HRIS Administrator, Payroll & Benefits

Thank you for your interest in the BWL. We think you'll find it a rewarding and nurturing place to grow your career. Starting Salary Range: $96,400.00 - $117,600.00 Position Summary: The HRIS Administrator, Payroll & Benefits serves as a technical and functional subject matter expert (SME) for the organization's Human Resources Information System (HRIS) platform, with primary responsibility for payroll, benefits, time, absence, and related workforce management functionality. This position partners closely with payroll, benefits, HR (human resources), finance, and other functional leaders and subject matter experts (SMEs) to translate business requirements into effective HRIS solutions. The Administrator is responsible for system configuration, integration management, complex issue resolution, process improvement, testing, releases, and ongoing optimization of the HRIS. The HRIS Administrator, Payroll & Benefits develops broad knowledge of the HRIS platform and partners closely with the HRIS Administrator, HCM & Talent to provide comprehensive technical support across the HRIS ecosystem. Essential Functions: - Serve as the primary technical and functional resource for payroll, benefits, time, absence, and related workforce management functionality and system issues. {=html} - Configure, maintain, and optimize HRIS functionality within assigned areas of responsibilities, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business requirements. {=html} - Analyze business requirements and translate them into effective HRIS solutions that appropriately balance business needs, regulatory and compliance requirements, user experience, system capabilities, security, data integrity, and long-term maintainability. {=html} - Design, configure, test implement, and support system changes and enhancements affecting payroll, benefits, time, absence, and related HR processes. {=html} - Develop and maintain a strong understanding of payroll, benefits, timekeeping, absence, employee lifecycle, and related workforce processes to ensure system configurations appropriately support business requirements. {=html} - Own and coordinate HRIS integrations supporting payroll, benefits, time, absence, finance, and other related HR processes. {=html} - Partner with IT, vendors, functional SMEs, and technical resources to ensure reliable, secure, and accurate data flow. {=html} - Lead integration requirements gathering, solution design, impact assessments, configuring, testing, troubleshooting, issue resolution, deployment, and ongoing support within areas of responsibility. {=html} - Monitor integration performance, data flows, and transaction results; investigate failures, errors, and data discrepancies; identify root causes; and coordinate timely corrective actions with technical teams, vendors, and functional stakeholders. {=html} - Investigate, diagnose, and resolve complex system issues by analyzing configuration, business processes, security, data, calculations, integrations, and system behavior; identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions. {=html} - Partner with the HRIS Administrator, HCM & Talent to assess cross-functional impacts of system changes and support integrations affecting the broader HRIS ecosystem. {=html} - Identify opportunities to simplify processes, increase automation, improve data quality, enhance the user experience, reduce operational risk, and leverage new HRIS and integration capabilities. Lead and participate in HRIS releases, projects, enhancements, implementations, upgrades, and integrations, including requirements gathering, impact analysis, solution design, configuration, testing, validation, issue resolution, documentation, and deployment.<