Catherine Asher has over 10 years of experience as a payroll supervisor, building teams to process accurate biweekly pay for over 16,000 employees. She has streamlined payroll practices through system upgrades and partnerships with senior management and vendors. Asher mentored a staff of 10 analysts to handle numerous projects. Previously, she was the sole payroll administrator for a company with 350 employees across 5 states, issuing reports and partnering with finance.
A former two-sport college athlete who believes in teamwork and hard work. Now a disciplined, financial leader with extensive knowledge of financial principles and business operations and significant management experience. Demonstrated ability to think strategically in analyzing existing operations, developing strategies for process improvements and implementing effective systems, resulting in increased profitability. Proven track record as a collaborative, proactive, engaging coach with excellent problem solving skills and strong communication and team building skills developed through years of hiring, training, coaching and mentoring various-sized accounting teams for companies ranging from small start-ups to large industry leaders.
1. CATHERINE A ASHER
East Northport, NY 11731 631 271-6078
Payroll Supervisor with 10+ years of experience building teams of highly effective payroll
professionals
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
o Partnered with Senior Management, ADP and other vendors to upgrade and streamline
payroll practices which include programs to calculate LOA/Workman’s Comp payments
o Mentored a staff of 10 analysts to create a layered team that can handle numerous
projects while processing accurate pay for over 16,000 employees biweekly
o Developed a strong partnership with all functional areas and backgrounds creating an
effective work environment for all departments
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Super Enterprises Melville, NY 12/2015 to 7/2016
Payroll Administrator
• Sole responsibility all aspects of company's weekly payroll with 350+ employees in 5 states,
maintaining the flow of payroll, troubleshooting and providing solutions to payroll problems.
• Issue weekly and monthly reports to Upper Management analyzing overtime, employee profile
updates, pretax benefit billing and 401K deductions.
• Partnered with Finance to update the GL with weekly payroll entries
• Assisted Accounting with invoicing, sales tax calculations and inventory.
Cablevision Systems Corp Bethpage, NY 2000 to 8/2015
Payroll Supervisor
• Supervisor for the corporate payroll department with 10 analysts, 16,000 employees in multiple
tax jurisdictions
• Reconciled and audited the processing of payrolls to ensure accurate payments including
overtime, commissions, benefit deductions, garnishments and 401K contributions
• Maintain a close working relationship with HR, Finance, Accounting and Treasury
• Audited quarterly SOX compliance requirements and established SOX controls when needed
• Managed numerous projects which include running monthly audit reports for HR, Compensation,
Internal Audit, SOX
• Mentored teams of loyal and highly effective staff
• Played an active part in the conversion from PCPW to Enterprise – including parallel testing and
auditing results
• Trained all new employees
• Audited the information feed from Peoplesoft to EV5 for accuracy
Prior Titles Held:
Lead Payroll Analyst
Senior Payroll Analyst
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• EV5
• ETIME – TIME AND ATTENDANCE
• ADP REPORTING
• PEOPLESOFT
• REPORTSMITH
• EXCEL AND WORD
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills as well as interpersonal talents
2. • 3 years’ experience implementing and using an in-house system
• 10+ years’ experience with multi state and high volume payrolls using ADP
• 6 years’ experience with PC payroll
• 10+ years’ experience with ADP EV5 system – includes implementation and upgrades
• 10+ years’ experience with the payroll side of PeopleSoft
• 10+ years’ experience with E-time – includes implementation and upgrades
References available upon request