Consistent, streamlined human resources
Adapting to retail’s ever-changing business environment can be challenging when your staff is constantly changing, too.
High turnover can burden your human resources (HR) departments with increased demand for functions from recruitment and onboarding to discipline and offboarding. And when turnover extends to HR staff, your business faces the added risk of lacking continuity in your back office.
Increase the consistency and efficiency of your back office with Wipfli’s outsourced retail HR support.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli’s HR review process helps us build on our retail industry experience to quickly acclimate and prioritize key focal areas for your business. From employee relations to benefits compliance, our specialists can help you streamline HR operations so that you have more time to focus on customers.
With our HR outsourcing services, your business can experience:
- On-demand support: Leverage our specialized skills and compliance knowledge when you need them without the overhead costs of a full-time hire.
- Scalability: Scale your HR team up or down to match your business growth.
- Objective insights: We bring an outside perspective that can help you navigate sensitive situations with an unbiased assessment.
- Less risk: Our focus on payroll and benefits compliance helps you stay current on regulations and best practices.
How we help you
Human resources generalist
Wipfli provides operational support for critical HR areas to help mitigate risk and advance your desired culture. Our HR solutions for retail help you navigate:
- HR operations support
- Employee relations
- Employee handbook
- Benefits administration
- Performance management
- Job descriptions
- Onboarding/offboarding
- Compliance
- Employee communications
- Talent acquisition
- Discipline, coaching and termination
- Manager/supervisory training
- HRIS enhancements
- Process optimization
- Employee pulse surveys
Chief human resources officer
Outsource talent at the upper levels of your organization with Wipfli’s fractional CHRO services. Our experienced executives can help you create a people strategy to attract, retain and develop employees in a way that’s aligned with your goals and objectives.
- Talent strategy and philosophy
- HR review
- Employee experience (culture)
- Compensation and benefits
- Performance management
- Organizational structure and role alignment
- Succession planning
- Career pathing
- Talent assessment
- Leadership development
- Manager coaching
- Workforce planning
Wipfli’s outsourced human resources services help you be strategic and maintain regulatory compliance in offering competitive compensation and benefits.
Payroll solutions
Wipfli’s HCM team helps you save time and cut costs with a tailored human capital management solution. We can help you implement a single sign-on option for managing the full employee life cycle, with solutions including:
- HR and payroll solutions: Human resources, payroll processing, payroll tax filings, benefits enrollment and administration
- Workforce management solutions: Time and labor management, scheduling, expense management
- Applicant tracking system: Reduce the number of days from posting to hiring, find more applicants
Employee retirement plan services
Wipfli’s turnkey retirement plan services deliver clarity and reliability in offering efficient, competitive benefits. Our employee benefits professionals apply a CPA foundation to provide quality retirement plan services that support financial success, including:
- Defined benefit plans, including cash balance plans
- Plan design, consulting, compliance and reporting
- Third-party administration and recordkeeping services
- 401(k) profit sharing plans and integrating 401(k) benefits with payroll
- Solo 401(k) and cash balance combo plans
We also offer compliance testing services and support for the preparation of Form 5500, as well as other IRS and DOL reporting. We also provide participants with distribution support and website assistance, and we can support plan sponsors and trustees with:
- Eligibility monitoring
- Contribution calculations
- Plan reviews
Our team
Julia A. Johnson
Julia Johnson has more than 20 years of diversified human resources and organizational development experience and has worked closely with presidents and boards of directors on initiatives including but not limited to the development of compensation and performance management systems, organizational structure, role alignment, succession planning, and training and development.
Molly Trottier, Human Resources
Molly Trottier is a manager in Wipfli’s outsourced human resources (HRO) practice with over 15 years of experience in human resources strategy, compliance and organizational leadership. She leads a team of consultants who deliver customized HR solutions tailored to the growth stages of clients across various industries. She regularly advises on performance management, employee relations and HR technology systems, serving as a trusted professional across the firm.
Kelly R. Runge, CPA
Kelly Runge is a partner in Wipfli’s business advisory services practice. She provides consulting services for small and medium-sized companies. Kelly helps her clients meet their ongoing compliance needs as well as their short- and long-term business objectives.
Erika Young, CRPS®, CPFA, AIF®
Erika Young is the principal in charge of Wipfli’s human capital management services. For more than a decade, she has specialized in developing retirement and employee benefit plans that are competitive, compliant and cost efficient.
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