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• Processed multi-state bi-weekly payroll for employees across 39 states via Paylocity
• Coordinated all payroll updates, including personnel changes, promotions, and terminations, in partnership with HR, ensuring seamless payroll adjustments
• Reconciled payroll accounts during month-end close using Intacct, ensuring accurate reporting while managing payroll accounts and transactions
• Independently led end-to-end 401k audit processes, achieving full compliance and meeting all submission deadlines
• Ensured payroll compliance by verifying and documenting payroll rates, garnishments, and state paperwork, mitigating risks of discrepancies
• Reviewed and approved employee reimbursements monthly, streamlining approvals to enhance employee satisfaction and ensure policy compliance

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Processed bi-weekly and ad-hoc payrolls for 120 employees via Gusto, ensuring accurate and timely payouts
• Executed payroll changes, including promotions and terminations, ensuring zero discrepancies during processing in BambooHR
• Ensured compliance by maintaining accurate state documentation for payroll rates and garnishments
• Oversaw accounts payable processes, onboarding and verifying vendors via Deluxe Payment Exchange and QuickBooks Online, ensuring timely and accurate payments
• Prepared and posted journal entries for payroll accounts during month-end close, ensuring accurate reconciliation and compliance with financial reporting standards
• Prepared monthly commission reports for 25-30 escrow and sales team members, ensuring 100% calculation accuracy and timely payouts

Greater Seattle Area

• Approved 700 budget reconciliations monthly and managed budgets for the Dean’s office to ensure the business school is in compliance with UW reconciliation policies
• Approved reimbursements of all Foster School of Business activities to ensure reimbursement requests follow policy guidelines
• Assisted in running the quarterly "Leaders to Legends" breakfast series and with ad hoc projects and events

Seattle, Washington, United States

-Researched state tax credits and assembled the credit application for state review-Mapped all M adjustments to make recognizing the M adjustments more efficiently during quarter close and year-end close-Assisted in a transaction cost study related to the acquisition of Sprint through running reports in SAP, organizing material invoices, and tracking.

Greater Seattle Area

• Centralized hundreds of loan documentation by digitalizing documents and organizing the documents for easier access within the internal banking system
• Performed collateral audits for the note department to verify information is consistent between systems
• Analyzed financial statements and composed the information on the financial section of credit presentations to summarize the crucial information from the financial statements
• Generated credit checks and financial statement spreads to analyze firms and develop a better understanding of the health of a firm’s financials

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Business/Management

Minor, Nutrition Sciences