LORI DAWSON
1804 N 180th Street, Shoreline WA  98133
Cell:   [Send email to request phone number] 51-3641
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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

A challenging, full time, telecommuting position emphasizing my 32 years of 
proven written and oral communication skills, with great attention to detail, 
gained from being a payroll professional.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A senior level payroll specialist with highly developed problem resolution,
decision making, organizational and communication skills.  Strengths include:
·	Expert knowledge and in depth experience in payroll processing
·	Highly developed analytical and problem resolution skills
·	Outstanding customer relation skills
·	Exceptionally strong work ethic and detail oriented


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake Terrace, WA                                       
           July 2005 to present
Payroll Analyst
·	Process new hires, terminations, intercompany transfers, bonus pay and retro
pay on 
                        the People Soft system in an organization of 3,300
employees
·	Successfully converted from Ceridian to People Soft 1/1/08; we did not cut any
manual checks for correction purposes on our first payroll!!
·	Maintain and update written policies and procedures
·	Kronos time keeping system administrator
·	Respond to customer inquiries in the payroll Email box

Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle, WA                                           
   November 2001 to July 2005
Payroll Generalist
·	Prepare, calculate, set up and input various payroll data including leave of
absence
termination, tuition, wage attachment and award transactions into the People
Soft system in an organization of 10,000 employees                      
·	Selected to work with People Soft 8.3 upgrade team to do in depth testing and
analysis; this after being employed for only 8 months
·	Research and respond to customer inquiries, receiving approximately 15 written
commendations per year
·	Process and reconcile all wage attachment vendor checks each pay period

Laid off from Bank of America; actively seeking employment             July 2001
through October 2001

Bank of America, Seattle WA                                                     
           March 1976 to June 2001
Senior Payroll Operations Specialist

·	Process a wide variety of payroll transactions including new hires, pay
increases, promotions, transfers and terminations on the Tesseract system in an
organization of 7,000 employees
·	Act in a lead capacity for processing and explaining the most complex
transactions to managers and staff including executive pay, layoffs and status
changes
·	Selected to go to California and train our successors on how to process
Washington’s payroll
·	Accurately balance general ledger accounts; research and correct out of
balance accounts



EDUCATION
	April 2002—CPP degree
		Re-certified January 2008 based on 120 hours of continuing education