HR Payroll/Benefits Specialist

Job Overview

HR Payroll/Benefits Specialist

Location: Dubuque, IA

Employment Type: Full-Time Employee

We are growing our HR System/Operations Team and seeking a client focused and detail-oriented person to be a part of it. This critical team member is responsible for ensuring our employees have a best in class experience throughout onboarding and their career regarding understanding their benefits, payroll, and taxes. The position will require the administration of our HR system (UKG) as it relates to job changes, payroll processing, and benefits updates.

We are looking for a motivated person who enjoys being part of a team, appreciates variety and detailed data, and is constantly looking to learn. This is a fast-paced position that requires the ability to multi-task and a high level of detail in a variety of aspects of the role. Successful individuals in this role will learn and maintain proficiency in excel as well as the administration of the HR system for purposes of payroll processing, benefits administration and general reporting. In addition, the ability to build/maintain positive working relationships with management, employees, and our vendor partners using principles of good customer service, anticipating business needs and responding to daily requests through oral/written communications of excellence is critical. At the same time, the ability to maintain strict confidentiality in handling highly sensitive information is required.

If this describes you and you are ready to make a change, we’d love to talk with you!

Benefits

Most Benefits start Day 1

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Flex Spending or HSA

401(k) with company match

Profit-Sharing/ Defined Contribution (1-year waiting period)

PTO/ Paid Holidays

Company-paid ST and LT Disability

Maternity Leave/ Parental Leave

Subsidized Parking

Company-paid Term Life/ Accidental Death Insurance

About the company

At Cottingham & Butler, we sell a promise to help our clients through life’s toughest moments. To ensure we keep that promise, we hold ourselves to a set of principles that we believe position our clients and our company for long-term success. Our Guiding Principles are not just words on paper, they are a promise we make to ourselves and our clients.

These principles have become a driving force of our culture and share many common themes with the values of our clients. First, we hire and develop amazing people that have an insatiable desire to succeed, are committed to learning, and thrive on challenges. Secondly, we pride ourselves on serving our clients' best interests through quality service, innovative solutions, and constantly evaluating our performance. Third, we have embraced and are guided by the theme of “better every day” constantly pushing ourselves to be better than yesterday. Ultimately, we get more energy from the future we are creating for our people, our clients, and our company than from our past success.

As an organization, we are very optimistic about the future and have incredibly high expectations for our people and our performance. We also understand that our growth is fueled by becoming better, not bigger – growth funds investments in new resources to better serve our clients and provide the career opportunities our employees want and deserve. This is why we are a growth company and why we are committed to being better every day.