PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• HR professional consultant with over ten plus years of extensive SAP R/3 experience, Hands - on capabilities include: blueprinting, configuring, conducting workshops, testing (Base line testing to parallel testing), training end user and go-live support for Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Payroll, Time Management and the development of end user training programs.
• Extensive experience in the functional configuration of SAP HR Accelerated projects ASAP including Personnel Administration (PA) and Payroll.
• Coordination with Human Resources Department for gathering requirements.
• Successfully completed multiple SAP full life-cycle implementations involving requirement analysis and gathering, designing business blueprint, Configuration, testing and production support.
• Experience in Project Preparation, Requirements, gathering and analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization/Configuration, Go-Live, Production Support, End-User Documentation and Training.
• Identified the AS-IS process at the client and defined TO-BE landscape.
• Involved in GO - LIVE and in Post GO - LIVE.
• Function as Resident Team Expert for all configuration issues (both support and project) within their areas (modules) of expertise.
• Coach and Mentor Junior SAP Functional Analyst.
• Expertise in US, Mexico, China and Canada specific Schemas and PCR’s (notably Public Sector).
• Proficient in conversion of business requirements into functional specifications and technical specifications for solution development, unit and integration testing and other aspects of software development lifecycle.
• Experience in the Function Design Documents (FDD), Technical Design Document (TDD), Testing and documentation of Other Team members Design and Codes.
• Administered the design workshops for interfaces and integrations and resolved any gap issues.
• Expertise in testing, quality analysis including resolving issues across modules and creating test scripts; using Share Point to store the test data.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills with strong analytical ability, problem solving capability and the ability to meet deadlines for cross module integration.
• LSO integration with Performance Management
• MM integration with HR.
• Liaison between Business side and IT side.
• Service Tickets Management, prioritizing on the nature of the incident for three different countries China, Malaysia and Mexico.
• Extensive Experience in Year End Tax Process.
• Yearend processing regarding Claims and Year end taxes. Applying OSS notes and BSI TUBS.
• Generating all statutory reports such as Federal forms 940, W-2, W-3, and all state SUI forms.
• Creating Reports according to Client needs for internal and external purposes.
• Client focused, demonstrate concern for meeting and exceeding immediate and future needs of clients
• Professional manner and presentation and ability to professionally set, manage and satisfy customer expectations through personal involvement or delegation.
• Ability to priorities tasks and time management skills, ability to work across various projects, ability to lead a team of consultants to effectively implement a solution
• Teamwork, work collaboratively with others to achieve group goals, working together to accomplish business results
• Business Analysis skills.
• Strong knowledge of SAP in HR/ Payroll configuration and design including schemas, enterprise and personnel structures, wage types, work schedules etc.
• Knowledge of accounting standards specifically design and implementation of posting to accounting from payroll.
• Analytical thinking/problem solving skills - work systematically and logically to resolve problems, address opportunities or manage the situation at hand, identify causes, relationships and implication
• Provide detailed estimates for projects for design and development. Validate estimates from consultants.
• Developed tested and deployed for all types of Confidential objects to meet project goals.
• Daily development meeting with the team to monitor progress.
• Liaison to Basis organization to coordinate infrastructure changes
• Collaborated with functional leads on gathering business requirements from users.
• Designing technical specifications and development of new functionality
• Developed System and Integration Testing strategy regarding integrations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and maintained business process designs.
• Installed and configured payroll modules for replicated data.
• Modified Enterprise Structure and company codes.
• Constructed and developed Kronos interfaces for SAP apps.
• Designed and configured Success Factor Learning Management module.
• Formulated and executed HR Success Factors and plans.
• Developed and implemented inbound interfaces to external clients as regards to Success Factor, for example to Plateau.
• With my introduction later in the project the project completed on time, as there were lots of gaps in the design of the interfaces; which need to be address.
• Take control of the situation with outside vendors and understood their side of the business and resolved those issues.
• Created and modified interfaces for SAP cloud payroll.
• Developed and implemented Data Migration.
• Assisted in writing of scenario test scripts and interface files.
• Conducted training sessions about Payroll business processes.

Confidential

SAP- Payroll Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Post-production issues and Year-End Activities.
• Configured off-cycle Process Model for posting payroll results after reversals.
• Involved in the Up-gradation of BSI Tax Factory from 8.0 to 9.0
• Configured wage types required for Year-end Adjustments and done Adjustments using IT0221 subtype YANA and YAWA.
• Documented the adjustment process and transferred knowledge to user to carry out adjustment through adjustment workbench.
• Created new wage types, Tax Combo and assigned to taxability model for new created specification for Processing Class 71 to make FUTA calculation only
• Customized the Tax-locator Functionality
• Involved in Analysis, Testing and Application of Year-End HRSP’s.
• Configured of new Garnishment rule and creating a new Remittance rule for the Garnishments
• Garnishment Adjustment (0216) was used to refund, correct balance, and release garnishment.
• Configured Wage types for clearing Claims.
• Solved an issue regarding the calculation of wrong taxes because of wrong tax type combination for the tax authority.
• Coordinated with ADP for sending Tax data files for W2 processing.
• Training and developing documents for the end user’s, so they can manage on their own in future.

Confidential

HCM Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis of Personnel Administration, Organizational Management Learning Management, Payroll and Performance management modules, providing insight and recommendations for a more efficient system.
• Responsible for all interfaces and enhancements related to SAP to PeopleSoft
• Perform blueprinting workshops to gather information on the client’s requirements.
• Completed the blue printing for all the business processes related with these interfaces, outbound interfaces to Personnel Administration and benefit vendors.
• Creating the functional specification document if necessary otherwise guiding Off-Shore team.
• Creating custom message types and making sure all the change pointers are working.
• Performing all the required testing for to go-live
• Responsible for sync (HR master data) of both the systems (SAP and PeopleSoft)
• Responsible for sync of common tables of both the systems (SAP and PeopleSoft)
• Perform technical analysis and issue resolution of SAP HCM system problems and data issues
• Setting up the Share Services Department for HCM, means training, assigning the roles and separation of duties and creating the documents for the future references.
• After Go-Live responsible for Hyper Care Team (SAP Side)
• Assisted in writing code for Web Dynpro for Portals
• Responsible for all BN, OM, and PA interfaces (FS document and review of TD) to third party vendors and from People Soft to SAP. Gathering requirements, suggesting new design and writing the specification. Interacting with internal and external vendors. Design the interfaces for employee’s eligibility and employees demographics.
• Union rules regarding attendances and absence.
• Configuring benefit plans, costing them according to Employee age and salary
• Configuring wagetypes for benefit plans for integration with payroll
• Designed the remuneration statement Using HRForms
• Creating Work Schedules for different locations
• Created the absences types, absence quota types and the generation rules.
• Created the attendance types and the generation rules.
• Posting to Financial Accounting: Defining employee grouping/account assignment, defining symbolic accounts, defining wage type posting attributes and account assignment
• Garnishment documents /order types were created. Service charges rules were enforced through configuration. Rules for Non-exempt amount were created,
• Off-Cycle reason-codes and wage types were configured.

Confidential

HCM Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• HCM lead for 12 Off-Shore and 10 On-Shore resources for Personnel Management, Organization Management, Compensation Management, Performance Management and Payroll modules implementation.
• Ensure that all deliverables are created on time and accurately as per project schedule, such as Blueprints, Conducting Work Shops, specifications, BP reviews, configurations Audits and configuration documentation
• Led the development effort for the creation of an Org Chart extract, which could be uploaded, to Microsoft Visio via a VB macro. Duties included the development of a project plan in order to ensure work items for a team of 4 were met on time, the creation of a functional spec that would extract the required information from SAP in the proper format for the VB macro, unit testing of the SAP extract and integration testing of both the SAP extract and VB macro.
• Performed configuration changes in Personnel Administration. This included new additions to the Personnel Structure, creation of new dynamic actions, new personnel actions and new subtypes for various infotypes.
• Design and document the complete new Labor Program regarding grievances and their time management.
• Design and document the client’s solution including their business requirements and any program specifications required according to Client documentation guidelines.
• Liaise with clients throughout the data cleansing, mapping and conversion phase and provide any assistance required including performing data loads and reconciliation
• Responsible for all BN, OM, PA and PY interfaces (FS document and review of TD) to third party vendors and from People Soft to SAP. Gathering requirements, suggesting new design and writing the specification. Interacting with internal and external vendors. Design the interfaces for bank, employees eligibility and employees demographics.
• Led all the discussion surrounding the integration points between HCM and FI, MM and SD.
• Calculated all the major integration points from and to HCM, so there will be no issues on go-live.
• Provide end user training including creating training manuals, preparing training systems and conducting training sessions
• Generate test scripts to enable ASP clients to adequately test the solution.
• Designed the remuneration statement through HRForms
• Support client through the User Acceptance, Parallel Testing and Go-Live phases.
• Accountable for achieving estimated days as per fixed price strategy.
• Possess the highest level of HR and payroll knowledge and the necessary competencies to deliver the maximum value to Client clients.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of the SAP Products, of SAP related news and any developments to the product and its competitors
• Provide assistance and liaise with the Project teams to design any non-standard changes to the CLIENT requirement.
• Design, document, quote, implement, test and train any post live change requests (scope changes).
• Created wage types for Benefits Integration to Payroll
• Demonstrate proactive participation in Implementation Team forums, contribute and participate in knowledge sharing and team development sessions. Seek to act as a mentor and actively support fellow team members in an effort to develop their respective skills
• Liaise with the CLIENT Project Manager (Consulting) assigned to the project and Team Leaders (Configuration), providing regular status updates and early warning of any slippage/ problems that may occur.
• Escalate project issues to Project Manager including scope variations, task slippages and risks that may arise during the project.
• Provide relevant training and knowledge sharing opportunities for members of the Implementation Team, this can include informal on-the-job training to facilitating formal SAP training courses
• Demonstrate and apply knowledge of key implementation strategies such as the SAP ASAP methodology.
• Managing functional payroll testing in HPQC (10.00).
• Creating Work Schedules for different locations
• Created the absences types, absence quota types and the generation rules.
• Managing three-payroll parallel testing.
• Overall in charge of YTD loads conversion from People Soft to SAP.
• Knowledge of support methodologies including usage of an Issue tracking system.
• Keep clients blueprints, configuration worksheets, client specific configuration documentation and training material up to date.
• Liaise with internal groups including Basis, MPS, Support, Project Management and Product Management to ensure that client’s receive the highest levels of client service.
• Liaise with Internal and External vendors (banks and etc.) regarding interfaces and defect management.
• Perform Quality Assurance reviews on blueprints and configuration of the client’s system.
• Methodologies - demonstrate knowledge and application of key methodologies employed by Implementation team and Project implementation methodology

Confidential

Test Lead & Functional

Responsibilities:

• Test lead for 6 Offshore and 3 On-Shore resources for HR implementation.

Confidential

Payroll Consultant/Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is an electronics solutions company providing comprehensive electronics design, production and product management services to global electronics and technology companies. They have in house SAP Shop.
• They provided SAP Payroll solution for two different countries (Mexico - one site and China - four sites and support for Malaysia), which required extensive travel and understanding of the local taxes and social insurances.