Senior Payroll Specialist with HRIS Expertise

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Towaco, NJ *****

Phone 973-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

Charleen J. Bednarz

Professional Experience

**** – Present Evonik Degussa Corporation Parsippany, NJ

Sr. Payroll Specialist

Support and process payroll for various multiple entities with various pay cycle in the United States

Administer payrolls in accordance with company policies, Union contracts, and legal requirements.

Ensure payroll data is input accurately, complete and timely.

Reconcile payrolls both prior to and following processing.

Administer garnishments, run reports in Reportsmith and G/L application and distribute as necessary, ensure timely payment/funding of union dues.

Ensure accurate and timely reporting of payroll to the General Ledger.

Partner with Finance colleagues to resolve any General Ledger issues.

Timely and accurately update payroll records for relocation gross-ups, company auto personal usage and exec gross-ups for auto/life insurance.

Completion of annual Expatriates W-2 reconciliations.

Partner with HR and Payroll colleagues to provide quality customer service.

Assist in with special projects as needed.

Compile data for 401K funding.

1999 - 2007 Verizon Services Warren, NJ

Payroll Coordinator

Design and implementation of employee training materials and procedures

Verification of input done by HR using HRIS

Work closely with system developers to design statutory and system components of the New Hire and Fitness Interface

Provide support for system testing/implementation and conversion

Interpretation of legislative issues and analysis of impact to payroll

Co-coordinate the processing of 67,000 employees directing accountants on day-to-day procedures

Conducted on-site PeopleSoft training seminars for current and new Payroll Administrators

Development of tax and compliance formulas. Work closely with system developers to ensure statutory compliance of all payroll calculations

Provide compliance report developers with specs for period payroll/tax filings

Design and implement additional taxability features (EGTRRA provisions, 529 Plans, etc.)

Help with the implementation to PeopleSoft Payroll processing

Maintain full statutory compliance for wage garnishments and child support

Process Stop Payment requests via Itelecash Internet System

Run Daily Reports for control procedures

Liaison between payroll and Treasury

Approval of manual check requests

Provide quality customer service support to HR, managers, employees and outside vendors

1992 – 1999 Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. Parsippany, NJ

Payroll Analyst

Research, develop and maintain statutory compliance for all payroll and tax issues

Processed monthly multi-state payroll

Perform payroll changes (paperless transaction) via E-mail; changes include terminations, increases, bonuses, etc.

Developed and populated Tax Levy, Garnishment and Child Support database. Included all facets of calculating these deductions such as the development of gross pay and includible/excludible deductions to determine the subject to/disposable wage basis

Manual calculation of all taxes for manual checks

Audit weekly reports before releasing payroll checks

Reconciliation of all deduction accounts

Disbursement of all special liability account funds

Preparation of all financial statements and reports, as required by the federal, state and local government agencies (ex: forms W-2)

All facets of maintaining and processing individual payroll records

Process payroll Expatriates and maintained ‘Totalization’ agreements

Senior Accounting Assistant I

Recorded daily cash and maintained General Ledger System

Reconciled accounts and handled all inter-company charges

Processed and maintenance of aging Account Receivables

Senor Account Assistant

Audited travel expense reports for employees

Monitor Corporate Card activity

Process checks for Accounts Payable and maintain vendor files

Professional Activities

Member of the North Jersey Chapter of the American Payroll Assoc. (Expired)

Attended numerous tax and payroll compliance related seminars sponsored by the American Payroll Association

Proficiencies

ADP Enterprise (Version 4 & 5), PeopleSoft, Ceridian, Reportsmith, Adjustmate (used for prior quarter/year adjustments). Timesaver and ETime as well as all Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Excel and Word).

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