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Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

• Manage all aspects of the comprehensive weekly and biweekly payroll operation utilizing Ceridian and PeopleSoft including; management of the Vendor relationship to oversee the appropriate production of all payroll calendars and payroll processes.• Responsible for alignment with Accounting to meet their needs regarding payroll payments, payroll related accounts for reconciliation and managing all controls to accurately maintain these procedures. • Responsibility to lead and coordinate all aspects related to payroll taxes. Coordinate with the internal tax department and with Ceridian Tax.• Responsibility to stay current with payroll practices and regulations related to system technology, Federal, State, and Local government regulations related to the field of payroll operations. • Provide leadership and mentoring to the payroll team members. Responsible for employee performance management and development and ensuring 100% compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.• Collaboratively work with cross functional leadership teams to represent the payroll function across HR, Finance, and IT on strategic department and corporate initiatives. • Develop short and long term goals and opportunities for continuous improvement for payroll operations success. • Served as payroll/billing SME on implementation team replacing invoicing system. • Led functional upgrade of PeopleSoft system from version 8.3 to 9.1. • Managed upgrade of Ceridian from version 500 to 550. • Implemented Ceridian and PeopleSoft process to ADP Vantage and E-Time. • Worked with IT team and operational group to improve payroll process when company moved from J&E mainframe payroll system to PeopleSoft and Ceridian.• Increased payroll department credibility from 10% to 98%.• Streamlined manual check process, reducing number of checks issued and issuance turnaround time.• Provided support for the Canadian Payroll• Responsible for the setup and maintenance of all job, pay, deduction, and action/reason codes

Houston, Texas Area

Managed help-desk, reducing number of calls from over 500 weekly to less than 20 weekly through creating in-house user manual and individual and group training programs. Earned company superior employee award. Served as subject matter expert on payroll, payroll tax, and human resources. Managed time-critical special projects. Gathered information from user community to create program specifications for programming staff and make enhancements to Cyborg payroll system to accommodate client’s business needs during transition from Cyborg to SAP.

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed project plan in collaboration with client’s management staff for installation of Cyborg HR/payroll system, including action steps, responsibilities, and target dates.• Assessed and analyzed clients’ business practices and needs.• Identified gap analysis between client’s needs and software.• Created specifications for enhancements. • Conducted data mapping and conversion. • Managed client training, including preparing objectives and agendas and facilitating training sessions. • Set up test procedures for unit, system, and integration testing.

Houston, Texas Area

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Management/Hr

Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

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