Fractional & Interim HR Leadership
Experienced HR Leadership Without the Cost of a Full-Time Executive.
Whether you need ongoing fractional HR leadership, temporary coverage during a transition, or experienced support to strengthen an existing HR function, HR Startup Solutions provides hands-on leadership aligned with your business priorities.
We step into the work—not simply to advise, but to help manage, improve, and implement the HR systems and processes your organization depends on every day.
Support can include workforce strategy, employee relations, payroll administration and oversight, HRIS implementation and optimization, benefits management, compliance, reporting, manager support, and day-to-day HR operations.
Fractional or Interim—Support Designed Around Your Situation
Fractional HR Leadership
Fractional HR leadership provides experienced senior-level HR support on an ongoing, part-time basis without the cost of adding a full-time HR executive.
This model works well for organizations that need strategic and operational HR leadership but may not yet require—or be ready for—a full-time senior HR hire.
Fractional support can help you:
- Strengthen HR operations and infrastructure
- Manage ongoing employee-relations matters
- Oversee payroll, benefits, and HR systems
- Support managers and executive leadership
- Improve policies, workflows, and documentation
- Build scalable HR practices as the organization grows
- Provide oversight and direction to existing HR or administrative staff
Interim HR Leadership
Interim HR leadership provides experienced temporary HR leadership when your organization needs someone to step in quickly and maintain continuity.
Interim support may be appropriate during:
- HR leadership vacancies
- Organizational transitions
- Rapid periods of growth
- Leaves of absence
- HR department restructuring
- Payroll, benefits, or HRIS transitions
- Major HR projects requiring senior-level oversight
The goal is to keep critical HR operations moving while strengthening the function for whoever leads it next.
More Than HR Advice—Hands-On Operational Leadership
Many organizations do not need another set of recommendations. They need someone who understands how HR actually operates and can help manage the systems, vendors, processes, and decisions behind the employee experience.
With 25+ years of HR leadership and consulting experience, Julia Braun brings extensive experience managing multi-site and multi-state HR operations, payroll, benefits, HR technology, compliance, employee relations, organizational development, and workforce systems.
That operational depth allows Fractional and Interim HR engagements to address both immediate workforce needs and the infrastructure required to support sustainable growth.
Payroll Leadership & Administration
Payroll is one of the most critical operational functions in any organization. Errors affect employees immediately and can create significant compliance, financial, and employee-relations concerns.
HR Startup Solutions provides experienced payroll oversight and support across complex and multi-state environments.
Payroll support may include:
- Payroll process oversight and administration
- Multi-state payroll coordination
- Payroll and timekeeping system selection
- Payroll system implementation and transitions
- Payroll vendor management
- Timekeeping and approval workflows
- Payroll data review and reconciliation
- Wage-and-hour process alignment
- Employee classification support
- Payroll reporting
- Payroll issue resolution
- Coordination between HR, payroll, finance, and operations
- Process documentation and internal controls
Julia’s experience includes supporting payroll and employment administration across more than 27 states, leading payroll and HR system implementations, and improving payroll and service processes by as much as 40% in prior leadership environments.
The Objective
Create a payroll process that is accurate, timely, structured, well documented, and capable of supporting the organization as it grows.
HRIS & HR Technology Leadership
Your HR technology should simplify work—not create additional administrative burden.
We help organizations evaluate, implement, organize, and improve HR systems so employee information, payroll, onboarding, reporting, documentation, and workflows work together more effectively.
HRIS support may include:
- HRIS needs assessment
- System and vendor evaluation
- HRIS selection
- Implementation planning
- Data preparation and migration
- Employee-record configuration
- Payroll and timekeeping integration
- Onboarding workflows
- Approval processes
- Benefits administration workflows
- Reporting and dashboards
- Employee and manager self-service
- Process automation
- System utilization reviews
- Vendor coordination
- HR technology transition management
Experience includes HRIS and payroll system implementation, optimization, reporting, and workflow development using platforms such as BambooHR, Paylocity, payroll/timekeeping systems, and other workforce-management technologies.
The Objective
Build an HR technology environment that improves data accuracy, reduces manual work, strengthens reporting, and gives managers and employees better access to the information and processes they need.
Benefits Strategy & Administration
Employee benefits are both a major business expense and an important part of the employee experience.
Effective benefits management requires more than completing annual enrollment. It requires cost analysis, vendor management, employee communication, administration, compliance, and ongoing evaluation.
Benefits support may include:
- Benefits strategy and plan review
- Broker and vendor management
- Benefits renewal support
- Cost and utilization analysis
- Plan design evaluation
- Enrollment administration
- Open enrollment planning
- Employee benefits communication
- HRIS benefits configuration
- Eligibility and enrollment processes
- Benefits issue resolution
- Coordination with payroll
- Benefits documentation and compliance processes
In prior HR leadership roles, benefits strategy, vendor management, and plan evaluation contributed to documented benefits-cost reductions of approximately 35%–45% while maintaining focus on employee needs and organizational objectives.
The Objective
Develop benefits programs and administrative processes that balance employee value, organizational cost, compliance, and operational efficiency.
How Fractional HR Support Helps Your Business
◆ HR Guidance & Decision Support
Experienced guidance for employee relations, corrective action, performance concerns, terminations, and day-to-day workforce decisions.
◆ Payroll, HRIS & Benefits Oversight
Senior-level oversight of payroll, timekeeping, HR systems, benefits administration, vendor relationships, and related employee processes.
◆ Compliance & Policy Maintenance
Ongoing review of policies, documentation, employment practices, and regulatory requirements to identify gaps and maintain consistency.
◆ Hiring, Onboarding & Employee Administration
Structured support for hiring documentation, onboarding, employee records, status changes, and other essential employee-lifecycle processes.
◆ Manager & Leadership Support
Practical coaching and guidance to help managers address employee concerns, communicate expectations, document issues, and make informed people decisions.
◆ HR Operations & Workflow Improvement
Evaluation and improvement of HR processes, responsibilities, systems, and reporting to reduce administrative burden and support continued growth.
HR Reporting & Workforce Insights
Development and review of HR metrics, reporting practices, and workforce information to support better business and people decisions.
HR Operations That Work Together
Strong HR operations are interconnected.
Payroll affects benefits.
Benefits affect employee experience.
HRIS affects payroll, records, onboarding, reporting, and compliance.
Policies affect manager decisions.
Manager practices affect employee relations and retention.
Fractional HR leadership provides one experienced point of oversight to help ensure these functions work together rather than operating as disconnected administrative processes.
When Fractional or Interim HR Leadership May Be the Right Fit
This service may be appropriate if:
- Your organization has outgrown informal HR practices
- HR responsibilities are spread across Finance, Operations, or Administration
- You need senior HR expertise but are not ready for a full-time HR executive
- Your existing HR team needs leadership or additional capacity
- You are experiencing rapid workforce or multi-state growth
- Payroll, benefits, or HR systems need improvement
- You are implementing or changing an HRIS or payroll platform
- Managers need stronger HR support
- Your organization is preparing for an HR leadership transition
- You need temporary leadership while recruiting a permanent HR executive
- You need someone who can move between strategy and hands-on implementation
What You Gain
Experienced Leadership
Senior-level HR perspective backed by extensive operational experience across startups, growing organizations, multi-site employers, and complex workforce environments.
Hands-On Support
Not just recommendations. Practical assistance implementing the processes, systems, and decisions required to keep HR operations moving.
Flexible Capacity
Scale support up or down based on business needs, priorities, transitions, and projects.
Operational Continuity
Maintain payroll, benefits, employee relations, compliance, HR systems, and workforce processes during periods of transition or growth.
Scalable HR Infrastructure
Build processes and systems designed to support the organization you are becoming—not simply the organization you are today.
HR STARTUP SOLUTIONS
A Practical Extension of Your Leadership Team
Fractional and Interim HR Leadership is designed to provide the level of support your business needs without forcing you into a one-size-fits-all engagement.
We work with owners, executives, Finance, Operations, managers, and internal HR staff to strengthen the people side of the business while keeping day-to-day operations moving.
The result is an HR function that is more structured, more responsive, and better equipped to support employees, managers, and organizational growth.
Need Experienced HR Leadership?
Whether you need ongoing fractional support, temporary HR leadership, payroll or benefits oversight, HRIS implementation, or help strengthening your HR operations, we can begin by identifying your most immediate priorities.
