Internship Payroll Specialist resume example

• Under supervision, reconciled approved time records, pay changes and bank files before payroll release; resolved rejected payments and checked payroll totals against the general ledger.
• The team validated payroll inputs across time, compensation changes, deductions, benefits, leave, and employee status before cutoff; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team resolved source discrepancies before they affected employee pay; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
• The team reconciled payroll registers, funding files, bank confirmations, tax totals, and ledger postings by entity and pay cycle; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team made every funding variance traceable to a source transaction and approval; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
• Under supervision, built an Excel control workbook reconciling payroll processing totals to accounting and tax outputs, locked calculation cells, and tested reversal and off-cycle pay cases before the reviewer approved the file.
• Under supervision, reconciled rejected bank payments with the approved payroll register, obtained confirmation of corrected account details through the authorized channel, and recorded the reissue so a second payment could not duplicate the original.
• Under supervision, owned payroll-processing reconciliation using banking confirmations and Excel control totals, resolved a tax-code mismatch and completed the accounting approval package before cutoff.
• Under supervision, built internal-controls checks using approved payroll changes, reduced correction requests by 23% across two monthly runs and published a restricted-access reconciliation log.

• In a mentor-reviewed simulation, validated payroll inputs across time, compensation changes, deductions, benefits, leave, and employee status before cutoff; resolved source discrepancies before they affected employee pay.
• As a second supervised exercise, reconciled payroll registers, funding files, bank confirmations, tax totals, and ledger postings by entity and pay cycle; made every funding variance traceable to a source transaction and approval.
• Under supervision, the team executed maker-checker controls for payroll files, banking changes, manual payments, and high-risk adjustments; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review
• Created a synthetic ledger and supporting schedules with timing differences, reversals and an unmatched item; reconciled opening and closing balances and retained the source for each proposed adjustment.
• Tested the workbook after changing a period and reversing an input, identified formulas that failed to update, and added a control total and reviewer notes explaining the remaining assumptions.
• Owned the synthetic-ledger reconciliation using control totals, resolved an out-of-period posting and completed an evidence index linking every adjustment to its source record.

Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior

Payroll processing · Payroll reconciliation · Banking controls · Payroll compliance · Employee support

• Published a personal accounting methods note using synthetic journal entries, explaining cutoff judgments, reconciliation differences and the approvals needed before changing a real ledger.