I once had the head of HR at a client take time out of her vacation to visit me in my office. She wanted to thank me personally for the Human Capital Management consulting I had provided to her and her team. I had worked with them for several years and made strong efforts to improve the HR/HCM services provided to them and to function as a member of their team.In my career, I have learned the best way to make a positive impact is to strive to be that person whom others feel they can rely upon. I strive to be conscientious about my impact on those around me and seek to help them achieve success. These beliefs resulted in this client’s HR team feeling I was an integral part of their team. They understood I was working with their best interests in mind.I am still surprised though that I made such an impact that someone from another state would take time out of their hard-earned vacation days to make a detour to meet me in person, all to say thank you. I must admit though, the cookies she brought were delicious!In my career, I have learned I thrive most when I can make a positive impact for people and organizations. My goal is to build bridges as strong and enduring as stone between leaders and employees. I value creating employee and leadership alignment to improve the work environment. This is why I have chosen HR/Human Capital as the sphere I am engaged in. Improving the employee experience while meeting business needs is what I strive for. Employee engagement and consulting leadership is how I strive to do this.Some of the results I have achieved are:• Rebuilt a Human Capital Consulting department from the ground up. Created all new documentation on rules, policies, and procedures. Defined strategies and standard operating procedures. Trained employees in and outside of the department on the above-mentioned items.• Worked with employees on career pathing. Leading many to promotion to the next level in their roles. Changed attitudes from negative morale to being proponents of the job and company leading to some of these employees taking on leadership roles.• Decreased error rate on HR document processing from 10% - 12% to 3% - 4% in 8 months. Accomplished by identifying core issues, delegating responsibilities and training, to create improvement.
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Manager Customer Support, Dependent Audit & Eligibility TeamsPlansource Jan 2018 - Apr 2021Salt Lake City, UtahLed multiple departments simultaneously, responsible for two products, as well as managed and monitored the work of a third-party vendor. Responsible for re-designing and building the Dependent Audit department and leading the Eligibility Department to increase customer satisfaction, streamlining of operations and increasing profitability.• Increased average number of employee lives serviced per client from 150 to 1,500 in 3 years, increasing scope and profitability of HCM product, through evaluation of and updates to policies and standard operating procedures.• Decreased departmental error rate in evaluation of HR documents from 10% - 12% to 3% - 4% in 8 months through diagnosing core issues and working with the team to create strategies to overcome them.• Performed new employee interviews and trained new leadership on how to interview and evaluate candidates, successfully brining on 40% more employees through the process.• Advised all levels from front line to senior leadership, influencing behavior through coaching and consulting on best practices, strategies and processes, leading to profitability of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. -
Senior Benefits Service Consultant, Dependent Verification / Audit ServicesAdp Sep 2011 - Dec 2017West Valley City, UtMain point of contact, account representative, project coordinator and advocate for client on dependent audits. Provided planning, training and execution on client related projects while interacting with senior level contacts.• Built trust with assigned HR teams, through project coordination and management, consulting, understanding needs, and overcoming shortfalls and obstacles in current processes, saving HCM services, leading to tens of thousands of dollars in saved revenue.• Reduced client dependent audit failure rate to 5% or less on average within first year of administration of clients, saving clients hundreds of thousands of dollars annually thereby demonstrating the value of our service.• Led project evaluating issues in departmental attendance, guiding team in creation of resolutions resulting in new policies on attendance, time off, and distribution of work in affected situations, reducing attendance issues to near zero.• Selected by leadership to be on a counsel to determine and steer internal corporate policy and represent co-workers. -
Benefit Specialist/AnalystAdp Jan 2009 - Sep 2011West Valley City, UtServed as main point of contact between assigned clients and insurance vendors, managed process of benefits enrollment and billing for clients, acting in their behalf with their benefits providers.• Completed benefits/HCM implementation project for client’s HR department in half the time it took for associates staffed in that role, successfully configuring system with zero errors.• Achieved satisfaction scores of 90% to 100%.• Completed work on all client open enrollment projects 2 to 4 weeks early in all cases, ensuring data and benefit plan configuration was tested with client’s HR teams and providers and was 100% accurate. -
Settlement Accountant IiiMerrick Bank Nov 2002 - Dec 2008South Jordan, UtPerformed reconciliation and accounting functions on assigned general ledgers, reviewed financial adjustments to verify they cleared timely and accurately, generated daily reports on said accounts and performed projects as assigned.• Reduced reconciliation turnaround time from 120 days to 30 days, resulting in improved efficiencies to decrease fraud loss.• Decreased time needed to reconcile accounts from average of 8 hours per day to 4 hours or less through evaluation of processes and identifying potential unrealized efficiencies, resulting in ability to do more work in less time.
Christopher Connell Education Details
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Business Administration -
Non-Degree Project Management Program, Continuing Education Certificate Of Completion -
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Eliason International, Llc Dba PeopleserveHuman Resources
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Christopher Connell's current role is HR People & Process Leader | Mentors Employees & Management to Drive Business Forward.
What schools did Christopher Connell attend?
Christopher Connell attended University Of Utah - David Eccles School Of Business, Utah Valley University, Salt Lake Community College, Eliason International, Llc Dba Peopleserve.
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