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Al-Fayad Ramawtar

Moka,Mauritius

Summary

Methodical and versatile payroll specialist with mostly 7 years of hands-on experience in End to End Payroll. Committed in supporting payroll activities, as well as developing, engaging and retaining talented staffs. Sophisticated in communicating and collaborating effectively by relying on excellent interpersonal skills, outstanding customer service and solid expertise in Payroll management.

Work History

Senior Payroll Specialist (PS4)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
, Mauritius
05.2024 - Current
  • Working on the US/ CAN Large Enterprise Clients (Number of
    employees 3500 – 65000+)
  • Working closely with North American Peers/ Canadian Peers on a day
    to day basis for multiple clients/ accounts.
  • Auditing and analyzing earning statements of employees for multiple
    accounts/ clients and making all required necessary changes.
    Calculating taxes, benefits, fringe/ taxable benefits, regular
    income, overtime, allowances, bonus, under/ over-payments.

Parallel/ Release testing:

  • Testing phase for new clients – Earnings – Deductions – Taxes
  • Testing the codes, comparing, and ensuring that all codes are
    flowing as per client requirements.
  • Attending meetings for projects and discussions/
    Standup calls.
  • Ability to support multiple team members on multiple accounts.
  • Training new hires – auditing NHs reports – supervising – and
    making sure that their probation period is well monitored.
    Providing feedbacks and Performance reports to Manager regarding the new hires.
  • Working alongside other departments – (Implementation/ Data
    movement/ Tax) to help to configure payroll elections/ runs.
  • Processing monthly power point presentations for Senior Managers to
    present to clients. (Performance Reports)
  • Providing support to the team, engaging in different aspects to adhere
    with company goals.
  • 1-2-1 sessions with payroll specialists to improve the quality of work and discussing any challenges they are facing.
  • Accountable and responsible for overall quality control and auditing to ensure accuracy and low error. Lead efforts to continually improve in these areas.
  • Ensure adherence to service level agreements (SLA) compliance.
  • Spot opportunities and act accordingly and proactively contribute to process improvements to effectively increase value.
  • Create and update document standard operating procedures.
  • Be a subject matter expert and provide professional suggestions for process improvement.
  • “I own it” attitude about deliverables and projects.
  • Execute Change Control process following change standards including project plans and rollouts to teams
  • Attend and leads customer meetings where required and supports discussions from payroll
  • Support Payroll Delivery Managers with requests as needed as per client requirements
  • Conducted interviews and selected potential candidates for vacancies in the team
  • Implementing new allocation of tasks for better efficiency and quality of work. Re-allocating team members frequently pertaining to complexity and nature of work.
  • Time motion study - Overviewing and guiding team members to capture time taken on their respective tasks in order to improve quality of the process.

Senior Payroll Specialist III (PS3)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
, Mauritius
05.2022 - 04.2024
  • Responsible for ensuring all aspects of the payroll cycle, including tax, benefits, garnishments, etc. are processed, reconciled, audited and transmitted accurately and timely
  • Ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll impacting changes, tax forms, payments and payroll processing for assigned clients
  • Responsible for quality control and auditing to ensure accuracy and low error or defect percentage
  • Work with cross-functional internal partners to resolve client payroll matters and employee inquiries
  • Provide Payroll support services to clients according to Ceridian contract, legislative requirements and business needs
  • Manage client and consumer related tasks within the case management system ensuring all documentation is complete, accurate, and timely
  • Drive customer satisfaction by providing high quality of service
  • Think and act ahead, spot opportunities and act accordingly and proactively contribute to process improvements
  • Adhering to and reporting on SLA metrics
  • Provide direction and assistance to other payroll specialists.
  • Lead individual or team training as requested/required
  • Create, update standard operating procedures and performs quarterly document reviews
  • Meets quality control standards
  • Manage client and consumer related tasks within the case management system ensuring all documentation is complete, accurate, and timely.
  • Performs administrative functions as required with minimal supervision
  • Responsible for quality control and performing audits of both work of peers and client data to ensure accuracy and low error or defect percentage
  • Work with cross-functional internal partners to resolve client payroll matters and employer and employee inquiries
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate with clients and internal team members
  • Responsible for ensuring all aspects of the payroll cycle including all payroll impacting changes are processed, reconciled, audited and transmitted accurately and timely
  • Provide Payroll services to clients according to Ceridian contract, legislative requirements and business needs
  • Proactively manage quarter, and year-end payroll auditing and processing
  • Resolve client's issues and provide superior customer service to internal and external partners
  • Provides training, supporting peers and customers as needed
  • Executes minor configuration updates to product as applicable (PCR Lite)
  • Executes Change Control process following change standards
  • Attends and leads customer meetings where required and supports discussions from payroll
  • Supports Client Relationship Executives with requests as needed for customer

Payroll Specialist II (PS2)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
, Mauritius
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Drive customer satisfaction by providing high quality of service
  • Think and act ahead, spot opportunities and act accordingly and proactively contribute to process improvements
  • Adhering to and reporting on SLA metrics
  • Create, update standard operating procedures
  • Meets quality control standards
  • Manage client and consumer related tasks within the case management system ensuring all documentation is complete, accurate, and timely.
  • Performs administrative functions as required
  • Responsible for quality control and auditing to ensure accuracy and low error or defect percentage
  • Work with cross-functional internal partners to resolve client payroll matters and employer and employee inquiries
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate with clients and internal team members

Payroll Specialist I (PS1)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
, Mauritius
12.2018 - 12.2020

Transaction Processing Associate

Accenture Mauritius
03.2018 - 12.2018
  • Execute transactions with minimal direction, analysis, and retrieve
    information from group-specific system (CITRIX).
  • Conduct data verification; audit own data entry for accuracy and make required corrections. Produce standard correspondence by following existing templates, adhering to client formatting and quality standards; proof-read and edit work for syntax, grammar, and punctuation.
  • Document all new learning(s) or change in processes in the standard
    format and seek relevant approvals on a periodic basis.
  • Handling projects individually and with the team.

Project lead

Vpowering Ltd
05.2017 - 03.2018
  • Supervise payroll system - served as technical and functional resource to other team members Participate in process improvement initiatives or special projects as assigned.
  • Meet established goals and objectives.
  • Salary for the workers and preparing for quarterly audits and Tax returns.

Data Management Specialist (Part Time)

Accenture Mauritius

Education

Certificate of Higher Education -

Shrimati Indira Gandhi SSS
Mauritius
04.2001 - 2016

Finance minor Law - Finance

University of Mauritius
Mauritius
2017 - 2021

Skills

  • Compliance awareness
  • Auditing techniques
  • Professional ethics
  • Microsoft excel expertise
  • Deadline adherence
  • Training and mentoring
  • Payroll management
  • Employee Relations
  • Excellent communication
  • Process Improvement
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • CITRIX Software
  • Dayforce

Languages

English
Proficient (C2)
French
Proficient (C2)
Creole
Proficient (C2)

Affiliations

  • Automobiles
  • Animal Rescue
  • Fishing
  • Psychology

Timeline

Senior Payroll Specialist (PS4)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
05.2024 - Current

Senior Payroll Specialist III (PS3)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
05.2022 - 04.2024

Payroll Specialist II (PS2)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
01.2021 - 04.2022

Payroll Specialist I (PS1)

Dayforce (Mauritius) Ltd
12.2018 - 12.2020

Transaction Processing Associate

Accenture Mauritius
03.2018 - 12.2018

Project lead

Vpowering Ltd
05.2017 - 03.2018

Certificate of Higher Education -

Shrimati Indira Gandhi SSS
04.2001 - 2016

Finance minor Law - Finance

University of Mauritius
2017 - 2021

Data Management Specialist (Part Time)

Accenture Mauritius
Al-Fayad Ramawtar