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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, US

Baltimore, MD, US

Sugar Land, Texas, US

Aberdeen, GB

Houston, Texas, US

• USA Payroll Manager responsible for strategically leading the payroll team in ensuring the effective and high-functioning operation of the USA payroll department, through attention to the accurate and efficient.
• US 700
• Texas only
• Weekly, monthly and biweekly
• Canada 130
• 2 payrolls Summary of Duties:

Pasadena, Texas, US

• Managed five employees on SAP HR Payroll for two FEINs in 31 States for 5,000 employees, including union employees.
• Implemented ADP outsource service for Employment Verification which reduced the processing time from 25 hours to 5 hours a week.

Houston, Texas, US

• Managed three employees and three contractors on SAP HR Payroll for two FEINs in 31 States for 8,000 employees, including union employees.
• Served as project lead on clearing old tax notices project which resulted in reducing the amount due on notices from $1,000,000 to only $200,000.
• Performed as Team Lead on Payroll Enhancement Project to implement SAP Cross-Application Time Sheet (CATS} and Payroll Process Models. Increased payroll metrics by increasing processing efficiency resulting in reducing.
• Served as Payroll Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Team Lead on ADP Payroll of 5,000 employees integrated to SAP Payroll. The 10 month project was completed on time and accurately.
• Implemented ADP outsource service for Payroll Tax, Garnishments, Net (check and direct deposit distribution), Employment Verification and Unemployment Claim reporting which reduced the penalty amount for breaking the.
• Wrote specifications, completed testing and signed off on transports for SAP enhancements, Tax Update Bulletin (TUB) updates, and cyclic bulletins to assure the most current updates are installed to keep the integrity.

Leatherhead, Surrey, GB

• Supervised and evaluated two Payroll Administrators and two Payroll Tax Administrators for 17 FEINs with 12,000 employees including Union employees in 48 States including Puerto Rico.
• Implemented Pay Card Program and ePayroll for the “Go Green” initiative which reduced cost by reducing overnight deliveries, replacement of missing or lost checks and time to pay employees.
• Acted as Payroll Project Lead for all Mergers and Acquisitions to assure all payroll tax forms are completed timely and accurately reducing potential employer tax increases. Assured that employees were added to the.
• Established and implemented Payroll Department policies and procedures which increased efficiency in both payroll and payroll tax. Reduced processing errors by 75%.
• Collaborated with Project Manager and IT Manager on Payroll projects and system enhancements increasing productivity and decreasing manual work around.
• Served as Payroll Project Lead for Canadian payroll process moved from Canada office to be processed out of the Houston office which reduced head count and overhead cost.

Houston, Texas, US

• Responsible for managing the timely and accurate preparation, distribution and reporting processes related to payroll with two Payroll Administrators for over 1200 weekly and biweekly employees, including union.
• Created, implemented and executed Payroll Tax Filing procedures. Researched and organized Federal, State and Local tax filings which increased efficiency, timely and accurate reporting.
• Coordinated efforts with the SAP Internal Consultant on all SAP Payroll projects including software upgrades, BSI updates, system enhancements and CATS upgrades keeping the system updated to assure accurate processing.
• Evaluated and analyzed existing payroll policies and procedures and implemented changes and/or quality control measures leading to best-practice operations resulting in implementing controls and audits in place and.

Sugar Land, TX, US

• Responsible for supervision and evaluation of two Payroll Specialist for 3 FEINs in 19 State for 1500 employees including international employees, on SAP.
• Coordinated projects with the SAP Internal Consultant on all SAP HR projects including software upgrade from SAP 4.7 to SAP ERP 6.0, BSI updates from BSI 6.0 to 7.0, then to 8.0, system enhancements and CATS upgrades.
• Developed disaster recovery plan for payroll. Conducted annual disaster recovery plan testing to assure flawless execution in the event of any degree of disaster.
• Implemented SAP ESS increasing employee participation and reducing the workload of the Payroll Staff.
• Trained to process Canadian payroll during employee absences. Role of processing Canadian payroll during employee three month absence assured employees were paid on time and accurately with minimal addition cost and.

US

• Acted as Technical Analyst on a SAP clean-up project team which increased the integrity and performance of the payroll system while enhancing the quality of the data.

London, GB

• Responsibilities included a variety of services for clients such as federal, state and local income tax and unemployment tax registration, payroll tax reconciliation, and quarterly/annual payroll tax reporting..
• Assisted in various multistate business entity reorganizations. Employment tax saving realized by these projects ranged from $500,000 to $22,000,000.
• Isolated and then generated a $1,000,000 refund in over-paid unclaimed funds as a member of a team for a major hospital chain.
• Assisted in the installation of SAP’s employment tax modules for a Fortune 100 company.