Tasia Armstrong
HR/Payroll Manager
Evans,GA
Summary
Versatile Managing Director with proven abilities across all levels of organizational management. Talented in developing partnerships, overseeing personnel and developing tactical plans to meet strategic goals. High level, HR/Payroll professional, with superb interpersonal skills and an eye for efficiency. Possesses 10 + years of payroll administration with emphasis on benefits, tax laws, garnishments, and union dues. Also experienced with Municipal Payroll, local government employees. Strong background in HR, administrative, finance and employee retirement systems. Mac & PC proficient, experienced with all desktop publishing and Microsoft office suite programs; also experienced with HRIS, ADP PC, lotus notes, and People Soft.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Operations
Kingdom Carpet Kleaning
01.2018 - Current
- Define, implement, and revise operational policies and guidelines.
- Monitor office workflow and administrative processes to keep operations running smoothly.
- Assist in recruiting, hiring and training new employees on proper protocols and customer service standards.
- Track employee attendance and punctuality, addressing repeat problems quickly to prevent long-term habits.
- Manage purchasing, sales, marketing and customer account operations efficiently.
- Negotiate price and service with customers and vendors to decrease expenses and increase profit. Draft invoices for completed work.
- Monitor daily cash discrepancies, inventory shrinkage and drive-off.
- Collaborate with assistant managers to open and close office, handle large transactions and manage inventory.
- Establish workflow processes, monitor daily productivity and implement modifications to improve overall performance of personnel.
- Evaluate employee records and productivity to complete employee evaluations, recommend advancement or address productivity concerns.
- Coordinate and conduct training workshops.
Payroll Coordinator
FPL Food LLC
01.2016 - 11.2016
- Performed calculations in overtime, vacation and sick hours to provide accurate data to payroll processing database.
- Maintained ADP timekeeping system.
- Investigated payroll variances and employee claims to resolve discrepancies and balance financial records.
- Managed weekly funding of taxes and payroll liabilities.
- Uploaded time records into ADP and made adjustments to create accurate database for payroll processing functions.
- Reconciled health care benefits, tax contributions and retirement accounts to facilitate large-scale account reconciliations.
- Documented and processed all garnishments for bankruptcies, student loans and child support orders.
- Researched payroll errors and processed payments for federal and state taxes, social security, Medicare, and various employee deductions, annuity contributions and retirement plan withholdings.
- Maintained consistent knowledge of multi-state and local tax regulations.
Payroll/Benefits Supervisor
Borough of Roselle
08.2008 - 03.2015
- Process personnel and payroll transactions for over 400 employees; Such as, new hires, merit increases, address updates, transfers, etc, using ADP PC/ Payroll for windows, time and attendance/workforce now.
- Supervise the changes on individual pay resulting from overtime, absence, leave of absence, union dues, tax changes, social security and pension deductions, hospitalization and group life insurance deductions, garnishments, and attachments to ensure proper notations.
- Supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in processing time cards, compiling payroll, maintaining payroll control records, recording hours of work, and calculating payrolls.
- Coordinate and process applications or enrollments into the pension system, health benefits program, dental insurance, and drug prescription plan.
- Interprets and explains rules, regulations, policies, and procedures through correspondence, personal interviews, and telephone conversations, including state agencies.
- Perform accounting tasks including invoicing, purchase orders; printing month end reports; monthly/quarterly financial statements; accounts and payroll analysis.
- Inform and counsel employees on Human Resources policies, procedures, performance management, recruitment, employee relations, and employment law.
- Ensure confidential payroll and employee paperwork was completed properly and received by the appropriate party including employment paperwork, terminations, workers compensation, and health benefits.
- Directed and controlled supplemental annuity, medical, dental and vision benefit packages.
- Educated new hires about different benefit plans.
- Oversaw all open enrollment processes annually.
- Designed, evaluated and modified benefits policies to keep programs current, competitive and in compliance with legal requirements.
- Expedited benefit delivery by establishing working relationships with benefit providers.
Senior Payroll Administrator
Cortiva Education
08.2007 - 06.2008
- Process personnel and payroll transactions for over 600 employees, throughout 12 locations nation wide, such as new hires, merit increases, address updates, transfers, etc using Checkpoint HR.
- Develop and distribute up-to-date new hire and benefit employment packages, ensures new employees adhere to required employment documentation.
- Work closely with all payroll administrators to insure timely notification to payroll on all related responsibilities. (i.e) Wage attachments
- Ensure appropriate application of all State and Federal compliance regulations.
- Prepare standard HR reports for hiring, turnover, training; Also creates, maintains, and enhances reports needed by the HR Director, and VP of Finance.
- Documented and processed all garnishments for bankruptcies, student loans and child support orders.
- Offered payroll-related subject matter expertise to management and employees to resolve payroll discrepancies.
- Assisted the accountant with both internal and external audits relating to processing of payroll.
- Created and managed spreadsheets for leave calculations, retro and bonus payments.
- Reconciled all payroll liabilities to general ledger and prepared monthly payroll accrual entries.
- Processed voids and reissues, created non-sufficient funds (NSF) list for Human Resources and made salary changes in payroll and monthly leave accruals.
Education
Certified in Human Resources Management -
Union County Community College
Cranford, NJSkills
- Microsoft Office, ADP PC/PW, ADP Reportsmith, 10 key adding machines
- Negotiating union and non union contracts
- Great organizational skills, work well as a team or individually
- Highly skilled in the use of e-mail and internet applications including, Lotus Notes
- Policy Development and Enforcement
- Payroll Administration and Timekeeping
- Customer Service Management
- Employee Motivation
- Relationship building
- Problem-Solving
- Benefits and compensation management
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
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Tony Robbins
Timeline
Director of Operations
Kingdom Carpet Kleaning
01.2018 - Current
Payroll Coordinator
FPL Food LLC
01.2016 - 11.2016
Payroll/Benefits Supervisor
Borough of Roselle
08.2008 - 03.2015
Senior Payroll Administrator
Cortiva Education
08.2007 - 06.2008
Certified in Human Resources Management -
Union County Community College
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