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Sacramento, Ca, Us

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Leads team in implementing and maintaining Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence Management and Security functional areas. Works with cross-functional areas to ensure collaboration and manage interdependencies between modules. Gathers business requirements, develop functional requirements and implements updates in Workday.Involved in year end activities, including creating and updating Holiday calendars, period schedules and balance override updates using EIB’s.Participates in planning to define vision, strategy and tier-1/roadmap projects and create funding requests.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Leads team in implementing and maintaining Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence Management and Security functional areas. Works with cross-functional areas to ensure collaboration and manage interdependencies between modules. Gathers business requirements, develop functional requirements and implements updates in Workday.Involved in year end activities, including creating and updating Holiday calendars, Period schedules and balance override updates using EIB’s.Participates in planning to define vision, strategy and tier-1/roadmap projects and create funding requests.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Project Manager for the implementation of the US Payroll module in Workday, a conversion from ADP payroll. Implemented Jira ticketing system to help define prioritization of issues, maintain documentation as well as testing and approvals from business partners.Worked as subject matter expert in the redesign of the Workday to Callidus commissions integration, coordinating the design and analysis of test scenarios. Gather business requirements, develop functional requirements and configure for Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence Management and Security functional areas. Works with cross-functional areas to ensure collaboration and manage interdependencies between modules.Coordinated testing for Global reimplementation of Time Off plans in 42 countries with a total of 214 plans including creating and distributing all test cases and managing them to completion.Involved in year end activities, including creating and updating Holiday calendars, Period schedules and balance override updates using EIB’s.Participates in planning to define vision, strategy and tier-1/roadmap projects and create funding requests.

Austin, Tx, Us

Workday Compensation subject matter expert . Project Manager for the implementation of the Advance Compensation module in Workday and the launch of Annual Merit for our Global office. Workday Workforce Planning subject matter expert, lead on implementation team.Responsible for coordinating development, testing, communication and delivering training and reports. Educates the compensation team on the use and features of Workday.Lead design on new Incentive Compensation systems for Whole Foods Market.Build and maintain relationships with business partners both internal and external to Whole Foods Market.

Austin, Tx, Us

Lead team that administers Gainsharing and EVA incentive programs for approximately 90,000 team members in Canada, UK and U.S. Lead design on a new Incentive Compensation system for Whole Foods Market.Workday Compensation subject matter expert . Project Manager for the implementation of the Advance Compensation module in Workday and the launch of Annual Merit for our Global office. Responsible for coordinating development, testing, communication and delivering training and reports. Build and maintain relationships with business partners both internal and external to Whole Foods Market.

Austin, Tx, Us

Lead design on new Incentive Compensation systems for Whole Foods Market.Compensation subject matter expert for Workday. During our Workday conversion this role involved initial compensation and HR business process development and organization setup. This included developing Workday business processes, setting up job families & profile, wage ranges, one time payments, tenant setup, testing, preparing data for conversion, and auditing conversion data.Lead team that administers Gainsharing and EVA incentive programs for approximately 90,000 team members in Canada, UK and U.S. Build and maintain relationships with business partners both internal and external to Whole Foods Market.

Austin, Tx, Us

In addition to my duties as Associate Team Lead, I also worked as Testing Coordinator for our conversion to Workday for our Canadian and United Kingdom locations; this also laid the groundwork for our US implementation that was implemented in 2014. Duties included creating test scenarios for Compensation and tracking those created by Absence, Benefits, Employee Data, HCM, Integrations, Mobile, Payroll, Reporting, Security, Staffing and Supervisory Organization structure.

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Administer Gainsharing and EVA bonus Programs for stores in four regions and two countries. Assemble and ensure accuracy of payout data sent to payroll. Produce Labor Surplus, EVA, and additional reports for stores and regional offices. Assist Store and Regional Leadership with incentive compensation issues. Enforce Gainsharing and EVA Policies and Procedures. Help ensure the integrity of Gainsharing through labor audits. Provide materials to Central Accounting for an accurate and timely close.Worked to increase productivity and accuracy by revamping our systems and workflow, including automating company-wide Team Member status updates as well as EVA Regional reporting processes.

Austin, Tx, Us

Processes biweekly payroll for Whole Foods Market’s South Pacific region. Regions include Southern California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii and consisted of 5,500 employees in 45 locations.Responsible for setting up direct deposits, Federal and State taxes. Processes all termination checks within two hours of termination in CA, along with three off cycle check runs in addition to the biweekly payroll. Responsible for providing the Benefits team and individual payroll specialists at the store level with biweekly payroll reports. Responsible for the reconciliation of the allocation of hours for each Team Member between departments. Accomplishments include testing and helping implement a payroll systems upgrade, creation and implementation of new global tracking system for off-cycle checks, and creating and sending out training material to increase the accuracy of the work of my region’s PBS group

• Solely responsible for processing payroll on a biweekly basis for a 400+ employee company. Works with ADP, Excel, Access, and Timesaver. Supervises benefit payout, sets up direct deposit, processes payroll reconciliation, audits and enters all tips, and supervises the accuracy of all edits. Works closely with accounting to maintain the general ledger.

Courbevoie, Ile De France, Fr

Processes payroll on a biweekly basis for a 2000+ employee multi-State company. Works with ADP, Excel, Access, and SQL databases to ensure the correct percentage of Primary/Secondary rates are applied to each employee. Supervises the vacation database to assure that agents and supervisors accrue vacation based on job-specific requirements; authorizes vacation usage based upon availability, and manages payment of used vacation hours. Responsible for setting up W-4s, direct deposit, as well as handling payroll disputes with employees.Conducts training for new employees on payroll protocol.

Trained staff and customers in computer-system setup and operations in a call center environment.Supervised technical support agents for Bellsouth DSL, managed daily reports, handled escalations for customers, and resolved issues. Monitored for quality, and trained new agents in basic and advanced technical skills dependent on individual ability.Asked by company executive to step into above job for promotion.

Education record

Electrical Engineering / Astrophysics