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Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas, United States

• Lead the HRIS team in managing the day-to-day activities to support the HR, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, and other inter-related functions. Serve as an interface between internal/external customers and the functional.
• Manages the HRIS system and interacts with the vendor for maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades. Plans, develops, tests, recommends, implements and documents procedures and continually investigates ways to.
• Works with other department managers to make sure that each department has support from Human Resources by providing HR data needed to streamline their jobs.
• Lead department's operational and strategic planning, including fostering innovation, planning projects and organizing resources.
• Oversees and directs all aspects of the payroll function and payroll staff ensuring timely, accurate and effective processing of payroll disbursements for all employees in compliance with federal, state and local tax.

Houston, TX

• Manage US payroll staff to ensure payrolls are processed timely and accurately.
• Lead the HRIS team in managing the day-to-day activities to support the HR, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, and other inter-related functions. Serve as an interface between internal/external customers and the functional.
• Communicate with worldwide regional payroll operation locations on corporate policies and procedures.
• Manage and provide support to IT programs for the conversion of payroll and human resources data due to company acquisitions and divestitures.
• Manages the HRIS system and interacts with the vendor for maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades. Plans, develops, tests, recommends, implements and documents procedures and utilities and continually investigates.
• Determine training required for end-users and reviews and approves documentation of program development and subsequent revisions.

Houston, Texas Area

• Collaborate with HR leadership, collegues and other departments that are crafting the vision and processes for the future of HR to ensure that the information systems strategy is aligned with that vision
• Design a standard method to define innovative opportunities to develop and maintain information technology solutions that support HR processes in accordance with the principles of Operational Excellence
• Maintain awareness and understanding of HR information system technologies in the marketplace – in particular preferred provider SAP
• Work with HR staff to identify business improvement opportunities and assist in building business cases, including defining business requirements to support these recommendations
• Determine how many HR resources and which skill set will be needed for project tasks and issue resolution
• Oversee system design, construction, and testing of the configured systems, including change management of system rollout within the company

Houston, Texas Area

• Supervised the processing of 10 different payrolls areas for approximately 10,000 employees in over 13 states on multiple frequencies utilizing various CATS solutions
• Lead project team through implementation to convert 7 different multi-state payrolls to SAP
• Extensive testing and validation for HR/Payroll implementation from assessment phase to go-live
• Oversee development of design for process documentation, reports and procedures
• HR/Payroll lead for SAP upgrade from 4.6 to 6.0
• Consolidated 3 different instances of SAP into 1 global instance, included HR/Payroll, Finance and PM

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for ensuring payroll is processed timely and accurately for 1,000 union hourly and salaried personnel
• Process wage garnishments
• Research and communicate payroll tax law changes to appropriate parties
• Reconcile general ledger payroll accounts
• Responsible for year-end processing of W-2's. Partner closely with Human Resources to ensure that employee data files are accurately maintained.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on all payroll matters

Houston, Texas Area

• Conducts research and fact-finding to formulate, develop or modify information systems specifically for Payroll
• Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents and maintains those programs
• Regularly monitors the performance of the Payroll systems to proactively avoid any hardware and software issues
• Applies knowledge of the HR business function and the HRIS/Payroll system to generate output
• Reviews data input and output reporting for accuracy

Houston, Texas Area

• Manages payroll and system data for payroll system using Source Time & Attendance system and Ceridian
• Audits, reconciles and maintains various payroll and accounting statistical data (e.g., Fidelity accounts, payroll register, Buck files, etc.)
• Verifies accuracy and ensures compliance with plans
• Prepares reports for various outside departmental needs and prepares all ad-hoc reporting from Access database
• Since joining the team, discovered ways to improve efficiency in daily timesheet data entry
• Reduced keystrokes by over 50%, also implemented electronic timesheet for non-exempt employees

Woodlands, Texas

• Responsible for the timely and accurate processing of company payroll for over 400 employees and establishing processes and procedures due to conversion to new payroll software provider, Ceridian Source Assist
• Responsible for designing, implementing and training personnel on a web timecard, iEmployee, to automate timekeeping process
• Established reports and forms to gain efficiencies in processing
• Responsible for payroll reconciliation with accounting general ledger
• Prepared manual payroll checks for advances, terminations, and bonus payments
• Set up wage garnishments for automatic processing within software system

• Design and administer human resources programs, policies and procedures
• Counsel employees and managers on issues or problems and assist them in reaching workable solutions
• Responsible for all HR activities including staffing, compensation, and performance management
• Administrator of health and welfare benefit plans, e.g., medical, dental, FSA, 401(k) and Life/AD&D insurances
• Created HR employee database
• Created and maintain all employee related paperwork, such as insurance enrollment/change forms, pension plan, stock option agreements and personnel transactions

Houston, Texas Area

• Assist in design, development, implementation and integration of data, processes and systems for HR data, using the most efficient and cost-effective methods, with a focus on using computer technology
• Lead the HR team through full implementation and daily administration of the SAP/R3 HR module
• Recommend new equipment and software to support human resources objectives
• Pull information, prepares statistical summaries, periodic or special reports using the appropriate technology
• Responsible for processing employee information and maintaining employee records (electronic and hard copy) in an accurate and complete manner
• Webmaster for HR’s intranet site including technical programming and database development. Design and implement site content and aesthetics as well as managing the site’s day-to-day operations

Houston, Texas Area

• Lead Human Resources Project Team member for employee information/payroll system conversion/implementation project
• Provided technical and administrative assistance in human resource matters to support Human Resources supervisor and Human Resources manager in carrying out departmental responsibilities, objectives, and goals
• Functioned as initial source of information relating to salary administration, policy/procedures, benefits, and personnel data for respective client groups
• Responsible for handling temporary and contract administrative employee hiring process
• Responsible for setting up a Policies On-line system
• Independently anticipated office administration, departmental deadlines and reporting requirements