Ulysses Grant McBride
6942 Hanover Parkway, Greenbelt, Maryland,MD
Summary
Human Resource Professional with over 10+ years within the both the Public & Private sector overseeing change management, strategic planning, establishing initiatives in support of business objectives and corporate reconstruction. Highly skilled in Global HR Policies & Procedures, Compliance Research & Development, Benefits & Compensation, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Payroll and HRIS systems.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Payroll Administrator
Admiral Security Services
Bethesda, MD
01.2023 - Current
- Providing information and answering employee questions about payroll related matters
- Calculating payable hours, commissions, bonuses, tax withholdings, and deductions
- Issuing paychecks and managing direct deposits
- Coordinating with other HR departments to ensure correct employee data
- Entering employee information into Workday regarding employee taxes, exemptions, transfers, resignations and firings as details change.
Senior Payroll Administrator
Erickson Senior Living
04.2021 - 12.2022
- Providing information and answering employee questions about payroll related matters
- Calculating payable hours, commissions, bonuses, tax withholdings, and deductions
- Issuing paychecks and managing direct deposits
- Coordinating with other HR departments to ensure correct employee data
- Entering employee information into Workday regarding employee taxes, exemptions, transfers, resignations and firings as details change.
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Accenture
08.2020 - 12.2020
- Coordinating and administering recruitment and selection processes
- Recruit full-time, part-time, three-quarter time, and time limited employees
- Manage full life cycle recruitment (post, source, pre-screen, schedule interviews, background, references, offer, on-boarding, etc.)
- Complete hiring process within defined metrics to minimize overall time-to start
- Conduct presentations and training, as needed
- Administer comprehensive promotional or other position testing processes as necessary; research possible testing elements and determines elements to use considering position, cost, applicability, and make improvement recommendations to the talent management manager
- Develop effective relationships within the organization and the hiring community to have influence and impact the recruiting process and hiring
- Develop and implement creative and innovative sourcing strategies and techniques to build a pipeline of qualified candidates
- Working closely with the talent management specialists to collect and coordinate aggregate data for the talent pipeline and translate the data into insights through data analysis that drives deliberate action plans at the appropriate levels.
Senior Human Resources Analyst
Fairfax County Government
02.2020 - 06.2020
- Maintaining and updating day-to-day changes to all Human Resources systems and vendor services as needed which include but are not limited to onboarding new employees, compensation and promotion changes, separation pay, self-service and benefit modules, 401(K), pension, life insurance and vendor reports for ad hoc analysis
- Maintaining all documents associated with each position, including the Position Vacancy Notice (PVN), job description, job posting, applicant flow log, payroll resumes, and any other documents provided by applicants
- Partnering with the VP of HR, benefit broker and carriers to assess and design market competitive benefit plans, participate in strategy meetings to review current benefit plans, internal processes and systems and providing recommendations
- Providing production support, including researching and resolving HRIS problems, unexpected results or process flaws; performing scheduled activities
- Performing audits of HRIS to ensure consistent and accurate data
- Ensure policy and process changes are integrated into reports and HR file feeds
- Maintaining awareness of current trends in HRIS with a focus on product and service development, delivery and support, and applying key technologies.
Senior Human Resources Generalist
TSYS
08.2018 - 01.2020
- Served as the Subject Matter Expert in areas of Recruitment, Payroll and Benefits from the legacy system to PeopleSoft & Workday
- Responsible for gathering new business requirements, determining requirements reengineering processes, ongoing configuration updates and testing
- Ensured legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource federal and state requirements; conducting investigations; maintaining records
- Maintained organization staff by establishing a recruiting and interviewing program; counseling managers on candidate selection; conducting and analyzing exit interviews; recommending changes
- Participated in both formal and informal agency operational and planning meetings as well as public briefings, also utilized these opportunities to solicit resources, support and cooperation needed to ensure implementation of best HR practices
- Responsible for developing, maintaining, and supervising systems of internal reviews/SOPs and direct quality control and performance improvement studies to ensure compliance with regulatory guidance
- Created and disseminated requisitions on operating procedures which implemented new practices throughout various departments and provided reports/feedback on accuracy of new implementations.
Senior Human Resources Consultant
Bank of America
11.2017 - 05.2018
- Interpreted, communicated, monitored and created HR policies and standard operating procedures regarding progressive disciplinary action, discharge, separation, change management and conflict resolution within our LMS system
- Identified and implement processes to improve HR/business effectiveness, coach managers on employee performance issues and provide consistent interpretation and application of personnel policies, statutory regulations and laws
- Ensured planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors
- Created, interpreted and monitored HR policies and standard operating procedures regarding progressive disciplinary action, discharge, separation, change management, conflict resolution, benefits and compensation and ensure state and federal compliance.
Human Resources Generalist
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
11.2015 - 11.2017
- Consulted with organization leadership to provide recommendations for improving effectiveness of HR policies and practices
- Developed effective relationships within the organization, that creates a welcoming environment, and aids in dispute resolution, employee relations issues and in conducting investigations
- Lead the Employee Performance Optimization Lifecycle & performance improvement processes (annual employee performance review lifecycle) from goal setting, midyear review, annual review, growth/succession planning & PIP
- Coordinate training plans to enhance employee skills using a needs analysis, and oversee a formalized succession format to ensure plant's future by focusing on developing and maintaining a competent, professional workforce
- React to emerging HR concerns, escalate within HR Resolved as required, resolve and most importantly establish how to prevent recurrence and a plan to implement preventative actions.
Human Resources Specialist
Anthem, Inc.
10.2013 - 09.2015
- Played a key role to identify new strategies, trends and tools to recruit external talent from entry level to senior level positions, including technical, sales and administrative roles
- Collaborated with HR Director to develop recruitment strategies, updated job descriptions and evaluation criteria for positions
- Created robust content strategy to support the company's vision developing compelling job postings for company and external sites
- Conducted thorough candidate pre-screening, facilitating the scheduling of interviews for sites, conducting feedback calibration and deliver communications between candidates and management
- Tracked metrics such as resume flow, applicants, source of new hires to effectively improve costs of sourcing of quality candidates as well as overall recruitment practices.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Journalism
Georgia State University
Skills
- Payroll Processing
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- PeopleSoft
- Payroll Services
- Payroll Software
- Lawson General Ledger
- Workday Integration
- Payroll
- ADP Payroll
- General Ledgers
Timeline
Senior Payroll Administrator
Admiral Security Services
01.2023 - Current
Senior Payroll Administrator
Erickson Senior Living
04.2021 - 12.2022
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Accenture
08.2020 - 12.2020
Senior Human Resources Analyst
Fairfax County Government
02.2020 - 06.2020
Senior Human Resources Generalist
TSYS
08.2018 - 01.2020
Senior Human Resources Consultant
Bank of America
11.2017 - 05.2018
Human Resources Generalist
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
11.2015 - 11.2017
Human Resources Specialist
Anthem, Inc.
10.2013 - 09.2015
Bachelor's degree - Journalism
Georgia State University