● Manage a team of 3 for weekly multi-state and international (Canada) payroll for approximately 3000 employees, ensure compliance with federal and state wage obligations, including minimum wage, overtime, and penalty pay.● Research payroll taxes for new store locations, including state-specific taxes and tax rates, directing the team to maintain various payroll tax accounts, addressing filing requirements for 15 business entities.● Produce and enforce internal and external SOPs on tip reporting, payroll audit, inter-departmental workflows, developing the payroll department’s ability to meet the demands of a scaling business.● Work with operations and legal to improve tip allocation procedures, facilitating tip policy, recoding tip distribution templates.● Work in inter-departmental projects, including compensation structuring and labor analysis.● Support company management of benefits programs by reporting and analyzing employee benefits entitlements, troubleshooting automated benefits configurations, and conducting periodic audits of employee benefits contributions and accruals. ● Optimize the configuration of payroll software, building customized reports, supporting internal and external data reconciliation.● Manage payroll Year-End for approximately 3000 employees, including the US and Canada, leading the team to audit W2 and T4, processing wage adjustments for W2C and Amended T4.

● Processed payroll for 9 separate business locations, including CA, NY, MA, IL, NV, TX, and Toronto, Canada.● Supported company migration to a new payroll platform, including cleaning up payroll database, testing and troubleshooting new payroll configurations, educating managers and HR on software use.● Produced actionable reports for labor and demographic analysis from payroll data while controlling the distribution of sensitive information.● Calculated and controlled tip sheets for multiple restaurant locations to ensure accurate payout of tips.