Jennifer Carroll

Consummate Strategist with extensive track record building creativity and unparalleled client service in a multifaceted environment. Highly meticulous and reliable Payroll Director adept at ensuring accurate payroll disbursements through efficient supervision of payroll staff. Demonstrated success negotiating win-win compromises, developing teambuilding programs, and writing personnel manuals, corporate policies, job descriptions and management reports. Extensive knowledge of accounting principles, taxation policies and tax procedures, staff development, mediation, conflict resolution, benefits and compensation, HR records management, HR policies development and legal compliance. Provides insight and direction to realize board vision capturing global opportunities via expansion, repositioning and business culture transformation. Extensive knowledge of Federal, State, social security, unemployment, and workers’ compensation laws and regulations as they affect payroll systems and operations. Creative, forward thinking and a strong, hands-on team leader, highly efficient and results oriented with exceptional management and organizational skills.

• Successfully managed weekly and semi-monthly payroll processing and distribution tasks for 7000 employees, 2 Payroll Managers and 10 administrators at different locations nationwide while driving system audits, troubleshooting and resolving staff inquiries and concerns, and ensuring comprehensive employee understanding of policies and procedures.
• Championed the reduction of operating costs by 26% through proactive attention to efficient payroll processes and a decrease in manual check production.
• Reengineered payroll system and department by revising payroll process, project managing a system implantation for Time Labor Management and payroll software. Along with implementing new procedures and controls which reduced payroll processing time by 70%.