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ROBERT O. RICHARDSON JR.
Atlanta,GA
Summary
A disciplined and established professional that translates, Accounting, Human Resources, and Payroll experience into facilitating the mission of the company. 25+ years' managing centralized payroll activities of multiple business units in U.S. and international locations.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Payroll
Greenlight Financial
11.2023 - 10.2025
- Coordinates and managing the entire payroll system
- Maintains payroll guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
- Checks and audits all payrolls - paying close attention to legislative compliance
- Maintains payroll systems and reports any issues to management.
- Manages direct reports within the business's payroll department
- Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
- Ensures payroll is properly administered including the processing and month end support where required
- Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions.
- Supports internal requirements such as ensuring the proper completion and submission of annual leave reports
- Identifies and recommends updates to payroll processing software, systems, and procedures.
- Audits payroll transactions to ensure that accounts, payment dates, and taxes are accurate and up to date.
- Demonstrated an excellent working knowledge of payroll systems, while also having payroll management experience, a strong ability to lead, problem solving and analytical skills amongst others.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as supervisory and leadership skills.
- Core responsibilities include overseeing the accurate and timely processing of payroll, supervising, training, and evaluating payroll staff, creating and implementing internal payroll policies, and monitoring the payroll department's budget.
Director of Global Payroll
Tricentis
11.2021 - 11.2023
- Play a key role in the payroll transformation as well as standardize, streamline, and automate the global payroll processes.
- Lead the global payroll team to provide accurate and efficient payroll services by working closely with the local teams and payroll regional leaders to ensure payroll is processed as per the defined regional laws.
- Establish and deploy a Global Payroll Strategy & develop a multi-year roadmap including planning, design, implementation, communication, and delivery of the payroll technology and process improvements.
- Lead the payroll transformation activities as we look to consolidate global payroll systems, and harmonize payroll processes.
- Engage with internal/external subject matter expert to define a robust transformation plan.
- Manage the relationship with the external payroll service provider(s) for the services provided by the vendor.
- Implement a scalable infrastructure for reporting and analysis requirements and oversee payroll audit.
- Provide strategic leadership for Payroll operations while measuring and monitoring the effectiveness and efficiencies of the essential services provided.
- Manage a complex portfolio of acquisitions.
- Keep up to date on required regulatory/compliance requirements in accordance with local laws and regulations for each country.
- Partner closely with various stakeholders. (Legal, IT, Tax, HR, and Total Rewards).
- Operate with a mindset of continuous performance improvement to streamline and automate opportunities as they arise.
- Manage the operational aspects of the payroll function including vendor management, service level agreements, and vendor contracts.
Director of Global Payroll
Pindrop Security
01.2016 - 12.2021
- Provide world-wide direction and strategy regarding payroll, benefits, and systems for the U.S. (38 states), Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Australia.
- Manage and process Semi-Monthly and Monthly global payroll according to established deadlines with internal and external partners.
- Global payroll tax and compensation compliance.
- Define and maintain documented policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with U.S. and global regulatory requirements and internal controls.
- Create repeatable processes and eliminate variance in all processes.
- Recommend and implement changes leading to best practices.
- Approve benefit elections and life events. Also responsible for annual open enrollment.
- Audit, reconcile and pay all benefits bills monthly.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams as a leader of payroll and systems subject matter expert.
- Critically review and analyze all facets of payroll to ensure employees are paid accurately and timely.
- Time & Attendance Administrator.
- Responsible for assisting accounting team with month end close.
- Manage accruals for vacation, sick leave and personal time accruals.
- Serve as 401(k) plan administrator.
- Responsible for Annual 5500 Audit.
- All payroll audits to include annual workers comp and 401(k).
- Internal and external reporting and funding of health and welfare plans, 401(k), FSA, HSA etc.
- Responsible for adhering to federal, state, and local laws/guidelines and monitoring any changes; and taking actions needed.
- Timely and accurate filing of federal, state, quarterly, and annual filings. W2, 1095-C ACA compliance, 940 and 941 Filings.
- Interface with all levels of the organization to answer questions, resolve issues, and provide information related to payroll and benefits.
HR Operations Manager (Payroll, Benefits, and HRIS)
Angel Oak Companies LLC
01.2015 - 12.2016
- Manage the overall payroll and benefit functions and act as a liaison between HR regarding senior management, new hires, terminations, compensation and conditions of service for 7 FEINs.
- Benefits administration and Vendor Management (I.E. open enrollments, Benefit Plan design and changes, Human Capital Management System and others.
- Manage payroll administration to include calculating wage and overtime payments, recording appropriate deductions and centralized processing of related employment transactions.
- Key performance indicators, quality metrics, reporting and related dashboards to ensure service levels are met.
- Prepare reports including summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability and nontaxable wages.
- Responsible for managing the integrity of data within the payroll system. Ad hoc reporting.
- Files required reports and makes payments to government agencies, insurance carriers, and other organizations/individuals.
- Ensure the accuracy of records and guarantee bimonthly disbursement of multi-state payroll, including garnishments, benefits and taxing employees consistent with federal and state wage and hour laws.
- Responsible for general ledger account reconciliation and reporting; coordinate federal, state, workers compensation and benefit (401k) audits.
- Accountable to ensure the accuracy, validity and timeliness of the payroll related tax filings and issuances.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement; define and document processes/procedures as appropriate.
- Collaborate with and provide operational support to other departments to include HR Shared Services, accounts payable and/or corporate accounting.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for the payroll, benefits and systems; through consultation provide knowledge and expertise.
- Represent the payroll and benefits function on projects related to acquisitions, divestitures, or other broad re-engineering efforts.
Payroll Manager
AirWatch LLC (Acquired By VMware)
01.2012 - 12.2015
- Managed the entire payroll process for exempt and non-exempt staff for U.S. and Canada.
- Responsible for Multi-FEIN, Multi-State, audit and approval of Quarterly (941), Annual (940), Locals, W2, and all other year end activities.
- Various Audit and Program Administration/Processing to include: Workers Comp, 401k, ESPP, Stock Option, and others.
- Bi-Weekly Payroll Processing and off cycle as needed for bonus, stock option, etc.
- Perform pre and post payroll audit to ensure accurate payroll.
- Time and attendance administration.
- Answer and resolve all payroll related issues for all U.S. and Canadian employees.
- Responsible for answering Federal, State, and local agency inquiries surrounding payroll.
- Daily collaboration with HR/Benefits regarding: new hires, terminations, data changes, benefits, and others.
- Audit of all I-9's with a focus on non-resident employees to ensure proper tax withholding.
- Provide accounting with all reporting needed for GL.
- Generate/create all payroll reporting for internal and external needs.
- Create, audit, and submit benefit files for 3rd party vendors.
- Serve as subject matter expert for all Payroll, Benefits and Systems.
Payroll Manager
MACTEC Engineering (Acquired By AMEC Earth & Environment)
01.2006 - 12.2012
- Own oversight of payroll to ensure compliance with all corporate, federal and state specific policies and procedures.
- Manage and provide leadership to U.S. payroll team on recurring payrolls for U.S. and Canada.
- Develop strategy and provide tactical direction to all payroll teams.
- Drive process consistency across all payroll teams to ensure standardization.
- Managed the day to day payroll processing and payroll system integrity.
- Assisted in the development and implementation of standardized pay practices and policies.
- Enforced the established standards by developing and implementing audit reports and procedures.
- Managed/Processed a weekly union payroll and bi-weekly payroll for 5000 multi-state employees.
- Performed pre-production and post audits on all payroll entries to include 401k updates, new hires, garnishments, benefit updates, pay data batches, and others.
- Created and distributed various ad-hoc reports to include deduction reports, direct deposit and live check report, garnishment amounts, 401k wire information, FSA, tax reports, per diem, relocation, and others as requested.
- HRIS and Payroll System integration/reconciliation/validation.
- Manage the accrued payroll and a very extensive accrued vacation and sick program.
- Provided accounting with GL support in regards to posting payroll liabilities.
- Create, audit, and submit benefit files for 3rd party vendors.
- Serve as subject matter expert for all payroll, tax, and systems.
Payroll Manager
Progressive Logistics Services
01.2007 - 12.2008
- Processed a weekly and bi-weekly payroll in a multi-state and multi-jurisdiction employees; import extracted data from DOCSII timekeeping system to UltiPro; perform data validation on all payroll entries and pay data batches; create check and direct deposit exports for processing.
- Ad-hoc reporting; weekly new hire reporting export; weekly employee SSN check; bank reconcile; weekly 401k funding, 401k loan set-up's; 401k contributions; 401k non-discrimination testing; follow 401k plan document to establish quarterly employee eligibility; generate weekly payroll tax liability and garnishment exports; perform weekly tax reconcile.
- Site Administrator for UltiPro Web providing administrative and technical support.
- Create weekly GL export to be imported into Great Plains and UltiPro Web for field managers; answer GL questions from finance and field managers in regards to payroll liabilities; assist with reconciling payroll checks and the preparation of journal entries.
- Apply for and set-up new taxing jurisdictions as needed.
- Manage quarter end and year-end process; quarterly tax reporting and reconciliation, year-end close and W2 process; manage workers comp audits; multi worksite reporting; US Department of Labor reporting.
- Serve as subject matter expert for all Payroll, Benefits and Systems.
Payroll Specialist
THE ORIGINAL HONEY BAKED HAM COMPANY
01.2004 - 12.2005
Corporate Payroll / Benefits Supervisor
REGENCY HOSPITAL COMPANY
04.2005 - 11.2005
Payroll Client Services Supervisor South East Region
U.S. PERSONNEL
01.1999 - 12.2003
Payroll Specialist
U.S. AIR FORCE
01.1993 - 12.1997
Education
Great Lakes Junior College
Saginaw, MISkills
- Effective at reducing variance
- Creating sustainable and repeatable processes
- Time management skills
- Teaching others
- Receiving feedback
- Various Accounting and Payroll Systems
- System Integrations
- Compliance (Federal, State, City, Local)
- MS Office
- Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
- Workday
- Trinet
- UltiPro
- ADP HR Benefits (HRB)
- ADP WFN
- ADP Pay eXpert
- ADP PayForce
- ADP PCPW
- ADP Enterprise
- ADP ezLabor
- Intuit for Payroll
- Expensify
- Plansource Benefits
- CTS (Ceridian Tax Service)
- ADP I-Pay
- Darwin
- Great Plains
- E enterprise
- Rapid Pay
- Stromberg (Timekeeping System)
- Oracle
- Peachtree Accounting
- Pro Com Plus
- Datamatics
- Cheyenne Bitware
- Wachovia Connection
- JUMPS (Joint Uniformed Military Pay System)
- ADP Reporting
- ADP Infoview
- ADP Report Writer
- ADP Report Smith
- Timekeeping systems
- Employee relations
- Audit preparation
- Payroll management
- Fraud prevention
- Influencing skills
- Internal controls
- Tax compliance
- Payroll software proficiency
- Global payroll experience
- Payroll processing
- Recordkeeping skills
- Payroll auditing
- Recordkeeping requirements
- Compliance
- Proficient in [software]
- Documentation expertise
- Reporting expertise
- Tax law
- Regulatory compliance
- Process implementation
- Written communication
- Continuous improvement
- Time management abilities
- Interpersonal communication
- Professionalism
- Staff management
Earlier Career
- Corporate Payroll / Benefits Supervisor, REGENCY HOSPITAL COMPANY, Alpharetta, GA, 04/01/05, 11/30/05
- Payroll Specialist, THE ORIGINAL HONEY BAKED HAM COMPANY, Norcross, GA, 01/01/04, 12/31/05
- Payroll Client Services Supervisor South East Region, U.S. PERSONNEL, Dallas, TX/Atlanta, GA, 01/01/99, 12/31/03
- Payroll Specialist, U.S. AIR FORCE, 01/01/93, 12/31/97
Advanced Computer Skills
- Workday
- Trinet
- UltiPro
- ADP HR Benefits (HRB)
- ADP WFN
- ADP Pay eXpert
- ADP PayForce
- ADP PCPW
- ADP Enterprise
- ADP ezLabor
- Intuit for Payroll
- Expensify
- Plansource Benefits
- MS Office
- CTS (Ceridian Tax Service)
- ADP I-Pay
- Darwin
- Great Plains
- E enterprise
- Rapid Pay
- Stromberg (Timekeeping System)
- Oracle
- Peachtree Accounting
- Pro Com Plus
- Datamatics
- Cheyenne Bitware
- Wachovia Connection
- JUMPS (Joint Uniformed Military Pay System) payroll software
- ADP Reporting
- ADP Infoview
- ADP Report Writer
- ADP Report Smith
Affiliations
American Payroll Association Member
Management Summary
A disciplined and established professional that translates Accounting, Human Resources, and Payroll experience into facilitating the mission of the company. 25+ years' managing centralized payroll activities of multiple business units in U.S. and international locations.
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
RemoteOn-SiteHybridTimeline
Director of Payroll
Greenlight Financial
11.2023 - 10.2025
Director of Global Payroll
Tricentis
11.2021 - 11.2023
Director of Global Payroll
Pindrop Security
01.2016 - 12.2021
HR Operations Manager (Payroll, Benefits, and HRIS)
Angel Oak Companies LLC
01.2015 - 12.2016
Payroll Manager
AirWatch LLC (Acquired By VMware)
01.2012 - 12.2015
Payroll Manager
Progressive Logistics Services
01.2007 - 12.2008
Payroll Manager
MACTEC Engineering (Acquired By AMEC Earth & Environment)
01.2006 - 12.2012
Corporate Payroll / Benefits Supervisor
REGENCY HOSPITAL COMPANY
04.2005 - 11.2005
Payroll Specialist
THE ORIGINAL HONEY BAKED HAM COMPANY
01.2004 - 12.2005
Payroll Client Services Supervisor South East Region
U.S. PERSONNEL
01.1999 - 12.2003
Payroll Specialist
U.S. AIR FORCE
01.1993 - 12.1997
Great Lakes Junior College