LORA ROBINSON
Oliver Springs,TN
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resources Administrator
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
01.2022 - Current
- Provide support to approximately 680 ORNL employees across the Biological and Environmental Systems Science, Fusion and Fission Energy and Science, and UT ITER Directorates
- Support onboarding efforts by communicating and providing guidance to new hires throughout the onboarding process.
- Interface with all levels of management throughout the onboarding process for all internal and external hires
- Entering transactions in Success Factors relating to employee compensation changes, onboarding, terminations, and position changes
- Collaborate with members of an international team to ensure that all ITER staffing goals are met annually for the six-member international nuclear fusion research and engineering mega project located in France.
- Prepared new hire letters, employee contracts, and corporate policies
Accounting Specialist III
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
01.2011 - 01.2022
- Entering and auditing of Invoices for payment
- Reconciliation of procurement card receipts and transactions to insure they are in compliance with University purchasing policy’s and spending guidelines
- Entering and auditing Travel requests and expenses
- Entering and Processing HR transactions including Additional Pay, Recurring
- Pay, Pay-Funding and Position Changes into the IRIS system for Staff/
- Students
- Processing and tracking request for Non-Student Athlete financial aid
- Processing: New Employee paperwork as well as Termination of Employees
- Time Entry for Monthly and Bi-Weekly employees in both IRIS an Kronos
- Processing of contract payments
- Manage Cash Advance process for Athletic Department/Team Travel
- Reconcile Receipts for T-4s and initiate the T-44 report with necessary justifications
- Maintain Petty Cash account and prepare deposits
- Tax Reporting
- Reconcile Procurement Card Statements for entire Athletic Department
- Handle all deposits for Athletic Department
- Assist with reconciliation of monthly taxes for ticket office
- Reconcile monthly ledgers
- Manage Athletic Department check book
- Manage and place supply orders
- Electronic Ledger reconciliation/back up
Payroll Specialist
Express Professionals, Alcoa Inc
Alcoa, TN
01.2008 - 01.2011
- Processed payroll for multiple locations across the United States
- Performed weekly reconciliations for all payments processed.
- Performed training of location supervisors and payroll processing contacts during implementation of a new time and attendance system
- Calculated quarterly performance pay for Master Agreement Locations (Union)
- Acted as a liaison between Hewitt, Pittsburgh payroll department and the location contacts to ensure all deadlines were met and issues resolved.
- Performed root cause analysis and issue resolution for all payroll errors.
- Created and distributed monthly payroll error metrics for location HR managers.
- Maintained excellent customer service skills in a deadline driven environment.
- Had various Weekly and Monthly reporting responsibilities.
- Managed payroll data entry and processing for 500 employees to comply with predetermined company guidelines
Accounts Payable Clerk
TG International
Louisville, TN
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Entered account transactions into QuickBooks and reconciled account information.
- Handled billing and accounts payable transactions, processed, and reconciled daily receipts, and made bank deposits.
- Processed bi-weekly payroll.
- Tracked employees personal, sick and vacation time accruals.
- Responsible for new employee orientation, processing of new employee paperwork, conducted continuing education training throughout the year for our safety program.
Office Manager
FIRST CHOICE/EMSI
Knoxville, TN
01.2002 - 01.2007
- Supervised and coordinated day to day office activities including evaluating and assigning work, setting task priorities and monitoring project deadlines.
- Scheduled and coordinated workflow with two satellite offices including billing, payroll, and document preparation.
- Served as a human resources representative screening, interviewing, and hiring new examiners and office staff and managed employee downsizing when necessary.
- Managed office operations while scheduling appointments for department managers.
- Maintained computer and physical filing systems
- Developed and maintained successful relationships with vendors, suppliers and contractors.
- Managed compliance to keep organization operating within legal and regulatory guidelines
- Coordinated special projects and managed schedules
- Updated reports, managed accounts, and generated reports for company database
Billing Clerk
First Choice EMSI
Knoxville , TN
01.2001 - 01.2002
- Performed invoicing/billing and data entry for accounts payable/receivable
- Scanned and processed account information and documents
- Ordered office supplies and scheduled equipment service and repair work
- Various other office duties as assigned
Education
Bachelor of Science - Education, Recreation and Sport Management, Business Administration
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN05.2022
Associate - Arts, Accounting
Strayer University
2010
Skills
- COMPUTER SKILLS
- MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint; Quick Books; Exam for Windows, Oracle, Oracle
- Discoverer, Work Brain, Smart Time, Kronos Success Factors, Hire Right, Finder, PAS
- PALS, I-9 Verification, IRIS, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft
- OneDrive
- Payroll administration
- New employee training
- Background Checks
- Human Resource Management
- Pre-Employment Screening
- Training development
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins
Timeline
Human Resources Administrator
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
01.2022 - Current
Accounting Specialist III
University of Tennessee
01.2011 - 01.2022
Payroll Specialist
Express Professionals, Alcoa Inc
01.2008 - 01.2011
Accounts Payable Clerk
TG International
01.2007 - 01.2008
Office Manager
FIRST CHOICE/EMSI
01.2002 - 01.2007
Billing Clerk
First Choice EMSI
01.2001 - 01.2002
Bachelor of Science - Education, Recreation and Sport Management, Business Administration
University of Tennessee
Associate - Arts, Accounting
Strayer University
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