Larissa Boydston, CPP

Experience

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  Duvoisin & Associates

  Jul 2004 - Jun 2006

  Payroll Specialist
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  Inland Northwest Business Development

  Jun 2006 - Dec 2011

  Payroll Coordinator

  •Payroll auditing, entering and execution•Benefits•401K Administer•L&I Claims•Quarterly and Annual taxes•HR & Payroll record retention•IT/Communications

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  STCU

  Dec 2011 - Nov 2018

  System/Application Administration, Performance, and Support• Configure and administer WebFOCUS.• Provide technical consulting resources for the WebFOCUS systems during upgrades, maintenance releases, and troubleshooting.• Debug and optimize reports and scheduled jobs in test and production environments.• Participate in disaster recovery (DR) exercises that occur on a scheduled basis. Create and maintain DR documentation and make suggestions to improve future tests.• Identify features of the reporting platform that can most benefit stakeholders.• Interact and communicate with internal system experts, as well as vendors, on hardware/software issues including upgrades, disaster recovery procedures, and system maintenance. • Perform system control changes with DBA’s, Business Data Analysts and Data Integration Developers.• Monitor the health and tune the performance of the BI reporting environment.• Implement changes to the reporting security infrastructure and maintain the version control of all objects within the BI reporting environment.• Maintain and create simple metadata according to the STCU standard and best practices architecture.• Maintain, support, and administer the report distribution system. Create new jobs of basic to medium complexity and collaborate with business units to enhance processes.• Communicate with stakeholders any information related to the core BI reporting system and support others in the organization as required.• Maintain current end user, system and application administration documentation.• Provide assistance in training end users and connect users with training resources.• Perform system testing for the full feature and functionality testing, future enhancements, and issue resolution. • Monitor third-party service providers to assure quality and service levels are maintained. • Work closely with report developers and their department owners to address business requirements and resolve outstanding issues. Show less • Gather and define end user requirements for reports and queries.• Gather, review and interpret data from a variety of applications.• Build, maintain & enhance corporate BI Dashboard• Manage report casting schedules to maintain performance integrity of BI environment• Active participant role on the BI Tactical Committee to help evaluate and create action items to bring the Business Intelligence annual objectives to life• Write reports and queries needed for project teams, managers, decision-makers or departments.• Optimize or fine tune slow running reports.• Validate and ensure accurate reporting, identify data discrepancies and ensure data consistency and integrity.• Determine best data source for business requirements (Data Warehouse, PHX Reports, E3, SQL, etc.)• Troubleshoot or modify report as needed.• Transitions reports from one platform to another as technology advances.• Translate business needs into actionable report data and/or visualizations.• Share on-call duties as needed.• Support power users on multiple platforms (Data Warehouse, PHX Reports, E3, SQL, etc.).• Work with report power users to coordinate the creation and management of data queries.• Develop routines for end-users to facilitate best practices.• Manage and prioritize assigned projects and requests.• Provide area of expertise and consultation for project teams and be able to describe warehouse data available for solutions to new implementations or changes. Show less •Administer payroll in an integrated HRIS software system, verify hours, reconcile wages and deductions, process ACH, and upload the general ledger postings. •Investigate all payroll functions and exercise discretion and judgment in resolving payroll problems.•Retain up to date regulatory knowledge and tax changes per state and federal requirements.•Maintain timesheets.•Calculate benefits/payroll tax deposits and generate payments for payroll liabilities.•Continue to analyze all payroll and timecard processes and make recommendations for efficiencies and process improvements•Create, maintain and design Crystal reports in the HRIS software.•Load and maintain mid-month advances.•Maintain payroll deductions and benefits in coordination with Human Resources.•Administer HRIS system – Verify and test payroll and tax updates in HRIS system in coordination with Human Resources.•Prepare, analyze and report information for the year-end 401(k) audit and census.•Prepare and reconcile annual and quarterly payroll tax reporting.•Complete the compensation and benefits budget for the organization.•Manage multi-state payroll reporting/processes that keep pace with credit union growth and changing technology.•Prepare timely reporting and remittance of all payroll tax reports.•Design and prepare annual salary and benefit letters for staff. •Perform monthly and quarterly general ledger accounts reconciliations for assigned accounts. Resolve un-cleared reconciling items with other accounting department or credit union staff.•Process weekly Federal Tax Deposits for withholding on member accounts. Prepare, reconcile, and file the annual 945 tax report.•Prepare monthly FTE and headcount reports.•Process and post employee expense reimbursements to employee accounts.•Maintain reconciliations and postings for member insurance products Show less

  • Business Intelligence Application Administrator

    Sept 2017 - Nov 2018

  • Reporting Analyst

    Aug 2015 - Sept 2017

  • Payroll Administrator, CPP

    Dec 2011 - Jul 2015
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  Washington Trust Bank

  Nov 2018 - May 2022

  BI Solutions Architect II
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  GCI Communication Corp.

  May 2022 - now

  • Technical Solutions Owner IV

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Technical Solutions Owner

    May 2022 - Jan 2023