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Resume:
Virginia Haralson
Cell: 469-***-****
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HRIS Project PROFESSIONAL
Professional Strengths
Workday
Teacher Retirement System (TRS)
Ceridian (Dayforce)
Kronos
Infor (Lawson Software)
Smart Sheets
Agile Methodology
Change Agent
ERP Implementation
SAP HRMS
Requirement Analysis
Technology Solution driven
Six Sigma Green Belt
SharePoint
Visio
Summary
Forward thinker, positive, confident tactical leader willing to make hard decisions. Skilled in managing multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced challenging environment. Driving positive change, growth and business success by building and leading strong, cohesive accountable teams. Draw on individual talents while inspiring top performance and cultivating the next generation of leaders.
Professional Experience
Tarrant County College
Director of Payroll, Fort Worth, TX 2023-
Supervise, direct and manage the district’s payroll functions. Ensure staff stays abreast of new/changes to state and federal regulations, ensure all required state compliance reports are filed in a timely including TRS, Federal, ERS and other optional deductions. Maintain accurate payroll processing, delivered on-time, in compliance with state, federal, local policies, regulations and in a timely manner.
Works closely and collaboratively with leaders throughout the College; identify, develop, and sustain productive relationships.
Develops and maintains advisory and consultative relationships with subject matter. experts who provide input from; benefits, leave administration, supplemental pay, etc.
Interprets policy and procedures for employees and leaders.
Strengthens and cultivates payroll support processes to ensure accurate and timely results.
Develops and maintains excellent vendor relationships and partnerships to ensure favorable and consistent service levels.
Maintains expert knowledge of the functional specialty by staying abreast of best practices, legal developments, emerging trends, technical advancement.
Partners closely with colleagues and vendors to ensure the sharing and updating of information on benefits and retirement programs.
Maintains and manages employee records in coordination with Records and Retention Management.
Promotes a culture of continuous improvement and innovation; executes strategies to improve support processes, builds capabilities in data-driven decision making, and instituting support best practices.
Kelly Moore Paint, Irving, TX (company closed)
Director of Payroll and People Systems 2023 – 2023
Strategic and hands on role that leads and design, implementation, and administration of operational processes used to deliver payroll and HR programs and projects. Collaborates with key stakeholders (internal and external to the company) to provide consultation, process design, automation, and project management of HR program implementation, initiatives, and day-to day improvements. Developing scalable methodologies and tools to optimize Payroll / HR operations and streamline core processes that make up the employee life-cycle.
Serves as the resident subject matter expert for all People processes, payroll, compensation, benefits, and ensure all data systems are aligned.
Own all aspects of payroll including evaluation of current processes and recommendation of improvements.
Oversees payroll team and payroll process with a focus on process improvement, accuracy, and compliance.
Develop/follows a payroll audit cadence, including year-end payroll process leadership, and W2 distribution.
Manages the strategy around the integration of data from corporate cloud-based Payroll, HCM, LMS and vendor systems and continually recommends process improvements for the business.
Leads current systems management and any future changes, upgrades, integrations to systems including data warehousing, migration, vendor file feeds, and applicable systems training.
Oversees employee data management process to ensure that data is secure and maintained consistent with company policies and privacy regulations and required reporting and filings are delivered.
Responsible for employee time and payroll input/edits, implementation, and identification of problem areas for all employee transactions and service delivery processes and recommends solutions.
Manages new state set-up and compliance.
Fosters effective relationships with all stakeholders; both internal groups (People, Operations, Finance, team members, and team leads) and external third-party vendors to ensure accurate, efficient, and timely internal customer service.
Build and develop a team of dedicated professionals by providing leadership through effective coaching and performance management.
Infor, Dallas, TX
Sr. Payroll Consultant 2021 – 2023
Drafting strategies, designing solutions using established processes, contributing to client satisfaction. Review IT and processes for improvement to deliver a quality system and driving customer satisfaction. Implementing technological solutions, process analysis, implementation, testing technology, and working with in-house technical teams to ensure consistency of use cases for retail, healthcare and public sector bu.
Overseeing daily operations within the project scope.
Supporting business development activities.
Resolving client queries and problems.
Assess computing needs, shortcomings, and requirements.
Implementing technological solutions to solve business problems.
Relationship building working with in-house technical/functional teams and vendor management.
CITY OF DALLAS, Dallas, TX
HRIS Workday Product Manager 2018 – 2021
Discovery, resolving and fixing unexpected system/procedure issues.
Escalation support to Workday analyst with end-users’ resolution.
Requirement gathering configuration, testing, impacts, opportunities for release deployment in production.
Develop, document and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
Support IT related security, integrations, and ongoing project testing and support.
Create, schedule reports for functional areas on demand.
Payroll, integration team lead in the initial deployment of Workday.
Sr. HRIS Payroll Manager 2017 – 2020
Led full Workday payroll implementation working with cross-functional teams (benefits, HR, recruitment).
Providing knowledge and mentoring to Workday Analysts.
Leveraging business knowledge, best practices, and expertise to identify opportunities for process improvements and helping to define both short-term and long-term product strategies.
Collaborating with development teams, QA, IT and cross-functional business teams in the planning, design, development, and deployment of projects and product enhancements.
Developing and modifying reports for management and HR Business Partners.
Collaborate with HR to create and maintain Workday Roadmap with the intent to extend the value of Workday (functionality, new capabilities).
Update Readiness – stayed abreast with current Workday releases, via release notes, and schedule internal release review meetings to understand changes and new functionality.
Develop, implements and modifies software and hardware requirements based on the changing needs for the business.
Acts as liaison with stakeholders implementing new enhancements and supporting the development workflows, policies and procedures (payroll, HR, benefits).
Preparing and adhering with various benefit vendor eligibility files requirements (Medicare, United Healthcare, Blue Cross and internal pension database).
Sr. HR/Payroll Manager 2011 - 2017
Experienced and effective in building a team environment and working with people of diverse backgrounds.
Analyze statistical data for over 20,000 employees and retirees and over a million-dollar payroll, to identify and determine possible causes of data problems to develop. recommendations for improvement of organization's personnel policies and best practices
Vital player in rebuilding ERP technology, payroll, time keeping, human capital management system, on-boarding, recruiting, benefits and call center.
Managed ISO certification procedures for payroll. Ensure department stayed within compliance with process and procedures.
Created payroll, HR and benefits training/procedures material for citywide employee distribution based on Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).
Relationship builder, mentors and fosters leadership ability to all employees within the department and citywide.
Continuous process improvement for each daily activity performed.
Develop or update project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing.
Identify, review, vendor selection or consultants to meet project needs.
Initiate, review, or approve modifications to project plans.
Negotiate with project stakeholders or suppliers to obtain resources or materials.
Schedule and facilitate meetings related to information technology projects.
Confer with staff, users, and various level of management to establish requirements for new systems or system modifications.
Modify and customize commercial programs for internal needs.
Acts as liaison with stakeholders implementing new enhancements and supporting the development workflows, policies and procedures.
Preparing and adhering with various benefit vendor eligibility files requirements (Medicare, United Healthcare, Blue Cross and internal pension database).
Business System Analyst V 2010 - 2011
Acts as liaison with stakeholders implementing new enhancements and supporting the development workflows, policies and procedures of existing payroll/HR workflow.
Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
Develop, document and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
Provide staff and users with assistance solving computer related problems, such as system malfunctions, processes and procedures.
Confer with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs to ensure system stability.
Coordinate and share electronic data within an organization to increase compatibility and share information with other internal/external systems.
Supervise computer programmers and systems analysts, to ensure HR/payroll systems are within compliance.
Assess the usefulness of pre-developed application packages to adapt user community to the new environment.
Recommend new equipment or software packages based on users’ needs.
Specify inputs accessed by the system and plan the distribution and use of the results.
Interview or survey workers, observe job performance or perform the job to determine what information is processed and end results.
Acts as liaison with stakeholders implementing new enhancements and supporting the development workflows, policies and procedures.
Preparing and adhering with various benefit vendor eligibility files requirements (Medicare, United Healthcare, Blue Cross and internal pension database).
Lawson Business Consultant (City of Dallas) - contractor 2008 - 2010
Worked with senior management to transition HR, payroll and benefits support from third party vendor to in-house support.
Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
Assign duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.
Initiate, review, or approve modifications to project plans.
Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
Schedule and facilitate meetings related to information technology projects to user community and management.
Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.
Ericsson Inc
Project Manager 2003 - 2008
HR/Payroll Manager 2000-2003
FootStar Shared Service Center/Footaction USA
Payroll/Tax Manager 1997 - 1999
KPMG 1995 - 1997
Lawson Payroll Software Consultant
Education
Concordia University, Portland, OR
Doctor of Education with specialization in Higher Education
In-Progress
Kaplan University, Chicago, IL
Master’s degree in Healthcare Informatics
March 2015
Northwood University, Cedar Hill, TX
Bachelors of Business Administration with concentration in MIT
May 2008
Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt
February 2018
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