SUMMARY:

• Experience HR/Payroll professional with excellent technology skills looking for a position that will utilize my HR/Payroll experience.
• Knowledge of State and Federal employment laws, FSLA, ERISA, ADA, EEO, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA
• Recruitment and Job postings on various web sites
• Employee relations
• Management coaching
• Create and implement employee policies and procedures and employee handbook
• Create job descriptions and implement compensation plan and salary structure
• Designed and implement employee performance process
• Employee retention and relations
• Administration of employees benefits, including Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, COBRA and 401(K)
• Work with insurance providers and employees to resolve benefit issues
• Create and implement employee new hire orientation programs
• Work with insurance brokers and providers to evaluate insurance plans
• Organize company functions including holiday party and summer outing
• Organize and plan United Way fund drive
• Rewards and incentive programs
• HRIS administrator for payroll and benefits software
• Knowledge of Confidential, HR Partner, PC Payroll for Windows and HR Perspective and ReportSmith
• Experience with multiply HR and Payroll softare applications including: Advantage, Ceridian, ABRA Paychex, Oracle, Millennium, API Navigator and Meditech HRIS.
• Evaluate Payroll and HR software, responsible for upgrading and converting to new HRIS software.
• Work with Accounting Department for month end closing in regards to payroll and benefits.
• Generate reports for Management and Accounting departments
• Process payroll, have experience with hourly employees using Confidential 's TOTAL TIME timekeeping systemsalaried employees, commissions, bonuses.
• Process Year - end and W-2 and Tax Filings
• Excellent PC Skills, including Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Access, SharePoint and PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical skills
• Development life cycle
• Experience with Visual Use Case Requirements software

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Salem, NH

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyse 401k data between third party vendor and HR software (EV4 and Workforce Now)
• Analyse Employee data to determine and maintain Employee Eligibility for 401k
• Create and maintain Microsoft Excel spreadsheets using Macros and formulas to assist in analysis.
• Create and maintain tools in Microsoft Access to audit data
• Update data in Confidential EV4 and Workforce Now
• Create report in EV4 and Workforce Now to extract data
• Create SQL queries to extract data
• Collaborate with other depts using Clarify and Salesforce.com
• Create and process reports from third party software ( Confidential )
• Document results and update training material for other end users

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Sr Product Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Conduct thorough business and data requirements analysis for Payroll, HRIS and reporting systems
• Create high level business/user requirements
• Create user stories and functional requirements
• Participate in design review to ensure product requirements are being meet
• Create test plans to verify product meets quality standards
• Assists in analysis of current processes and recommendations for process improvements.
• Engage as a subject matter expert on HR and Payroll processes and standards
• Create end user trainer material
• End - user support for Payroll, HRIS and reporting systems

Confidential, Medford, MA

HRIS Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create and generate reports from HRIS system
• Create audit reports and queries for Company Benefits
• Create and audit Insurance Carrier interfaces

Confidential, Winchester, Ma

HRIS and Benefits Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Create and generate reports from HRIS and Payroll software system
• Maintain HRIS database
• Create requirements for Third-party interfaces
• Create and document HRIS processes to for Third-party interfaces

Confidential, Waltham, Mass

Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Generate requirements using industry knowledge, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and work flow analysis, and any other means necessary.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Provide support to enable delivery of effective, ongoing project management as well as peer and team communications.
• General Project Management skills
• Creates, reviews, evaluates project plans and objectives
• Tracks and reports progress relative to time, budget, and demonstrated results
• Communicates project status, milestones and issues to the project sponsors
• Applies effective project management methodologies and control techniques
• Manages project critical path and scope

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

ECM Payroll Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct thorough business and data requirements analysis for Payroll and HRIS system
• Assists in analysis of current processes and recommendations for process improvements.
• Interpret problem in terms of systems requirements
• Clearly define client requirements and deliver integrated solutions that the expectations of the operations teams and business partners
• Determines business/systems specifications and record layouts and develops procedures to process information
• Participate in the formulation and definition of project scope and objectives
• Seek opportunities to provide value-added solutions for business and business partners.
• Prepare charts, tables, summaries and diagrams to assist in analyzing problems utilizing various tools/techniques
• Participate in the definition and execution of detailed test strategies and plans, rollout procedures and service level agreements.
• Participate in issue capture and resolution throughout project lifecycle
• Performs data analysis and reporting
• Executing project plans, and leading multiple small to medium-sized projects.
• Was responsible for creating requirements for a new payroll software front end. Improved the wage garnishment process to automate payment to maximum interest float to increase company profits.
• ECM Payroll Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
• Create Test Plans, Data, and Procedures
• Participates in Formal reviews of application designs, business and functional requirements
• Participates in code Reviews
• Ensures Test coverage of Project SRA/SDS/TSD requirements
• Recommends strategies and methods to improve test plans and test procedures
• Write complete and accurate software problem reports
• Create systems and business relevant test cases
• Ensure test environment reflects business requirements for test execution
• Executes tests scripts for complex projects
• Coordinates test schedules, work and resource plans
• Manages progress of all test activities against test plan
• Ensures execution of project regression testing
• Analyzes and reports overall test status and results
• Identifies test issues and reports to project manager and/or business
• Defines and coordinates production verification and validation
• Understanding of the software development process.

Confidential, Wilmington, MA

HRIS and Benefit Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Generate reports from HRIS System, using Confidential ReportSmith and Access. Research Benefits plans to generate 5500 filings.
• Manage payroll department processing over 7500 employees using Confidential Enterprise