Pamela Saunders

About Pamela Saunders

A highly accomplished professional with a 25+ year career in driving services and…

Experience

1. Vice President Global Payroll and Corporate Travel

   Leidos

   Jan 2013 — Present · Reston, VA, US

   Develop strategy, set policy and direction for Corporate Travel and Global Payroll, inclusive of Time & Labor, supporting employees, sub-contractors, subsidiaries, and JV partners. Continually seek cost savings through negotiated partner agreements, process improvements, and the ability to efficiently scale. Business Partner to line organization providing consolidated business services at low cost across the enterprise, enabling them to focus on growing the business. Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in numerous people strategy teams including the Incident Response Team and Business Continuity. M&A activities. Key Accomplishments: • Demonstrated leadership in a complex environment. With a payroll of over 4B annually, delivered in 26 countries, 22 currencies, weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly cycles, the team maintains 99.9% accuracy.• Successfully transitioned payroll from a fully outsourced model to a centralized insource model with regional hubs to support international.• Achievement of continual cost savings in the travel program through preferred airline, hotel, and car agreements, rebate, and employee behavior management. 110M+ in global spend, operating with a 20 to 1 ROI and 25% net effective savings rate.• Successful hotel negotiations with 45% under per diem.• Implementation and support of BOT technology to automate tasks allowing the team to efficiently scale • Maximize performance and increase efficiency of acquired organizations. Experience restructuring teams to increase productivity, morale, and confidence.• Collaboratively work with cross functional leadership teams to include HR, Finance, SSC, IT, Procurement, etc. on strategic and corporate initiatives.• Highly regarded, sincere, trusted, competent, and capable manager and coach, delivering expert teams to provide exceptional employee support.• Responsible for acquisition and merger related activities including due diligence.

Skills

• Employee Relations
• Strategic Planning
• Accruals
• Accounting
• Employee Training
• Business Process Improvement
• Deferred Compensation
• International Payroll
• System Implement
• Budgets
• Process Improvement
• Finance
• Policy
• Auditing
• Hris
• Program Management
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Training
• Outsourced Payroll
• General Ledger
• Payroll Taxes
• Labor Accounting
• Financial Reporting
• Travel Management
• Outsourcing
• Tax
• Strategy
• Accounts Payable
• Leadership
• Internal Audit
• Financial Analysis
• Human Resources
• 401k
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Employee Benefits
• Budget
• Pro Business Payroll
• Payroll
• Analysis
• Mergers & Acquisitions