UVAFinance's own Darrell Kozuch, Senior Director for Finance, was honored this May by the American Payroll Association with a Special Recognition Award for his long service to the Association. Kozuch has been an APA member since 1985, and a UVA employee since 1991, starting out at the University Medical Center, where he set up the payroll department and implemented their payroll system in July 1994. Kozuch "came across Hospital Drive" to the academic world in 1998 to work on the same payroll system, transitioned the Y2K conversion, and implemented the Integrated HR/Payroll system in 2002. He transitioned from Finance to Human Resources in 1999, and sat in many different seats within HR, where he moved from Director to Assistant Vice President over payroll, benefits, temp services, HR IT, HR Budget, and the call center, until he transitioned back into Finance in 2015. Currently, his work in Finance involves testing, data setup, and conversion on the implementation of Workday.
To the crowd at the award ceremony on May 18 in Washington DC, Kozuch said, "This is the best day ever! None of us would be here if it wasn’t for the good people around us. Thanks to my wife and children and to UVA for supporting me all of these years.”
Kozuch has served on the Best Practices Subcommittee and as Co-Chair of the Educational Institutions Subcommittee of the Strategic Payroll Leadership Task Force, as well as on the National Speakers Bureau.
He received a Meritorious Service Award in 2015.
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| Darrel Kozuch, APA Executive Director Dan Maddox, and Susan Baptista, who was also awarded. |
About the APA: The American Payroll Association is the nation’s leader in payroll education, publications, and training. Since 1983, it’s been our goal to increase the payroll professional’s skill level through knowledge and a supportive community of peers. Representing more than 20,000 members, we are the industry’s highly respected and collective voice in Washington, D.C. and beyond.
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