Project Manager System

DONNA M. DE ANGELIS

**** ******** ***** ******, #***

Woodland Hills, CA 91364

Cell # 818-***-**** – *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE: Director of Payroll Operations / Payroll Coordinator /

Payroll Business Analyst / Project Manager / - Consultant-

WORK HISTORY:

BRIDGEWATER CONSULTANTS, INC

CA – 619-***-**** - Contractual – Entertainment Payroll Process & System Consultant:

• Crucial component in the development, design, and testing of an hour’s to gross calculating system for

a major entertainment payroll company.

• Provide functionality requirements, and expert advice in regards to Federal & State minimum rates and

overtime requirements, as well as union and guild rules and regulations to the system developers.

• My prior years of Non-Union and Entertainment payroll processing and Leadership experience gives

me the knowledge edge on how to ensure that the process is user friendly, has all the appropriate fields,

functionality, contracts, union, non-union and guild rules, scale rates, federal and state minimum rates,

etc. and that these components are all correctly linked together in order to achieve the correct

calculations as needed for processing accurate employee payments, deductions, fringes and reporting

as required by law.

• Developed criteria for parallel testing, reporting system functionality bugs, system enhancements etc.

• Test and ensure that the system operational functionality end result is accurate.

• Prepare USER manual documentation.

PAYREEL

DENVER, CO. Contractual – ended 5-2008

Payroll Processing and System Business Analyst / Consultant:

• Jan 2008 Reviewed on-line software and created word document with industry related enhancement

recommendations.

• Recommended a system that has the capability to handle multi-state tax, union – guild contract rules,

and non-union state and federal minimum wage and overtime rules, which would better fit the industry

as well as their company needs.

• Recommended software developers that are familiar with industry practice as well as the software

needed to create such a system.

• March – May - worked on-site with the company processing payrolls, analyzing, and documenting the

current processes, and procedures in place for processing entertainment and corporate payrolls and tax

payments.

• Processed weekly Federal and State on-line tax payments.

• Reviewed, documented and recommended system, reporting, and procedural changes to reduce work

flow and minimize company costs and errors: recommended automating reports, creating one system

to handle their needs, enhancing current systems, interfacing each system with the other in order to

eliminate multiple entry, better time utilization, and minimize error, until the company has one system

that has the ability to handle and process all that is required of their type of business.

• Reviewed and documented each employee’s job responsibilities and made change recommendations

according to their abilities, and job titles.

• Created client manual.

• Created new time cards.

• Created user manual.

• Assisted software developers with system gap analysis project.

AXIUM ENTERTAINMENT 11/1997 - 1/2008

300 E. MAGNOLIA BOULEVARD, 6TH FLOOR BURBANK, CA 818-***-****

DONNA M. DE ANGELIS

5220 Premiere Hills Circle, #220

Woodland Hills, CA 91364

Cell # 818-***-**** – *********@*****.***

Payroll Operations & Systems Director: (PayTrax Operations Dir.) 3/2005-1/2008

Interim Head of Payroll: 1/2004 – 3/2005 - Commercial Payroll Manager: 1/2000 – 1/2004 - Payroll

Coordinator: 11/1997 – 1/2000

• Director of Payroll Operations, Staff and Functions - PayTrax and DOS Payroll Systems –- Payroll QA

– Adjustments – Unemployment, Liens and Garnishment Depts.

• Manage overall integrity of company’s in-house payroll system(s).

• Oversee the daily operations of Payroll Processing, PayTrax and DOS Payroll systems, Adjustments,

Payroll Quality Assurance, Liens and Garnishments, and Unemployment Departments to ensure

knowledge, accuracy, deadlines are met and system functionality is at its best.

• Identified training needs – created training materials, conducted weekly meetings, and training classes

to ensure that all employees were properly trained on union, non-union payroll types, proper time card

calculation, multi state tax, federal and state minimum wage and overtime rules, company policy and

procedures, system use, how to accurately filter and run reports to meet their needs, report issues, enter

data etc.

• Directly responsible for 30+ employees with their daily work flow of processing various types of

payroll processing. Including but not limited to: Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly payrolls for Entertainment,

Non Entertainment, union, non-union and multi-state payroll.

• Developed, Recommended and Implemented policies and procedures, job functions, and assigned

system security levels throughout the company.

• Accurately calculated and processed payrolls according to Multi-State Tax, Union, Guild, and non-

union federal and state minimum wage and overtime rules.

• Offered knowledge to other department heads in order to assist them in making procedural decisions.

• Analyze system reported issues from clients and users, determine if user error, set up error, or system

error, fixed accordingly or escalated to the appropriate team for immediate assistance.

• Interact with the Java Developers / and Crystal Report Writers (IT Dept) to develop, implement, and

brainstorm system requirements and enhancement ideas, which ultimately minimized errors.

• Oversee system enhancement and upgrade projects.

• Performed parallel testing to ensure new system was accurate – also performed testing on enhancement

changes.

• Review union and non union federal and state minimum wage and overtime rules input into the system

for accuracy.

• Review Multi-State tax for proper calculations according to data entered.

• Review Holiday Accruals, Pension Reports, Employee information, and other reports to ensure

accuracy or corrected accordingly.

• Assist clients and payroll personnel with payroll processing, system and report issues, and

enhancements, and act as liaison between all in order to achieve the best results for all, and gather all

requirements needed for recommending & implementing changes when necessary.

• Assigned work flow according to job type, knowledge of coordinator(s), and their current work flow.

• Ensure that deadlines and customer satisfaction are accomplished daily.

• Review and approve work eligibility documentation / and taxation for Non Resident Aliens, for both

Burbank and NY office locations.

• Conduct daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual audits of payrolls processed in the 2-payroll

systems, used in the processing of entertainment payrolls for both NY and Burbank offices, which

enhanced overall payroll process. (system implementation and conversion audits).

• 2007 was also responsible for conducting an audit of system data verses tax deposits and tax

documents prepared from 2004 – to current, and was able to find and correct numerous errors.

• Responsible for New Hire reporting.

• Reviewed, processed, and approved all payroll adjustments, including Tax Adj. W-2c’s, etc.

• Review & Approved Payroll QA Department work to ensure that payrolls were completed in

compliance with policy and procedures set & for SAS 70 / SOX Audits.

DONNA M. DE ANGELIS

5220 Premiere Hills Circle, #220

Woodland Hills, CA 91364

Cell # 818-***-**** – *********@*****.***

• Review and approved set up of garnishments, minor Trusts, review reports, ensured system accuracy,

made system and procedural changes, and approved checks.

• Manually calculated fee rebates for both the Burbank, and NY offices.

• Maintain high volume of customer relations with clients, and internal and external employees.

• Maintain accurate filing system of all documents received, and processed within the dept’s.

• Conduct weekly meetings.

• Interviewed, hired, and trained all new hires within the department, wrote annual reviews,

recommended promotions, as well as disciplinary action.

• Reviewed and approved all personal time off, and overtime within the dept’s.

• Conduct weekly payroll meetings and training classes.

• Assisted with the growth of the Commercial Dept from zero Commercial Payroll Clients to being the

largest Commercial Payroll Company within the industry, due to my knowledge of these contract, and

payment types.

• Approve all personal time off, and overtime for the dept.(s)

• Maintaining show files.

• Propaganda Films – Payroll Admin. - 7/1997 To 11/1997 Mansfield, Los Angeles

• Entertainment Partners – Payroll Group Leader - 3/1995 To 6/1997 Group Leader NY, NY

• Freelance –Various Commercial / Music Video Prod. C0’s – Payroll Admin.: 2000-Current

MAS 90 – DOS – PAYTRAX & PAYTRAX WEB (IN-HOUSE SYSTEM(s) - JDEDWARDS, ADP,

WORD, EXCEL, MULTI-STATE TAX.

Citrus College

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