1. HRMS
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Who can do what in HRMS

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Who can do what

Permissions by role
RoleEmployee recordsRecruiting and offersOnboarding and offboardingLeave and timePayroll and filingsBenefits enrollmentPerformance and goalsLearning and certification
HR Business PartnerEditEditEdit—ViewViewEditEdit
HRMS Seed OperatorEditEdit—Edit————
Hiring Manager—View——————
Employee———EditEditViewEditView
L&D AdminViewViewEdit————Edit
RecruiterViewEditEdit—————
Payroll AdminView—EditViewEditEdit——
CHRO / VP PeopleViewViewViewViewViewViewViewView

Each role in detail

HR Business Partner

Owns the employee lifecycle for assigned business units. Record entry on Employees, Positions, Employment History, Performance Reviews and Goals; read only on Pay Statements and Benefit Enrollments. Comp and PII fields readable per field-level restrictions.

Can

  • Manage Employees, employment history, Goals, performance reviews, Positions
  • View benefit enrollments, pay statements

Starts on: Workforce directory

HRMS Seed Operator

Temporary scoped access for Shriyash Naik to read and create stage-1 HRMS seed records without altering seeded Admin or other role grants.

Can

  • Manage Candidates, Departments, job titles, leave types

Hiring Manager

Line manager opening a requisition and interviewing. Read only on Job Requisitions, Candidates, Applications and Interviews. Own-requisition record entry up to Status = pending approval cannot be expressed as a native table grant, so it is routed through the scoped requisition and interview-scorecard workflow actions instead. Never gets edit on Offers.Base Salary.

Can

  • View Applications, Candidates, Interviews, job requisitions

Starts on: Requisition approval inbox

Employee

Self-service access to own record. Record entry on Leave Requests, Timesheets, Time Entries and Goals (draft); read only on Pay Statements, Benefit Enrollments, Leave Balances, Performance Reviews and Training Records. Own-record scope is required and is not expressible as a native table grant, so it must be supplied by the own-record table scope before these grants are relied on.

Can

  • Manage Goals, leave requests, time entries, Timesheets
  • View benefit enrollments, leave balances, pay statements, performance reviews, training records

Starts on: Pay statement schedule

L&D Admin

Owns the course catalog, curricula and certifications. Record entry on Courses, Course Enrollments and Training Records; read only on Employees and Positions. No compensation, National ID or Date Of Birth access beyond the read-only grant; bulk curriculum assignment runs through the scoped workflow.

Can

  • Manage course enrollments, Courses, training records
  • View Employees, Positions

Starts on: Learning enrollment work

Recruiter

Owns the requisition pipeline from intake through offer. Record entry on Job Requisitions, Candidates, Applications, Interviews and Offers; read only on Employees for hiring-manager and referral context. No pay statement, payroll run, pay statement line, tax filing or benefit enrollment access.

Can

  • Manage Applications, Candidates, Interviews, job requisitions, Offers
  • View Employees

Starts on: Offer approval inbox

Payroll Admin

Runs payroll end to end and owns tax filings and GL handoff. Record entry on Payroll Calendars, Tax Jurisdictions, Payroll Runs, Pay Statements, Pay Statement Lines and Tax Filings; read only on Employees, Benefit Enrollments, Leave Requests and Timesheets. No delete or bulk edit; filings stay at Draft.

Can

  • Manage pay statement lines, pay statements, payroll calendars, payroll runs, tax filings, tax jurisdictions
  • View benefit enrollments, Employees, leave requests, Timesheets

Starts on: Pay statement schedule

CHRO / VP People

Executive oversight across the people function. Read-only (View + View records) on all HRMS tables, including Pay Statements with no create or edit. Approves org-wide change and cross-entity decisions through workflows, not by editing rows.

Can

  • View Applications, benefit enrollments, benefit plans, Candidates, course enrollments, Courses, Departments, Employees, employment history, Goals, Interviews, job requisitions, job titles, leave balances, leave requests, leave types, Locations, Offers, onboarding checklists, onboarding tasks, pay grades, pay statement lines, pay statements, payroll calendars, payroll runs, performance cycles, performance reviews, Positions, tax filings, tax jurisdictions, time entries, Timesheets, training records

Starts on: Pay statement schedule

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