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Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Manage the employment life cycle for US Internship program. Provide guidance and learning opportunities for the interns during their employment, working with business partners and internal leaders, holding weekly knowledge sessions and progress reviews.• Standing Committee member on Culture In Action ERG, providing collaborative leadership, facilitation, and implementation of key initiatives to advance UCB’s culture and engagement strategy. Develop and implement initiatives which deliver an unparalleled employee experience.• Oversee the implementation of an Alumni network for high performing former employees, fostering loyalty and engagement, identifying potential boomerang hires, and sourcing references for open positions.• US champion for global digital survey solution, working with IT & USLT to build, execute, and analyze results from company-wide internal surveys.• Processing of multi-state US and multi-province Canada payrolls for ~2000 domestic and expatriate employees with bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly pay frequencies. • Ensure timely and accurate delivery of payroll, including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions.• Ensure accurate tax withholding, accruals, payments, wage reporting, tax returns, and W-2 reporting.• Oversee and manage relationships with external Payroll providers.• Facilitate a collaborative and productive relationship with tax engagement vendors to ensure long-term stability of solution as it relates to our business.• Implement industry best practices to ensure compliance and high efficiency.• Respond to and resolve any employee issues, tax or agency notices, or audits.• Support internal control compliance initiatives, testing and remediation. • Serve as subject expert / resource for internal clients and partners.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Supported the Expatriate, Immigration, and Global Relocation programs. • Partnered with HR, Finance, and Hiring Managers to deliver on-time, best practice, and cost-effective relocation and immigration solutions.• Ensured that assignment related costs are properly processed in payroll and cross-charged accurately.• Analyzed current processes and identified opportunities for efficiencies.• Managed immigration and relocation vendors; monitored progress and timeliness of service execution.• Established program metrics and developed reporting for senior management.• Integrated activities related to annual cycles/projects including Payroll Year End, Proxy, and Total Rewards

Greater Atlanta Area

Temporarily paused my career to focus on raising my children, supporting my family, and increase my civic activities before starting my next assignment.

Atlanta, Ga

-Created and implemented an in-sourced global compensation reporting process for mobile assignees.---Reviewed wage reporting and tax remission for the Company and its subsidiaries in 70+ countries for accuracy, timeliness, and compliance. ---Identified multiple countries where tax and payroll practices were putting the Company at risk---Realized a savings of $600k USD in vendor fees as a result of in-sourcing the compensation reporting process.-Engaged our tax consulting vendor, expatriation software vendor, regional finance centers, as well as regional shared service teams to define mitigation process, make sustainable changes.-Designed and led global training of ~200 Payroll, HR shared service, and Finance individuals-Key member in the implementation of new expatriation software---Successful and on time implementation allowed us to double our client base, better manage execution against policy and reduce exception handling.-Key member in project to seek and test a new global payroll and accounting solution.---Proved during pilot that the proposed solution was unsuccessful, allowing us to go a different direction.

Atlanta

-Oversaw execution of US and Canada payrolls for The Coca-Cola Company and several of its subsidiaries, delivered to 10,000 employees in 47 states and 4 provinces.--Processed 320K paychecks annually, with average 99.99% accuracy-Directly managed the Payroll Services department, with staff located in Atlanta and Toronto.-Managed time & attendance for 20+ facilities on a variety of platforms, including SAP, ADP eTIME, Kronos, AS400, and Datamatics. ---Rewrote policy on non-exempt time approval processes, saving $50k in overtime-Ensured compliance with Federal, State, Local, and Provincial laws and regulations.---Assisted in procuring $500k in local tax credits with City of Sugarland, TX---Reclaimed $2m in escheated wages via multi year, multi-state project-Funded payroll to ensure timely delivery of net pay and deposit of tax to agencies.---Zero missed or late fundings, ACH deposits, and tax deposits during my tenure-Led SOX/SAS70 compliance and the execution of controls, including response to all internal and external audits.---Passed all internal audits with zero High Risk comments during my tenure-Integral team member in the global HR Transformation project-Provided consulting, and project level leadership, and guidance through key Company initiatives and acquisitions---Brought 250 employees onto payroll via Glaceau acquisition, offloaded 6500 employees via Coca-Cola Enterprises acquisition-Served as point of escalation for issues and interacted with executive level management.-Managed the outsourcing arrangement with payroll vendors for activities such as gross-to-net calculation, tax filing, reporting, garnishment, and employee call centers.-Interacted with and monitored vendors, including (but not limited to) tax accountants, expatriate tax consultants, relocation services, health & welfare vendors, and leave administrators.-Owned the execution of annual cycles/projects including Payroll Year End, Rewards, and Corporate Tax Project.

Atlanta, Ga

-Oversaw the timely and accurate delivery of expatriate payroll, tax compliance, and workforce administration for 400+ expatriates based overseas and in the US.

Metro Atlanta

-Managed all phases of project life-cycle for a Massachusetts based IT firm. -Oversaw multiple concurrent implementations-Prepared SOW and change orders for tasks outside the scope of SOW-Identified opportunities to position other service offerings---Had $200k in inside sales-Trained customers on-site and remotely-Ensured the client took advantage of AnchorPoint best practices.-Assisted in the transition of the customer from professional services to product support.

Atlanta, Ga

Supporting The Coca-Cola Company's expatriate programs from a mobility, compensation, and HR administration perspective. Was an integral part of the unprecedented and successful changes in our HR world at the time: outsourcing of Expatriate Administration to Ernst & Young in 2001, outsourcing of Payroll to ProBusiness in 2001, implementation of a new global HRIS (SAP) in 2002, and the creation of a global shared services organization in 2002.

Ms, Integrated Project Delivery Systems

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi Cross-enrolled at Georgia State University's Historic Preservation program.

Bs, International Affairs (Security Policy & Economics)

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi, Georgia Tech Rowing Club, Georgia Tech Band Worked for DuPree College of Managerment, Georgia.