About This Role
This HR Consultant position is for a boutique firm that integrates into client teams to provide comprehensive human resource support. The role involves working with a variety of small to mid-sized businesses across different industries, offering both practitioner and consulting services in all aspects of HR. It suits a professional with strong HR generalist skills who is comfortable with a hybrid work model and client-facing responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary HR point of contact for an assigned group of clients, building strong relationships and becoming a trusted extension of their team
- Manage multiple client engagements while staying organized, responsive, and proactive, as well as identify opportunities to improve client processes and recommend solutions
- Provide professional human resource support in a variety of areas to include recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, benefits, leaves of absence, unemployment and worker’s compensation, and conflict resolution
- Provide guidance on HR best practices, compliance, and risk mitigation
- Support clients in addressing complex HR challenges and improving business outcomes
- Maintain HR documentation and records, including employee personnel files, processing onboarding and off-boarding paperwork, recording changes in job classifications, salary increases, etc.
- Administer employee benefits programs, including benefits renewals, enrollments, changes and terminations, as well as resolve any benefits-related issues timely
- Prepare new hire paperwork, conduct background checks, and help with onboarding processes
- Manage payroll and client HRIS systems
- Assist in benefits administration and employee leave tracking
- Help organize and create training sessions, employee events, and performance review processes
- Respond to internal and external HR-related inquiries or requests and provide assistance
- Prepare HR documents such as employment letters and reports, as well as HR templates
- Assist with HR projects such as conducting HR assessments and compliance audits, employee handbooks, organizational design, performance management, and HR process improvement initiatives
- Maintain confidentiality of all HR and company-related matters
- Maintain subject matter expertise in all operational and tactical areas of HR including, but not limited to, employment law, FLSA classifications, leave management, HR technology, benefits management, and compensation
- Be an all-around HR superhero to our clients!
Requirements
- At least five to seven years of progressive Human Resources Generalist experience
- Undergraduate degree in related discipline preferred or equivalent training and experience
- Active HRCI or SHRM professional certification a plus
- Ability to understand and comply with Federal and State Employment laws
- Experience in payroll process and HRIS systems, preferably with the ability to navigate multiple platforms
- Experience with annual benefit open enrollment and ACA requirements
- Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization, including C-Suite and VP levels, with confidence and poise
- Equally comfortable developing a strategy and executing the day-to-day work
- Ability to work independently managing a variety of projects
- Responsive with outstanding communication skills
- Creative problem-solver and HR critical thinker
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- Dedicated to consistently providing high-touch customer care
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced dynamic environment
- Able to develop a strong rapport with clients and maintain excellent work relationships
- Enjoys a flexible, energetic, and exciting work environment
- Requires on-site work and the ability to travel to client sites
- Must be available Monday to Friday between business hours
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
Important Details
- Schedule: approximately 20 to 30 hours weekly, with potential for more; hours may fluctuate based on business/client needs, but consultant availability is necessary during normal business hours to support clients
- Employment type: part-time
About the Company
Reader HR Consulting is a boutique firm that integrates into clients’ teams, providing practitioner and consulting services in all aspects of HR to small to mid-sized businesses in a variety of industries.