Cheryl Weinstein Email & Phone Number

Los Alamos, Nm

Supervise two employees in the processing of bi-weekly, semi-monthly and monthly payrolls, including 50 plus expat employees. Improved payroll error rate from 15% to less than .5% errors. Working with the benefits department and benefit providers to setup automatic feed for benefit deductions. Verify that taxes are properly paid by third party provider. Balance various general ledger accounts.

Senior Payroll AnalystPrimary function was acting as the tax administrator for all tax payments for 9 EIN’s for 2,000+ employees in 18 states using PeopleSoft 8.8 and FLS tax software. This includes all balancing and reconciliation processes required for all taxes, 941 balancing, W-2 year end adjustments/processing. Team with accounting to reconcile tax accounts to general ledger. Other duties include maintaining various SOX controls, process all special bonus payrolls, upload earnings and deductions as required into PeopleSoft. Setup and revise all garnishment deductions. Present payroll requirements during new hire orientations. Special projects as required.8/2003 – 3/2005Lead Payroll AdministratorResponsible for complete processing of the bi-weekly Corporate payroll for 1,200 employees. Utilize PeopleSoft Time and Labor module to ensure non-regular hours are paid properly and that all charge out jobs are charged to the correct accounts.

Directly responsible for processing the weekly payroll for 2,200 employees and helping as necessary to pay 10,000 employees at multiple sites using PeopleSoft. Process all garnishments for the company, enter direct deposit information, work with the in house timekeeping system to manually enter hours not electronically processed. Prepare payroll checks for mailing to all sites. Process terminated employee checks on a daily basis. Responsible for running the off cycle processing.

Process the bi-weekly payroll for 1,000+ employees. Process garnishments and other court ordered withholdings. Make payments to agencies as a result of payroll withholdings. Balance payroll general ledger accounts. Create ad hoc reports for all levels of management as needed. Worked closely with Human Resources to ensure that new employees were set up correctly. Worked with Kronos timekeeping system.

Maintain the proposal database and process funding using MS Access. Create reports for all levels of management as needed. Balance all month and year end reports.

Manipulate electronic data using MS Access to get the information from our accounts into a form that our system could use. Analyze data from accounts,calculate and pay rebates per their contract. Work with Account Directors to set up new contracts. Work with the Legal department when required on contracts. Create reports for management and internal auditors as needed. Create and maintain tracking systems as needed in MS Access or MS Excel.

The company name was AgrEvo USA Company before Bayer bought them. Primary responsibilities are Payroll related. This position also supports various other aspects of Human Resources, reporting directly to the Human Resource Director. Responsibilities include the following, Processing payrolls using Software 2000 (S2K) for 300+ employees in 27 states and paying all related taxes, garnishments, levies and other court ordered deductions. Process all payroll, benefit, and personal changes. Responsible for reconciling the payroll checking account and various general ledger accounts. Generate reports using the AS400 Query package to create ad hoc reports for upper Management. Create Excel spreadsheets and Access tables as needed. Accounts Payable/Travel Expenses 8/1988 – 8/1989Responsibilities included matching invoices with receiving reports and purchase orders. Paying the invoices in a timely manner and reconciling statements from vendors. Process travel expense reports, make sure company policies were followed.