HR Operations & Payroll Specialist

Eye Consultants of Atlanta; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Eye Consultants of Atlanta is seeking an HR Specialist to own payroll administration and support the full recruiting lifecycle. You will handle sensitive employee data, onboarding, offboarding, and candidate communications.

The role requires confidentiality, accuracy, and the ability to balance recurring payroll deadlines with fluctuating hiring needs across the Finance / Human Resources team. This hands-on position emphasizes timely reporting, HRIS responsibilities, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• 3+ years of payroll, HR operations, recruiting or closely related experience.
• Strong Excel and reporting skills; comfortable reconciling detailed data.
• Experience with an HRIS/payroll platform; iSolved experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate payroll preparation, adjustments, mileage, bonuses, retroactive pay, salary changes and final entries.
• Track open payroll items and follow up on missing approvals, timecards, and employee information.
• Review payroll previews, zero-earnings reports, and exceptions before processing.
• Process direct-deposit changes using appropriate identity verification and approval controls.
• Produce post-payroll reports, management reporting, FSA check requests, and weekly hours reports.
• Prepare month-end payroll reports and support payroll journal entry documentation.
• Process onboarding and offboarding documentation, including HRIS and IT handoffs.
• Maintain employee records in iSolved, DocuSign and SharePoint with complete audit support.
• Support off-cycle payrolls, live checks, quarterly reporting, and other time-sensitive exceptions.
• Retain evidence of approvals and changes for payroll, HRIS and employee master-data activity.
• Escalate unresolved discrepancies, fraud indicators, access concerns or deadline risks promptly.
• Protect confidential payroll, compensation, banking and personal employee information.
• Source, identify and engage qualified candidates through approved channels.
• Screen candidates for role requirements, experience, availability and compensation alignment.
• Coordinate interviews, candidate communication, feedback and next steps.
• Maintain accurate candidate status, notes and documentation in recruiting systems and files.
• Prepare recruiting reports and provide timely pipeline and activity updates.
• Participate in weekly recruiting calls and stakeholder meetings.
• Coordinate offers, pre-employment steps and handoff to new-hire orientation and onboarding.
• Support unemployment-related documentation and employment inquiries as assigned.
• Monitor aging requisitions, bottlenecks and candidate experience risks.
• Apply consistent, job-related selection practices and protect the candidate's confidentiality.
• Flex recruiting effort around payroll deadlines and elevate competing priorities.

Skills

Payroll

HR Operations

Recruiting

Excel

HRIS

Education

High school diploma

Associate or Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

iSolved

DocuSign

SharePoint

Job description

Eye Consultants of Atlanta is seeking an HR Specialist to own payroll administration and support the full recruiting lifecycle. You will handle sensitive employee data, onboarding, offboarding, and candidate communications.

The role requires confidentiality, accuracy, and the ability to balance recurring payroll deadlines with fluctuating hiring needs across the Finance / Human Resources team. This hands-on position emphasizes timely reporting, HRIS responsibilities, and collaboration with