Payroll Administrator Customer Service
Resume:
Myra Sechrist 713-***-**** ********.******@*****.***
Cleveland, Texas 77327
Professional Profile
Exceptional Payroll Administrator with a background in finance and 23 years of payroll experience. Providing administrative accounting, payroll and accounts payable support to the human resource and finance departments as well as employees. Customer service oriented with knowledge of outside entities.
Qualifications
Superior knowledge of the federal tax laws and regulations, IRS codes, wage and hour laws
Strong ability to calculate federal payroll taxes
Strong knowledge of garnishment calculations and rules
Payroll maintenance to include W4, direct
deposit and any other maintenance that would effect an employees pay
Union Dues calculation
Excellent record-keeping skills
Working Up Tax Deposit
Internal controls such as accounting and treasury
Complete knowledge of Microsoft applications
Good relationship building skills
Strong research skills and support
Wire Transfer Workups
Analytical skills and support
Ability to work independently with limited supervision
Excellent at managing time
Detail oriented
Exceptionally organized
Build, run and distribute reports
Running interface files
Transmission of ACH files as well as ACH reversals
Payroll Auditing
Complete knowledge of Lawson
Accounts Payable System
Complete knowledge of JDE payroll and payables system
Complete knowledge of Kronos time and attendance system
Uploading Kronos into JD Edwards
Payroll Corrections & Adjustments
Full In House Payroll Processing
Account Payable Duties
Verify and process invoices
Communicate with vendors regarding payment statuses
Reconcile vendor statements, along with research and correct any discrepancies
Assist with the preparation of financial reports to support month-end,
quarter-end and year-end
Assist with annual process around 1099 filings
Journal entry creation and reclasses
Enter credits and apply accordingly
3 Way Matching PO
Logging Invoices into the JD Edwards System when received into the payables department.
Matching Invoices with receivers
Running and processing checks
Ensuring account and cost center is correct when processing payables checks
Full In House Payables Process
Reports Now Reporting System
Insight Reporting System
Hubble Reporting System
Crystal Reporting System
Experience
July 1999 – September 2020 Senior Payroll Administrator
Port of Houston Authority – Houston, Texas
Responsible for the accurate processing of data, validation and transmission for all Port Authority payrolls. West Gulf Maritime Longshoreman payroll processing.
Responsible for the management of payrolls including employee time and attendance.
Responsible for loading time and attendance from the Kronos system into the JD Edwards system for payroll processing.
Responsible for payroll corrections and adjustments.
Responsible for enforcing established payroll-related policies, procedures, regulations while adhering to company policies and governmental regulations.
Responsible for processing the payroll for new hires, rehires, transfers, terminations.
Responsible for all employee deduction entries.
Responsible for managing employee garnishments and withholdings.
Responsible for monitoring daily banking transactions.
Responsible for managing company tax payments.
Responsible for the compiling of numerous financial, accounting and auditing reports.
Responsible for the upload from Kronos time and attendance into JD Edwards and ensuring it is balanced in the batch.
Responsible for reviewing, investigating and correcting errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents and reports.
Responsible for monitoring employee vacation and sick leave accruals.
Responsible for working with a third-party vendor on wage reporting and withholdings including preparation and filing of tax forms, annual reports and other miscellaneous filings.
Responsible for preparing and maintaining record retention regulated support documentation.
Ability to report quarterly, yearly and W2 information.
Ability to work quickly and accurately with limited supervision.
Ability to problem solve with the knowledge of when to engage management in the solution.
Ability to compile and submit accurate legal reports and documentation.
Ability to determine proper handling of financial transactions and approved transactions within designated limits.
Debugging the payroll system to ensure that paychecks are accurate. This would include system maintenance and fixes to the system.
Entering Invoices and receivers into the JD Edwards system.
Matching the invoices with the receivers ensuring accounts and cost centers are correct.
Processing payables checks as well as payroll vendor checks.
Helping vendors with payment details
Creating and Reclassing accounts for the journal entries
Ensuring purchase orders, prices and pay terms are accurate
Account maintenance and reporting on account status
Assisting payroll/payables manager in processing of 1099
Education
2022Continuing education to achieve an Associate/Bachelors Degree in Business Administration
1986 College of the Sequoias – Visalia California
Computer operation IT / Accounting
1985 Azusa High School – Azusa California High School Diploma
Affiliations
Served on the board of directors with the Port of Houston Credit Union in which transactions and loan decisions are made daily.
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