Sample Resumes

Sample Payroll Resume

 

CERTIFIED PAYROLL PROFESSIONAL (CPP) with over 10 years’ experience in Payroll.  Core competencies include:

·         Strategic decision maker with proven result oriented leadership, training and critical thinking skills to cultivate an efficient team environment at multiple levels within an organization.

·         Multi-state and International payroll, payroll taxes, garnishments and year end processing.

·         Strong experience in payroll systems selection, design, testing and system conversions.

·         Ability to communicate with and resolve difficult out source vendor and employee issues.

PAYROLL CONSULTANT, Princess Cruises -Robert Half Management Resources, July 2008 to Present

·         Performing Payroll Quality Assurance Audits

·         Revising procedures and policy

·         Coordinate with IT to upgrade various payroll applications and interfaces.

·         Audit journal entries, vendor files and payments in Oracle MarkView.

 

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR, Woodside Natural Gas, 2425 Olympic Blvd, Ste 4030W, Santa Monica, CA  (February 2006 – October 2007)

Finance:

·         Responsible for Budgeting, Budget Tracking, A/P and A/R.  Producing ad hoc reports as needed.

·         Negotiated and established new corporate car leases, credit cards, hotel and business travel accounts.

·         Approved department invoices. Established new and maintained cost center codes. Responsible for end of year processing - 1099's & W-2's

Payroll:

·         Processed semi-monthly and monthly payroll for highly compensated employees and inpatriates.

·         Worked with outside Accounting Consultants on all tax and reporting compliance for inpatriates.

·         Responsible for preparation of international wire requests, special payments, adjustments, year-end analysis and salary adjustments.

Human Resource/Benefits:

·         Provided direction concerning employee-related needs and issues.

·         Established new Policies and procedures - Personnel and drug testing.

·         Recruited, determined compensations and hired new employees.

·         Maintained corporate benefit packages (PTO and 401K) for both local and inpatriates.

Office:

·         Managed the day-to-day operations of an annual $30 million dollar LNG project budget coordinating a team of 15 engineers and 5 project supporting staff.

·         Supervision of 6 personnel – Accounts Payable Clerk, IT Administrator, Administration Assistants and Receptionist.

·         Successfully moved offices with seamless disruption of project, including negotiating lease term, coordinated and approved Tenant improvement, IT/telephone systems and full office set-up.

·         Lead the development, communication and instruction of Health and Safety work procedures.

 

DIRECTOR, PAYROLL QUALITY ASSURANCE, Axium International, 300 E. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA (March 2005 - January 2006)

·         Identified, planned and executed areas for improvement to provide consistent integrity and quality of service that reduced errors with outgoing payroll by 15%.

·         Coordinated with various departments and employees to review payroll data interchanges and give resolutions to errors found.

·         Ensured compliance with all applicable federal/multi-state agencies and unions.

·         Reduced payroll errors by 15% by developing new procedures to help the flow of work from incoming payroll to outgoing checks.

·         Increased employee moral and customer service by creating/revising forms to improve documentation of problems between employees, clients and IT.

 

 

PAYROLL MANAGER, Tutor-Saliba Construction Corp, Sylmar, CA (April 2001 ~ March 2005)

·         Responsible for the department budget, ensuring department objectives and goals are achieved for an annual payroll of $85 million.

·         Supervision of 10 in-house and field payroll personnel for over 2,500+ employees.

·         Developed and maintained payroll procedure manuals for both in-house and field staff that reduced errors thereby reducing payroll errors and the number of manual checks processed by 20%.

·         Managed all union contracts and audits with a perfect record of passed internal and external audits.

·         Responsible for filing Federal and State payroll tax returns and all tax inquiries for 5 joint ventures.

·         Hired, developed, trained and evaluated performance of payroll specialist that reduced turnover by 10%

·         Responsible for Executive and international payroll.

·         Liaised with Benefits department on implementation and maintenance of union/non-union and executive benefit plans and special payments.

 

PAYROLL MANAGER, GenesisIntermedia.Com, 5805 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA (Temp to Hire Temp June – August; Permanent - August 2000 to March, 2001)

·         Supervised a staff of 3.

·         Managed a monthly multi-payroll of over a $ 1 million for a multiple venture corporation.

·         Selected and implemented new ADP payroll system conversion.

·         Sole liaison with out-sourced payroll company to handle disputes and tax issues.

·         Managed commissions, garnishments and levies reporting and processing.

·         Implemented and maintained payroll advance policy and procedures.

 

ASST. PAYROLL MANAGER, Pinkerton, Inc., 4330 Park Terrace Drive, Westlake Village, CA (Temp to Hire: Temporary – May to August; Permanent - August 1999 to June 2000)

·         Managed staff of 20 employees including 4 supervisors, clerks and temporary staff.

·         Responsible for daily payroll operations for a weekly in-house multi-state payroll that resulted in the department receiving the company’s award for ‘Best Improved Customer Service’ in a department.

·         Responsible for local, state and federal taxes reducing penalties by 30%.

·         Successfully coordinated transition of 20,000 new employee’s payroll records due to the acquisition of three new companies.

·         Completed PeopleSoft payroll software upgrade, which included a seamless move to the field offices.

 

PAYROLL MANAGER and EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER

St. Luke’s Hospital/Health Care Center, 3555 Army Street, San Francisco, CA (1997-1999)

Payroll Manager (Hospital – August 1998 – February 1999)

·         Supervised staff of 3

·         Responsible for bi-weekly payroll for 2000 employees

·         Oversaw union and garnishment reporting and payments.

·         Resolved payroll issues with department managers and employees.

 

Executive Administrative Manager (Health Care Center – October 1997 – September 1998)

·         Processed in-house payroll for 10 clinics/100 employees

·         Reconciled payroll bank accounts.

·         Managed Accounts Payable and successfully reduced A/P by 25%.

 

CO-OWNER and CFO, Premiere Productions Recording Studio, San Francisco, CA (1990-1999)

 

 

 

CERTIFIED PAYROLL PROFESSIONAL:  American Payroll Association

 

EDUCATION:

California State University of Northridge

City College of San Francisco

 

SOFTWARE:  SAP, ADP Enterprise, Peoplesoft, Paychex, JD Edwards, AS400, Ceridian and Oracle