The Senior HRIS Analyst is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, optimizing, and leading delivery of complex HRIS solutions across reporting, configuration, and data processes. This role serves as a technical and functional leader, partnering with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, Operations, and Technology to ensure HR systems are scalable, compliant, and aligned with business needs.
- Design scalable HRIS solutions across modules (reporting, onboarding, compensation, workflows, integrations).
- Translate business requirements into system configurations and reporting structures with evaluation of impacts across payroll, compliance, and integrations.
- Build dashboards and advanced reporting for HR leadership and business partners, performing trend analysis across retention, compensation, and workforce metrics.
- Ensure data accuracy through audits and reconciliation.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve systems.
- Partner with internal and external teams on system integrations and enhancements.
- Lead mid-sized HRIS initiatives and enhancements, owning timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder communication.
- Support roadmap planning and prioritization.
- Support integration of employee populations for mergers and acquisitions.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Maintain documentation and support audit readiness.
- Mentor HRIS Analyst roles, providing guidance and quality review of work.
- 5+ years of HR/HRIS experience.
- Experience with HRIS platforms (e.g., ADP Vantage, Dayforce).
- Strong analytical and reporting skills.
- Experience with multi-national, multi-state and union environments.
- Ability to lead projects and influence stakeholders.
Supervisory Responsibilities: No
Work environment:
- Required job duties are normally performed in a climate-controlled office environment.
- Exposure to computer screens.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
SSA Marine is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Pay Range$110,000 - 125,000 per year
Compensation & BenefitsEligible employees (and their families) may qualify for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as having basic life and accidental death insurance, paid disability insurance, including paid parental leave if eligible, and an Employee Assistance Program. Employees will receive paid sick and vacation time, and company holidays if eligible. The company also offers paid bereavement leave, and paid jury duty. Eligible employees can enroll in our company's 401k plan, as well as a retirement plan. Employees will be eligible for discretionary and/or metric-based bonuses dependent on their position.Skills Required
- 5+ years of HR/HRIS experience
- Experience with HRIS platforms (e.g., ADP Vantage, Dayforce)
- Strong analytical and reporting skills
- Experience with multi-national, multi-state and union environments
- Ability to lead projects and influence stakeholders
What We Do
Founded by Fred R. Smith in 1949 as Bellingham Stevedoring Company, we began our first cargo handling operations in a small corner of Washington State. Driven by a pioneering spirit, our family-owned company saw steady growth over the years, expanding up and down the West Coast to operate a significant market share of the major international terminals in the eastern Pacific. Today, we have become a global enterprise spanning more than 260 locations across five continents. We continue to broaden our reach by developing new locations and upgrading existing facilities, providing some of the most technologically advanced facilities in the world. We partner to move commerce with efficiency, flexibility, and integrity. With operations across five continents and a vast network of interconnected transportation solutions, we open new opportunities that accelerate the growth and pace of global business. Improving the customer experience is at the heart of everything we do, so we make purposeful investments in people, facilities and technical innovations that deliver the greatest customer value.
