payroll, benefits, and workforce reports.
  • Assist with system implementations, integrations, testing, upgrades, and process improvements.
  • Maintain confidential employee records in accordance with company requirements.
• HR Advisor Responsibilities – Approximately 15%
  • Respond to employee and manager questions regarding HR policies, procedures, payroll, benefits, and employment practices.
  • Support onboarding and offboarding activities.
  • Prepare and process employee documentation related to employment changes.
  • Assist managers with employee relations matters and escalate more complex matters to HR leadership when appropriate.
  • Support workplace investigations and corrective action processes as needed.
  • Assist with leave administration and employee status changes.
  • Support HR compliance activities, audits, employee communications, and HR projects.
  • Maintain confidentiality of employee and company information.
  • Partner with HR leadership and operational leaders to provide effective day-to-day HR support.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field preferred. Equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience will be considered.
• Experience:
  • Minimum 5 years of progressive HR, payroll, benefits, or HRIS experience.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience administering payroll in ADP Workforce Now – REQUIRED.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience using Workday – REQUIRED.
  • Strong experience with employee benefits administration, including enrollment, eligibility, deductions, qualifying life events, and employee benefit inquiries.
  • Experience working with benefit administration platforms, insurance carriers, brokers, and/or third-party benefit administrators.
  • Experience auditing and reconciling payroll, benefits, and employee data.
  • Working knowledge of payroll practices and applicable wage-and-hour requirements.
  • General Human Resources experience supporting employee lifecycle activities.
• Strong Excel, reporting, analytical, and data-management skills.
• Ability to handle confidential employee and payroll information with a high degree of discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with benefits administration platforms.
• Experience with life/disability insurance carriers.
• Experience supporting an HR/payroll or benefits system implementation or migration.
• Multi-state payroll experience.
• Manufacturing or multi-site HR experience.
• Experience with employee relations, onboarding, leave administration, and HR compliance.
• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, CPP, CEBS or similar certification preferred.