Payroll & HR Managing Director

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May 27, 2025

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Dear Sir or Madam:

In the interest of investigating employment opportunities for the position of a Director of Payroll; I have taken the liberty of enclosing my resume for your perusal and consideration.

I've been a veteran in this business for well if thirty years, as a Payroll Managing Director. Experience in handling large and small corporations for international and domestic entitied with tens of thousands of employees.

Primarily lisaon responsible for Accounting, Payroll, Human Resources & Office Management Department. Acustomed to stringent deadlines, as well as fast-paced environments in the administration of the day-to-day operations.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make quickly but well thought out decisions, with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, capable of building good relationships with clients. Team players, collaborates well with others, able to function independebtly and adapt to any environment.

I am confident that I can be a valuable asset and addition to the team.

Greatly appreciate the opportunity to meet with you. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Respectfully yours,

Arlette S. Gammal

ASG

Enclosure

SUMMARY:

A highly skilled professional with an extensive background in Accounting, Human Resources. Payroll and Office Management; Accustomed to stringent deadlines and fast-paced environments in the administration of day-to-day operations with small and large organizations. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make quickly but well thought out decisions; Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, capable of building good relationships with clients and co-workers.

EXPERIENCE:

BNY CONVERGEX, New York, NY December 2007 – Present

PAYROLL MANAGING DIRECTOR

Maintained, analyzed, transmit electronically all payroll administration for weekly, bi-weekly & semi-monthly & monthly payroll(s) for small & large companies ranging up to 15,000 employees for (8) eight corporate entities.

Processed all the New hires, Terminations’, salary adjustments, managed performance and merit reviews, policies and procedures, the compiling of compensation reports and guidelines with SOX Compliance for the New York, New Jersey & 43 Multi-states & including International payroll for Bermuda, Italy, Israel, Russia, Canada, Luxembourg, UK & Germany.

Working collaboratively with all our Human Resources department(s) global and domestic to maintain & update all employee(s) payroll information which includes new hires, termination, salary adjustments, and employee status changes. Also monitors other employee benefit deductions as well.

Handled Audit(s), & managed over (20+) acquisition(s), conversions & implement for new companies into the current & new payroll system(s). Provided assistance when needs for all internal and external audits related to payroll.

Generates and maintain set-up in scheduling, key project documents & plans, workbooks status reports, issue and resolution logs between all departments and demonstrating a business partnership to accomplish seamless implementation.

Demonstrate leadership and participation in the technology of all business case development between the current/old platform; such as gathering, specification documentation, test planning and execution, deployment, and post-deployment support then re-designing the platform onto the new platform.

Implement & Streamline the Payroll, HCM & HRIS providing the general system support (which includes troubleshooting, data validation, testing and user training)

Analysis & identifies all project risks, communicates the business requirements and partners up with global resources for configuration, testing and movement to production.

Time & Attendance systems for all facilities, Liquidation of all systems, setting up all New Laws in the system such as the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) - new healthcare polices, sick-leave act, and all other polices

Responsible for divisional systems for HRIS HCM HRB – (includes but not limited to) Workday, SAP, Great Plains, Workforce, WFN, People-soft, PayForce, JD Edwards, & many more; Performance Management, Organizational, and Enterprise Compensation Management systems, including ESS/MSS access, forms preparation, communication, training, and monitoring utilization

Processed & Managed weekly and monthly ALL UNION & CERTIFIED PAYROLL for all types of LOCAL UNIONS (such as - Local 3, 157, 508,1281,32 BJ & Teamsters Unions) for a large corporation for approximately 1800 employees with new hires, salary adjustments, managed performance and merit reviews, policies and procedures, the compiling of compensation reports and guidelines for SOX Compliance

Provide and analysis complex queries and researched data and participate in periodic payroll operations, taxes, statistics for calculations of payroll, worker’s compensation, and benefit audit(s) and GAP analysis.

Processed, reconciled and created on monthly bases over 48 payroll reports for all general ledger accounts. Distributed reports to stockholder and corporate executives and created net profit sharing checks after reconciling.

Human Resource HRIS Manager – Office Management

Supervised seven (7) employees in the Human Resource & Payroll Department reporting to CFO/Director of the company

Responsible for securing all governmental hiring documents such as W-4, I-9 with proper documentation

POC for annual employee performance evaluation processes

Prepare accurate monthly and quarterly financial and HR reports, including headcount, payroll & 401k journal entry, net productivity, vacation accrual valuation, turnover, and payroll/401(k) reconciliation

Generated unemployment benefits, garnishments, mortgages and housing verifications and insured organizations' compliance with regulatory state mandates.

Handled and managed all insurance renewal, open enrollment, termination's, loans applications, employee inquiries and claim resolution.

Participate in processes needed to complete annual tax Form 990, 5500 filing for legacy 401(k) plan. Assist with activities & scheduled requirements needed to support future merger of legacy Plan with current Plan and/or Plan year-end audits in regards to salary & benefit information.

Managed all aspects of company's 401K's Profit Sharing & Retirements Plans for Mass Mutual, Manu-Life (Canada), Fidelity (PSW) & Welfare applications with premium payments, expense reports, group insurance renewal, open enrollment, termination's, loans applications, employee inquiries and claim resolution. Uploaded all information from the weekly to semi-monthly payroll timesheets and data to the employee's accounts

Regulated and maintained all employee attendance, sick & vacation days, personal time off accruals (PTO), pensions, and workman's compensation, life insurance policies and COBRA, FMLA, FSA & ADA, etc... Plus, Severance & Pay in Lieu of packages for termed employees.

Processed & transmit contributions H.S.A & Wage Works for Commuter Plans semi-monthly for all open enrollments, terminations and daily corrections to the employee's accounts

Processed and managed the Fleet Program for our Sales/Executives staff - for over 120 vehicles - with the new order and programs for our new vehicle products - processing, insurance, returns, accidents, - acting as a liaison with the insurance companies - corporate programs.

Assist employees and managers with payroll and organizational data questions, local point of contact for leaves of absence Acted as Liaison with insurance companies, law enforcement, lawyers, MTA, clients - owner’s managers and administrators and customer services.

Processed and handle ALL accounts for AMEX - reconciliations, programs/payments, etc.…

Setup ALL new accounts for INTERPLX reimbursing system

Communicates as a primary liaison with all departments domestic and globally and all outside vendors regarding any and all payroll operations.

CENTRAL MILLS, INC, DBA/ AIR FREIGHT, Edison, NJ January 2005 – November 2007

Senior Payroll Manager

Handled weekly, biweekly, and semimonthly payroll for a large corporation, approximately 29,000 employees.

Assisted with new hires, salary adjustments, managing performance and merit reviews, policies and procedures.

Compile compensation reports and guidelines with SOX Compliance for the New York, New Jersey, and 43 multi-states including International payroll for Italy, Russia, Canada, Luxembourg, and Germany.

Handled Audit and managed over (60+) acquisition(s), conversions and implementations of new companies into the payroll system.

This included setting up scheduling between all departments and building a partnership to accomplish the implementation.

Responsible for divisional SAP HRIS- Performance Management, Organizational and Enterprise Compensation Management Systems, including ESS/MSS access, form preparations, communication, training, and monitoring utilization.

Responsible for securing all government hiring documents such as W-4, and I-9 with proper documentation.

Prepared accurate monthly and quarterly financial and HR reports including head count, payroll and 401k journal entry, net productivity, vacation accrual valuation, turnover, and payroll/401k reconciliation.

Distributed reports to stockholders and corporate executives, and created profit sharing checks after reconciling.

POC for annual employee performance evaluation processes.

Provided and participated in periodic payroll, workers comp, and benefit audit.

Processed and managed weekly and monthly All Union and Certified Payroll, for all types of local unions, such as Local 3, 157, 508, 1281, 32 BJ and Teamsters Unions. Done for a large corporation for approx. 3800 employees.

Assisted with new hires, salary adjustments, managing performance and merit reviews, policies and procedures, compiling compensation reports, and guidelines for SOX Compliance.

Human Resources HRIS Manager

Supervised between four (4) and seven (7) employees in the HR department, reporting to the CFO/Director of the Company.

Generated unemployment benefits, garnishments, mortgages, and housing verifications, and ensured organizations compliance with regulatory state mandates.

Handled and managed all insurance renewal, open enrollment, terminations, loan applications, employee inquiries, and claim resolutions.

Participated in processes needed to complete 5500 filing for legate 401k plan. Assisted with activities needed to support future merger of legacy plan with current plan, and or plan audits.

Managed all aspects of company’s 401k’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Plans for Mass Mutual, Manu-Life (Canada), Fidelity (PSW) and Welfare applications with premium payments, expense reports, group insurance renewal, open enrollment, terminations, loan applications, employee inquiries and claim resolutions.

Uploaded all information from weekly to semi-monthly payroll timesheets and data to the employees’ accounts.

Regulated all employee attendance, sick and vacation days, pensions, and workman’s comp., life insurance policies and COBRA< FMLA, FSA and ADA. In addition, Severance Pay in lieu of packages for termed employees.

Processed Wage Works for Commuter Plans semi-monthly for all open enrollments, terminations, and daily corrections to employees’ accounts.

Processed and managed the Fleet Program for Sales/Executive Staff for over 20 vehicles- with the new order and programs for new vehicle products.

Included processing, insurance, returns, accidents, and acting as a liaison with the insurance companies’ corporate programs.

Assisted employees and managers with payroll and organizational data questions.

Local point of contact for leaves of absence. Acted as a liaison with insurance companies, law enforcement, lawyers, MTA, clients, owners, managers, administrators, and customer services.

JOHN HALPIN & ASSOCIATES, Woodbridge, NJ May 1999 – December 2004

Controller and Payroll Management

Maintained and processed weekly, bi-weekly & semi-monthly & monthly payroll(s) for small & large companies ranging from 8200 to 15,000 with seasonal employees for (2) two corporate entities.

Handled Audit(s), & managed over (5+) acquisition(s), conversions & implement for new companies into the current & new payroll system(s)

Implement & Streamline the Payroll, HCM & HRIS providing the general system support (which includes troubleshooting, data validation, testing and user training)

Analysis & identifies all project risks, communicates the business requirements and partners up with global resources for configuration, testing and movement to production.

Processed & Managed weekly and monthly ALL UNION & CERTIFIED PAYROLL for all types of LOCAL UNIONS (such as - Local 3, 157, 508,1281,32 BJ & Teamsters Unions) for a large corporation for approximately 800 employees with new hires, salary adjustments, managed performance and merit reviews, policies and procedures, the compiling of compensation reports and guidelines for SOX Compliance

Controlled all A/P, A/R, and collections.

Processed and reconciled large sums of money for three national banks for 2 company(s) check book accounts.

Processed and filed all Payroll Tax Forms, filing for all 43 states and International states, as well as financial statements for payments of taxes, preparing income tax returns with collections, benefits, commissions, and loans for all accounts.

Controlled all A/P, A/R and collections. Computed and prepared all service contracts and proposals for royalty companies.

Processed and reconciled large sums of money for four national/ international banks for eight company checkbook accounts- GAAP.

Verified, calculated and reconciled royalty reports, daily projections expense requests, month end close, general ledger, balance sheets, financial statements and trial balances for payment of taxes.

Prepared income tax returns with collation, benefits, commissions and loans for all accounts.

Processed all aging reports, shipping and receiving reports for national and international.

Prepared daily journals, compiled receivable analysis, monthly sales, quotes, service agreements, purchase orders, invoices, credit charges and charge backs, check registers, voucher registration by vendor relations, then processed billing and preliminary reports to generate checks for vendors.

Processed and handles all accounts for AMEX- reconciliations, programs, and payments.

Human Resources & Office Management

Supervised four (4) employees in the Human Resource reporting to CFO/Director of the company

Provide data and participate in periodic payroll, worker’s compensation, and benefit audit and GAP analysis

Responsible for securing all governmental hiring documents such as W-4, I-9 with proper documentation

POC for annual employee performance evaluation processes

Processed and created on monthly bases over 48 payroll reports. Distributed reports to stockholder and corporate executives and created net profit sharing checks after reconciling.

Generated unemployment benefits, garnishments, mortgages and housing verifications and insured organizations' compliance with regulatory state mandates.

Handled and managed all insurance renewal, open enrollment, termination's, loans applications, employee inquiries and claim resolution.

Participate in processes needed to complete 5500 filing for legacy 401(k) plan. Assist with activities needed to support future merger of legacy Plan with current Plan and/or Plan audits

Regulated all employee attendance, sick & vacation days, pensions, and workman's compensation, life insurance policies and COBRA, FMLA, FSA & ADA, etc... Plus, Severance & Pay in Lieu of packages for termed employees

Processed Wage Works for Commuter Plans semi-monthly for all open enrollments, terminations and daily corrections to the employee's accounts

United School Bus, Inc., Brooklyn, NY 1993 to 1999

Staff Accountant/Payroll Manager/Office Management

EDUCATION:

CAREER BLAZERS LEARNING CENTER 2004

Certificate- PC Specialist

Completed 800 hours of hands-on training.

BERKELEY BUSINESS SCHOOL 1996

Associates in Business Management and Computer Operations

THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND 1992

Bachelor in Accounting, Business Management, and Mathematics

SKILLS:

Certified Payroll Professional(CPP) in ADP Payroll /WFN – Advantage, Enterprise (all versions), EV5, E-Time, PayeXpert, Payforce & PC/Payroll, (manual & ADP for windows) for Windows version #4.0, Workforce Now (version 8), HRIS & HRB System, Workday (HRIS), Oracle, Paychex/HRIS - Preview, Paychex for Preview, HRO for Paychex E-Services, Report Smith, E-Time Ceridian & WebBase, UltiPro, Ceridian - Time & Attendance & I-Employee for HRIS, JD Edwards, QuickBooks & QuickBooks Pro & Enterprise for Payroll(for PC & MAC), People-Soft, CSS Intergity, OPERA, Solomon/Blue Cherry, Sage & Timberline (A/P, A/R, G/L, Billing, Job Costing & Payroll modules), AIA (requisitions forms), Great Plains, Mas 90, Mas 200, 500, Multi J & Adjust Mate, TKO, YARDI, Microsoft Office (all versions for PC & MAC), Peachtree, AccPac for Windows, AS400, People-Soft Payroll & HRIS (Version 8.9),, Lotus 1-2-3, & Dos, Lotus Notes, Board of Education Billing/Payroll, SkyLine, WordPerfect, (5.1,5.2 & 6.0 7.0 DOS), MRI, Horizon, E-Time, Data-Pro/Fourgin, Multi-Mate, Pro-Write

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