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Experienced senior level global benefits operations professional with broad familiarity in benefits administration, employee relations, on-boarding, HRIS, and policies and procedures management. Particular expertise includes human resources compliance management. • On-boarding and off-boarding process • Management of global HRES team, Benefits Managers and Analysts • Global benefits administration, renewals, open enrollment and analyzing policy/plan design • LOA (HIPAA, ERISA, FMLA, CFRA, etc.), and other compliance related processes • Workers compensation and ergonomic programs • HRIS (Workday, Oracle and Peoplesoft) performance, upgrades, program implementation as well as issue resolution and process enhancements Specialties: Mergers and Acquisitions, Implementations, Recruiting, Compliance, HRIS, Branding, Benefits Policy Design and Delivery. Currently finishing CEBS program.Global Benefits and Wellness Program Manager @ From May 2015 to Present (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Manager, Global Benefits @ Managing global benefits programs. Ensuring benefit program design, development, employee education, communication and implementation are cost effective and consistent with business goals and total rewards philosophy. Areas of responsibility include: • Benchmarking and measuring success of current benefits programs in over 40 countries • Developing innovative ideas to scale benefits programs as Riverbed continues to grow • Partnering with marketing to ensure benefits communications align with employee branding and value proposition • Developing RFPs and leading negotiation of contracts • Evaluating and analyzing current benefits programs and working with business units and executive management on how to make improvements • Overseeing all related vendor relationships for healthcare, insurance and 401k/Pension/Retirement plans and partnering with internal resources such as Purchasing and Legal to ensure compliance with related policies and legislation • Maintaining compliance calendar and ensuring timely, accurate filings/notice for 5500's, DOL documents, Annual Reports and Surveys where applicable • Managing global time-off policies and leave administration From January 2014 to June 2015 (1 year 6 months) Senior Manager, Global HR Operations @ • Global HR Operations Lead and HRLT member • Develop and implement human resources strategy and provide governance and direction for data management and technology systems • Lead HRES team which supports all HR systems and processes with a focus on: HRIS, ATS, Ticketing System and non-systems processes associated with Workers Compensation and Leave of Absence using third party vendors From April 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 10 months) Manager, Benefits and On Boarding @ Managing global benefits and wellness programs as well as on-boarding and HRIS processes. Ensuring benefit program design, development, employee education, communication and implementation are cost effective and consistent with business goals and total rewards philosophy. Areas of responsibility include: • Develop and lead wellness initiatives and employee communication and education strategies for all benefits programs. • Benchmarking and measuring success of current benefits programs and developing innovative ideas to scale benefits programs as we continue to grow and change. • Partner with marketing to ensure benefits communications align with employee branding and value proposition. • Maintain domestic HR benefits policies. Collaborate with business partners on global HR benefits policies to ensure consistency. • Develop RFPs as needed and lead negotiation of contracts. • Evaluate and analyze current benefits programs and work with business units and upper management on how to make improvements. • Oversee all related vendor relationships for healthcare, insurance, ergonomics, workers compensation and 401k plans and partner with internal resources such as Purchasing and Legal to ensure compliance with related policies and legislation. • Maintain compliance calendar and ensure timely, accurate filings/notice for 5500's, DOL documents, Annual Reports and Surveys. • Manage time-off policies and leave administration. Work with business to ensure compliance as well as enhance the current system for leave processing. • Manage on-boarding and operations process for all new hires including new hire benefits orientation, welcome packages and customer experience from offer received through first 30 days of employment. • HRIS management, including systems performance, enhancement and problem resolution. Liaison with IT department on all systems issues for HR including pending system upgrade and training of operations team on systems processes. From September 2009 to April 2012 (2 years 8 months) Talent Acquisition Consultant - Technology and Products @ Enabled the business to have the right people in the right place. Provided world-class consulting to understand the business and build scalable, integrated solutions that support the organization’s workforce needs. Partnered closely with the broader recruiting and HR team, creatively leveraged all tools and resources in making quality hires. Responsible for delivering an outstanding experience to candidates and clients during the recruiting process. Responsibilities as follows: • Being the contact point for all recruiting needs within Product and IT groups. • Partner with hiring managers in developing scalable hiring process and ensuring best practices are utilized to ensure target cost per hire and time to hire are achieved. • Being the ambassador and client advisor to hiring groups in ensuring quality hire is achieved through best of breed practices around candidate management, behavioral interviewing and testing. • Contributes to overall talent acquisition organization’s efforts in developing best in class customer experience through efficient and effective interview, assessment and decision making process. • Partner with HR Business Partners in assessing workforce needs, branding and quality of hire. • Ensuring process leading to Day 1 for the employee is enjoyable, insightful and useful. Achievements: • Chaired Hiring Process Committee which created new, efficient hiring process which allowed the Talent Acquisition Team to decrease time to hire and cost per hire over a one year period • Created Educational Seminar on "Hiring the Best" at Informatica which is broadcasted through our local Learning Management System • Worked with the Campus Committee on college hiring and on improving the process for college candidates. Traveled to different college communities to discuss Informatica and attract potential new hires. From August 2007 to September 2009 (2 years 2 months) Global Benefits Manager @ This was an interim, contract position doing specifically what I am doing now as the manager of benefits and on-boarding. I was offered the permanent position after 2+ years of recruiting for the IT and Products groups at Informatica. For more specific information on what I was doing during this time, please see description under current position. From January 2007 to August 2007 (8 months) Account Coordinator @ From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Internal Sales Specialist - National Accounts @ Worked with the self-funded medical option and wellness programs at Principal Financial. From 2004 to 2005 (1 year) Long Term Care Sales Support and Claims Administrator @ Worked in the Financial Assurance arena of General Electric as a sales support admin and then the claims division as an administrator all within their Long Term Care Insurance division. From 2000 to 2003 (3 years) CEBS, Employee Benefits @ University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School From 2009 to 2015 MBA @ University of Phoenix - San Francisco From 2002 to 2004 BA, Theater, Film & TV @ University of California, Los Angeles From 1996 to 2000 Redwood High School From 1992 to 1996 Ellen Meza is skilled in: HRIS, Recruiting, Acquisitions, Employee Benefits, Workday, Benefits Management, Benefits Design, Benefits Negotiation, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, Benefits Administration, Human Resources, Onboarding, Workforce Planning, Compensation & Benefits Programs