Rewards Specialist

Are you detail-oriented, analytical, and passionate about delivering an exceptional employee experience? Do you enjoy working with payroll, benefits, HR systems, and data? Knape & Vogt is looking for a Total Rewards Specialist who excels in connecting with people, process and data to create a seamless employee experience.

Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company has been based in Grand Rapids for more than 125 years. We are a global leader specializing in the design, manufacture and distribution of functional hardware, office and healthcare ergonomics and storage-related components for original equipment manufacturers, specialty distributors, hardware chains and major home centers.

The Total Rewards (TR) Specialist will assist in the administration of payroll, benefits, and Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS). The TR Specialist provides excellent customer service to employees for payroll, benefits, and HRIS related questions and other HR assistance as needed. The Total Rewards Specialist reports to the Total Rewards Manager.

• Process bi-weekly payroll for assigned business unit within Dayforce HRIS environment
• Audit hourly employee time records
• Review tax, wage garnishments, pay changes, and deductions on each payroll cycle and maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Provide required reporting to other departments
• Respond to employee and internal dept inquiries regarding payroll

• Reconciles monthly invoices from multiple benefits carriers, submits invoices for payments
• Maintains employee benefit information in HRIS databases and external benefit carrier databases
• Assist with annual open enrollment process including administration of enrollment changes within HRIS and benefit meetings
• Assist to ensure company compliance with Health plan, Retirement plans
• Develops communications to promote benefits

• Maintain company HRIS – Dayforce
• Manage day to day HRIS activities including report development, workflow management and process changes required to support evolving business
• Processes changes and updates to personnel data
• Prepares timely HR reports summarizing and analyzing findings, and providing recommendations
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Work Experience:
  
  3 years of experience in Benefits, Payroll or HRIS within an HR department
• Education:
  
  College Degree in a related field or 3 years of equivalent experience
• Computer
  
  Skills:
  
  Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office Suite specifically with Word and Excel (i.e. pivot tables, VLOOKUP, Mail merge), experience with HRIS systems
• Organization
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task and shift priorities as needed
• Cross-functional skills:
  Ability to work well cross-functionally with other departments; provides excellent internal and external customer service
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent written and verbal skills;
  Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential information;
  Ability to communicate well with all levels of the organization; strong interpersonal skills