Kronia® is looking for a Payroll, Benefits & HRIS Lead to own the accurate, timely, and compliant administration of U.S. payroll, employee benefits, and HRIS operations within a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment. The role will support a multi-state workforce of approximately 200+ employees, serving as the functional owner across payroll, benefits, and HR systems. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on experience with full-cycle payroll processing, benefits administration, HRIS operations, payroll tax and regulatory compliance, and a proactive approach to issue resolution, controls, data accuracy, and continuous process improvement. This position requires close collaboration with employees, HR leadership, Finance, IT, payroll providers, brokers, benefit carriers, third-party administrators, and HRIS vendors to ensure operational excellence and a high-quality employee experience. You'll be doing: Own the end-to-end preparation, validation, reconciliation, and execution of weekly and biweekly U.S. payroll for hourly and salaried employees. Process wages, overtime, bonuses, commissions, allowances, deductions, garnishments, retroactive adjustments, off-cycle payments, new hires, terminations, and employee changes. Perform pre-payroll audits and reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and ensure payroll accuracy before final approval. Resolve payroll and tax-related matters, including discrepancies, tax notices, registrations, tax fallouts, agency correspondence, and system-related issues. Administer U.S. employee benefit programs including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, FSA, retirement, and voluntary benefits. Lead Open Enrollment activities and manage eligibility, enrollments, qualifying life events, deductions, changes, terminations, employee communications, system testing, and post-enrollment audits. Perform monthly benefit and eligibility reconciliations across carrier invoices, employee eligibility, payroll deductions, and enrollment records. Administer employee leaves from intake through return-to-work, including FMLA and other applicable leave programs, disability coordination, benefits continuation, documentation, communication, tracking, and system updates. Serve as the functional administrator for U.S. HRIS and payroll systems, including configuration support, data integrity, testing, troubleshooting, reporting, upgrades, integrations, and carrier feeds. Manage recurring payroll and benefits compliance activities, including COBRA, ACA/1095, retirement plans, payroll taxation, garnishments, audits, and required reporting. Coordinate directly with payroll providers, brokers, benefit carriers, third-party administrators, and HRIS vendors to resolve issues and ensure service expectations are met. Maintain accurate SOPs, controls, and documentation while proactively managing deadlines, risks, and open issues. Identify opportunities to simplify, improve, and automate payroll, benefits, and HRIS processes. Develop reporting and analysis to support data accuracy, reconciliation, operational visibility, and decision-making.

The skills you bring:

5+ years of progressively responsible payroll and benefits experience, including hands-on full-cycle payroll processing. Strong experience managing payroll for a multi-state U.S. workforce. deductions, garnishments, bonuses, commissions, and off-cycle payments. Comprehensive experience with U.S. benefits administration, including Open Enrollment, qualifying life events, COBRA, FMLA/LOA, retirement plans, and benefits reconciliation. Strong experience administering enterprise HRIS and payroll systems, including configuration support, testing, troubleshooting, integrations, carrier feeds, reporting, and data integrity. Strong knowledge of U.S. payroll taxation and regulatory compliance, including federal, state, and local requirements, tax notices, registrations, garnishments, and multi-jurisdictional issues. Experience working directly with payroll providers, brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, and HRIS vendors. Advanced Excel, data analysis, and reconciliation skills. Strong ability to identify root causes, resolve complex operational issues, and drive matters through completion. Excellent planning, prioritization, and attention to detail, particularly when managing critical payroll and compliance deadlines. Strong communication, collaboration, and employee service orientation. Ability to handle sensitive employee and payroll information with discretion, confidentiality, and sound professional judgment. Professional fluency in English is required; Spanish is strongly preferred. Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred.

Nice to have:

CPP, CEBS, SHRM, or related professional certification. Experience supporting HRIS integrations and automation initiatives. Experience improving payroll and benefits controls, processes, and business continuity practices. Experience supporting internal and external payroll, benefits, or compliance audits.

Working Environment:

Hybrid model starting: 4 days onsite, 1 day home office within Texas. Position supporting U.S. Human Capital operations and a 200+ employee multi-state workforce. Collaborative environment working with HR, Finance, IT, employees, and external payroll and benefits partners. Strong ownership across Payroll, Benefits, HRIS, Compliance, and Employee Experience. Flexibility to support critical payroll deadlines, Open Enrollment, year-end activities, audits, system issues, and other time-sensitive business needs, which may occasionally require availability outside regular business hours.

Pay:

From $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Referral program

Experience:

Dayforce:

4 years (Required)

Language:

Spanish (Preferred)

Work Location:

Hybrid remote in San Antonio, TX 78248