Payroll Specialist Human Resource

JENNIFER LONGABERGER

**** ********** ***** *****, ********, Florida 33813 · 863-***-****

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Analytical, organized and detail-oriented human resource and finance professional with fifteen years of comprehensive experience in employee relations, on-boarding, finance, benefits and payroll administration. EXPERIENCE

APRIL 2022 TO NOVEMBER 2022

PAYROLL SPECIALIST

STRAIGHT-LINE (PEO) - LAKELAND, FLORIDA

● Process weekly, bi-weekly and semi-monthly payroll for clients in multiple states

● Add new hires in the system and make sure all paperwork is completed for on boarding

● Process any changes in pay, direct deposit, withholding and payroll deductions

● Process employee status changes and terminations.

● Complete employment verification for all current and prior employees

● Address and resolve general payroll or HR related inquiries/ issues

● Assist with any workplace injury reporting in a timely manner and provide employee and carrier details

● Process monthly worker's compensation for all clients and carriers based on payroll and class codes.

● Assist with bank reconciliations

● Assist Operations Manager and company owners with operations and projects and tasks as needed.

JUNE 2014 TO MARCH 2022

HUMAN RESOURCE/ CONTRACT SPECIALIST

ADVANCED CARE HOSPITALISTS - LAKELAND, FLORIDA

● Compose, send out and track all employee contracts upon hire and renewal

● Onboard New Hires: process background screenings, drug screenings, HIPAA training, and assist employees with completing onboarding documents (including E-Verify).

● Organize and conduct new hire orientation (including employee compensation, benefits, company policies/ procedure and annual HIPAA training)

● Enter all new hires and Independent Contractors into the PEO database (including setting up all payroll deductions and garnishments).

● Process all employee status changes and terminations.

● Review and sed out annual tax/ benefit documents (W-2/ 1099)

● Process all benefit and retirement plan enrollment paperwork

● Organize and conduct open enrollment annually

● Prepare 5500 report for 401k/ Profit Sharing Plan Administrator annually

● Complete employment verifications for all current and prior employees

● Processed unemployment claims and handled any employee incidents or FMLA

● Process payroll semi-monthly for all hourly and salaried employees and by provider billing codes based on contract terms

● Processed employee bonuses per contract terms (per pay-cycle, monthly, quarterly and annually)

● Tracked employee annual allowance for license renewal, CME and time off requests

● Address and resolve general payroll or HR related inquiries/ issues

● Invoice monthly for all facility subsidy and incentive bonus monies due and collect on any past due invoices (past 30 days).

● Developed quarterly profit & loss statements for providers and all contracted facilities

● Complete monthly metric reports for facilities

● Assist Chief Operating Officer and President with projects and tasks as needed MARCH 2013 – MARCH 2014

PAYROLL SPECIALIST

CITY OF LAKELAND - LAKELAND, FLORIDA

● Process bi-weekly payroll, semi-monthly and monthly pension and pension refunds/ rollovers for City of Lakeland retirees and terminated employees

● Create and send files/ wires for bi-weekly direct deposit, garnishments and taxes

● Process journal entries for all payroll cycles (monthly, semi-monthly, final pays, pension refunds)

● Audit Personnel Action Forms by HR for errors

● Run various payroll reports/ queries in PeopleSoft checking for errors/ differences in pay

● Scan/ Index bi-weekly payroll forms

● Assist employees with changes with direct deposit and W-4 forms

● Process employee cash advances and payroll deductions

● Assist in preparing and sending out annual benefit statements ad tax documents (W-2/ 1099)

● Assist Payroll Manager and staff with other projects as requested OCTOBER 2005 – MAY 2008

BUSINESS OFFICE COORDINATOR

CONSULATE HEALTHCARE OF LAKE PARKER - LAKELAND, FLORIDA

● Process payroll for all employees- hourly and salaried.

● Balance different payroll reports, run daily reports every morning to assure daily labor is being met in reference to resident/ employee ratio

● Process all new hires- run background screenings, check references and assure all required paperwork is complete (new hires, rehires, status changes and terminations)

● Conduct open enrollment in-services for benefits, process new enrollments and answer/ resolve any employee issues

● Audit employee files in order to meet state and company standards

● Assure that all employee incidents are reported and documented in OSHA log

● Handle any worker’s comp or unemployment claims

● Check insurance claim status

● Handle all daily deposits for resident and insurance checks/ cash, balance and request petty cash monies and process direct deposit requests

● Assist employees with any discrepancies with pay or PTO

● Answer phones, filing and order office supplies

● Assist BOM as needed

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JUNE 2000 - OCTOBER 2003

HUMAN RESOURCE/ PAYROLL SPECIALIST

MAXIM HEALTHCARE SERVICES - LAKELAND, FL

● Process payroll for all external employees and prepare/ distribute paychecks on a weekly basis

● Prepare weekly petty cash reports

● Process billing for Medicaid and private pay clients

● Assist with new hire orientation and employee in-services

● Enter all new hire data into the software system (Infomax), update personnel files and audit preparation

● Conduct background screenings and employment verifications

● Assist with staff scheduling, answering phones, filing and other administrative duties as requested

EDUCATION

COURSEWORK IN NURSING

POLK STATE COLLEGE - WINTER HAVEN, FLORIDA

GRADUATED MAY 1998

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL - LAKELAND, FLORIDA

SOFTWARE

● Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

● PeopleSoft

● Lawson

● Oracle

● Kronos

● Paychex Flex

● E-time/ InfoSource

● Darwin

● Crystal Reports

● Trinet

● ADP

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