SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Human Resources Business Analyst and IT professional that provides strategic vision for enterprise transformation plan. Extensive experience in methodology, risk analysis, and implementation in diverse industries.
• HR knowledge: 15 years of experience as an SAP HR/HCM consultant. Deep knowledge of HR business processes, interfaces and integration.
• Lead and Management. Background in managing and leading full system implementations, upgrades and support projects. Have managed budget, resources, timelines and deliverables.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Strong SAP HR/HCM configuration background.
• Ability to understand business and functional requirements and translate into technical terms.
• Strong analysis background and designing solutions to complex problems.
• Experienced in interfacing with all levels of management and employees.
• Have partnered with vendors and consultant to address interfaces, security, integration points and customization.
• Utilities
• Public Sector
• Pharmaceuticals
• Hi - Tech
• Department of Defense

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

HCM Manager

• HCM Implementation included Payroll, Time Management, Organization Management, Personnel Administration, Compensation Management, Employee Self Service, and Manager Self Service.
• Lead analyst for PA, OM and Benefits modules.
• Managed onsite, remote consultants and client SME’s to ensure business requirements were captured and documented.
• Partnered with FI/CO, Procurement, Billing, EAM, Project System leads to ensure all integration points were addressed and tested.
• Managed HCM budget and project resources.
• Partnered with PMO to address timelines, project scope questions, audit issues, budget and resources.
• Conducted weekly meetings with HCM team members, client project sponsors and PMO.
• Held requirements gathering, walkthroughs and training sessions.
• Worked with Security consultant to determine and test HCM security roles.
• Created cutover strategy and led the conversion effort.

Confidential

SAP Lead

• Partnered with client management team to clarify and finalize scope of project.
• Met with client SME’s to gather new Benefit Plan requirements.
• Configured new or updated Benefit Plans in ECC6.
• Worked with client SME’s to test Benefits module to ensure new as well as existing plans met business requirements.
• Created and documented HCM upgrade test scripts. Worked with the functional team to modify and add additional test scripts when needed.
• Worked with the Basis and ABAP team members to ensure adequate test data was loaded in the system for testing.
• Performed integration and regression testing to ensure HCM functionalities worked as expected in ECC6.
• Worked with the ABAP team to resolve any upgrade interface issues.
• Provided support to users during the user acceptance testing phase.

Confidential

Testing Lead

• Analyzed the project blueprint to make sure all the business requirements (roles, functionalities, security, and report) were addressed by the implementation team.
• Worked with client SME’s, functional team members and technical team members to clarify ambiguities and document agreed upon solutions.
• Audited various roles to make sure each role had to proper access and capable of performing intended tasks in the system.
• Performed unit and integration testing using ESS, MSS and ECC functionalities
• Wrote detailed test scripts to cover all the business requirements and scenarios. Partnered with project consultants and client SME’s to ensure complete test scenarios were created. Test scripts were used for user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Used ABAP Query to create reports required by the business. Created Infosets and Infogroups to pull data needed to support LSO.
• Coordinated the integration and UAT sessions to ensure client support.

Confidential

Conversion Lead/PA Lead

• Led the data mapping effort of Employee Master Data, Benefits Data and Payroll Data from Ceridian to SAP Personnel Administration.
• Partnered with client to create an Organization and Position structure.
• Uploaded PA and OM data into SAP.
• Managed the effort of data verification once data was uploaded into SAP.
• Wrote conversion and cutover strategies. Worked with Basis Team to ensure technical items were addressed during cutover to Production system during Go-Live weekend.
• Took over the responsibility of PA lead. Worked with functional leads and client to make sure PA configuration addressed business requirements.

Confidential

SAP Project Lead

• Worked with client to determine Enterprise and Personnel Structures for three companies (Foss, HTB/YB, and AmNav) that fall under the MRG Corporate umbrella.
• For conversion, mapped data from 3 different legacy systems (JD Edwards, Ceridian, and Compu Pay) into SAP.
• Worked with ADP counterpart to map PA/OM Data from SAP into ADP.
• Gathered requirements for inbound and outbound interfaces to/from SAP to ADP.
• Wrote functional specifications for interface files to/from ADP. Worked with ADP and SAP Technical resources to produce and test the various interfaces.
• Conducted interviews to ensure qualification of additional resources
• Configured OM and PA modules.
• Managed budget and SAP resources.

Confidential

Manager

• Oversaw the requirements gathering, analysis and documentation of OM/PA business requirements of the State Controller Office project.
• Managed the budget and resources for the Personnel Administration and Organization Management teams.
• Worked with PA and OM leads to manage workload, timelines and resolve issues.
• Partnered with other managers to address process flow and data requirement questions.
• Partnered with Security Team to ensure security access addressed segregation of duty issues.
• Set up Concurrent Employment Functionality. Analyzed California State University System and set up Concurrent Employment accordingly.
• Led conversion effort of mapping employee master data from legacy system to SAP. Worked with Security Team regarding authorization and system security setup.

Manager

Confidential

• Responsible for gathering requirements and analyzing data pertaining to the various benefits plans required by the business. Created Functional Specifications.
• Configured Health, Insurance, Savings, Credit and FSA plans. Modified Payroll Schema rules to accommodate custom Benefit Plan requirements not handled by the standard Benefits module.
• For Payroll integration, configured benefits wage types and worked with Payroll and FI/CO to map wage types to appropriate accounts.
• Created payroll deduction models for the various benefit plans. Analyzed interface requirements and wrote Functional and Technical Specifications for interfaces with third party vendors.
• As the Team Lead, configured Personnel Actions to meet business needs of client regarding life events of employees, configured Personnel Actions in OM to ensure all objects are created and linked appropriately and configured Dynamic Actions to ensure certain infotypes are brought up when certain business events occur

Confidential

Manager

• Team Lead PA/OM modules of an SAP HR implementation for a Mining company. Worked with the client and various union representatives to gather requirements and to determine the Enterprise structure. Wrote configuration specifications, functional specifications and technical specifications.
• Team Lead Training and Events Management (TEM). Worked with team to configure TEM prototype for a major pharmaceutical firm. Configured a Training Catalog based on courses/classes provided by the client and analyzed business needs and configured Business Events accordingly. For proof of concept demonstration for the client, booking and attendance functionalities were configured. Follow up, resources, and appraisal system capabilities were also configured. Success of the demonstration resulted in the client awarding the full TEM implementation to Confidential .
• Business Development. Worked on business development efforts of several Public Sector clients. Analyzed client requirements and designed detailed functional design of solutions and coordinated the efforts of other business proposal analyst to ensure documents met all business requirements of the clients.

Confidential

Manager

• Managed group responsible for maintaining SAP HR, ESS, CATS and interface to PeopleSoft.
• Worked with business units to streamline processes and prioritize work. Manage resources. Implemented a release strategy to clarify for clients when to expect deliverables.
• Responsible for ensuring IT Security is compliant with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Audit requirement. Wrote test plans and performed testing.