Manager Project

DENNIS P. BURKE

** ***** **** ***** • Spring, Texas 77381

832-***-**** • **********@*******.***

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Confident, highly energized, and effective payroll, tax and benefits manager with strong interpersonal skills. Detail-oriented professional with experience and proven success in planning, implementing, and supporting payroll plans and strategies consistent with company values and policies in variety of industries. Practical experience instilling strategies to improve organizational relationships, cultural alignment / change, stakeholder management and leadership sponsorship. Known for strong client focus, high level of enthusiasm for effectuating business success, systemic thinking, and strong relationship building, consistently demonstrating positive personal and professional image. Consistently recognized and recruited by executive management to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency through leadership that aligns business processes and HR infrastructure to realize cost savings, accelerate performance, and sustain strategic flexibility. Areas of expertise include:

Advanced Analysis Techniques • Budget Analysis • Effective Communicator • Benefits Planning

Employee Relations and Retention • Employee Communication • Education and Counseling

Process Review and Improvement • Process Analysis • Team Development • SOX/SAS 70 Compliance

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

PeopleSoft / Oracle (ERP) • Seagate Crystal Reporting (SQL) • Ceridian Source 500 / HPW / TimePro • Quest Advanced Query Tool • R&R Report Writing • Enterprise eTime 6.0 Kronos e-Time (v6.3) • Quest Central Query Tool • Oracle EBS • Microsoft Office Suite • Microsoft Share Point • ADP EV4/EV5/Vantage (HCM) • SAP (Business Objects) • Taleo

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Toshiba International Corporation, Houston, Texas • 2013-2016

Dynamic international company based in technological innovation and excellence.

HRIS/Payroll Manager: HRIS (Project Lead) and Payroll Manager (over eight direct reports) on a shared services team which implemented the ADP Vantage (HCM) platform from start to finish of the project life-cycle which ran under budget and completed ahead of schedule. Liaison between our clients and third party vendors with aggressive technical objectives set against three month automation life-cycles to further enhance the Vantage Time module and Vantage - Job and Compensation table configuration which resulted in full system automation. Managed end to end payroll and HRIS administration for a growing and diverse employee set with a count of well over 6,000 which included Canadian and Japanese expatriate employee set(s) of 200 plus. Continuous training on ADP Vantage/EV5 and ADPR (reporting tool) with the objective set to have all division(s) automated at 98% by June 2016.

Reducing employee workloads 50% through ADP EV5/Vantage (HCM)/Virtual Edge and Vantage Time system automation of employee accruals, bonus imports, tax/job/comp table setup and retro payments.

UAT (regression/parallel payroll run(s)/general ledger) was compeleted with a 1% error rate at the point of the Vantage HCM project ‘go-live’ date and in full compliance of all applicable Federal/State and Local statutes/guidelines.

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Documenting complex business requirements utilized for the ADP Vantage system configuration template (rules matrix) and for process flow mapping/desktop training guides which decreased the learning curve for manager’s by 50%.

Developed interfaces (mapped specifications) for ADP Vantage in coordination with the ADP Technical Support team and the various vendor contacts (T Rowe Price, Optum Bank & TALX (Equifax) which resulted in 100% automation of both inbound and outbound files.

Coordinating with the HR (Benefits) team on automation and gap analysis objectives set to bridge the known gaps in processes between the new hire on-boarding process and the first processing run of the new hire in the payroll system which led to an increase in system automation of 30%.

HRIS (Project Lead) on streamlining the commission pay plans to ensure pay accuracy and eliminate 60% of the manual steps in the process flows by way of new table setup in a matrix format.

Project Manager with oversight responsibilities on the ADP eTime (v.7.0) implementation with the objective set to fully automate time and labor tasks at 100% for two major Canadian divisions operating out of four provinces coming under the Toshiba International Corporation headquarters.

Reconciling month end accruals, taxation adjustments, salary base rates and general ledger variances to ensure 100% accuracy for hris/accounting/payroll and tax reporting presented to upper management on a fiscal quarter end basis.

Liaison between Deloitte tax team’s and Toshiba corporate HRIS, Payroll, Tax and Legal team’s with the core responsibility set to ensure accurate and timely expatriate administration which included providing and evaluating gross-up calculations, automating HR and Payroll reports to run on a predefined schedule, year round wage and tax data, and hypo-tax estimates.

ENI PETROLEUM, INC., Houston, Texas • 2011-2013

Dynamic Oil and Gas company spanning over 70 countries.

Payroll & Benefits Manager: Managed three direct reports, overseeing end-to-end accounting, payroll, and tax reconciliations for multi-state and international semi-monthly payrolls consisting of over 600 exempt, non-exempt, and highly compensated employees. Coordinated and collaborated with Tax and HR teams on various components of the expatriate payroll, benefits and tax processing, including a complex year end true-up process on the expatriate’s local and foreign wage income/taxation. Developed, recommended and implemented new and/or modified employee benefit policies to align with the Health Care Reform Act, and manages the administration of those plans. Best practices developed through process flow analysis, reports/surveys highlighting business trends and routine consultation with external resources. Continuous training on compliance, corporate objectives, Payroll/HRIS systems and company policies.

Lead a project iniative in conjunction with the Accounting team and SAP technical team to fully automate the Payroll, Tax & General Ledger data flow by way of setting up interface exchanges between the Ceridian and SAP platforms and then provided on-going operational support of those systems/interfaces.

Reduced employee workloads by 50% through automation of employee accruals, bonus imports, deduction imports, wire transfers for invoices, and enhanced payroll/timecard interfaces.

Enhanced 401K administration between Schwab and Eni as the Project Lead on the 401k committee, compliance tasks, year-end planners, and project logs which reduced errors overall by 25%.

Produced payroll and benefit departmental metrics for end-to-end processing with a trend in accuracy between 98-100%.

Full-scale analysis of benefit & payroll data completed on a semi-monthly basis by way of a data compare for all systems which in turn isolated recurring errors at 100% and allowed for root cause analysis on those errors to avoid the same scenario going forward.

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Implementation of Kronos (V.6.3) built to streamline and automate timekeeping processes, gain system efficiencies/security, allow for real time webinar training and enhanced reporting capabilities.

HEWITT ASSOCIATES, INC., The Woodlands, Texas • 2005-2011

Large, multinational human resources outsourcing and consulting firm.

Payroll / Team Manager: Led seven direct reports and an off-site team of twenty, managing end-to-end bi-weekly payroll processing for over 17,500 Baylor HealthCare employees. Provided operational

support including creation of internal / external audits, standard operating procedures, and management of specific work tasks in support of payroll team. Executed performance reviews using 360 Degrees

Performance Management Tool and created service-level metrics for each payroll period for analysis.

Led HRIS and Payroll implementations on several systems in addition to implementing time tracking for 3 major Baylor HealthCare hospitals using PeopleSoft, ADP Enterprise v4.0, and Kronos e-Time v6.0.

Slashed Baylor Healthcare’s quarterly operating costs by 15% through numerous external / internal system upgrades including conversion from ADP e-Time v4.3 to v6.0 for all employees.

Increased team efficiencies by 20% over 5-year period through partnering with executives on developing lean business practices. Additionally, decreased operational costs for Baylor Healthcare, Inc. by 15% over this same period, driving cross training between departments.

Team Lead on the management oversight committee ensuring Rockwell Automation’s W-2 mapping and wage/tax data coming out of SAP was 100% in compliance with the client’s expectations.

Created scheduled payroll and tax reporting by utilizing PeopleSoft and ADP (EV4) SQL query tools which enhanced the quarterly reconciliations of wage/tax data and allowed for real time data analysis at month end.

Utilized Six Sigma continuous improvement skill sets to optimize system process flows and add value to the payroll reporting structure cutting out ten labor hours for the team each month.

Enhanced 401K administration between Schwab and ADP by acting as the Project Lead in coordination with the HRIS and Benefit team(s).

Reduced employee workloads by 50% through new year-end benefits data import process.

Trained off-site payroll support teams on year end (year round) processes and federal/state/local payroll tax regulations.

DHL, INC., Houston, Texas • 2002-2005

Large transportation and logistics company with over 300,000 employees.

Payroll Lead / HR Specialist: Led two direct reports in HR/payroll implementation, trained employees, and recommended new processes for improvement. Maintained and analyzed human resource data for restructuring project, communicating all changes in Payroll and Human Resources processes to field personnel. Composed compensation reports and summaries while standardizing payroll processes. Developed detailed summaries of union contracts and ensured employee benefits for upper-level positions adhered to contractual plans. Managed and directed ADP / Whitney ProBusiness HRIS implementation for over 3,000 DHL employees, as well as 10,000 Airborne Express employees.

Finalized ADP / Whitney ProBusiness HRIS implementation one month ahead of set go-live date and under budget by 10% on projected control costs.

Cut quarterly operating expenses by 10% through improved productivity and job performance.

Led team on corporate objective set for transitioning the corporate location and all job functions based out of Houston to the location in Plantation, Florida which resulted in a 0% service impact to internal and external customers.

Developed accounting system automation for General Ledger files coming out of the ProBusiness Platform into SAP Business Objects.

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Trained direct reports on Year End payroll critical tasks which resulted in zero W-2c’s at each year end period.

Project lead on enhancing the Payroll/Accounting capabilities of the SAP (Business Objects) reporting system to align with corporate objectives of providing 100% data integrity and real time reporting functionality.

Led monthly reconciliations to ensure the figures from the ProBusiness payroll system aligned with the SAP accounting system with a zero tolerance for variances.

Automated data feds by way of creating scheduled interfaces setup to export and import critical data elements between the ADP (ProBusiness) and SAP system(s) which cut the overall processing times by 80%.

EDUCATION

Master of Science - Business Administration

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Bachelor of Arts - Human Resource Management

Michigan State University, Eli Broad School of Business, East Lansing, Michigan

Diploma - Accounting & General Studies

Stevenson High School, Sterling Heights, Michigan

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013 American Payroll Association’s - Annual Meetings

Society for Human Resource Management (Tenured Member)

Ceridian HPW / Source 500 & Time Pro

SAP (On-Site Technical Training)

Oracle and PeopleSoft

Six Sigma (Black Belt)

ADP Enterprise v4.0/5.0 & Vantage (HCM), Kronos e-Time v6.3, & Report Smith Training

Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) - (95% complete)

PMI/PMP Certification

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