Brandon Berner Email & Phone Number

Oversee and manage end-to-end payroll processing for over 300+ employees, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness.• Lead a team of payroll specialists, providing guidance, coaching, and support to ensure optimal performance and productivity.• Develop and implement payroll policies, procedures, and controls to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.• Manage payroll-related audits, including internal audits and audits by external agencies, ensuring accurate recordkeeping and documentation.• Collaborate with HR, finance, and other departments to address payroll-related inquiries, resolve issues, and streamline processes.• Implement payroll system upgrades and enhancements, including testing, training, and rollout to improve efficiency and functionality.• Analyze payroll data and generate reports to support decision-making, budgeting, and forecasting processes.• Achieve cost savings and process improvements through automation, process redesign, and vendor management initiatives.• Account manages a large book of business with high-touch clients.• Provide HR resources to clients, including processing Workers’ comp claims, HR disputes, Hiring, and termination.

• Processed weekly accurate and timely payroll for 100 Farr Construction employees for Nevada and California using Spectrum, including CA and Washoe prevailing wages and referral bonuses, taxable benefits, wage garnishments, and Commission payments. • Processed week Certified payroll reports for job owners and state jobs.• Paid and process 401K contributions. IRS and CA EDD tax payment and quarterly filing requirements. Including 941, 940 DE88.

Processing of 1500+ employees payroll. including bonuses, commissions, reimbursements. As well as the auditing of timesheets

• Implement new systems into the company (e.g. IT ticketing tracker, a 3rd party 1099 company to track contractors, etc.)• Project managed the implementation of 26+ integrations with varies vendors and Workday platform• Used Asana project management tool to manage a team for implementation of processes and systems• Wrote processes to streamline payroll and help HR with processing daily job data change transactions• Outstanding internal customer compliments regarding timely responses and outstanding work

Reno, Nevada Area

• In charge of outreaches with the community including speaking with Marketing Directors and CEOs of businesses and casinos to generate sponsorship funds and brand awareness• In charge of all marketing on social media and with fans including teaching myself graphic design for the website• Organizing a group of 25+ players, coaches, and staff including payroll, working with the Arena facility for home games, and organizing travel plans I am the Assistant General Manager of the Reno Express, Reno’s only indoor professional football team. Our inaugural season kicked off at the Reno Event Center in the Spring of 2019, where we finished the year playing for the conference championship. We are looking to continue to into our second season with hopes of bringing home the trophy to northern Nevada. The Reno Express provides another source of family entertainment to City of Reno.

Reno, Nevada Area

providing a HR and payroll solution to Small business.• Co-facilitated the new hire mentor and training program• Outstanding customer compliments regarding timely responses and outstanding customer service • Have been promoted through the client service levels three times in three years• Won Client Services MVP for the entire West Coast in 2015 (based on performance and peer nominations)• Managed the largest book of business on the West Coast with high stress clients and large companies

Serving client for core market 20+ WSE