How we help you
An effective, smoothly performing team is essential to your customer experience, operational performance and the overall success of your retail business. We deliver outsourced human resources support to make building that team simpler.
Get strategic HR leadership to oversee your talent and culture.
Gain a day-to-day team to tackle your core HR functions.
Add payroll and benefits plan support.
Scale your needs as your business grows.
We know HR. And retail.
Our experienced team of outsourced HR leaders and professionals doesn’t just arrive with a deep understanding of how to strengthen your team, recruiting and culture. We also know the unique talent challenges that retail businesses face — and how to help you solve them.
Explore our outsourced HR services
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
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Reach out to our team
Let’s talk about how our outsourced human resources support can help make your whole team more effective and focused on your core business. Connect with our experienced retail advisors to share your specific challenges and get a plan to solve them.
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From technology solutions for multi-location operations to tax and accounting support, Wipfli’s retail advisors are ready to help you stay resilient and competitive.
