Josue Ortiz-Latorre

Payroll Coordinator @Oxy

US

In charge of the coordination and processing for the biweekly/monthly payrolls in accurate and on time manner for around employees located in US & Middle East. This includes:• Coordinate the setting up and processing of Foreign Inpatriate Employees (FTA’s), Mirror Payroll, Foreign Earnings and Tax Advances payrolls.• Time and Labor/Awards uploads, pay adjustments, special payments and several employee-initiated changes such as payroll deductions, tax changes or direct deposit options.• Review/Validation of query reports, balance Rate Control/Payable Time and payroll checks distribution.• Calculate and prepare manual checks, ACH/Wire transfer. Also, set-ups of Garnishment, IRS Lock In Letter & Taxes.• Provide assistance/advise to HR, Managers, employees and third party (ex. Deloitte) related to payroll questions. • Participate with Payroll’s Management on processing improvements or projects:(1) Payroll platform transition from Peoplesoft (In House Server) to Workday (Cloud Based),(2) Andarko’s acquisition and payroll merge,(3) Transition to Working from Home & 100% electronic payroll processing after COVID-19 – this helped to reduce expenses on hardcopies, time consumptions (40%) and associated costs to almost 0.00.• Training of new personnel in Payroll – Operation section.

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico

BBA, Human Resource Management

University of Phoenix

MBA, Accounting & Technology Management