Cathy Bailey Email & Phone Number

Orange, California

- Perform Payroll tasks to prepare for bi-weekly payroll.- Verify employee time cards, review and validate manger approval of timesheets, as well as validate manager approval of PTO.- Monitor and audit benefit elections for inconsistencies, adjust as necessary.- Review and validate employee changes, hires, terms, pay increases, pay adjustments to ensure correct approval processes and consistent with CalOptima polices.- Calculate and apply garnishment deduction orders- Run validation payroll reports, by pay period, monthly and quarterly requirements. Create adhoc reports and update established reports.- Collaborate with HR to create consistent practices to ensure all employees are paid correctly.- Train additional payroll staff in CalOptima payroll practices regarding payment of benefits, bonus’s, off cycle checks, and all Federal and State tax requirements.- Research and resolve employee related payroll matters, working directly with employees, and assisting HR staff as needed.- Create transition plan and train Benefits ee’s to maintain current electronic process to submit CalPERS data, as well as trouble shoot issues/discrepancies.- Lead integration testing for system upgrades as well as Open enrollment projects.- Review, analyze and suggested salary increase via merit review cycle.

Orange, California

-Perform HR Department data entry to include but not limited to Hires, Terms, Status Changes.-Process PERS payroll reporting adjustments, validate and reconcile PERS issues within CalOptima and PERS home site.-Audit daily data entry, and data entry due to projects such as merit review.-Provide weekly, monthly, quarterly established reports as well as provide ad hoc reporting requests-Participate in user acceptance testing for upgrade projects as well as open enrollment and merit projects.-Audit benefits plan set up, includes multiple plans for active employees and retirees.-Maintain data security and review data for any integrity issues.-Create desktop procedures for HR positions as well as train new team members.-Perform periodic reviews of processes and update as needed due to system upgrades.

Orange, Ca

• Payroll Accountant/CalPERS Specialist• Reconcile PERS contributions• Process PERS payroll reporting adjustments• Research and resolve discrepancies to remove backlog of CalPERS reporting requirement reports• Setup and terminate employees into the CalPERS database.

Riverside Ca

• Reconcile payroll checks to employee registers and resolve discrepancies• Prepare reports for accumulation data for journal entries, workers compensation, federal and state tax payroll deposits (bi-monthly), garnishments and other payroll remittances.• Assist Human Resources to research, resolve and answer payroll questions, requests and discrepancies according to FLSA, CA State and wage labor codes, INS

Riverside, Ca

• Develop various reports for internal and external agencies including but no limited to PERS, PARS, and STRS.• Prepare worksite reports, labor distribution reports, seniority reports, and step and column projections. And education codes.• Maintain confidential attendance records in compliance with District, State and Federal guidelines, including the calculation of leaves earned and used.• Audit, record and prepare reports detailing prior year liabilities for year-end processing including vacation and compensatory time accruals.• Maintain database information pertaining to employee modification, including voluntary deductions, name and address, contact pay increases, anniversary step increases, approved cost of living adjustments, federal and state withholdings, direct deposit information, position, pay frequency, worksite and budge code changes for all regular positions and any extra duty assignments. Maintain accurate salary history records and seniority lists.• Perform calculations, analyze and maintain all payroll data in the District’s payroll software to generate payroll warrants and required reports.• Maintain department daily calendar to ensure all deadlines are met. Work with high volume of phone calls, emails and employee walk-in visits.

Los Angeles Ca

• Audit salary payments and deductions by analyzing complex payroll data from multiple computerized and non-computerized sources to assure accuracy of salary payments, accruals and balances in compliance with district, state and federal rules and regulations.• Review computer application screens and reports for accuracy of payroll data.• Audit and analyze various reports to determine the cause of errors and discrepancies in payment, deductions, quota accruals and balances and records to make appropriate adjustments.• Assist college staff in resolving payroll problems by reviewing warrants and payroll and personnel records identifying source of problems and initiate corrective action.• Compute and prepare data for corrections to salary payments.• Process workers compensation adjustments• Maintain retirement database records which involve posting, examining and balance retirement data.• Apply interpretations of collective bargaining agreements as well as the rules and regulations of the Personnel Commission and the Board of Trustees to assure compliance in the course of processing payroll transactions.• Develop and prepare third party correspondence, reports and spreadsheets for various governmental jurisdictions related to retirement calculations and benefits for the Social Security Administration, Employment Development Department, PERS and STRS.