Brian Eck Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, United States

- Research labor & employment law; create summary documents, lead projects, and create communications to enact necessary changes across the business.- Provide recommendations, inform on legal changes, and engage in discussions regarding legal interpretations with internal and external attorneys.- Audit to ensure the organization operates in accordance with local, state, and federal employment laws.- Develop and provide compliance metrics/reporting to cross-functional partners. Provide spend visibility, identify trends, and make business recommendations around employment law/compliance initiatives such as wage and hour, established contingent labor standards, and training completion.- Provide documentation on complex regulatory and compliance requirements relative to wage and hour for internal and external investigations.- Develop, improve, and document processes and reporting solutions to support compliance initiatives. - Participate in cross-functional project teams. Maintain project documentation. Maintain discretion regarding sensitive business topics. - Assist with confidential labor-related preparations.- Maintain up to date written documentation and policies related to the organization's business activities based on applicable employment law.

Columbus, Ohio

- Assisted Payroll with review of daily and bi-weekly payroll processes including off-cycle payroll checks and payroll exception reports. Identified areas of improvement within these processes.- Partnered with HRIT team to review and test updates to Workday system.- Ran and compiled reporting out of Workday. Ran, compiled, and created new reports within Kronos/Workforce Dimensions.- Partnered with internal and external resources on rollout of Kronos/Workforce Dimensions payroll timekeeping system. Areas of focus completed; tested new functionality, identified areas in need of improvement and tested those fixes, daily project calls, maintained current reporting, trained others on use of the system, created new day to day payroll processes, and audited to ensure employees were paid appropriately while two timekeeping systems were active.- Had high focus on utilizing Microsoft Excel including various formulas, VLOOKUP, Index Match, and Pivot Tables. - Completed flow charts for Payroll On-Cycle and Off-Cycle processes as well as Fair Work Week Compliance Team processes using Microsoft Visio.- Created detailed procedure documentation for all regular job functions within Workday Payroll Team/Payroll Systems Team.- Collaborated with Payroll and Compliance leadership to ensure proper documentation existed for regular job functions within the larger department.- Worked with IT and HR Operations to develop and refine reporting regarding California rest and meal compliance.

Columbus, Oh

- Ensured there were properly completed I-9 and scanned documents for every new hire employee.- Researched, reviewed, and updated any relevant data changes to employees.- Participated in cost saving audits/reviews for regulations such as predictive scheduling and unemployment claims.- Entrusted with access to confidential information in the Human Resources Information System (HRIS) Workday; had responsibilities to learn, utilize, and master various functions within Workday. - Identified trends, offered solutions, and made recommendations for process improvements.- Tracked employees whose work authorization documents needed to be re-verified per federal law and led managers through re-verification steps.- Developed training materials and trained managers regarding I-9's, expectations, questions, comments, and concerns.- Ensured that Chipotle maintained state-by-state legal compliance in-regards to on-boarding.- Assessed and improved compliance related communications and tools to ensure managers were set up for success.- Partnered with HRIT team to implement new controls and efficiencies.- Worked with multiple parties to obtain and supply information necessary to contest unemployment claims, resulting in potential company savings of multi-million dollars a year.

Columbus, Oh

- Coordinated and facilitated hiring and immigration (J-1/H-1B visa) processing for faculty, staff, and students.- Scheduled and conducted employee orientations and collected the required documents and forms for payroll processing including employment verification (i.e. I-9) and personal data.- Maintained sensitive HR records including new hire paperwork and I-9 documents.- Entered information and maintained data integrity within multiple HR systems including PeopleSoft, DocuSign, eVerify, OnBase, and IntBuckeye.- Coordinated the position management process for the college by creating and updating positions and submitting job openings for recruitment posting.- Served as backup to the Payroll Specialist and initiated payroll reports within eReports for biweekly employees on an as needed basis.- Managed highest volume workload within department in 2018, processing over 4000 transactions and over 1000 hires.

Columbus, Oh

- Tracked and documented information within several databases/systems including Microsoft Excel and PeopleSoft.- Requested and coordinated background checks for candidates, monitored results and notified recruiters of progress/delays.- Completed new hire forms for assigned candidates, tracked completion of all necessary pre-offer activities.- Scheduled interviews for hiring departments using Microsoft Outlook.- Gathered/completed reference and employment verification and documented references properly within specific systems.- Assisted with on-boarding paperwork including I-9’s.- Streamlined and improved processes and procedures to maximize efficiency in a high volume recruiting environment.- Helped with pre-boarding activities for over 3500 candidates.