SUMMARY:

• Oracle Certified HCM Cloud Implementation Specialist with 7+ years of experience in ERP Implementations covering Oracle HCM, HCM Cloud Upgrade, Patch updates, Cloud Testing, Support & Maintenance,Oracle Fusion / HCM in Benefits, Leave of Absence, Core HR, and Talent Management.
• Configuring Life Events, Configuring Plan Types, Plans, and Eligibility Profiles & Leave of Absences. Open Enrollment setups & issues, worked on defining Rates and Configuring Dependents for Health, Life & Disability plans. Creating Benefit groups and Processing Life events, addressing life events issues, creating fast formulas with person selection rule etc.
• Workforce directory (Employee Self - service & Manager Self Service), Workforce Administration, Grades, Bargaining Units, Collective Agreements, Workflows, Workforce Life cycle & Profile Management
• Goal Management, Performance Management, Talent Review & Succession Planning.
• Experienced in Full Life Cycle implementations of Global HR, Benefits, Talent Modules and support experience as well with Benefits and Payroll modules.
• Experience in system analysis, requirement study, and project plan definition, specification generation, test plan preparation, unit testing & system integration testing.
• Experience with identifying business requirements and map them to the Oracle Cloud functionality.
• Expertise in Gathering, analyzing business requirements and performing Fit-Gap analysis.
• Extensively used HCM Data Loader (HDL), Spreadsheet loader and Payroll Batch Loader (PBL) for Migration/Data loading/Conversion of several business objects related to Core HR and Benefits modules.
• Data Loading/Conversions of business objects which includes the Workforce structure data, Worker data, Work relationships data etc.
• Implemented Co-Existence model for migration from Oracle EBS - R12 to Oracle Fusion HCM.
• Defined setups of Core HR, Self Service HR, Payroll, Oracle Time and Labor (OTL), iRecruitment and Performance Management (PMS) modules to map the business requirements into Product functionality. Support experience in Oracle Advanced Benefits (OAB) and Oracle Learning Management (OLM).
• Developed models to help move from discretionary target incentive percentages to uniform target percentages based on bands.
• Prepared bonus worksheets for 2015 Incentive payouts for various departments, collected the sheets, sorted out discrepancies with managers and prepared the payout file for payroll.
• Designed simplified process/configuration, conducted UAT, and implemented new automated talent management system working with HRIS, IT, and vendor Oracle HCM to support performance management, succession planning, and compensation planning in new system.
• Extensive experience in creating OTBI Reports, BI Publisher Reports and HCM Extracts and Personalization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Oracle Techno-functional HCM

Confidential, Houston,TX

Responsibilities:

• Prepared functional designs for Core HR, Payroll and SSHR and prepared test cases for Payroll, Core HR and SSHR.
• Configure new HR and Payroll whenever there's new benefits (i.e. new CBA benefits) including writing fast formulas.
• Setup and maintained enterprise and workforce structures and involved in the designing of payroll inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Designed and developed Oracle HRMS solutions such as customized reports, forms.
• Involved in resolving Production Support issues relating to creation of Characteristic Fields, Value Fields, and assigning value to Value Fields.
• Identified Core HR, Absence Management requirements configured necessary solutions and conducted knowledge transfer sessions with client to support ongoing maintenance.
• Develop HCM Extracts/OBI Reports for Global HR and Debug and enhance workflows, reports/modules/alerts.
• Expertise in Oracle Payroll compensation management, Salary review, and designing of especial earning rules using Fast formulas.
• Use Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager (FSM) to implement Global HR and Manage Enterprise HCM Information and Legal Entity HCM Information.
• Bridged gap between AS-IS and TO-BE business process flows, integration of process flow diagrams to show end-to-end business model, and process mapping exercise by including swim lanes to distinguish roles and responsibilities.
• Helped and supported new HR end users, to maintain the employee's information effectively in Oracle HCM Cloud application by creating functional design for interfacing check and direct deposit output files to a third-party printing service.
• Configure custom Workflow routing rules for all Manager self-services and Employee Self-services with help of Area .
• Proficient in defining users, Responsibilities, Creating Functions, Menus, Request sets, Request groups, Registering Concurrent Programs, Lookup types and defining Value sets.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and collaborated with the QA team to develop the test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.

Oracle Absence/HR Manager

Confidential, Portland, OR

Responsibilities:

• Configured Absence Management to comply with changes in business requirement in Test and full configuration in the production environment.
• Created roadmap document, executive summary and strategy for upgrade to current release for two modules, Absence Management and Time and Labor.
• Involved in the Data Loading/Conversions using HCM Data loader (HDL) which includes the Workforce structure data, Worker data, Work relationships data, Salary info etc.
• Created File Based Loader & OTBI reports with HCM Extracts integration in HCM Cloud.
• Responsible for requirement analysis, design and architect of the business processes in Oracle Cloud and transition from 2 existing legacy applications for Compensation and provided recommendations to the design of Fusion Absence Management.
• Developed and implemented proactive leave administration processes, programs and communications to improve the management and compliance.
• Administered leave of absences process; coordinated, managed and tracked FMLA, short- term disability, long term disability and company's leaves.
• Coordinate, track and manage all company leaves of absences - including FMLA, state and municipal leaves, company provided leaves, military leave, jury duty, etc.
• Develop and implement proactive leave administration processes, programs and communications to improve the management and compliance.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all absence inquiries, informing management of the leave process and related policies and procedures.
• Intake of leave requests through HRIS/payroll systems-including sending required notices, forms and letters and determining leave eligibility and leave approvals/denials and re-certifications.
• Communicate with employees, managers and human resources professionals to coordinate the return to work process, including accommodation requests and leave expirations.
• Consult with benefits department, as needed; to coordinate changes to benefits as a result of employee's leaved.
• Develop, generate and present reports on a regular basis to analyze leave data.
• Worked on Absence Integrations with Payroll, OTL and Workforce scheduling and Organized the testing process and Bug Reporting using ALM.
• Worked as Oracle HCM Analyst and provided best-practice guidance on HCM business processes on OTL and Payroll integrations and mass updates.
• Created Oracle Fusion BI Reports and Analytics and Involved in testing existing BI Reports and creation of ad-hoc OTBI reports

Compensation & HRIS Consultant

Confidential, Greensville, SC

Responsibilities:

• Developed and administered effective compensation programs that support business strategies, attract/retain talent, reward results and compete in a competitive marketplace.
• Calculated monthly and quarterly sales commissions, bonuses, and pay changes.
• Proposed salary and incentive adjustments to comply with company policies and practices.
• Administered compensation programs for exempt and non-exempt sales, office and production employees.
• Participated in salary surveys, conducted market pricing and prepared pricing analyses.
• Prepared and evaluated job descriptions through market analysis including SWOT Analysis, Porter’s 5 force model HR Management
• Effectively developed direct reports in HR Solution Center which provided payroll, benefits, employee relations, labor relations, compensation, talent management, and HRIS assistance to all employees.
• Drove HR initiatives to align with business strategy and deliver superior service to our field organization.
• Facilitated integration of new HCM system through testing, process improvement and change management Benefits:
• Created and distributed communication materials (annual enrollment guide, employee handbook, benefit policies, internal company newsletters)
• Coached field and corporate HR on benefit guidelines and practices to ensure company compliance.
• Led benefits trainings to prepare for open enrollment and integration of new HCM system.
• Modified and created new eligibility rules, created Bonus Plan for the first time in the system, uploaded via EIB the Target Incentive Percentages in the Sandbox and did thorough testing as a preparation to load next year's target incentives in the Production System.
• Modified and created new eligibility rules, created Bonus Plan for the first time in the system, uploaded via EIB the Target Incentive Percentages in the Sandbox and did thorough testing as a preparation to load next year's target incentives in the Production System.
• Modified the current configuration of job profiles on the Sandbox so that Job profiles/descriptions can be shared worldwide as the system is not configured to do so. Did extensive testing from creating new job requisitions in different countries using the same job profile up o hiring and on boarding successfully. Identified the reports that need to get modified by IT.
• Changed job profiles of employees after job reclassification that also changed the grades and update compensation grades and grade profiles and initiate base pay change.
• Developed models to help move from discretionary target incentive percentages to uniform target percentages based on bands.
• Compensation analysis for certain job families on line manager's requests which helps them get market adjustment approval from upper management.

Product Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Leads technical projects for the Talent Management and Learning functions including: annual reviews, quarterly check-ins, compliance training, and continuous learning.
• Creates functional requirements based on business needs and translates to technical resources for delivery.
• Serves as the primary point of contact to consult on technology solutions for future initiatives and projects.
• Created talent review process, including assessments to identify high potential talent for career growth/movement and annual functional talent planning across organization.
• Developed resources/tools and training for each phase of annual talent cycle for end user navigation and HR Business Partner administrative activities.
• Maintained talent data/profiles and created talent pools for key positions, conducted quarterly cross-functional talent planning sessions with HR and functional leaders to fill open positions, created bench plans, and prepared annual talent review plan for executive leadership team and board members.
• Developed and managed MBA Summer Intern Program for five years with conversion rate of 75% interns to full-time corporate employees upon completion of their MBA program.
• Oversaw annual performance review, providing resources and tools to support employee goal setting linked to strategic objectives, manager skills in writing effective feedback, calibration of ratings, and delivery of performance discussions related, to Pay for Performance culture.
• Partnered with HRIS, IT, and vendor SumTotal to complete process development, configuration, UAT, and implementation of first automated talent system, including performance, 360, and succession modules, developed resources/tools and training to support the end users and HR administers.
• Providing exceptional customer service via phone & email while actively contributing to performance objectives.