HR Specialist - Total Rewards

Job Description Summary

This position provides administrative and technical support in the area of compensation, benefits, and HRIS.

The ideal candidate will have over three years of human resources experience in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have advanced technical skills in processing large amounts of data in the most efficient manner. Attention to detail, quality-conscious, and high output are necessary to be successful in this role.

At the City of Goodyear, you will be a part of an organization that values its employees as its greatest asset. You will become part of a dedicated team of professionals that are committed to build and maintain a highly engaged workforce. You will be challenged to learn and grow in an environment that values employee development and career-building. You will thrive in a culture of innovation. We believe that successful employees are those that possess these six core values:

Essential Functions

• Assists the HRIS Analyst by entering new hires, change of statuses, and terminations.
• Ensure data integrity is maintained in the HRIS system.
• Assists the Benefits Analyst in the administration and coordination of various benefits; reviews and processes benefit invoices for payment, performs queries, investigates claim discrepancies, enrolls employees into carrier database, updates employee information as needed, and assists with open enrollment events.
• Conducts audits to ensure that billing and employee benefit elections in Munis reconcile.
• Responds to, and assists, employees with benefit related questions, billing issues and other concerns.
• Assists the Total Compensation and HRIS Manager with researching and gathering data to respond to surveys and requests.
• Processes tuition reimbursement requests for employees.
• Assists department with records management (may serve as Records Control Officer), report preparation, special projects and activities, and customer requests for information.
• Serves as back-up to the front desk to perform a variety of administrative duties to include, but not limited to, responding to Public Records Requests, processing invoices for payment, creating purchase orders for the new fiscal year, processing incoming and outgoing mail, drafts correspondence, ordering supplies, reconciling monthly credit card statements, and managing the departments website.
• Assists with all Human Resources Department activities and operations as necessary.

Requirements

• Formal Education/Knowledge: Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with a two-year associate's degree, diploma or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school. Appropriate certification may be awarded upon satisfactory completion of advanced study or training.
• Experience - Minimum three years' experience in a related field.
• Certifications and Other Requirements: Valid Driver’s License.
• Reading: Work requires the ability to read general correspondence, manuals, code books, meeting minutes, legal postings, and reports at a college level.
• Math: Work requires the ability to read and create statistical reports; and to perform math calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as college level math and ratios.
• Writing: Work requires the ability to write general and technical correspondence, memorandums, advertisements, and reports at a college level.
• Managerial: Work requires functioning as a lead worker performing essentially the same work as those directed, and includes overseeing work quality, training, instructing, and scheduling work.
• Policy / Decision Making: Moderate - The employee normally performs the job by following established standard operating procedures and/or policies. There is a choice of the appropriate procedure or policy to apply to duties. More complex work as well as decisions with more significant impacts may be reviewed prior to being finalized.
• Technical Skills: Comprehensive Application - Work requires a comprehensive, practical knowledge of a technical field with use of analytical judgment and decision-making abilities.
• Interpersonal/Human Relations Skills: Moderate - Interactions may involve support of controversial positions or the negotiation of sensitive issues or important presentations. Contacts may also involve stressful, negative interactions requiring high levels of tact and the ability to respond to aggressive interpersonal interactions.

12 Month Objectives

12-Month Objectives

HR Specialist – Total Rewards

• Successfully manage daily processing of benefit transactions to include new hire benefits enrollment, output-posting, calculating benefit arrearage, enrolling employees and dependents with vendors, etc.