LARRY GARCIA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-garcia-07b1297/
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CAREER SUMMARY
Over 20 years of experience in Human Capital Management projects with strong emphasis in payroll functionality and HR system management. Certified in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 functionality in Human Resource, Time & Attendance, Benefits, and North American Payroll modules. Managed United States, UK, Canadian, and Mexican payroll production. Project and production support for various HCM applications (ADP, Ascentis, Ceridian, JD Edwards, Oracle and PeopleSoft). Skills in requirements gathering, analysis, vendor selection, system upgrades, functional and technical design reviews. Managed teams of eight direct reports.
WORK EXPERIENCE
SBM Site Services, McClellan, CA December 2016 to Present
www.sbmmanagement.com
Human Resources Manager
Support of Human Resource Information System, payroll production, data inquiry and reporting; resulting in improved system response time and production efficiency.
Organized query report library; implemented automated report distribution schedules for recurring reports improving delivery time on custom reports and defined service level agreement to meet business requests.
Documented business requirements to support purchase of a software solution for Singapore HR operations expansion.
Improved employee on-boarding, implementing electronic interface between recruitment and Human Resources, eliminating manual scanning of employee documents; resulting in direct transfer of new hire data and supporting documents.
Implemented Mass Data Update of union employee data changes; eliminating manual data entry of annual wage increases, automating department changes and increasing system efficiency.
Developed processing schedule for Monthly Employee Bonus Programs, to ensure timely disbursements to non-exempt union and non-union employees.
Managed review of Help Desk issues between HR and IT technical team to review software issues and status on projects.
ProUnlimited Sacramento, CA January 2015 to November 2016
www.prounlimited.com
Business Systems Analyst
Led project status meetings and communicated to management critical areas of all software project deliverables.
Managed the software project test strategy, test execution, metrics reporting, and bug tracking resulting in on time delivery of all Payroll Tax Updates for United States, Canada and United Kingdom payrolls.
Developed test conditions and test case scripts to support test repository for all User Acceptance Testing business scenarios.
Developed data maps for all Finance and Human Resource modules to support application upgrade.
Performed functional testing of Financial and Human Resource bug fixes along with data validation to ensure all code changes met specifications and reduce the risk of Production issues.
Ascentis Corporation Roseville, CA. January 2014 to January 2015
www.ascentis.com
Professional Payroll Services Consultant
Provided virtual training to clients, mapped data, balanced payroll records, provided post data conversion support, recommended design solutions; resulting in the successful software conversion of over forty clients.
Developed time module export; mapped payroll data to meet technical requirements for all time & attendance systems.
Created custom payroll reports to meet client specific requirements for Labor Statistics, Retirement plan interfaces, Job Costing and General Ledger interfaces.
ADP Sacramento, CA August 2013 – January 2014
www.adp.com
HCM Implementation Consultant
Data mapping and system configuration of Performance Management, Compensation, Succession Planning and Learning Management Solutions modules for two National Accounts.
Created presentations to clients to promote new product features of Learning Management Solutions module.
Successful rapid implementation of Performance Management module for three national accounts.
Support process improvements; to help other consultants to adapt to new Human Resource modules.
Robert Half International – Oakland, CA June 2012 -January 2013
HCM Business Analyst Project for client: AC Transit: Oakland
Performed review of Human Resource system configuration tables; reorganized job codes to improve efficiency.
Evaluated Human Resource on-boarding process and Job Data change workflow; analyzed data flow to enhance Self-Service features.
Performed analysis of Manager Self-Service business requirements to develop timeline to implement enhancements to current system.
Analyzed Benefits Administration system configuration and developed recommendation to improve data management.
Developed Year-End Payroll checklist for North American Payroll to support W-2 process and ensure wage & tax records are balanced.
Astute Business Solutions –Pleasanton, CA April 2010 - March 2012
HCM Business Analyst project for client: Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
Gathered business requirements to support Human Resource system upgrade and employee self-service enhancements.
Developed test plan for Mass Union Code changes impacting over 2,000 employee payroll and benefit record changes.
Tested enhancements to recruitment system interface to Human Resource module to improve processing workflow.
Developed test plan and processes to support General Ledger conversion, HR inter-regional departmental transfers resulting in on time delivery to production environment.
EDUCATION
Colorado Technical University
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration - Human Resource Management
University of California, Berkeley – Berkeley Extension
Coursework in Accounting and Finance
SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
•JD Edwards, PeopleSoft ERP, Oracle EBS, ADP Talent Management Solutions, Ceridian Payroll, ADP Payroll, Ascentis Payroll, NovaTime Time & Attendance, WAND, SBM Insite REV2, Time Centre 8
•Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, Outlook, Lotus Notes, WebEx, Remedy, LoopUp
•SoapUI, JIRA, HP Test Director/Quality Center, Newmerix, SQA Robot, SharePoint, SysAid
•Insight Reporting / Hubble, SQL Developer, SalesForce, TOAD, MSSQL, PeopleSoft Query, ADP-R
CERTIFICATIONS
PeopleSoft 9.2 Human Resources, Benefits, US Payroll, Time and Attendance