Hannah Hermansen

Hannah embeds with growing employers whose people and payroll data have stopped agreeing with each other: hours tracked across three platforms that never reconcile, pay rates that have drifted from the master table, or employees split across legal entities with no clean record of what was worked. She steps in to build the practical audits and systems that catch discrepancies before payroll ever runs, reconciling hours across platforms, checking base rates, verifying FLSA overtime calculations, and untangling bonus and garnishment lines. At a 60-person home care agency, she turned manual, last-minute reconciliation into a repeatable pre-payroll check; at a 25-person multi-entity food company, she paired a full compensation review with friendly one-on-one employee check-ins that surfaced undocumented pay promises with care. She genuinely loves rolling up her sleeves and untangling the messy back-end details of payroll and compliance, giving business leaders peace of mind and making sure every employee's paycheck is right the first time.

What Hannah Does Best

• Recurring payroll audits and reconciliation: Many growing employers track hours across disconnected scheduling, training, and payroll systems with nothing tying them together. Hannah builds repeatable pre-payroll audits that reconcile hours across platforms, verify base rates and FLSA weighted-average overtime, and check bonuses and deductions so mistakes are caught before checks go out.
• Closing wage and hour compliance gaps: For multi-location and multi-entity businesses that have outgrown informal pay practices, she runs end-to-end compensation audits covering FLSA classification, state exempt thresholds, tip handling, and pay equity, pairing the data with thoughtful employee conversations so nothing is missed.
• Embedded fractional HR from the ground up: For companies without an internal HR team, she runs payroll end to end, builds the first SOP library (covering onboarding, benefits, payroll, and vendor management), handles workers' compensation and employee relations, and serves as a steady weekly HR partner to leadership.
• Putting existing HR structure into practice: When an organization already has job-leveling frameworks, pay grades, and policies on paper, she helps leadership actually run them, managing performance review cycles, refreshing outdated policies, and guiding employee relations investigations through to clear, well-documented outcomes.

Recent Engagements

• 60+ employee home care and home health agency • Total HR • 4 months, 12 hrs/week: Employee hours lived in three separate platforms (scheduling and EVV, payroll, and training) with no process to reconcile them before payroll ran, leaving off-shift training hours and shift overlaps easy to miss. Hannah built a repeatable pre-payroll audit across all three systems that checked off-shift training hours, validated base rates against master pay tables, audited FLSA overtime, verified bonuses and garnishments, and tracked new hires and separations in a single dashboard. Payroll moved from stressful ad hoc troubleshooting to a reliable, auditable rhythm.
• 25-person multi-location retail and hospitality food company • Total HR • 4 to 5 months, ongoing, 10 hrs/week: During a corporate entity restructuring, employee hours and pay records had become tangled across two legal entities, alongside broader gaps in exempt salary thresholds, role pay consistency, and unwritten pay promises. Hannah completed a full wage and classification audit and held warm, one-on-one pulse conversations with every team member to document what they had been promised without creating alarm. Employees were properly classified and reconciled across both entities, significantly reducing wage and hour exposure while building trust with the staff.
• Small company with U.S. operations and entities in Taiwan and China • Total HR • 5 months, ongoing, 8 hrs/week: What started on paper as light part-time HR turned out to span semi-monthly U.S. payroll, monthly payroll coordination in Taiwan and China, international HR across three time zones, recruiting, onboarding, workers' compensation, benefits, and ongoing employee relations. Hannah smoothly took over payroll from an outgoing administrator, built the company's first HR SOP library covering payroll, benefits, onboarding, and PEO coordination, and established a weekly advisory rhythm with the company's president, giving leadership full-scope HR backup without the overhead of a full-time hire.
• Utah public entity with an established job architecture and grading system • Total HR • 2 months, ongoing, 10 hrs/week: Because the organization already had a formal job-leveling framework and pay grades in place, leadership needed an embedded partner to apply and maintain that structure. Hannah built out the FY27 performance management cycle, updated five core HR policies, and led a formal employee relations investigation through to a documented findings memo. Just days before the performance cycle launched, she caught and reconciled contradicting competency definitions and deadlines across three internal documents, ensuring managers and employees got a clear, unified rollout.
• 20-employee stainless steel manufacturer • Total HR • 1 month, 15 hrs/week: Facing a tight timeline, the business needed to navigate a workforce reduction while simultaneously rebuilding its recruiting workflow and internal org chart. Hannah guided leadership through the layoff with care, managed payroll and benefits transitions, updated job descriptions, and reset the recruiting process so the team was stabilized and ready to move forward within a month.

Experience

• Human Resources Generalist • Multi-Location Dental Practice Group (Provo, UT): Managed the full employee lifecycle, employee handbooks and policies, multi-state workers' compensation compliance, and OIG compliance audits across multiple practice locations.
• Senior Payroll Specialist • Multi-Location Dental Practice Group (Provo, UT): Ran multi-state, multi-entity payroll processing, including complex commission-based compensation for clinical staff, while improving payroll SOPs and timekeeping accuracy.
• Staff Accountant • Business Process Management and Financial Compliance Company (Draper, UT): Processed payroll via ACH, wire, and manual check for 700+ employees across 26 states, auditing payroll records for accuracy and multi-state labor law compliance.
• Human Resources Generalist • Business Process Management and Financial Compliance Company (Draper, UT): Supported payroll processing for 700+ employees, resolved HRIS and self-service issues, and coordinated recruiting, interviews, and onboarding documentation.
• Administrative Assistant & HR Representative • Managed IT Services Provider: Supported recruiting, onboarding, benefits coordination, timekeeping audits, and employee communications while partnering with managers on hiring and policy administration.
• HR Assistant • Commercial Printing and Design Company: Processed payroll and supported bonus, commission, unemployment, and workers' compensation reporting alongside new hire orientation and benefits administration.

Education & Credentials

• B.S., Human Resource Management, Utah Valley University • 2023
• aPHR, HR Certification Institute • 2024

Outside Work

Hannah lives in Sandy, Utah, where she coaches high school girls lacrosse and spends weekends camping, hiking, and enjoying winter sports with her family. She is working her way through a bucket list of national parks, keeps a running list of her next travel stops, and loves relaxing at home with her favorite shows and her dogs.