Branch Financial, LLC is hiring a Senior People Operations Specialist

Branch Financial, LLC is hiring a Senior People Operations Specialist to own the smooth, compliant, and employee-friendly execution of our benefits, compensation, and HR systems. This is a career-level, high-autonomy individual contributor role.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the primary owner of Branch’s benefits operations, including health, life, disability, and voluntary benefits.
• Partner with our benefits broker to manage open enrollment, mid-year changes, renewals, and plan communications.
• Lead compliance workflows such as 5500 filings, ACA reporting, and nondiscrimination testing.
• Manage ongoing tasks including Qualified Life Events, 401(k) loans/distributions, spending account funding, invoice review, employment verifications, and unemployment claims.
• Deliver a recommendation on Branch’s benefits contribution strategy and market approach for annual open enrollment.
• Maintain data accuracy and access controls in BambooHR related to benefits eligibility and enrollment.
• Support execution of salary and semi-annual bonus cycles by preparing models, validating data, and reconciling inputs.
• Build and maintain compensation models used in budgeting, calibration, and executive planning.
• Maintain compensation-related fields in BambooHR, ensuring accuracy for titles, pay bands, and promotion history.
• Administer in-place promotions, stock options and associated communications.
• Act as lead preparer and analyst on compensation planning; partner with the CPO on strategy development.
• Support the 2026 refresh of Branch’s compensation philosophy, contributing data and implementation support.
• Own core HRIS data accuracy and integrations across BambooHR, payroll, recruiting, and benefits platforms.
• Lead system integration projects and coordinate with stakeholders to implement new automations or resolve failures.
• Support onboarding/offboarding flows and change requests in BambooHR, including coordination with other teams and vendors.
• Serve as systems escalation point for data sync, access, or reliability issues.
• Build, maintain and communicate reporting related to headcount, compensation, and benefits utilization.
• Respond to ad hoc data requests with clean, reliable datasets for teams across Finance, Legal, and People.
• Support preparation of workforce analytics and compensation data for Board materials.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in People Operations, Benefits, Total Rewards, or HRIS in a high-growth or fast-paced environment.
• Hands-on experience owning benefits administration and collaborating with brokers on plan execution.
• Strong spreadsheet and modeling skills; able to independently prepare analyses for decision support.
• Experience managing HRIS systems, with a track record of maintaining data integrity.
• Process-oriented thinker who takes ownership, spots inefficiencies, and seeks out ways to improve systems.
• Clear, consistent and proactive communicator with a desire to be a visible contributor.
• Experience contributing to compensation planning, pay philosophy updates, or job architecture work.
• Familiarity with HR compliance reporting (ACA, SOC, 5500) and internal data governance practices.
• Prior experience working with system integrations between HR, payroll, and benefits platforms.

Nice to Have

• Experience with BambooHR is a plus.

Technical Stack

• BambooHR

Team & Environment

This is an individual contributor role collaborating closely with People team peers, Finance, Legal, and external partners.

Benefits & Compensation

• Above-market salary
• Pay equity and transparency
• Remote-first work with work from home set-up and monthly internet stipend
• Flexible YouTime (unlimited PTO) with $1000 vacation stipend after first year
• Employee stock options
• Medical, vision, dental insurance
• 401k with contribution matching

Work Mode

This role offers a hybrid work mode and is open to candidates in Ohio (preferred), AL, AZ, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI.

Branch is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants and/or employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to the individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic.