Provide a full range of personnel and payroll support to the entire School's population of career andlimited/casual staff, postdoctoral scholars, visiting graduate students, and visiting scholars. Under the supervision of the Staff HR Supervisor, coordinate of the day-to-day operations of the School's personnel, payroll and benefits functions for staff, postdoctoral scholars, visiting graduate students, and visiting scholars. Conduct orientation and payroll processing for new Postdoctoral Scholars in BioSci. Responsible for analyzing HR issues and providing expert advice, training, and policy interpretation to Biological Sciences management and staff in these areas. Analyze, research and execute policy involvingclassification, appointments, compensation, all aspects of recruitment and employment, performanceevaluations, grievance/disciplinary actions, Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action, benefitsadministration, separation/layoffs, leaves of absence, staff merit, visa applications/renewals, payroll andoccupational health issues. Assist Staff HR Supervisor in the areas of employee and labor relations.

Performed the role of an escalated point of contact for all human resource related issues for employees in a high-volume contact center environment. Solve complex issues relating to payroll, lifecycle, employee relations, and benefits. Consistently receive excellent rating on quality audits and employee feedback surveys including consecutive weeks of receiving one hundred out of one hundred audit scores for issue resolution and contact handling. Used human resources knowledge and written company policy to solve problems and provide concise and easy to understand explanations to complex situations.

Act as the sole human resources professional performing all day to day functions for an 90+ person organizationWorked closely with the executive team to perform an organizational restructure that including changing reporting structure, updating job titles and job descriptions, and reviewing and updating compensation company widePerformed job analysis and salary survey for all positions using external industry salary data to create new salary ranges for entire organizationUtilized FLSA standards to evaluate and reclassify positions’ exemption status after re-organization and job description updatesManages all aspects of bi-weekly payroll for staff including exempt and nonexempt employeesWorks closely with managers on employee performance including performance reviews and corrective actionsRecruits, screens and hires all new employeesManages benefits including working closely with outside vendors and driving open enrollmentAct as the main source of information and manage all issue related to the pandemic including managing guidelines, government requirements, and tracing

Collected and arranged financial information and entered details into Dynamics 365 financial management system.Executed financial reporting, managing prepaid accounts, schedules, reconciliations, event settlements and month-end accruals.Reduced audit risk through analysis and preparation of deliverables for CPA audit firm.Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.Oversaw day-to-day processing of payroll for employees, including review of timesheets and computing pay in accordance with FLSA.Assisted with Payroll and HRIS software upgrade and implementation while creating standard operating procedures for the new software.

Work as part of a small team of accounting staff to complete a variety of full cycle accounting tasks for a mid-sized companyMaintains general ledger, bank, and balance sheet accounts including posting journal entries and maintaining support schedulesReconciles balance sheet accounts monthly and cash accounts daily to insure accuracy to identify and resolve discrepanciesComplete essential close tasks timely and accurately to ensure a fast and accurate monthly and yearly closeCompletes monthly variance analysis on assigned departments to assist business in identifying and reducing costs whenever possibleDaily reporting including sales and cash reports provided to the executive teamIdentifying, implementing, and documenting procedural changes to improve efficiency and reduce costsAssist in various AR and AP functions including posting cash receipts, authorizing invoices for payment, verifying and creating suppliers in the accounting software, reconciling corporate credit cards, and monitoring monthly aging’sMaintain and file various taxes including sales and use tax, and other state and local taxes

Prepare and analyze monthly bank and account reconciliationsPrepares general ledger entries by maintaining records and files.Develops and implements accounting procedures by analyzing current procedures; recommending changes.Perform accounts receivable functions including invoicing and monitoring aged receivablesPrepare and files sales tax returns for over 15 states and citiesMaintain the Fixed Asset and associated depreciation schedulesComplete a variety of ad hoc assignments and analysis

Perform various accounting tasks in support of the business operations at evanhealy skin care. Including but not limited:Prepare and file monthly and quarterly sales and use tax for over 35 states and cities across the United StatesCreated processes for the correct reporting of sales and use tax for a small to medium sized manufacturing and online retail and wholesalerReconcile sales tax between e-commerce system and sage accounting softwareReconcile bank and credit card statements to accounting softwareManage inventory and production logs within sage accounting softwareAssist with accounts payable including creating invoices and purchase orders

Assist Tax Auditors in the normal functions of daily duties. Perform two complete audits resulting in more than $1.2 million in under reported taxable sales and over $100,000 in uncollected tax revenue for the State of California.Assist on over 50 audits in over 10 industries and research and apply sales and use tax law to those businesses Use credit ratio and credit card statements to reconstruct totals salesUse purchases and inventory to reconstruct cost of goods sold and average markup Analyze business processes and financial statements of businesses.Trace and reconcile source documents to financial statements to ensure accuracy and completeness.Recommend internal control and financial changes to business owners.

Assistant to faculty managing and completing semester long technological projects. Current project is a web page created using Wordpress and including a MySQL database.