raja mohamed sheik

• Highly organized and meticulous payroll professional with 12 years of experience in Compensation & Benefits & Payroll Management in large conglomerates in UAE & Middle East.
• Highly adept at enforcing process pre-requisites, operational excellence, administration and adherence to complex statutory and regulatory rules, alignment with HRMS, Finance & Accounting needs. 
• Sound knowledge in Performance Management, validation of employee performance KPI metrics, and communication appropriately to improve productivity and accomplish organizational goals.
• Collaborating & coordinating with various functions for seamless flow of information on onboarding, exits, status changes and others impacting compensation and benefits. 
• Excelling to create and manage critical task lists and ensure timely and accurate delivery of payroll and all related reporting, with a consultative approach to working with clients and delivering optimal solutions.
• An initiator in change management and process excellence for the accurate and efficient processing of payouts. 
• Reliable, knowledgeable, and highly organized team player with excellent communication skills, team building and relationship management.

• Overseeing the day-to-day processing of payroll for over 3000 catering and housekeeping employees in the calculation of salary and entry into the payroll system for new starters initial salary, mover’s pro-rata salary, promotions and leavers final salary including the processing of terminations, redundancies, and dismissals
• Administering payroll to 200 outsourced manpower, preparing their timesheets, gathering data on their locations, and sharing them with the concerned company’s accounts department  
• Review of timesheets and computing payouts in accordance with the guidelines 
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions
• Drafting reports by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, leave, disability, and nontaxable
• Streamlining the employee grievances pertaining to payroll, increment, incentive, or overtime and resolving
• Systematically segregate the documents of new joiners weekly and direct them to the respected payroll company.
• Prepare and compute payroll data, auditing timekeeping, pay stubs and forward them to senior officials for verification. 
• Review payroll deductions approved advances, travel and overtime claims according to system guidelines and program parameters.
• Maintaining and updating the records on exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, designations, and internal transfers.
• Coordinating with HR to ensure proper flow of employee data to maintain the confidentiality of the company's information
• Determines payroll liabilities by calculating employee federal and state income and social security taxes and employer's social security, unemployment, and workers compensation payments
• Operating on biometrics system to conduct automated searches, compare biometric information of suspects against local, state, and national databases
• Prepare and approve account balance reconciliations and producing payrolls for hourly-paid employees
• Creates tax supporting documents by analyzing them with the employee documents 

B. Tech (IT) - Anna university Chennai, India – 2005-2009