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Asha Vereen

Elmont

Summary

Dedicated Administrative Professional with over 15 years of comprehensive experience in payroll management and benefits administration. Expert in utilizing both in-house and third-party systems to streamline payroll processes, minimize errors, and optimize efficiency. Proven track record in project management, software implementation, and team supervision. Adept at resolving payroll-related inquiries from employees and management at all levels.

Knowledgeable with comprehensive background in overseeing payroll operations and ensuring compliance with regulations. Successfully implemented streamlined processes that enhanced payroll accuracy and efficiency. Demonstrated expertise in team leadership and problem-solving to address payroll discrepancies.

Results-driven payroll expert with deep knowledge in payroll systems, compliance, and financial reporting. Strong focus on team collaboration, ensuring accuracy, and adapting to changing needs. Proven ability to optimize processes, lead teams, and deliver consistent results. Recognized for strategic thinking, effective communication, and leadership in driving operational excellence.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director of Payroll and Benefits

Outreach Development Corporation
10.2020 - Current

· Maintaining and updating the ADP Payroll system to ensure the accuracy of the payroll.

· Gathering and analyzing all the timecards to be processed on a bi-weekly basis utilizing the ADP Payroll system.

· Maintaining full-time employees’ accrued vacation, sick, personal, and holiday days in the ADP system and preparing a bi-weekly spreadsheet report for the director and coordinators.

· Maintaining and updating all employees’ personnel files and assisting employees with any inquiries regarding payroll and benefits.

· Maintaining and updating all the employees’ benefits websites with personnel changes to ensure billing accuracy and reconciling all the monthly benefits bills; health plan, dental, life insurances, long-term care, long-term disability, short-term disability, pension, TDA, employee’s pension loan payments, Workers’ Compensation, Flexible Spending Accounts, and processing COBRA documentation.

· Maintaining spreadsheets to distribute all monthly payroll and expenses and all employees’ benefits expenses to all corresponding modalities.

· Updating the Accounting system with all the payroll expenses, monthly metro card activity, postage usage, and monthly enters supplied by the Vice President of Finance.

· Preparing the monthly reporting of the Breakfast and Lunch for some of the sites and updating the information in the Child Nutrition website.

· Maintaining and updating the Outreach Training Institute (OTI) student’s billing system and creating monthly invoices for the students and posting payments.

· Reconciling the OTI billing on a monthly basis and posting the information in the Accounting system.

· Preparing invoices, posting payment, creating quarterly vouchers for reimbursement from the Department of Health and assisting with their annual audit.

· Creating invoices in QuickBooks.

· Maintaining and analyzing the annual Audit Work paper, and benefits schedules, and making any corrections in the Accounting system.

  • Optimized workflows within the department by continuously evaluating existing processes and making improvements as needed.

Office Manager

Preferred MD
02.2018 - 10.2020
  • Conducted medical billing and coding for a variety of medical offices
  • Collaborated with insurance companies to secure improved payments and reduce patient out-of-pocket costs
  • Scheduled anesthesiology staff across multiple locations and managed medical supply inventory
  • Acted as a liaison to enhance patient communication and resolve claims issues
  • Developed and implemented tracking systems for inventory, profits, and expenses using spreadsheets and charts

Payroll Director

August Aichhorn Center Inc.
01.2005 - 02.2018
  • Ensured compliance with internal controls, maintaining accurate payroll records and reports
  • Managed payroll processing for 300 employees using Kronos, including audits and reporting
  • Streamlined processes for tracking, reconciling, and reporting financial activities
  • Prepared detailed reports on employee earnings, deductions, and taxes
  • Recommended revisions to the company’s benefits and payroll structures based on ongoing reviews

Education

Master of Science - Project Management and Operations

Southern New Hampshire University
12.2024

Bachelor of Arts - British Literature

Hunter College of The City University of New York
06.2002

Skills

  • Benefits Administration
  • Payroll Procedure Implementation
  • Regulatory Compliance Management
  • Strategic Program Leadership
  • Experienced with MS Office Suite

Certification

  • SHRM-CP
  • CPP (Certified Payroll Professional)

Timeline

Director of Payroll and Benefits

Outreach Development Corporation
10.2020 - Current

Office Manager

Preferred MD
02.2018 - 10.2020

Payroll Director

August Aichhorn Center Inc.
01.2005 - 02.2018

Bachelor of Arts - British Literature

Hunter College of The City University of New York

Master of Science - Project Management and Operations

Southern New Hampshire University
Asha Vereen