HR & Payroll Coordinator

Huntsville Botanical Garden•Huntsville, AL

10h•$18 - $21

About The Position

This role provides support to multiple functions within Human Resources to support the employee’s life cycle from recruitment to onboarding, employee engagement, payroll, and on to retirement. Assists with the process and tracking of performance, ongoing maintenance of job descriptions and the Garden’s employee handbook. This position is a member of the Safety Team, actively promotes the Garden’s training programs and tracks compliance per department. Provides assistance to employees and supervisors on questions related to time and attendance, payroll, recruiting and benefits. Performs activities necessary to process payroll on a bi-weekly basis, including maintaining related records, approvals and entering data.

Requirements

BS/BA in Human Resources, Business Administration or relevant field and at least 2 years of professional human resources experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrated knowledge of HR processes and best practices, including familiarity with using HR and Payroll software and tools
Strong ability in effectively utilizing the MS Office Suite of products, with Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Understanding of sourcing and recruitment strategies and familiarity with social media and online recruiting strategies.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Paylocity or other similar HCM platform.

Responsibilities

Supports the recruitment/hiring process by processing personnel requisitions, sourcing & screening candidates, tracking applications and outcomes.
Performs orientation and onboarding of new hires, to include processing of new hire paperwork through completion.
Performs activities necessary to process payroll on a bi-weekly basis, including maintaining related records, approvals and entering data.
Maintains records of personnel-related data (employee files, I-9’s, personal information, training documents, database maintenance, payroll and benefit information, employee leaves, turnover rates etc.) in defined formats, ensuring all employment and legal compliance requirements are maintained.
Performs research and participates in establishment and maintenance of human resources functions such as policies and procedures, reporting, compensation structures and benefit packages.
Schedules meetings, training classes, job fairs, HR and employee events, maintaining the HR Departments agenda and calendar.
Processes approved personnel changes in a detailed and timely manner, updating associated records in HCM and validates data.
Prepares and submits worker’s compensation claims and provide relevant data to external vendors.
Effectively communicates with internal and external customers of the Human Resources department responding to inquiries, requests, providing service and support in a manner consistent with the organization’s core values.
Maintains confidentiality with a complete understanding of the trusted nature of the work of the Human Resources department personnel and performs other duties may be assigned.