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San Francisco, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Spearheaded the implementation of the organizations first Time and Attendance system for all 54 network schools and corporate office. Oversaw the complete payroll function and the supervision of 3 staff while also guaranteeing the semi-monthly disbursement of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, pension withholdings, benefits and taxes for over 2,800 employees spread across 4 regions consistent with federal and state wage laws.

New York, Ny, Us

Directed the complete payroll function and guaranteed the bi-weekly disbursement of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, benefits and taxes for over 800 employees consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws. Managed AP operations with a process improvement focus, implementation of best practices and project management discipline.

New York, Ny, Us

Hired to serve as the subject expert during the implementation and rollout of ADP Workforce Now. Directed all aspects of $20MM annual payroll for as many as 600 temporary, hourly and salaried employees working in various locations across the country. • Managed payroll financial and accounting processes for the organization so that payroll and benefit reporting activities are accurate, timely, funded properly, cost-effective and business and employee sensitive.• Performed all activities necessary to process regular, bonus and monthly commission payrolls including maintaining related records while ensuring the accuracy of all payroll information for the company.• Timecard Manager for entire organization, which included troubleshooting, new user creation; relationship manager with outside cloud consulting firm, salary allocation changes, labor posting and reconciling ADP to Dynamics SL. • Audited payroll bi-weekly and reconcile data to ensure accuracy. Provided reports to management, prepared and processed all payroll and labor posting journal entries as well as reconcile payroll accounts on a bi-weekly basis. Review and distribute W2s annually in addition to processing any necessary corrections at year-end. • Provided operational solutions, customer service and client satisfaction to all levels of staff. Prepared and submitted quarterly tax filings for various states. Implemented multi-jurisdictional taxing to ensure employees could seamlessly have tax jurisdictions adjusted without delay or penalty.• Developed and implemented new payroll policies, procedures, workflow changes and internal controls to assure efficient and effective results.• Designed long-term strategies for continuous improvement in payroll operations and ensured that full compliance, best practices and proper controls were met.

Managed all aspects of $11MM annual payroll for as many as 140 temporary, hourly and salaried employees working in two locations. Successfully recruited, mentored and developed two staff; Accounts Payable Accountant and Finance Administrative Assistant. • Met immediate reliability, accuracy and timeliness needs and expectations while simultaneously addressing longer-term process and policy needs in Accounts Payable and Payroll areas.• Represented organization as sole banking relationship manager and liaison to ensure the most up to date banking technology for the team and organization. Successfully led team through banking transition from manual to online processes. Responsible for introducing positive pay, remote check deposit, ACH payments, online bill pay and wire transfer options to organization. • Integral partner in the financial planning, budgeting and execution for company’s five annual conferences. • Analyzed and reviewed existing practices recommending and implementing automated imports, which significantly decreased errors in data entry and processing time.• Annual audit contact for Accounts Payable and Payroll in addition to the lead contact for annual Worker’s Compensation Audit.• Facilitated payroll system conversions, and implemented timecard entry and review program. • Provided financial reports to management, prepared month-end and year-end closing entries and audit schedules as well as reconcile payroll and balance sheet accounts on a bi-weekly basis. • Utilized knowledge of banking regulations and services to automate the expense reimbursement process. Designed, implemented and documented standard operating procedures for the organization’s Contract process, Accounts Payable and Payroll divisions.• Worked with the outside payroll service to prepare and submit withholdings, 941’s and other payroll-related reports, then reconciled the filings to the general ledger.

Master Of Science - Ms, Human Resources Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting