Payroll, Benefits & HRIS Specialist

Overview

The Payroll, Benefits, and HRIS Specialist plays a central role in ensuring that our employees’ experience—from payroll accuracy to benefits access to onboarding—is seamless, compliant, and high-quality. This position combines hands-on ownership of payroll and benefits with data stewardship across our HR & Finance systems.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, tech-savvy, and motivated to build efficient processes that scale with a growing firm. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative team and contribute directly to the operational backbone of LLR’s people experience.

Accountabilities

Payroll Administration

• Manage end-to-end payroll processing, including bonuses and one-off awards
• Ensure compliance with all payroll tax and labor regulations
• Maintain accurate and confidential compensation data
• Partner with Finance and Accounting to reconcile payroll reports and filings
• Serve as an employee resource for payroll and tax-related questions

Benefits Administration

• Oversee employee benefits programs (medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and wellness)
• Partner with our benefits broker to support renewals, open enrollment, and compliance (ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA)
• Coordinate employee communications and respond to benefits inquiries
• Manage billing, audits, benefit changes, and vendor relationships

People Operations & Onboarding

• Support the onboarding and offboarding experience, ensuring timely setup of systems and workflows
• Manage employee leaves of absence (FMLA, parental, discretionary), coordinating with payroll for accuracy
• Support employee lifecycle updates (title, reporting, compensation changes) across systems
• Partner with the People team to enhance key employee lifecycle touchpoints (e.g., onboarding, leave, and milestone recognition)

HR Systems & Data Integrity

• Maintain clean, consistent employee data across LLR’s HR tech stack
• Maintain governance framework for user access, role permissions, and data retention across HR systems
• Support the design and upkeep of LLR’s career architecture, position management, and job framework
• Partner with HR and IT to improve automation and data flows between systems

Reporting & Compliance

• Maintain accurate employee records and personnel files
• Prepare internal HR reports and compliance filings (EEOC, 401k, etc.)
• Support compensation benchmarking and survey submissions
• Help strengthen LLR’s people analytics and internal reporting capabilities

401(k) Administration

• Serve as first point of contact for employee 401(k) questions and plan logistics
• Liaise with plan advisors and administrators on audits and filings
• Coordinate employee education sessions and communication around plan updates

Skills and Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in payroll, benefits administration, or HR operations (ideally in a professional services or financial services environment)
• Working knowledge of payroll systems and HRIS tools (Paylocity, ADP, or similar)
• Strong understanding of payroll, benefits, and employment compliance
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and data integrity
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, professional environment