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Jersey City, Nj, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for strategic oversight of human resource functions including compliance, compensation, benefits, and payroll.o Ensures compliance with labor laws in U.S., Mexico, and LATAM (Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, & Peru).o Summarizes salaries, bonuses, and benefits and makes data driven recommendations.o Ensures salaries and benefits comply with current legislation and keeps abreast of changing legislation and makes recommendations as needed.o Partners with the CFO in overseeing payroll, year-end reporting activities, and payroll tax matters.• Plays a critical leadership role in assessing and defining team culture and work environment by identifying desired goals and creating programs (including offsites) to drive progress.• Works to continuously enhance our performance management strategy and meet the development needs of the growing team.• Responsible for developing and driving the talent management and acquisition strategy including best practices by market.• Advises on promotion recommendations to ensure they are within the appropriate benchmarks and consistent with Company policy.• Manages annual headcount and budget for the team and partners with the CFO to develop annual strategic priorities for the business and drives results against established priorities.• Passionately studies long-range human resource trends and projects their impact on our business and culture.• Maintains the pulse of the organization to understand strengths and areas of improvement and ensures they continue to be aligned with the company’s overall objectives.

New York, New York, Us

This position reports directly to VP, People Operations with a main focus on leading Employment Law Compliance.Compliance/Policies & Procedures:Serve as a liaison between legal, compliance, risk management, operations, and other functional areas to ensure compliance with regulations.Manage employee termination compliance, including review and revision of severance documents, processing of unemployment claims, and proposing improvements, as needed.Maintain and evolve various employee legal documentation for all Horizon Media companies.Partner with leadership to maintain global compliance within our Canadian offices.Manage HR compliance audits, identify risks or non-conformity issues, address compliance opportunities, issues, and gaps.Assist in completing state reports such as EEO, wages, and worker compensation audit in partnership with Health & Safety division.Responsible for maintaining updated employment law related postings on online databases (or in person), as necessary.Evaluate the efficiency of controls and maintain data accuracy.Special Project Work:Understand the business and internal processes to recommend, communicate, and implement new processes, approaches, policies, practices and procedures to drive continuous improvements while ensuring effectiveness to the overall employee experience strategy.Establish protocol to maintain employment and tax law compliance across the U.S. for remote worker populations.Lead employee handbook and global policy creation and revisions as well as acknowledgements to ensure compliance.Work with HR Business Partners to streamline processes and conduct re-education of compliance and process trainings as need to ensure consistency.Development of training content as well as delivering training on HR Ops-related content

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

My focus in this role is to implement tools and processes that leverage my teams time in the most efficient way. I utilize systems that improve the speed and accuracy in completing tasks, freeing up time to work on more impactful strategic projects. - I built out multiple frameworks within our HRIS system to successfully implement and record employee changes from our first union contract. Changes included accrual adjustments for multiple PTO banks, compensation changes, new benefit plan designs and options. - I was selected by my employer to represent in the Labor Management Committee which requires contract knowledge, diplomacy, effective listening, and negotiation skills. - Successfully applied for the PPP business relief loan, resulting in $1 million dollar loan disbursement. Managed headcount decisions in order to have this loan was converted completely to a grant. As a result, we avoided lay-offs or downsizing.- Conducted the research and lead the selection of StoryCorps first ATS system (implemented in January 2019). This system revealed gaps in our hiring/on-boarding processes, which has allowed us to build up better infrastructure around these processes, while remaining under budget.- Advised CFAO/Director of HR on new benefit plan designs prior to roll-out, including EE/ER contribution rates, benefit offerings, as well several branding changes and brochure and presentation designs.- Implemented Asana as a company-wide project management tool, which required buy-in from key stakeholders and departments. This system now allows for transparent cross-departmental collaboration unlike before.

Franklin, Tennessee, Us

Lehi, Utah, Us

Fast-paced technology start-up specializing in end-to-end solar solutions, with over 100 employees.- Established HR as both an administrative arm and effective business strategy partner, advising the executive team on organizational strategies around employee relations, internal communication, talent acquisition, culture/engagement, reduction in workforce protocol, and performance management.- Designed new HR policies and procedures based on company culture, employees’ needs, and revised state and federal compliance.- Implemented and oversaw Evelar Solar’s ATS/HRIS systems that met the organization's business and personnel needs.- Administered benefits programs for medical/life insurance, paid time-off, and unemployment.- Revamped benefits administration by increasing options and offering digital solutions, such as building a web portal Open Enrollment.- Complied with federal, state, and local legal requirements and legislation; anticipating legislation enforcing adherence, to requirements and advising management on needed actions. - Consulted with legal counsel as appropriate, or as directed by the CEO, on business and personnel matters.- Handled the day-to-day administration duties for all personnel.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Cerner Corporation is an international health care information technology corporation that specializes in providing complete systems for hospitals and other medical organizations to manage and integrate all electronic medical records, computerized physician order entry, and financial information.- Collaborated weekly with Senior HRBPs, organizational leaders, analysts, and legal team to build and support frameworks for our clients’ future recruiting and organizational needs.- As SME for government clients (CDC, VA, DOD DHMSM project) led a team of WorkDay consultants in redesigning on-boarding and off-boarding task tracking for those clients.- Facilitated on-site training for healthcare providers adopting new software solution, introducing platform integration and features.- Presented innovative orientation classes for several government clients using gamification and UX research.- Designed and managed new hire orientation programs for new team members.- Manage online documentation for a variety of team processes on our internal communication platform.- Cross trained on askHR Call and Chat Center to answer questions regarding benefits, payroll, performance management cycles, and other general HR questions.- Track, upload, and report on all relevant training and personal documentation.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

- Mentored and tutored students on all course subjects. - Created individualized student development plans for students with academic and personal struggles. - Worked as a team to see that 100% of the AVID students completed the program and received their high school diplomas.

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Business Administration And Management, General