Sr. Manager, HRIS, Benefits and Total Rewards
Bezos Earth FundWashington, District of Columbia
Full Time
Posted October 28, 2025
$175k - $220k
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Job Description
The Senior Manager, HRIS, Benefits and Total Rewards is responsible for overseeing payroll, benefits, HR systems, and compensation strategies to ensure compliance, equity, and efficiency, while serving as a trusted advisor and driving continuous improvement in these areas.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and oversee full-cycle payroll processing for U.S. staff, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and coordinating with PEO payroll providers.
- Design, select, and administer employee benefits programs, including health, dental, vision, retirement, and wellness initiatives.
- Maintain and enhance HR systems (HRIS), manage data integrity, develop HR metrics reports, and support system upgrades and user training.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive total rewards strategy, including salary structures, job classifications, and market benchmarking.
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to payroll, benefits, and HR policies, including reporting and audits.
- Lead and support benefits communication, open enrollment, vendor negotiations, and benefits contract management.
- Advise employees and managers on leave policies, FMLA, and benefits interactions, ensuring smooth leave administration and return-to-work processes.
- Monitor and analyze HR data to assess program effectiveness, identify process improvements, and support decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field; Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- 8-10 years of progressive HR operations, total rewards, experience managing payroll, benefits, HRIS, and compensation functions.
- Proven experience managing full-cycle payroll processing for U.S. staff and coordinating with PEO payroll providers.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. federal, state, and local payroll laws, taxes, deductions, overtime, benefits withholdings, garnishments, and compliance requirements.
- Experience handling payroll reconciliations, audits, corrections, and payroll system configurations.
- Experience designing, selecting, and administering employee benefits programs including health, dental, vision, retirement, life disability insurance, leave, and wellness initiatives.
- Experience managing the annual open enrollment process, benefit changes onboarding, life events, offboarding, and effectively communicating benefits plans to employees.
- Ability to partner with brokers, vendors, and third-party administrators to manage benefits contracts, renewals, negotiations, and cost management.
- Experience supporting FMLA leave administration, including communication with employees and coordination with leave management vendors.
- Ability to advise managers and employees on the interaction of leave laws with paid time off, workers compensation, and short-term and long-term disability benefits.
- Ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations and reporting requirements, including ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, and FMLA.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for benefits-related inquiries and maintain benefits data accuracy.
- Serve as the HRIS lead, maintaining system configurations, managing integrations with payroll, benefits, finance, and timekeeping systems.
- Develop reports and dashboards for HR metrics analytics such as turnover, compensation metrics, payroll cost, and benefit utilization.
- Lead or support HRIS system upgrades, expansions, user training, and documentation of workflows and policies.
- Implement a comprehensive compensation strategy including salary structure, job classifications, market benchmarking, and salary survey analysis.
- Lead annual compensation reviews, manage salary planning processes, and ensure internal pay equity and legal compliance.
- Provide compensation benchmarking market analysis and support recommendations for organizational changes.
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting for compliance, audits, and organizational needs, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of legal requirements and industry trends.
- Monitor and analyze data to assess the impact and effectiveness of HR programs.
- Maintain and enforce HR policies related to compensation, benefits, payroll, ensuring alignment with local, national, and international laws.
- Identify process improvements, automation opportunities, and cost savings initiatives.
- Physical ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk working on a computer, with potential for extended hours and limited domestic and international travel.
- High integrity, confidentiality, fairness, and good judgment with the ability to make timely and sound decisions.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range of $175,000 - $220,000
Competitive benefits package
Work environment includes prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
May require extended hours for urgent issues or to meet deadlines
May undertake limited domestic and/or international travel
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