Responsible for leading the development, implementation and administration of Payroll & Benefits to include time tracking, paid time off, payroll, payroll tax, workers comp, health and welfare benefits, retirement benefits, equity administration (stock options, ESPP) and compliance
Partner with executive leadership team on a wide variety of strategic initiatives providing guidance and recommendations in plan development and policy administration
Experience in working cross functionally with internal stakeholders in HR, Legal, Finance, IT, and other areas of the organization in a fast-paced environment
Staying informed of new or changing legislation, analyzing the impact to the organization and implementing changes as necessary to ensure compliance (benefits, retirement, department of labor, payroll, payroll tax, paid time off)
Communicate plan and policy changes to the organization as applicable
Select and oversee external vendors to ensure service levels are as expected acting as liaison as needed
Benefit plan selection, design, cost and administration to include open enrollment testing, meetings and ongoing communication
Identify and implement efficiencies where needed
Team lead for consolidation of HRIS / payroll system, acquisitions and divestitures.
Payroll Director
FTD LLC
12.2013 - 12.2023
Responsible for leading the development, implementation and administration of Payroll & Benefits to include time tracking, paid time off, payroll, payroll tax, workers comp, health and welfare benefits, retirement benefits, equity administration (stock options, ESPP) and compliance
Partner with executive leadership team on a wide variety of strategic initiatives providing guidance and recommendations in plan development and policy administration
Experience in working cross functionally with internal stakeholders in HR, Legal, Finance, IT, and other areas of the organization in a fast-paced environment
Staying informed of new or changing legislation, analyzing the impact to the organization and implementing changes as necessary to ensure compliance (benefits, retirement, department of labor, payroll, payroll tax, paid time off)
Communicate plan and policy changes to the organization as applicable
Select and oversee external vendors to ensure service levels are as expected acting as liaison as needed
Benefit plan selection, design, cost and administration to include open enrollment testing, meetings and ongoing communication
Identify and implement efficiencies where needed
Team lead for consolidation of HRIS / payroll system, acquisitions and divestitures.
Workforce Management Quality Control
ARAMARK
01.2010 - 12.2013
ARAMARK identified Kronos Workforce Central as their labor management system to be deployed throughout the organization of over 250,000 US domestic employees and rolled out over a 5-year period
When a profit center was selected to deploy Kronos, there were 4 phases to the deployment: Assessment – team that identified client requirements
Configuration – team of individuals configured the system based on the site requirements
Quality Assurance – team of individuals that tested the configuration
Quality Control – Developed a team that was responsible to review the configuration with the site contacts, train the end users and get them up and running on Kronos and supporting them through their site implementation and through 6 weeks post deployment
Coached the team in how to interpret site requirements
Through hands on demonstration and practice, trained the team on how to demonstrate detailed scenarios so that they would be able to effectively communicate back to their customers during the pre-go live face to face meetings
Participated on site meetings to provide encouragement and or guidance as needed
There were 7 team members and each team member had between 8 – 10 sites at a time, depending on complexity
Responsible for set up of payroll system to ensure the site is now included in payroll interface
Responsible for the daily HR interface and processing of the weekly time file to payroll.
Payroll Manager
ARAMARK
01.2000 - 01.2011
There was an overlap in responsibilities as Payroll Manager while working on the Workforce Management Project
The payroll department in Downers Grove closed in 2011
Accountable for all aspects of the payroll function for over 30,000 employees
Employee maintenance
Payroll processing – bi-weekly and weekly payrolls, approximately 5,000 profit centers located throughout the US submit hours on their scheduled processing day, the payroll team is responsible for importing, auditing and approving time to be processed and validating the output the day after, manual checks
Tax area - 7 Federal ID No’s, 47 states, 350 local tax jurisdictions to include OH and PA
Reconcile federal, state withholding, state unemployment tax and local tax filing, multiple worksite reporting, W2’s, head tax, participate in agency audits
Union remittance and audits (approximately 75 union accounts)
Other – annual salary administration, annual bonuses, stock options, relocation
Responsible for 3.5M budget with 5 exempt and 16 non-exempt team members.
<ul><li>Managing Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Qatar, and India payroll.</li><li>Managing Hire to exit process for all countries.</li><li>Processing one-time payments like Retention bonus, sign-on bonus, Relocation expense, sales commission payments etc.</li><li>Updating master files with respect to assigned entities. (New hires, Termination, salary changes, cost center, department class changes).</li><li>Support HR processes related to onboarding, contract changes, terminations, and exit settlements in line with local legislation</li><li>Implemented end to end RSU/Stock option gain/ESPP program from payroll side for all regions.</li><li>Gross to net reconciliation.</li><li>Net payout reconciliation on employee wise.</li><li>Processing stock option (ESOP) taxation through payroll, ensuring accuracy by validating against the Share works report Remitting tax payments monthly within due dates to avoid penalties.</li><li>Processing third party payments (Insurance payments) once payroll is finalized.</li><li>Remitting pension contribution on quarterly basis for Italy.</li><li>Work with payroll service provider/ stake holders to ensure successful delivery of salary payments, compliance, and accounting.</li><li>Review month end /Quarter end closure and make salaries and accruals accounting properly.</li><li>Responsible for all payroll-related payments, forecast cash flow and cash requirement for the payroll.</li><li>Conduct payroll induction for new joiners for India.</li><li>Conduct monthly business review meetings with all service providers.</li><li>Part of product implementation team. (Care-lite tool) employee queries through ticket system.</li><li>Processing full and final settlement for terminated employees.</li><li>Validating investment proofs during year end.</li><li>Working on employee queries daily, responding within SLA.</li><li>Preparing capitalized R&D reports in the month end helps higher leaders to take strategic decisions.</li><li>Posting journal entries on NetSuite.</li><li>Preparing black-line reconciliation reports during the month end (Accrued vacation, accrued commission, Bonus, employee benefits, employee benefits advances).</li><li>Participate in global payroll projects, system testing, and process improvement initiatives.</li><li>Applications Knowledge: Workday, ADP Streamline, Oracle Net suite.</li><li>India Payroll-People work, Global Payroll-ADP Streamline and For Accounting Oracle Net suite.</li></ul> at Sprinklr India Private Limited<ul><li>Managing Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Qatar, and India payroll.</li><li>Managing Hire to exit process for all countries.</li><li>Processing one-time payments like Retention bonus, sign-on bonus, Relocation expense, sales commission payments etc.</li><li>Updating master files with respect to assigned entities. (New hires, Termination, salary changes, cost center, department class changes).</li><li>Support HR processes related to onboarding, contract changes, terminations, and exit settlements in line with local legislation</li><li>Implemented end to end RSU/Stock option gain/ESPP program from payroll side for all regions.</li><li>Gross to net reconciliation.</li><li>Net payout reconciliation on employee wise.</li><li>Processing stock option (ESOP) taxation through payroll, ensuring accuracy by validating against the Share works report Remitting tax payments monthly within due dates to avoid penalties.</li><li>Processing third party payments (Insurance payments) once payroll is finalized.</li><li>Remitting pension contribution on quarterly basis for Italy.</li><li>Work with payroll service provider/ stake holders to ensure successful delivery of salary payments, compliance, and accounting.</li><li>Review month end /Quarter end closure and make salaries and accruals accounting properly.</li><li>Responsible for all payroll-related payments, forecast cash flow and cash requirement for the payroll.</li><li>Conduct payroll induction for new joiners for India.</li><li>Conduct monthly business review meetings with all service providers.</li><li>Part of product implementation team. (Care-lite tool) employee queries through ticket system.</li><li>Processing full and final settlement for terminated employees.</li><li>Validating investment proofs during year end.</li><li>Working on employee queries daily, responding within SLA.</li><li>Preparing capitalized R&D reports in the month end helps higher leaders to take strategic decisions.</li><li>Posting journal entries on NetSuite.</li><li>Preparing black-line reconciliation reports during the month end (Accrued vacation, accrued commission, Bonus, employee benefits, employee benefits advances).</li><li>Participate in global payroll projects, system testing, and process improvement initiatives.</li><li>Applications Knowledge: Workday, ADP Streamline, Oracle Net suite.</li><li>India Payroll-People work, Global Payroll-ADP Streamline and For Accounting Oracle Net suite.</li></ul> at Sprinklr India Private Limited
