PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Workday Business System Analyst with more than 7+ years of experience in understanding the Business Process Flows, Case Tools, and Business Analysis.
• Adept in Identifying and Solving Business Problems and implementing appropriate technology solution.
• Ability to work cross - functionally with various stakeholders and team members.
• Familiarity with BABOK principles
• Strategic Competencies to support complex Business Analysis
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment
• Strong working knowledge in software development methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP),
• Agile, Waterfall across the span of various projects
• Skilled at performing GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and Feasibility Analysis; Ability to analyze Request for Proposal, Progress Reports, Project Charter, and Business Case.
• Understanding High Level requirement by using SIPOC Diagram via MS. Visio
• Highly proficient in working with users and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements using User interviews, Workshops, Observation and Existing systems documentation / procedures, JAD, JAR, and Brainstorming sessions, identify Functional, Non-Functional, and Business Rules, and then subsequently model them.
• Exposure to Software prototyping techniques like Incremental/ Evolutionary Prototyping
• Experienced in analyzing and preparing Project Deliverables such as Business Requirement Document ( BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD)/ SRS and proposed changes for process improvement using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Efficient in making Requirement traceability Matrix
• Ability to make Mockups and Wireframes
• Skilled in Object Oriented Analysis and Design with experience in creating Use Cases and Swim Lane Diagrams
• Excellent team player with Result-oriented, Fast learner, Excellent communication skills
• Ability to exhibit Sound judgment and Decision-making skills along with exemplary leadership in constructing Strategic vision, Generating Financial success, and Delivering positive results across multiple organizational functions.
• Analytical exposure of UML such as Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams, Sequence
• Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram and Entity Diagram
• Ability to gather requirement through Wish list and User Stories
• Support the team with Product Backlog grooming activities
• Practical knowledge of Scrum Meetings
• Ability to do prepare Business Model and Use Case Descriptive
• Project management experience includes Client management, Customer interaction, Scope definition, Project planning, and Change control, Integration and Release management.
• Sound understanding SQL queries and reporting the results to the business team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000. 2003, XP, Seven, Vista.

Databases & Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access.

ERP System/Implementation: SAP Payroll, SAP HR, SAP FI/CO 4.3, 6.0 Languages: SQL and UML.

Internet Technologies: HTML

Document Processing: MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Web, MS Excel.

Multimedia: Adobe Photoshop, Dream Viewer.

ETL/Reporting tools: Business objects (BOXI) R3 with Crystal Report, Cognos.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Omaha, NE

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary reporting focal on HR data for functional team and business owners.
• Extracting various employee information data as per the requests from HR associates and partners.
• Configure/modify Business Processes and objects as per business needs.
• Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Configured several Compensation eligibility rules and used those eligibility rules and updated them in various compensation grade profiles, allowance plans, merit plans, and period salary plans.
• Analyzed the various period salary plans and merit plan for several countries.
• Have done master testing for compensation plans after configuration and created user testing documents for plans configured and tested.
• Helped to update salary structures for different countries using Put compensation grade EIB in production.
• And able to create Custom reports to verify the EIB updates.
• Created several custom reports and calculated fields to extract data according to specifications in production.
• Setup integration for code management and migration
• Build transformations, orchestrations, and setup connectivity
• Design and develop integrations according to requirements and specifications using the appropriate WD tool set
• Own functional defects identified document, configure, test and follow the SDLC methodology for production implementation.
• Created several FDD's and CDD's for the team with the requirements from business.
• Understand business requirement, analyze, solution for system enhancements.
• Follow SDLC methodology to develop Proof of Concept, document, gather business approvals, test and implement any system enhancements in the production environment.
• Configure and run calculated fields, custom reports, advanced reports, EIBs and Core connectors as required.
• Requirement gathering, analysis and design on all requests received from business users.
• Performing Gap analysis on business processes and keeping HR executives and Stake holders updated as required.
• Resolving any queries raised by business users in regards to use of functionalities of Workday.
• Exposure to Workday Studio for inbound and outbound integrations.
• Expertise in running advanced and complex reports using pivots and charts in excel.
• Configuring worklets in Workday as required.

Confidential - Miami, FL

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supports the implementation of Workday HRIS system and post-implementation Hyper Care.
• Perform configuration work as needed to support new and existing functionality.
• Uses knowledge of HR business functions and involves the key players to identify and assessing operating needs and issues, and suggest IT solutions (possibly cross-functional or global) for one or more business function.
• Clarified QA team issues and Reviewed test plans to make sure that all requirements will be covered in scripts and tested properly.
• Coordinated in performing Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Created Supervisory Organizations, Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchies, and location hierarchies' maintenance, and modification of Workday Business Processes and definitions.
• Setup business process steps, such as Action, Approval, Approval Chain and Checklist, and how they work and integrate with security groups.
• Worked on the creation of benefit plans, job profiles, and job families.
• Configuration of Workday's business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
• Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Implemented Workday performance management including goal setting, midyear, and year end processes.
• Perform regression testing efforts to support release management and phased rollouts in different geographic regions.

Confidential

Workday HCM functional analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed built and executed data Conversion from PeopleSoft to Workday HCM.
• Converted and validated North American Payrolls for USA and Canada.
• Designed and built cross application conversion and parallel validation processes.
• Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage
• Wrote Use Cases and produce Activity diagrams, Develop requirements specifications and Documentations for Business Process Management.
• Responsible for architecture of multiple projects in FAME program
• Work on all phases of Workday implementation
• Help team in functional configuration and technical integration of the Workday application
• Design Workday HCM data conversion process
• Lead the Workday integration of business processes across disparate systems
• Maintain tools and templates for each Workday update
• Work on Workday conversion processes and tools like iTool, EBI, Workday Studio etc.
• Integrate Workday with external vendor software
• Experience leading project teams in all phases of the Workday implementation lifecycle
• Participate in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers
• Develop impact and preliminary analyses in SDLC, and participate actively in their implementation. VISIO and MS Project, Excel as Reporting Tool
• Daily Matrices report creation based on application usage across the Organization, Create the project support related documents, Update and Maintain Project Cycle Management (PCM)
• Observe the standards and procedures established by the project office and Track business needs during development phases in Business Life cycle.
• Develop testing strategies and verification scenarios along with project Scope and Requirements documents
• Exposed to entire Defect Life Cycle from opening a defect to closing a defect
• Implementation of system enhancements and conversions which included developing detailed documentation for and testing.
• Analyzed change and update requests, Coordinated the execution of tests and integration within the module
• Reconciliation system log files of on boarding more than 500 applications.

Confidential - New York, NY

Workday HCM and FI Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience with Workday security, the object-oriented structure, and the web services capabilities.
• Authored over 100 custom reports, 200+ integrations for positive pay, ACH, and expense reimbursements.
• Attended the Workday rising conferences and attended several of their classes to include calculated fields, report writing, Workday Studio, and EIB/iLoads.
• Written reports that extract Workday data and manipulate the data in other formats for various needs.
• Worked on the creation of benefit plans, job profiles, and job families.
• Setup the organization on the iPhone Workday application, created reports that can be viewed on the iPad.
• Participate in and lead portions of complex Human Capital Transformation projects, and Payroll.
• Uses knowledge of HR business functions and involves the key players to identify and assessing operating needs and issues, and suggest IT solutions (possibly cross-functional or global) for one or more business function.
• Experience building and managing integrations with the Workday Integration Cloud Platform - Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS).
• Build and implement efficient HR service delivery models and organizational designs using Workday.
• Integrate Workday to packaged Soft wares and custom applications using SOA.
• Data migration of HCM data from Oracle 11i to Workday HCM Periodic Meeting and matrix tracking to update and status along with cost of project. Weekly project period tracing with report analysis.
• Integrate Workday HCM Data with Salesforce.com.

Confidential

SAP Payroll and HR/ system analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created enterprise structure by defining the personnel areas, sub areas, sub area groupings. Employee group and subgroup groupings.
• Customized different Personal action reasons for various actions while creating actions menus based on user groups.
• Defined Personnel Sub-Area Groupings (PSG) and Employee Subgroup Groupings for Work Schedules.
• Date types for date monitoring, date specifications, Info types for hire date, service dates and termination date.
• Defined Daily Work Schedules, Periodic Work Schedules.
• Configured Info type menus in the master data screens (PA30) as per the customer's requirements.
• Created tasks and assigned them to the jobs and positions.
• Defined different Payroll Areas, Pay Scale Types, Pay Scale Groups and Levels for different Employee Groups and Subgroups.
• Set up features of LGMST and ABKRS.
• Created meaningful weekly and monthly sales reports capturing various financial and operational metrics.
• Worked with business to understand the ad-hoc analysis requirements and worked with technical team in creating the same using BOBJ WEBI
• Involved in gathering requirements and formulating the requirements for formatted reports.
• Co-ordination with SAP ABAP/4 Programmers by giving functional specifications for customization according to user requirements.

Confidential

HRIT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying and researching differences between the SAP releases.
• Responsible for ensuring that all relevant objects in SAP Payroll are included in test scripts.
• Assisting the team lead in assigning tasks to resources and managing the project plan.
• Support on-boarding process for new hires, support data flow from SAP Payroll and HR to other internal downstream systems and partner with the Benefits Analyst and other team members to provide troubleshooting support including researching and resolving issues and process flaws.