Robert Cenkner is a highly skilled and motivated professional with extensive years of experience processing payrolls....
ROBERT W CENKNER
303-838-6882
[email protected]
PAYROLL SPECIALIST SUMMARY Highly skilled and motivated professional with extensive years of experience processing payrolls. Ability to audit and verify data in order to accurately meet the many compliance and deadline issues. Possess effective communication and interpersonal skills to all levels both internal and external: employ a positive, friendly and proactive attitude. Being dedicated with the willingness to stay until whenever so the job is completed within deadline.
CORE ▲Payroll preparation ▲Enter and maintain employee data ▲Time and attendance ▲Garnishments ▲Federal, state and local taxes ▲Monthly journal entries ▲Account reconciliation ▲Accounts payable processing ▲Certified payrolls ▲Customer service internal and external ▲Union pensions ▲PTO ▲Employee verifications ▲OSHA logs ▲401-K ▲Workers compensation ▲Employee orientation and benefits ▲Conversions▲ Budgets ▲ MS Excel ▲ MS Outlook ▲ MS Word
EDUCATION Planning recertification of payroll license after being hired BS Degree in Accounting Quinnipiac University
Hamden, Connecticut
TECHNICAL SKILLS Proficient in: ADP, Ceridian, Oracle, Personality, Peachtree, Sage 50 & 300, Timberline and Ultipro payroll software, MS Excel, Word and Outlook and had CPP certification until 2000.
Business Experience RMS Cranes Denver, CO 2/2013- 10/2013 Payroll/Accounts payable Specialist Process weekly job cost payroll for 2 companies with 90 employees. File and pay federal and state tax returns. Set up and process garnishments, 401-K, and union benefits. Enter, maintain and pay vendor invoices. Processed on Sage 50 and 300.
Visual Products Corporation dba Gordon Sign, Denver, CO HR/Payroll Administrator
5/2007 – 2/2012
Processed payroll cycles on a biweekly and monthly cycle for a manufacturing company. Paying salaried, nonexempt and union for under 100 employees. Enter and maintain all employee data for three locations in Colorado and Wyoming. Used Excel spreadsheet to maintain and track PTO and garnishments. Prepared audit information for 401-K, Workers Compensation and government censuses Submitted and tracked all workers compensation claims with Pinnacol Assurance Prepared monthly payroll journal entries in Excel and audit payroll accounts quarterly Oriented employees on company policies and procedures Provided excellent customer service whether internal or external Prepared Certified payroll reports in order to get paid for jobs Review, maintain and audit all hours for accuracy before entering Maintain OSHA logs for 3 locations Prepare and calculate commissions statements for sales staff on a monthly basis Report hours and wages for 2 unions on a monthly basis including dues deducted
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Robert W Cenkner resume page 2 Temporary Accounting Personnel, Denver CO
12/2006 – 5/2007
HR/Payroll Administrator Temp to hire position at Gordon Sign
Accountemps Lakewood, CO Payroll Clerk, Payroll Administrator and Accounting Clerk
2/2006 – 12/2006
Payroll clerk – Process and file employee maintenance into ADP system Accounting clerk – Code, process and file invoices Payroll Accountant – Ran payroll checks, paid federal, state and local taxes to meet compliance rules in multiple states, processed employment verifications with proper authorization and entered garnishments into Oracle, maintained each in Excel until paid off and send out checks on 250 garnishments per month.
Knowledge Learning Corporation, Golden, CO Payroll Analyst
10/2000 – 1/2006
Rehired to handle new divisions time and attendance implementation and training for 100 locations in 26 states for 1,500 employees. Researched and corrected PTO after implementation especially when late status paperwork is processed along with retro calculation. Prepared and overnight an average of 10 manual checks per week to meet state termination laws or missing hours. Assisted in implementing payroll conversion for in house payroll system Instrumental in auditing of payroll taxes after payroll conversion which I worked the additional hours to meet the deadline so the W-2’s could be sent out in a timely manner Excellent attendance as only one unscheduled day off in 5 years Process and track garnishments using Excel worksheets for each one Initiated a “Tip of the Day” program after the Time and Attendance conversion was complete Excellent customer services skills while being able to communicate with all levels of employees Field knew they could always call if they had a problem or question
Accountemps Lakewood, CO Payroll Analyst and Accounts Payable Clerk
6/2000 – 9/2000
Provided assistance with entry and verification of 200 new employee data after acquisition Learn Ultipro payroll system in order to meet deadline of processing payroll Verified all year to date and quarterly earnings, deductions and taxes before first payroll processed Clerk – Code, process and file invoices due to staff shortage
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