Andrea Salas
HR Assistant
Clearwater,FL
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Summary
Experienced HR assistant with 20+ years in administration, payroll support, onboarding, and employee records. Known for accurate data entry, confidential record keeping, and smooth HR operations.
Work History
Human Resources Assistant
Indian Rocks Church and Christian School
Largo, FL 33774
07.2021 - 09.2026
- Coordinated onboarding paperwork, background checks, and new hire orientation for staff and faculty.
- Scheduled interviews, communicated with candidates, and tracked hiring progress through completion.
- Maintained confidential employee records, ensuring accuracy across personnel files and HR databases.
- Supported payroll processing by verifying timekeeping data, deductions, and adding other payroll changes ensuring accurate and timely salary distrubution.
- Assisted supervisors with attendance tracking, leave requests, and employee status updates.
- Reinforced workplace policies by distributing updates and responding to routine employee questions.
- Conducted new hire orientation to verify completion of appropriate paperwork, recording information on the human resources database.
- Assisted in payroll processing to ensure timely delivery of paychecks to all employees.
- Organized new employee orientation schedules for hires.
- Processed employee termination paperwork at direction of supervisory staff.
- Updated and maintained employee attendance records.
- Responded to employee inquiries regarding benefits and other HR topics.
- Helped employees register for benefits programs using online portals.
- Assisted with creating employee handbooks and manuals.
- Tracked various statistics and kept detailed records to support the human resources department.
- Created job descriptions on boards for vacant jobs.
Assistant Director Of Operations
Peaks Of Health Metabolic Medical Center
Largo, FL
02.2020 - 06.2021
- Coordinated staff scheduling, coverage, and onboarding to support consistent department performance.
- Served as a liaison between senior management and frontline staff to facilitate communication and ensure alignment with company objectives.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop and execute long-term corporate goals and objectives.
- Defined, implemented, and revised operational policies and guidelines.
- Monitored compliance with health care policies, documentation standards, and internal procedures.
Administrative Assistant
Indian Rocks Christian School
Largo FL
08.1996 - 02.2020
- Managed executive calendars, scheduling meetings, and resolving conflicts to maintain daily workflow.
- Coordinated travel arrangements, itineraries, and expense documentation for leadership team and teachers.
- Maintained confidential records, filing systems, student handbooks and document control procedures.
- Improved administrative workflows, reducing delays and strengthening office efficiency.
- Organized office events such as holiday parties or team-building activities, promoting a positive company culture and boosting employee morale.
- Collaborated on special projects as assigned by leadership, contributing research findings or coordinating event logistics as needed for success.
- Coordinated travel arrangements for staff, ensuring cost-effective and timely accommodations and transportation.
- Supported recruitment processes, scheduling interviews and communicating with applicants to improve hiring timelines.
- Managed scheduling for executive team, balancing complex calendars to ensure optimal use of time.
- Addressed IT issues by coordinating with tech support, minimizing downtime and maintaining operational efficiency.
- Recorded new hires, transfers, terminations, changes in job classifications and merit increases to main human resources files.
- Coordinated daily office operations, ensuring smooth communication among staff, families, and students.
- Created agendas and took Meeting minutes for School Board, Administrative Team and other meetings as needed.
- Data Entry and Coordination of ACSI and the State of Florida Education Reports (multiple reports).
- Teacher Certification - coordinated all aspects even the classes they took for certification.
- Coordinated many events such as Faculty meetings, In-Service Days, Multi School Events, Fundraising events.
- Coordinated some of the Website and School Calendar.
Education
High School Diploma -
St Petersburg College - Two Classes Short of My AA
SeminoleHigh School Diploma -
Largo High School Dis
Largo06-1980
Skills
- Payroll processing/Administration through Paylocity, Shelby and ADP
- Employee data record keeping
- Onboarding coordination
- Background checks
- Computer proficiency
- Data management
- Payroll administration
- Office administration
- Maintaining files
- Human resources support
- Computer literacy (Excel, Outlook, Word, Google Workspace, Espace, Rock)
- Microsoft office
- Online position posting
- Workers Comp Coordination
- Team player
Certification
- CJIS Certification - present
- Notary
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Human Resources Assistant
Indian Rocks Church and Christian School
07.2021 - 09.2026
Assistant Director Of Operations
Peaks Of Health Metabolic Medical Center
02.2020 - 06.2021
Administrative Assistant
Indian Rocks Christian School
08.1996 - 02.2020
High School Diploma -
St Petersburg College - Two Classes Short of My AA
High School Diploma -
Largo High School Dis