Victoria Storozhko
Brampton,ON
Summary
Skilled payroll and business professional with 15+ years of progressive, comprehensive experience in Canadian payroll administration and financial accounting. Expertise includes HRIS systems, their implementations, payroll processes, GL/ financial transactions and reporting, customer service and management. Advanced knowledge in various HCM cloud-based systems. The software implementation specialist offering 7 years achieving success in Education and Health industries. Highly qualified leader skilled at people management, training and problem solving. Priority on driving business growth and motivating teammates to consistently exceed goals.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Specialist Payroll Implementation
Chartwell Retirement
02.2019 - Current
- Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud Platform Implementation, Chartwell Retirement Residences
- Reviewed requirements of about 200 CBAs, Chartwell controls, policies and procedures for about 200 legal entities and 15,000 employees
- Ensured requirements of collective agreements are reflected in configuration rules via about 400 payroll elements and 3,000 calculation balances, including taxes and mandatory payments/ deductions
- Monitored and verified payroll configuration workbook accuracy, advised on changes required
- Participated in cost accounting development for a payroll module: gathered data, determined a structure (LEs, departments, jobs, normal accounts), created a master file with payroll element costing and transactions, implemented, tested, and reconciled payroll costs from an element to consolidated payroll levels
- Created and maintained functional specifications for custom formulas, data flows, and reports
- Tracked the progress of the modular components via executing 500 unit-tests in two sprints about 3,000 system integration tests in two sprints, and two UATs
- Detected and resolved more than 1,500 defects and reconciled about 14,000 lines during two parallel runs
- Participated in setting up and testing of payroll costing and cost allocation for more than 500 accounts for jobs, departments, natural and clearing accounts
- Assisted in migration of legacy data into the HCM, before /after conversion data validation
- Created user guides and job aids for business users, project team and payroll specialists
- Participated in plan development for SITs, PARs, UATs, cutover/go-live activities and system support stage
- Identified gaps and outstanding items for each phase
- Supported and reconciled data during data conversion from legacy system to Oracle Fusion HCM
- Performed smoke tests for configuration updates due to CBA changes and regression tests for Oracle patch updates
- Interim team lead for 10 people during post-go live and system sustainability, training and advising over 50 payroll specialists and supervisors
- Troubleshoot issues by performing root cause analysis, assisting with resolution though incident management
- Constantly research and learn about the HCM system intelligence, its analytics and tools for decision science and optimizing operation performance
- Escalating issues and working with a vendor on SRs/ tickets until resolving
- Performed year-end activities, reconciling file for LEs and producing and validating T4s RL-1 slips.
HRMS Payroll and Time Reporting SME
Humber College
05.2017 - 02.2019
- Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud Platform Implementation, Humber College
- Conducted interviews/workshops via workflow storyboards and documented 150 HR/Payroll business processes, identified more than 500 business scenarios and exceptions, and collected business requirements to ensure the new system is aligned with the current business processes
- Liaised with project team and end users to analyze problems and develop solution specifications
- Ensured requirements of faculty and support collective agreements are reflected in configuration rules
- Created earning and deduction definitions, payroll relationships, compensation plans and calculation cards
- Populated data migration templates
- Assisted in migration of legacy data from Now Solutions into HCM
- Prototyped new business processes
- Wrote specifications for custom formulas, data flows, and reports
- Tracked the progress of the modular components, monitored and verified configuration workbook accuracy
- Developed and executed test scripts for more than 200-unit tests and about 300 end-to-end tests
- Documented, tracked, and retested defects using Jira; updated the project team SharePoint site
- Validated data interfaces between the new system and existing internal/external systems
- Created user guides for business users and processed documents for HR staff and end-users
- Developed and executed plans for parallel run, UATs, cutover activities, go-live activities, product launch, after-go-live support and on-going progressive test activities for changes and upgrades
- Conducted presentations and workshops to demonstrate research and findings as well as trained targeted audiences on new systems and processes
- Constantly researched and learned about the HCM system intelligence, its analytics and tools for decisions and optimizing operational performance.
HR Payroll Coordinator
Humber College
11.2010 - 05.2017
- Human Resources Payroll, Humber College
- Executed biweekly pay run for about 1500 full-time and up to 6000 contract employees with three unions
- Provided reports for stakeholders, balanced and reconcile GL payroll accounts
- Reviewed and validated payroll advice to ensure their accuracy, completeness, and compliance with federal and provincial legislations as well as collective agreements and more than 24 type of contracts
- Validated payroll results, balanced, and reconciled payroll transactions for each pay run
- Audited and reconciled individual CAAT pension contribution each pay for active and terminated employees
- Provided reports for government requests, third party requirements, and internal audits
- Led special projects for different employee groups such as mass updates for earnings or deductions
- Collaborated with Financial Services to provide different types of third-party payments, manual cheques, tax contributions, and record backups for financial reconciliations.
Accounts Receivable Clerk
Humber College
02.2008 - 11.2010
- Financial Services, Humber College
- Verified and documented invoices and receivables
- Processed cheques received and performed daily deposits, reconciled slips with bank records and distributed slips
- Resolved account discrepancies, outstanding balances and collections; maintained on-going communication with internal/external clients and tracked collection procedures
- Executed Emergency Student Loan procedures; provided reports and orders for clients
- Reconciled general ledger receivable accounts; investigated and prepared journal entries; issued list of outstanding items and notified corresponding parties on daily/monthly basis.
Accounts Payable Clerk
Humber College
03.2006 - 02.2008
- Financial Services and Planning, Humber College
- Expensed procurement charges verified proper backup submitted and purchases according to college guidelines; confirmed budget accounts; communicated to the President, VPs, School Deans, Managers, Corporate Card users regarding business expenses
- Reported directly to Director of Financial Services and Planning resolving cardholder’s issues monthly
- Initiated, created and implemented an application to export information into the DB to verify procurement charges and designated financial accounts reducing the operation time from days to minutes.
Education
Business Accounting Diploma with Honors -
Humber College
01.2006
M.Sc. in Computer Science with Honors -
Dnipropetrovs’k State University
01.1994
Skills
- Proficiency in Payroll and Human Resources functions of Human Capital Management systems Strong knowledge of HCM’s Core HR, Compensation, Benefit, Time and Labor, Absence, and Payroll Modules
- Expertise in requirements gathering and documenting, data mapping, system modeling, configuration, testing, conversion, deployment, end-user training, reporting, project and change management
- Ability to analyze and debug processes and data issues, suggest troubleshooting and find solutions
- Strong experience in developing test strategies and conducting unit tests, SITs, regression and smoke testing, holding QA certification
- Experience in system sustainability in production system phase and team support, designing data audit structures
- Resourceful and empathetic problem-solver, team-building facilitator and enabler
- Agile Model
- Kanban Model
- Waterfall Model
- Oracle Cloud
- ADP
- ADP ezLabour
- Octane
- Oracle Banner
- Cognos EP Reports
- JIRA
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft SQL Server
- NOW Solutions emPath
- Oracle Fusion HCM
- Oracle DBMS
- QuickBooks
- Remedy
- Process Improvement
- Data Analysis
- Analytical Thinking
- Quantitative Skills
- Idea Development and Brainstorming
- Process Analysis
- Quality Assurance
Certification
- Quality Assurance Software Testing - 2023
- Oracle Cloud Applications (In Progress)
- Oracle PL/SQL Developer (In Progress)
Professional Affiliations Designations
- Chartered Professional Accountants CPA, Level 4 (In Progress)
- Canadian Payroll Association Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) - 2013
Timeline
Sr. Specialist Payroll Implementation
Chartwell Retirement
02.2019 - Current
HRMS Payroll and Time Reporting SME
Humber College
05.2017 - 02.2019
HR Payroll Coordinator
Humber College
11.2010 - 05.2017
Accounts Receivable Clerk
Humber College
02.2008 - 11.2010
Accounts Payable Clerk
Humber College
03.2006 - 02.2008
Business Accounting Diploma with Honors -
Humber College
M.Sc. in Computer Science with Honors -
Dnipropetrovs’k State University
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