Leslie Hartman
Orlando,FL
Summary
HR professional with extensive experience in payroll, compliance, and employee relations. Proficient in managing payroll processes, onboarding, and training, while ensuring adherence to regulations. Adept at leveraging HR technology to drive efficiency and enhance service delivery across multiple clients.
Overview
1
1
Certification
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Administrative HR Assistant
Select Medical
Orlando, FL
12.2025 - 09.2026
- Directed payroll support activities, ensuring accurate collection, validation, and entry of employee timecards.
- Oversaw ancillary pay, bonus processing, timekeeping records, attendance tracking, and clinical scheduling for accurate results.
- Processed payroll for multiple hospitals with accurate, timely employee pay delivery.
- Guided employees through benefit enrollment process, facilitating understanding of options including 401(k) participation.
- Responded to employee questions on benefits, policies, and procedures.
- Supported onboarding by orienting new hires and explaining required documentation for HR processing.
- Led new hire orientation sessions and assisted with completion of onboarding requirements.
- Trained new hires on self-service platform for real-time attendance tracking and inquiry access.
- Maintained HR files, records, and documentation to ensure compliance with organizational standards.
- Coordinated appointments, meetings, and conferences to resolve personnel concerns.
- Used UKG/Kronos, Oracle, Excel, and Outlook to support payroll and HR administration.
- Delivered HR services for various hospitals to support operational efficiency.
People Lead
Walmart
Orlando, FL
03.2024 - 06.2025
- Managed benefits facilitations, associate relations, talent development, performance management, onboarding orientation, policy implementation, recruitment/employment, affirmative action, and employment law compliance to support organizational goals.
- Develops, communicates, and implements HR practices and action plans to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other business partners.
- Leads and promotes the adoption of technology services and digital solutions by utilizing and sharing resources, information, and tools.
- Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices.
- Executed HR-related duties while collaborating with facility operators and market HR manager to enhance operational efficiency.
- Supervised 450+ associates; created schedules, managed employee availability, addressed meal violations, processed leave of absence claims, and ensured timesheet accuracy by reviewing attendance and time off requests.
- Assisted leadership with associate recruitment, hiring, and staffing.
- Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans.
Front End Team Lead
Walmart
Apopka, FL
11.2022 - 03.2024
- Maintained all company policies and procedures by properly handling claims and returns, zoning the front-end area, overseeing the parking lot for cleanliness, organizing and arranging merchandise and supplies, identifying shrink and damages, and ensuring a safe work environment for guests and employees.
- Supported associates in transaction completion, trained cashiers, assessed ongoing education needs to enhance team effectiveness, managed customer traffic flow, coordinated lunch and break schedules for cashiers, and aided management in controlling front-end operations.
- Modeled and reinforced day to day direction and guidance to hourly associates on proper customer service approaches and techniques to ensure customer needs and complaints are addressed according to company guidelines and standards.
- Organized merchandise into visually appealing displays at the front end to enhance customer engagement.
- Trained employees in job-specific tasks and collaborated with department leads and senior management to streamline operations and implement process improvements.
- Resolved any escalated complaints and answered questions regarding policies and procedures.
- Resolved employee conflicts efficiently while fostering a positive work environment for all involved.
- Interviewed potential candidates and provided thorough reviews to HR to aid in hiring decisions.
- Completed accounting records, files, transactions, and other required documentation by following accounting office procedures; provided funds for proper register operation; created and interpreted financial analysis reports; assisted with accounting-related investigations; prepared daily deposits; maintained and restocked the lottery machine and reconciled end of day lottery reports.
Payroll Administrator
Hartman & Hartman CPAs
Tampa, FL
01.2010 - 01.2020
- Managed and processed weekly and bi-weekly payroll, electronic deposits and employee pay adjustments for over 60 payroll clients.
- Processed and issued employee paychecks and detailed statements of earnings and deductions promptly.
- Conducted audits of payroll data to ensure accuracy and adherence to company policies, reducing errors by implementing double-check procedures.
- Implemented process improvements that increased the efficiency of payroll processing timelines, reducing overall cycle time by two days.
- Maintained current knowledge of labor laws and tax regulations, ensuring compliance with evolving payroll legislation.
- Filed and submitted quarterly tax returns, FL RT-6 forms and annual forms such as the employer's annual federal unemployment tax return (940), and the employers annual tax return (944).
- Input confidential employee addresses, deductions, garnishments, and banking information accurately and efficiently.
- Performed bank reconciliations and financial reports to verify the practice of proper due diligence.
- Increased efficiency and alleviated workloads by creating a new Excel financial recording system.
- Used a MS-DOS program created by Hartman and Hartman CPAs to input clients' various debits and credits into the general ledger.
- Performed clerical duties such as proofreading summaries for financial statements, compiling and distributing client invoices, maintaining the office budget, maintaining supervisors calendar and supervised daily office operations.
- Provided customer service support to employees regarding their inquiries about paychecks, time off accruals, benefits enrollment and changes.
Education
Liberal Arts
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL, US05-2010
High School Diploma -
Tampa Preparatory School
Tampa05-2005
Skills
- UKG/Kronos and Workday
- QuickBooks Online and Desktop
- Oracle and Quicken
- Accounts payable
- Payroll administration
- HR compliance and database management
- Time management
- Organizational skills
- Customer relations
- Time management
- Organizational skills
- Customer relations
Personal Information
Title: HR Administrator
Certification
- Chartered Tax Professional
Timeline
Administrative HR Assistant
Select Medical
12.2025 - 09.2026
People Lead
Walmart
03.2024 - 06.2025
Front End Team Lead
Walmart
11.2022 - 03.2024
Payroll Administrator
Hartman & Hartman CPAs
01.2010 - 01.2020
Liberal Arts
University of Central Florida
High School Diploma -
Tampa Preparatory School