Brenda Izel González

• Collaborate with the Total Rewards function and senior leadership to develop, refine, and implement compensation strategies that align with the company's business goals and support a high-performance culture.
• Develop and implement compensation programs to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and management of global compensation programs at the regional level.
• Create reports summarizing survey results, salary ranges, job evaluations, and other related information for management review.
• Collaborate with Human Resources and the business to develop Job Architecture.
• Designed incentive plans for bonus schemes and provided input for commission structures that aligned with organizational objectives.
• Consult with HR Business Partners and Managers to develop, evaluate, and market price job descriptions, outline career paths, and provide input for organizational structure development.
• Partner with HR and the business to integrate Mergers & Acquisitions into compensation programs.
• Facilitate training sessions for managers on topics such as job evaluation systems, merit and bonus cycle, and job architecture.
• Lead the RFP process for Market Pricing tool selection and implementation.
• Survey management of external market data for benchmarking purposes.
• Provided guidance on the design, implementation, and communication of pay structures.
• Prepare a detailed analysis of the current salary structure versus the proposed changes, utilizing statistical methods such as regression analysis.
• Research industry trends in compensation practices and develop strategies to remain competitive in the marketplace.
• Evaluate internal equity by comparing jobs within an organization to ensure fair compensation across roles.
• Assess employee performance against established criteria to recommend merit increases or bonuses.
• Work closely with recruiting personnel to put together appropriate compensation packages for employees.

Compensation:

• Contributes to the administration and monitoring of the USA, Canada, EMEA and Latin America compensation policies, government regulations concerning payment of minimum wages, overtime pay and industry prevailing rates in order to comply with legal requirements and to establish competitive rates designed to attract, retain and motivate employees.
• Provide guidance to leaders and HR on compensation programs
• Participates in compensation related wage surveys and the related data analysis. Partners with units/divisions/department managers in the job matching and documentation efforts to ensure positions are externally competitive and internally equitable.
• Maintains compensation related data tables in HRIS and REWARD Navigator platforms and may be required to generate ad-hoc reports and run system audits in efforts to ensure data integrity for compensation related processes.
• Develops and distributes communication and training materials, generating reporting and analyzing merit awards vs budgets, compensation equity, etc.
• Implements annual salary structure review process (compensation grades, geographic differentials, and minimum wage analyses), including participating in various external salary benchmarking surveys, generating market analyses, and building recommendation for job grade movement, structure adjustments, differential changes, and new minimum wage rates.
• May be required to participate in market analysis for executive compensation and serve as liaison with local and overseas consultants for executive position evaluations.

Retirement:

• Responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Signature’s 401k plan
• Process timely submission for 401K funding each pay cycle.
• Audit 401k eligibility and participant data as it pertains to contributions, resolve discrepancies between payroll and recordkeeper
• Help to prepare and submit required filings (Non-Discrimination test, Form 5500, True-Up calculation) for defined compensation and defined benefit plans
• Responsible to assist with audit related processes, requests, and reconciliations
• Process, analyze, interpret weekly feedback files from recordkeeper.
• Provide timely and positive customer service related to retirement plan inquiries.
• Process files to be loaded into payroll systems.
• Audit and correct any file discrepancies.
• Ensure consistent application of retirement plan administration and processes in compliance with plan documents and all regulatory requirements.
• Partner with vendor and retiree for closed pension fund inquiries.
• Provide input on the design and delivery of participant and education materials

• Act as a consultant in human resources programs by providing human resources services, including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health, and welfare benefits, training and development, records management, safety and health, succession planning, employee relations and retention, compliance, and labor relations; completing personnel transactions.
• Responsible for payroll processing
• Develop human resources solutions by collecting and analyzing information, recommending courses of action.
• Prepare executive and management reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Manage client expectations by communicating project status and issues; resolving concerns; analyzing time and cost issues; preparing reports.
• Comply with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.

• Acted as the organization's expert in total rewards, focusing on managing large, company-wide compensation and rewards initiatives.
• Led the 401k plan administration and compliance efforts.
• Analyze compensation policies, government regulations, and prevailing wage rates to develop competitive compensation plan.
• Participated in the implementation, administration, and maintenance of sales commission programs.
• Designed and delivered compensation processes, including merit increases, bonuses, commissions, and equity awards.
• Owned the benefits function and open enrollment process.
• Managed relationships with external vendors, including insurance providers and brokers, and oversee vendor contracts and negotiations.
• Responsible to receive, prepare, pay and reconcile benefit vendors' invoices.
• Stay up to date with best practices in the areas of compensation and benefits in the technology industry and apply key findings internally.
• Owned People Analytics and prepare dashboards to show results in key areas: talent acquisition, headcount, retention, and diversity.
• Answered employee questions related to compensation, benefits, and leaves of absences.

• Supported the administration of all employee programs; including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability and wellness programs.
• Contacted and enrolled employees eligible for coverage under ACA regulations, obtained all required documentation.
• Administer the Wellness and Tobacco Cessation Program operations by providing guidelines for administration, configuring Workday and working closely with the vendors on data analysis.
• Led the Dependent Eligibility Audit with either working with an external consulting firm or in-house.
• Assured that all dependents on the company's benefits are verified and in compliance with the Health and Welfare plan rules.
• Managed ERISA appeals for dependent audit non-compliance.
• Responsible to maintain metrics for audit completion and effectiveness.
• Supported Open Enrollment process and implementing other benefit plan changes impacting the Workday system.
• Supported the annual Benefits Fairs and conducted Benefits Orientation meetings to new and current staff.
• Kept metrics of benefit fairs effectiveness related to Wellness Program participation.
• Led initiatives to streamline all processes related to employee experience with the wellness programs and benefits.
• Supported the US Benefits Manager in the preparation and execution, with legal consultation, of benefits documentation, such as original and amended plan texts, benefit agreements and insurance policies.
• Responsible for the Health and Welfare plans compliance such as: updating the Summary Plan Descriptions, Benefit Union Grids, Summary of Benefits, Forms 5500, Medicare and CMS Disclosure filing, Attestation Report and Letters to employees, etc.
• Supported the US Benefits Manager by providing senior-level support relating to escalated employee benefit issues to Benefits Administrators and HR representatives.
• Supported the implementation of the company's HR Shared Services by leading training to HR representatives and providing guidelines for issues management.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate benefits data on Workday; which included ongoing data audits/analysis, partnering with HRIS and payroll on system configuration and testing, and providing accurate and timely benefit plan data to Mosaic's benefit vendors.

Compensation:

• Led, administered, deployed and reviewed Compensation and Benefits programs.
• Analyzed compensation policies, government regulations, and prevailing wage rates to develop competitive compensation plan.
• Performed benchmark studies and review job descriptions to provide recommendations to maintain competitiveness in the market.
• Partnered with Managers and Supervisors to assess employee compensation needs and/or issues.

Benefits Administration:

• Acted as subject matter expert to review, design, and document processes for the company’s health & welfare benefit programs and 401k.
• Recommended benefits programs to management by studying employee requirements and market trends. Supports management's decision making by analyzing benefit options and predicting future costs based on health plan experience reports.
• Led the 401k plan administration and compliance efforts and managed relationship with retirement plans record-keeper, actuaries and trustees.
• Ensured an effective administration of the FMLA, SINOT, Workers Compensation, LTD and other licenses complying with the laws and regulations.
• Resolved COBRA issues and manage communication with the provider and carrier.
• Responsible to monitors all changes in regulations to ensure compliance.
  Member of the Fiduciary Benefits Committee.

HRIS & Payroll:

• Responsible to supervise a team of five direct reports and three indirect reports and to establish team objectives to meet the Department goals.
• Led the implementation project of the ADP Workforce Now and eTime system and assure cero errors during the payroll process
• Coordinated and delivered supervisors and employee training for: Time and Attendance Management (pay time off, leave of absence licences and salary laws for Puerto Rico and US)
• Responsible to calculate, process and pay allowances for executives in a timely manner.
• Assured reconciliation of the payroll reports with Accounting and Finance Department
• Assured compliance with filings and payments for: Workers Comp, SINOT, Unemployment and Chauffeur in a timely manner.