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Virginia Tech is hiring an HR Transactions Specialist. The role involves maintaining employee records, processing complex personnel actions accurately within deadlines, ensuring compliance with policies and laws, auditing transactions, and recommending operational improvements while handling confidential information.

Highlights

Process complex personnel actions including pay calculations with accuracy and timeliness.
Maintain employee records within the university human resources system.
Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and applicable federal and state laws.
Conduct audits and reviews to identify and resolve compliance issues.
Utilize MS Office, Google Docs, and relational databases; experience with Banner preferred.
Requires a bachelor's degree in HR, accounting, management, or related field or equivalent experience.
Must have strong interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills and handle confidential information effectively.
Compensation up to $52,000 annually, with a Pay Band level of 4 and eligibility for overtime.
Position reports to the VP of Human Resources and supports a diverse employee population within the university.
Regular appointment with a 40-hour workweek and potential hybrid work arrangement after onboarding.

HR Transactions Specialist Full Description

Job Description

Human Resources Transactions Specialist maintains employee records within the university human resources system for a employees. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Processing complex personnel actions accurately and within established timelines (including pay calculations) | Working effectively with a broad range of employee classifications within diverse employee population | Ensuring compliance with policy, procedure, applicable state and federal laws and regulations | Maintaining records and compiling statistical data for effective reporting and tracking | Analyzing complex information to identify and solve problems | Conducting audits and reviews of transactions and data to monitor, report and resolve any potential compliance issues | Ongoing evaluation of procedures as well as recommending operational business improvements | Maintaining the highest level of confidentiality

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in human resources, accounting, management or related field or equivalent level of related training and/or experience
- Working knowledge of human resources regulations and practices with the ability to interpret, apply and provide guidance to a diverse group of constituents
- Experience utilizing various computer software applications such as MS Office / Google Docs, and relational databases
- Experience working with confidential information
- Must be able to manage priorities resulting in successful outcomes within set deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to process transactions efficiently, accurately and develop effective solutions to ensure accuracy in a fast-paced, high volume environment within established deadlines
- Effective oral and written communication skills and high level analytical abilities

Preferred Qualifications

- Significant experience processing human resources and/or payroll transactions
- Experience interpreting human resource payroll policies and procedures within a university or public setting
- Experience utilizing Banner or similar database
- Evaluation of position descriptions (including FLSA classification)
- Knowledge of employment eligibility requirements

Pay Band

Overtime Status

Non-Exempt: Eligible for overtime

Appointment Type

Regular

Salary Information

Commensurate with experience up to $52,000

Hours per week

Review Date

January 5, 2026

Additional Information

This position may be prominently onsite during the training/onboarding period then may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement of 3 days on site, 2 days remote.

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.

About Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.

Virginia Tech endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance. These valuable contributions to university shared governance provide important representation and perspective, along with opportunities for unique and impactful professional development.

Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Marisela Garza at garza87@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.

Original Job Description

Job Description

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Pay Band

Overtime Status

Non-Exempt: Eligible for overtime

Appointment Type

Regular

Salary Information

Commensurate with experience up to $52,000

Hours per week

Review Date

January 5, 2026

Additional Information

This position may be prominently onsite during the training/onboarding period then may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement of 3 days on site, 2 days remote.

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.

About Virginia Tech

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Marisela Garza at garza87@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.

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