HR Advisor-Payroll & Benefits

The Human Resources Advisor – Payroll & Benefits Specialist serves as a key member of the Human Resources team, with primary responsibility for payroll administration, benefits administration, HRIS data integrity, and employee support.

This position requires strong hands-on experience with ADP Workforce Now and Workday and will support payroll processing, employee benefits, HR systems, employee lifecycle transactions, reporting, compliance, and general Human Resources activities.

The ideal candidate is a highly detail-oriented HR professional with demonstrated payroll and benefits expertise who is comfortable working across multiple HR systems and supporting employees and managers in a fast-paced, multi-site environment.

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.

Required Qualifications

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.