Senior Human Resources Generalist (Indianapolis)

This is a contract role (estimated 6-12 months at 32-36 hours a week). Must be able to work onsite 4 day a week on the Northwest side of Indy.

Senior HR Generalist – Fractional HR Consultant

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior HR Generalist / Fractional HR Consultant to provide hands-on, onsite HR support to clients in the financial services industry. Reporting to our Sr. Project Manager and the client’s executive team, this role serves as the client’s primary HR partner, managing core HR operations while providing responsive, practical guidance to employees and leaders.

This is an ideal role for an HR professional who enjoys being a “party of one” onsite—someone who can comfortably move between processing, assisting, and backing up finance with payroll administration, helping an employee with a benefits question, coordinating a new hire, managing a leave, and advising a manager through a performance issue.

While independently managing day-to-day HR needs, this consultant will be part of a broader Evolve HR team and will collaborate closely with the Evolve Senior Lead Consultant, internal client teams, and external partners and vendors .

The right person will bring strong HR operational skills, sound judgment, paired with a service and advisory mindset. We are looking for someone who sees HR as more than policies and compliance and understands the importance of relationships, responsiveness, collaboration, and helping leaders make good people decisions.

Key Responsibilities

HR Operations & Employee Support

• Serve as the primary day-to-day HR contact for employees and managers.
• Provide responsive, customer-focused HR support and guidance.
• Maintain accurate employee records, HR systems, documentation, and personnel changes.
• Ensure HR processes are consistent, timely, and well organized.

Payroll & Benefits

• Back up and support the finance team and third-party partners in payroll processing, including employee changes, deductions, and issue resolution.
• Support benefits administration, enrollments, qualifying life events, employee questions, and vendor coordination.
• Partner with payroll, benefits, and other external providers to resolve issues quickly and accurately.

Leave Administration

• Coordinate employee leaves, including FMLA, ADA-related processes, disability, and other applicable leaves.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and communication with employees, managers, and vendors.
• Help leaders navigate leave situations with consistency, empathy, and appropriate compliance.

Hiring & Onboarding

• Support hiring managers with recruiting and hiring activities, including job postings, providing interview and candidacy guidance as needed, offers, background checks, and pre-employment processes.
• Coordinate a smooth, welcoming onboarding experience for new employees with hiring managers.
• Ensure new-hire documentation, systems, payroll, benefits, and manager onboarding activities are completed.

Performance & Employee Relations

• Support the organization’s ongoing performance management process.
• Coach managers on performance expectations, feedback, documentation, and employee concerns.
• Assist with employee relations matters and engage the Senior Lead Consultant on complex, sensitive, or higher-risk situations.
• Lead the offboarding process to ensure all employee paperwork is closed out and sound processes are in place during the exit process.
• Help managers approach people’s issues thoughtfully rather than simply providing a policy answer.

Collaboration & Client Partnership

• Partner closely with the Evolve Senior Lead Consultant, Cand client to ensure alignment on client needs, priorities, and deliverables.
• Collaborate effectively with client leaders, internal departments, vendors, and external partners.
• Keep the broader Evolve team informed of emerging issues, risks, priorities, and opportunities.
• Know when to independently resolve an issue and when to engage additional expertise or escalate.
• Contribute to projects and broader HR initiatives as client needs evolve.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of progressive HR generalist experience, ideally supporting employees and managers independently.
• Strong working knowledge of payroll, benefits, leave administration, onboarding, performance management, and HR operations.
• Experience in a regulated or professional environment; financial services experience is a plus.
• Working knowledge of employment laws and HR compliance requirements.
• Comfortable working independently while also supporting a consulting and client team.
• Strong judgment, discretion, organization, and follow-through.
• Confident communicating and building relationships with employees and leaders at all levels.
• Able to balance administrative accuracy with a practical, business-focused approach.

The Right Fit

You may be a great fit if you are the kind of HR professional who thinks:

“I’ll take care of it, keep people informed, and make sure we get to the right answer.”

We are looking for someone who is approachable, resourceful, responsive, collaborative, and comfortable owning the details without losing sight of the bigger picture. Success in this role means the client sees you as a trusted HR partner—not simply the person who handles HR paperwork—and the Evolve team sees you as a dependable extension of the broader client team.