Kari has over 15 years of experience in human resources and compensation roles. She currently works as a Compensation Analyst for Cargill, where she leads teams and processes related to market pricing, salary surveys, compensation planning, and more across North America and globally. Previously, she held senior roles in human resources administration and payroll at Cargill and Paychex, demonstrating a track record of leadership, process improvement, and training others.

1. kari_wisc@hotmail.com
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a career that offers the ability to learn and grow through experience.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Compensation Analyst, Cargill Inc, Wayzata, MN (04/13 to current)
• Primary administrator of the Access database that houses all of the market pricing for North America.
• Co-Lead the transition of market pricing globally from segregated systems to one global system (Mercer ePrism).
• Participate in salary surveys for US and Canada with major survey vendors.
• Receive salary surveys results from primary survey vendors and format appropriately to be utilized for market
pricing in the Access database for North America.
• Be the primary contact for all survey needs globally with our primary survey vendors including survey purchase
approvals, tracking and billing invoices, and negotiating global contracts every 3 years.
• Co-Lead a committee of team members to research, revise, socialize, and integrate a new approach to applying
geographic differentials in North America
• Work as part of a small team to design, develop, test, and make improvements to a single planning form in a global
tool (SuccessFactors) for compensation recommendations globally.
• Co-Lead the annual and off cycle compensation processes for base, bonus, and LTI recommendations to be
administered in SuccessFactors.
• Primary person responsible for base pay market data, estimated mandatory increases, global guidelines,
compensation statement design, and salary overrides for France TGP and India TFR values for base pay planning in
SuccessFactors.
• Write communications for employees, managers, and HR to ensure all relevant information is clearly understood at
each stage of the compensation process.
• Conduct trainings in person and virtually to all levels of the organization that are utilizing compensation tools and
processes.
• Ensure data flows consistently across all systems in regards to HRIS data, market pricing, compensation planning,
and payroll.
• Participate in a position evaluation committee to evaluate new jobs for the appropriate salary band and job mapping.
• Work in conjunction with the Global Compensation Leads on a bi-yearly basis to review and propose global salary
change guidelines. These proposals are then sent to the Compensation COE for review and approval.
Senior HR Assistant, Cargill Inc, Wayzata, MN (12/10 to 4/13)
• Lead a group of HR Assistants by answering questions, conducting monthly HR Admin calls, setting up access to
systems needed for HR Administrators to complete their job duties, and training on relevant compliance topics.
• Ran monthly, quarterly, and semi-annual reports including: terminations, bill code reports, headcount, employee
data, turnover, diversity scorecard, and exit interview analysis.
• Processed all Peoplesoft transactions for exempt level employees including: completion of new hire paperwork,
terminations, transfers, leave of absences, pay rate increases, reporting changes, setting up new locations, and Pay
Input transactions.
• Lead the revision of the HR Sharepoint webpages to include: Minneapolis HR page, general employee HR page,
manager HR page, and Leadership page. Assigned areas to HR generalists to update, created metadata for each
page, and created security assignments to restricted documents.
• Gathered and recorded AAP job seeker information into collection website, break down AAP reports by region,
send emails to managers requesting completion, and track AAP completion of section 6 and section 9 by each
region.
• Lead and organized Business Unit Orientation Program (BUOP) annually in each of AgHorizons’ three regions.
Successfully improved program from two days to one day and streamlined presentations.
• Completed CASC Platform Data Management reports twice a year. Entails running multiple reports and completing
v-lookups and pivot tables to gather current data for all exempt level employees. Documented process for future
completion consistency and trained another HR professional on how to complete the reports.

2. • Lead the Global Job Catalog (GJC) project by mapping all current jobs to positions in the job catalog to create
consistency between positions throughout Cargill.
• Compensation
o Lead the 2011/2012 non-MIP incentive process for AgHorizons in conjunction with a Senior HR
Generalist.
o Assisted the 2011/2012 MIP process by: running reports, completing v-lookups, tracking updates,
gathering total payouts, and hosting meetings with Leadership Team members to review total payouts.
o Provided input into plan revision documents for 2012/2013 fiscal year for both non-MIP and MIP incentive
plans.
o Calculated the % of midpoint analysis for the base compensation process in AgHorizons and presented the
finding to the BU Leader and Commercial Managers
• Worked in conjunction with other HR team members on training managers and HR Assistants on various
compliance topics including: Data privacy, Employee files, I-9s, Fundamentals of Management (FOM)/High
Performing Managers (HPM) tracking, EPFT/EMPT, and FMLA compliance. Led HR Assistants in completing an
employee file and I-9 audit in each of their respective regions.
• Processed employee engagement reports and shadowed focus groups with low scoring functions in Minneapolis.
• Co-facilitated, in conjunction with Grain & Oil Seeds Central North America (GOSCNA) Business Unit, Open
Enrollment sessions for Minneapolis employees. Recorded a narrated presentation for utilization of 2011 Open
Enrollment session trainings in AgHorizons’ regions.
• Scribed for Talent Talk sessions and gathered together all relevant Talent Talk notes into one master document.
Senior Payroll Specialist, Cargill Inc., Minnetonka/Hopkins, MN (04/07 to 12/10)
• Assisted three business units with any payroll related questions they may have as well as keying additional pay for
employees (includes approximately 75 locations).
• Keyed new hires for my business units and audit all new hires keyed by our entire department to ensure accurate
data and pay is processed. Reviewed the new hire audit design and provided input into the redesign of the process.
Resulted in the process being dispersed to each individual team member rather than one central auditor (me).
• Partnered with IT and upper management to coordinate a redesign of the internal NAHR payroll website.
• Reviewed quarter and year end tax reports to fix any discrepancies to prevent errors on employees’ W-2’s.
• Provided input into the Pennsylvania local tax report process. Entailed dissection of the reports, identifying patterns
and/or unnecessary input, developing suggestions to simplify the reports, reviewing them once the suggested fixes
were put in place, and ultimately training other payroll specialists on the purpose of and ways to read these reports.
• Created a job description to assist in getting a HR assistant position approved for our department.
• Worked in conjunction with the Garnishment Specialists to revise process documentation and train Payroll
Specialists on the garnishment procedures in our department.
• Participated in the HR Development Program (October 2010-May 2011).
• Provided input into the Peoplesoft upgrade project as a subject matter expert.
• Facilitated Peoplesoft training for HR Personnel.
Senior Payroll Specialist, Paychex Inc., Mendota Heights, MN (01/06 to 04/07)
• Accurately keyed all payroll related data necessary to process and meet the satisfaction of approximately 300
clients.
• Kept abreast of changes in wage and tax laws, and corresponded with federal and state tax agencies on behalf of our
clients in problem situations.
• Trained coworkers on important updates and knowledge required of the position and participated in various
committees.
• Participated in the interview process by sitting with prospective employees to present a realistic job preview.
• Completed training modules to advance in job grade and status at an accelerated pace.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Management/Administrative, Professional Hospitality, Madison, WI (08/02-01/06)
Human Resources Intern, Quebecor World, St. Cloud, MN (01/04-10/04)
CERTIFICATIONS
Professional in Human Resources (PHR) May 2008

3. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management May 2005
Minor in Community Psychology St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Academic Honors:
Graduated Cum Laude with a cumulative GPA of 3.35/4.0