Melanie Morantus Email & Phone Number

North Attleborough, Ma, Us

Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States

*Successfully organized and assisted with multiple employee events, including Town Hall, Cinco de Mayo, and Halloween at Collette.*The primary point of contact for all employees entering HR, I served as the liaison between HR department heads and employees. Ensured that every employee had a positive experience while in our department.*Employee Onboarding lead which included HRIS setup and first-day orientation while implementing multiple positive changes to streamline and improve the new hire process.*Responsible for the creation and maintenance of HRIS reports for the HR department and respective businesses as needed.*Partnered with Compensation Manager during the selection process for new HRIS platform including interviewing, demos, cost analysis, meeting coordination, and project managment assistance.

Needham, Ma

• Project manager for new online benefits Open Enrollment implementation. • Performs quality checks and audits of benefits-related data to ensure vendor payments are accurate. Partnered with vendors for medical, dental, vision, FSA, HRA and COBRA plan administration.• Ensured the accuracy of all benefits enrollments in the HRIS to provide vendors with accurate eligibility information.• Partnered with HR Director to promote 2018 Benefits Open Enrollment and acted as site champion for new medical offerings.• Provide semi-monthly reporting to VP of HR in dashboard for, covering employee headcount, retention, averages and attrition.• Utilize ADP Workforce Now to process terminations, new hires, deduction changes and enrollments for payroll for about 70 employees across the US.• Assist with the semi-monthly payroll processing including data collection and entry, corrections and submission to accountant and HR Director for approval and payout. • Coordination of revision and distribution of several new policies including global employee handbook, code of conduct, IT policy and local HR guides (US, UK and Israel).• Manage HR team calendar to ensure that all HR team members were informed of special projects and rollouts.• Took over and successfully manage ESOP communications, monthly headcount report and special projects on an as needed basis.

Smithfield, Ri

• Responsible for entering all employee data changes through HR Central for all North American Global Operation employee changes.• Tracking Global Operations Backfill Request Forms to ensure global approvals have happened.• Ensuring job information is provided to managers on a timely basis.• Revamped Organizational Charts for Global Operations, ensuring that each group was updated accordingly and ensuring that FDA ready copies were on hand. Partnered not only with HRBP but other business units to ensure they had documents on hand as well.• Partnered with Talent Acquisition group in order to ensure that the Global Operations Organizational charts were updated with new hires, terminations, manager changes, promotions and people moves.• Partnered with on-site HRBP to work on new ways to promote employee engagement and boost morale including partnering with outside vendors for goods and services along with team building activities.• Process, deliver and track all employee recognition awards.• Provide support to the site for leadership events and other programs rolled out through the centers of excellence.• Producing spreadsheets and presentations in Excel and PowerPoint for HRBPs including FDA/audit ready documents.• Help to coordinate both small and large meetings, conference calls and video conferences. Partnered with Site Coordinator to ensure that Town Hall meetings, celebrations and site events were promoted and organized efficiently.• Mailing, tracking and documenting confidential documents.• Handle extremely confidential and proprietary information with utmost discretion.• Utilization of SAP Reporting (P4P) for performance ratings for Talent Acquisition.• Partnering with Corporate Benefits and outside vendors to ensure that visits to the work site are communicated and organized effectively.

Mansfield, Ma

• Partnered with HR Ops group and manager to ensure that HR data change transactions were approved on a timely basis.• Learned Medtronic’s new Workday software, in a short period of time, in order to navigate through employee data and transactions.• Acted as liaison between managers, HR business partners and employees when covering the HR Ops inbox. This included answering and researching questions from employees and managers in regard to Leave of Absence, accident reporting, salary inquiries, terminations and bonus inquiries. • Processed and approved HR transactions on behalf of subsequent business partners after obtaining approval including but not limited to terminations, salary increases, promotions, bonus correction, title changes and adjustments.• Worked with team members on assigned projects such as cost center correction, reporting and document creation for missing data.

Mansfield, Massachusetts

• Provided HR support to several business units within the company including Respiratory and Monitoring, Surgical and Vascular.• Coordinated schedules for hiring managers and incoming candidates.• Provided Field Sales with a new hire question and answer session along with new hire orientation for corporate employees.• Created, managed and approved Covidien’s Employee Change Form (ECF) which includes salary, job code, business title, transfer date, department, supervisor, and cost center changes.• Coordinated voluntary and involuntary termination procedures for employees from start to finish.• Provided PeopleSoft assistance to managers and other staff including transfers/promotions, performance management, profile creation and recruiting.• Managed Hallmark recognition program across Medical Devices group. Administer reports as requested, update Hallmark employee data; approve outstanding requests and process invoices monthly.• Partnered with Payroll department to investigate inquiries from employees in regards to cost center changes, severance payments, and PTO (paid time off) entry and vacation payouts.• Liaised with AskHR Help Desk to escalate issues regarding benefits, corporate policies, high level data entry and data corrections.• Managed Certiphi background checks, verification letters for Sales to gain access to hospitals.• Purchasing Card and DART/Akritiv expense report administrator. Verify and process invoices and credit card purchases.• Partnered with HR managers to initiate immigration cases in Ernst and Young web portal. Assist with Global Authorization Form completion, documentation filing and posting.• Assisted with employee file requests and maintain employees’ paperwork.• Liaised with finance, communications and IS regarding cost center changes/corrections, eForms and departmental questions.• Managed leave of absence program for several locations within the company.

Mansfield, Ma

• Performed PeopleSoft and Payroll support to approximately 2500 employees by telephone and email, assisted employees with time entry, direct deposit changes and W-4 questions within PeopleSoft.• Fielded questions in regards to a broad spectrum of Payroll issues including but not limited to severance, garnishments, incorrect pay, direct deposit errors and commissions.• Strived to achieve the highest levels of productivity, handling over 400 calls and emails per week averaging about 80 calls per day.• Dependable reputation for resolving complex issues and providing exceptional customer service.• Actively escalate issues as needed and maintained communication with employees and Payroll team.• Assisted Payroll team with tasks such as data entry into PeopleSoft, verification of salary entries and filing. Given greater data entry responsibility for changes such as deductions and tax changes.

Needham, Ma

• Responsible for training new Associate Employee Services Rep in the areas of data entry, file room management, and new hire paperwork collection.• Assisted employees with HR, employment, payroll and benefit related questions.• Responsible for entering new employees into company's database on a weekly basis.• In charge of new hire paperwork collection along with verification of I-9s.• Quickly learned advanced data entry such as intercompany transfers and leave of absence in Oracle.• In charge of running weekly and monthly reports in Hyperion.• Prepared verification of employment letters for employees on a daily basis.• Created Approval Grid and SOX requirements presentation for members of my team. This, in turn, helped everyone to understand the importance of proper approvals regarding employee paperwork.• Assisted in many aspects of company's reductions such as package creation, severance letters, and running reports from Hyperion on a daily basis.• Familiar with acquisition process including new hire offer letters, severance letters, adding new employees to company's database, new employees file collection, and integration.• Responsible for general administrative and customer services duties on a daily basis.Associate Employee Services Representative• Quickly learned and became responsible for Oracle data entry such as salary changes, bonus payouts, and name, status, organization and manager changes.• Managed HR file room which included taking care of back filing and organizing employee/Benefit files.• Ensured that all filing remained confidential and was organized. Managed general upkeep of active and terminated personnel files, including Executive, I-9s and Benefit files.

Needham, Ma

Quickly learned and became responsible for Oracle data entry such as: salary changes, bonus payouts, name, status, organization and manager changes.Managed HR file room which included taking care of back filing and organizing employee/Benefit files.Ensured that all filing remained confidential and was organized. Managed general upkeep of active and terminated personnel files, including Executive, I-9s and Benefit files.