Laura Weishaar

Park Forest, IL *****-**** • ad2xyl@r.postjobfree.com • 708-***-****

SUMMARY

Payroll Manager (Workday/Kronos) with experience supporting up to 30,000 employees across 45 locations. Payroll skills include Payroll team leadership, HR Audit, Reporting, across multiple industries including trucking, manufacturing, power, insurance and an university.

EXPERIENCE

Payroll Supervisor (Remote), Yellow Enterprise Services, Inc, Kansas City KS 2021 – Oct 2023

Report up to the VP of Finance, supervised payroll staff of 10 personnel supporting up to 25,000 employees across multiple unions, one of the main points of contact for 12 regional union leaders.

Our team provides 5 files from Kronos to Oracle for accuracy for the 5 payrolls that we processed weekly.

Compare the Kronos file to the Oracle file and send the differences to the Gross to Net team to update.

Audit the ACH off cycle checks to see where additional training might be needed.

Audit the retro report to make sure that the earnings haven’t been paid previously.

Audit the employees on a LOA that are getting paid regular hours.

Create a report of the employees working and are an unpaid leave of absence or worker’s comp record.

Audit the deceased employees to make sure that they are only paid on a payment to their estate.

Provided quarterly SOX compliance for payroll.

Payroll Manager, Elkay Manufacturing Corporation, Oak Brook, IL 2009 – 2019

Report up to the VP of Human Resources, Managed a payroll staff of 3, supporting up to 3,100 employees across multiple departments including sales, manufacturing, finance, corporate task, HR, and Main point of contact for business leaders including the executive team.

Process weekly/biweekly payroll for 3,100 employees with 2 different unions

Liaise with a tax service, setting up new tax accounts, running reports, creating W-2’s, balancing and paying corporate payroll taxes in multi-states.

Payroll Project Manager for projects including 1. conversion from PeopleSoft to Workday 2. common time and attendance system (Kronos), and 3. Incorporating all our companies into a common Unemployment service.

Ensured the payments to the employees on short term disability or workers comp were paid accurately.

Create pay calendars for each payroll.

Ensure that all the earnings, taxes and deductions are in the correct buckets for the W-2.

Audited executives’ payroll for accuracy.

Payroll Supervisor, Exelon Corporation, Chicago, IL 2007 – 2009

Report up to the VP of Business Partners, Supervised a payroll staff of 3 union and 4 management employees who processed payroll, supporting up to 22,000 employees across multiple departments including sales, engineers, corporate tax, HR, and union, Main point of contact for business leaders including finance, IT, executives, compensation and benefits.

Processed a biweekly payroll for 22,000 employees with 12 different unions, multiple pay dates, and rules with a 98% accuracy rate.

Supported the executive payroll for 200 employees comparing earnings, deductions and taxes on last check and current check and processed Off-Cycle payrolls as needed.

Maintained monthly metrics by running queries in PeopleSoft and forwarding report to corporate accounting for department charge backs.

Updated any new payroll processes into proprietary software.

Audited executives’ payroll for accuracy.

Provided quarterly SOX compliance for payroll.

Performed quarterly tax testing for PeopleSoft upgrades, tested system security for Sarbanes Oxley compliance, and re-calculated a random selection of checks to test system accuracy and validity of interfaces.

Hewitt Associates, Chicago, IL 2005 – 2007

Payroll Delivery Analyst

Report up to the VP of Strategy and Development supporting up to 30,000 employees across multiple departments including sales, Call Center, HR, Benefits, IT, and Tax.

Created a system workaround for a large client with 30,000 employees, whereby running a report in Cyborg identified potential errors in the communication of the payroll and HR databases.

Tracked service level agreements to ensure that all issues were resolved within the agreed timeframe and brought any potential compliance concerns to management’s attention.

Tested new system changes / upgrades for the payroll system.

Functioned as the payroll liaison to the Call Center, HR, Benefits, IT, and Tax departments.

Payroll Requirements Analyst

Report up to the VP of Strategy and Development supporting up to X employees across multiple departments including sales, Call Center, HR, Benefits, IT, and Tax.

Managed 19 different Federal Tax Id Numbers for 1 client by gathering payroll requirements for federal / state / local taxes, salaries, health and welfare deductions, general deductions, and garnishments.

Designed a mock payroll test to ensure the accuracy of the service to the client and crafted a sign-off document that was used after every payroll accuracy test was performed.

Served as subject matter expert for payroll implementations working with the operations department.

Aon Corporation, Chicago, IL 1998 – 2005

Sr. HR Processing Implementation

Report up to the VP of Corporate tax supporting up to 25,000 employees across multiple departments including sales, HR, IT, Compensation, and corporate tax.

Assessed staff needs for training issues, assessed specialist’s errors, and wrote improvement objectives, along with training the department on payroll procedures.

Wrote procedures and job aids and assessed the call centers service level agreements and accuracy of response.

Transmitted Federal Tax payments, balanced quarterly and annual tax payments, and adjusted State Unemployment earnings from 2 different payroll systems.

HRMS Supervisor

Co-developed a plan to save the company $1M a year by mailing 30,000 paychecks directly home.

Oversaw 8 employees that were accountable for the input of HR, Payroll and benefits information for nearly 1,200 individuals.

Supervised the banking and the on-line checks that were printed, assisted in the daily support of calculating paychecks, fixing W-2's, explaining taxation issues, and worked directly with the call center to answer difficult employee questions.

Processed multi-state and local taxes and the final calculations for the bi-weekly payroll.

Subject matter expert in payroll conversion from Genesys to PeopleSoft

HRMS Specialist

Report up to the VP of Finance supporting up to 25,000 employees across multiple departments including sales, HR, IT, Compensation, and corporate tax.

Input payroll for 1,200 individuals and maintained employee’s garnishments, short-term disability, increases, transfers, hires, and terminations.

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1997 – 1998

Payroll II Clerk

Report up to the VP of Finance supporting 15,000 employees across multiple departments including professors, students, and HR, Main point of contact for business leaders including scholarships and Visa sponsorships.

Managed the science department’s grant salaries, recorded journal entries and charge backs.

Paid out a bi-weekly and monthly payroll.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Classes, Governors State University, University Park, IL (98% complete)

Associates of Arts, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL

SKILLS

Workday, PeopleSoft (Version 6, 7.5, 8, 8.1, 8.3, 8.9 and 9.1), eTime v 6.2, Kronos WFC v8.1, Multistate taxation, Siebel, SAP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes and Outlook

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