Senior HRIS Specialist

Summary

Join ezCater's People Operations Team as a Sr. HRIS Specialist! You will oversee the HRIS system's functionality, ensuring data integrity, reporting accuracy, and employee engagement. As the subject matter expert, you'll partner with stakeholders across the organization to optimize our current UKG system and determine long-term solutions. This role involves managing data audits, workflow development, stakeholder relations, and project leadership. You'll leverage your expertise in UKG and Cognos BI to drive system excellence and evolution. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and significantly impact one of ezCater's most critical platforms.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience maintaining and building HRIS systems and workflows, including configuration and testing, with at least 2 years of experience with UKG
• Strong analytics and reporting expertise with expert proficiency in Cognos BI
• Excellent communication skills for partnering with immediate People team members and cross-functional teams
• Proven track record of translating business objectives into system requirements to improve company efficiency, system utilization, employee experience, and process optimization

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular data audits to maintain data integrity and system accuracy to help establish UKG as the source of truth for all People data
• Be a subject matter expert on our organizational design and maintain data integrity related to department/team structures, titles, and leveling within UKG
• Partner with stakeholders to provide accurate and timely reports to help them make informed business decisions
• Ensure appropriate access levels for employees, balancing job empowerment and system security for compliance purposes
• Assess the current state of our system, focusing on data flows, workflows, self-service reports and integration capabilities. Identify gaps and opportunities based on business needs, employee feedback, and industry best practices, then implement necessary changes
• Increase process automation, efficiency, and accuracy within our system. Evolve and automate workflows to streamline processes, assist with clean data transfer, and ensure data integrity
• Partner with People Business Partners, Payroll, Accounting, IT, and other cross-functional teams to optimize usage of UKG related to system configuration, business processes, reporting and architecture, and for general audit purposes
• Collaborate with IT and other teams to help build secure data pipelines and ensure seamless integration between our HRIS and other systems
• Act as the project lead for HRIS-related projects and field ad hoc requests from stakeholders, particularly from a data and reporting standpoint, while identifying areas to make more self-service
• Support the People team and cross-functional departments with system access and resources. Educate employees on system utilization and act as a subject matter expert for arising issues, collaborating with HRIS network to find answers when needed
• Leverage your strong relationships within the UKG community to stay updated on market trends and product enhancements to help us enhance and mature our processes and system usage

Benefits

• Market salary
• Stock options
• The usual holidays
• All-you-can-eat vacation
• 401K with ezCater match
• Health/dental/FSA
• Long-term disability insurance
• Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!)
• Cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices