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Key Responsibilities
Compensation Strategy
- Lead the design, implementation, and administration of base salary, incentive, bonus, and executive compensation programs.
- Perform job evaluations, market pricing, and benchmarking to maintain internal equity and external market competitiveness.
- Oversee annual merit, bonus, and salary planning cycles within Workday.
- Develop and maintain compensation structures that promote performance, career growth, and employee retention.
Benefits & Total Rewards
- Oversee and promote effective utilization of health, welfare, retirement, and wellness programs.
- Lead the management of healthcare plans, including vendor partnerships, plan performance, and employee education initiatives.
- Analyze claims data, utilization patterns, and cost trends to guide benefits strategy and plan design decisions.
Training
- Ensure that benefit programs translate into informed decisions, healthier employees, lower costs, and stronger engagement.
- Complete training organization wide onsite and virtually at all locations:
- Improves utilization of the benefits plan while controlling the cost.
- Reduce confusion.
- Increase engagement and trust.
- Reinforce safety, wellness, and retention.
Payroll Leadership
- Provide both strategic direction and operational oversight for multi-state, multi-entity payroll operations.
- Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing, including wages, incentives, deductions, and benefits integration.
- Lead payroll controls, audits, reconciliations, and tax filing activities.
- Partner closely with Finance and Accounting on payroll funding, reporting, and general ledger integration.
Workday Ownership & Systems
- Serve as the functional owner for Workday, Compensation, Benefits, and Payroll modules.
- Lead system configuration, enhancements, testing, and optimization.
- Partner with IT and external vendors to support Workday implementations, upgrades, and system integrations.
- Design and deliver Workday reporting and dashboards to enable data-driven executive decision-making.
- Ensure data integrity across HR, payroll, and benefits systems.
Compliance & Governance
- Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations (ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, FLSA, wage & hour, payroll tax laws).
- Manage audits, plan documentation, nondiscrimination testing, and regulatory filings.
- Monitor legislative changes affecting compensation, benefits, and payroll and proactively recommend adjustments.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Lead, mentor, and develop Compensation, Benefits, and Payroll teams.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on total rewards and payroll strategy.
- Partner with HR Business Partners to support workforce planning and talent initiatives.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Operations, and external vendors.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Finance, or related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in compensation, benefits, and payroll leadership.
- Hands-on expertise with Workday, including Compensation, Benefits, and Payroll modules.
- Strong knowledge of self-funded healthcare plans and cost containment strategies.
- Deep understanding of multi-state payroll regulations and wage & hour compliance.
- Advanced analytical, financial modeling, and reporting skills.
- Proven expertise in administering multiple benefit offerings, including reference-based pricing plans.
- Willingness to travel 50% of the time.
Preferred
- Master’s degree
- Experience in distribution, or multi-location organizations.
- Workday optimization experience.
