Responsibilities

• Commitment to promoting Fluence’s core values: responsible, agile, leading and fun.
• HR Operations Leadership 80% / Payroll Leadership 20%.
• Assist in the design and directly oversee execution of local processes from onboarding to exits, and lifecycle events in between.
• Ensure robust compliance and controls across all payroll and HR policies/programs, procedures and transactions, as per government regulations.
• Ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
• Assists with employee benefits administration, including programs such as health or pension.
• Assists with benefits administration, including programs such as health, dental, vision, retirement, insurance and other programs.
• Management of SOX compliance items for region.
• Use advanced quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to grasp complexities and perceive relationships among problems and issues.
• Develop performance measurements to effectively maintain service level agreements and key performance indicators.
• Critically review and analyze current practices and identify process improvements leading to best-practice operations.
• Direct, develop, and coach team members to high performance and reaching their full potential.

What doese the ideal candidate bring to Fluence?

• A strong people leader effective at developing, coaching, and motivating others, experience leading HR Operations and Payroll Teams.
• Broad knowledge of HR policies, practices, disciplines, and the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, employee engagement, and compliance.
• Strong understanding of Human Resources transactional processing activities.
• Current knowledge of applicable federal and state wage and hour laws and taxation; Federal and Statutory leaves, Employment Legislation.
• Considerable knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to Human Resources and data privacy.
• Deep expertise and proven ability in scaling operations globally where leveraging technology and standardizing/improving processes to deliver exceptional employee experiences are at the center of design and implementation.
• Strong project management skills and experience managing cross-functional relationships and priorities.
• Metrics / measurement / reporting centric with required savvy in related business reporting and management programs and practices.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: the ability to effectively listen and liaise with colleagues on all levels in a distributed, multicultural, detailed oriented environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience.