Betsy Churas, Shrm-Cp, Gba Email & Phone Number

Waunakee, Wisconsin, United States

• Manage employee life cycle from talent acquisition to offboarding. Including, job postings, job offer negotiations, orientation, disciplinary action, and offboarding including severance. • Analyzed trends and lead changes to Compensation Philosophy and Total Rewards strategy to attract, motivate, and retain top talent.• Provided leadership support regarding routine or complex employee relations issues to C-suite to front line leaders.• Managed company 401k program, including annual audit, distributions, compliance, and broker partnerships. Also manage ongoing and annual benefit plan renewal to ensure compliance and fit. • Oversaw bi-weekly payroll and high-level benefits administration for 130+ employees in 3 states.• Directed Worker’s Compensation claims and OSHA reporting, ensuring compliance with employment laws and regulations. Also managed FMLA, ADA and personal LOAs• Maintains compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.• Creates learning and development programs and initiatives that provide internal development opportunities for levels of employees.• Stays current of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law.

Waunakee, Wisconsin

• Managed ongoing service needs for a large Employee Benefits Book of Business valued at $20+ million for close to 50 clients in southern WI and nationally. • Fostered relationships with benefit vendors on a daily basis to serve our clients. • Coordinated renewals and new business lines for Producers including preparing analysis of proposals and creating or client facing material. Also participated in presentation of materials to current clients and prospects. • Maintained underwriting and marketing information by carrier and facilitated client visits.• Participated in annual Enrollment/Benefits meetings for clients and stayed current with industry practices and regulations.

Waunakee, Wi

• Directs daily activities of HR department. Participates in developing department goals under the guidance of the Controller and Ownership. • Perform all recruitment efforts including fostering a quality talent pool, job posting, screening, interviewing, background checking, advising leadership in candidate selection, and onboarding.• Oversee processing of two bi-weekly payrolls for 150+ employees at two Wisconsin locations using iSolved HCM.• Provide coaching and counseling to C-Suite and frontline managers regarding HR best practices.• Build policies to ensure compliance in the areas of ACA, FMLA, ADA, EEOC, COBRA, ERISA, etc.• Manage all phases of employee benefit eligibility while coordinating efforts with 15+ vendors and brokerage team. • Direct all aspects of Worker’s Compensation claims and OSHA reporting.

-Process two bi-weekly payrolls for 130+ employees at two Wisconsin locations.-Manage day to day benefit administration activities with employees, vendors and brokers.-Perform all recruitment efforts including fostering a quality talent pool, job posting, screening, interviewing, background checking, advising leadership in candidate selection, and onboarding.-Build policies to ensure compliance in the areas of ACA, FMLA, ADA, EEOC, COBRA.-Provide coaching and counseling to employees and leadership on HR best practices as the sole HR practitioner.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

-Project management of a 7 member HR benefits team through multiple systems integrations connected to ADP, Workday, Kronos, 4 enrollment platforms, a COBRA vendor and a global wellness platform.-Managed administration of national 401k and pension plans and Canadian RRSP including contribution adjustments, annual audits, hardship withdrawals and leaves of absence for 5,000+ employees.-Led Implementation onto a unified COBRA platform and administered day to day COBRA processes for 500 employees each year including initial notices, future qualifying events and annual enrollment. Also communicated details of 100+ severance agreements per year to platform administrator.-Hosted new employee benefit orientation program for an average of 1,000+ new hires per year both in person and via webinar. -Administrated FMLA, LOA, STD and LTD for 500+ employees, helping them to understand the legality of FMLA, connect with our third party leave manager and navigate their elimination period through their return to work.-Managed system implementation, rolled out campaign, and administered ongoing wellness program serving 3,600+ eligible employees. Led ongoing web based training for 50+ members of HR team. Recruited 40+ employees to help foster a culture of wellness over 60 work sites.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

-Oversaw data entry for over 2,500 employees into ADP and Kronos systems on a weekly basis to align with 3 unique payroll processing schedules.-First line of contact for employee benefits starting with new hire orientation and continuing as a trusted resource through Open Enrollment, Life Events, Leave Administration, COBRA & Severance

-Created SAP general ledger entries and reconciled 75-100 accounts on a weekly basis post payroll runs.-Processed multi-state, weekly payroll for 1,000+ hourly and salaried, union and nonunion employees in the US and Puerto Rico using ADP and Kronos.-Prepared weekly Excel reports for auditors and executive management including headcount and cost analysis.-Conducted payroll practices in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and Export Compliance.

-Processed semi-monthly, multi-state payroll for 500+ hourly and salaried associates.-Led onboarding process for 100 new employees each year. Including in person and phone based NEO, document preparation and collection of W2, W4 and I9s and entry into HRIS system, Ultipro.-Administered medical, dental, disability, life, FSA, FMLA, Workman’s comp and wellness benefits with accurate high volume data entry onto multiple systems.

Bachelor Of Arts, Communication Arts

Hr Certification, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Communication, General