SUMMARY:

• 12 years of experience working as a functional resource with SAP HCM systems. He has extensive experience as a functional consultant in SAP Payroll, Time Management, and Benefits in both product implementations as well as production support. Dante has successfully led initiatives on many high - profile projects in an SAP consulting role which includes working for Fortune 500 companies and the Public Sector. He possesses a distinct talent for meeting client needs by communicating in a collaborative process. Furthermore, he has a distinguished background as a business professional with a high degree of business process knowledge.
• HCM enhancement projects including Global rollout of SAP Minimaster, Payroll, and Time.
• Public and Private Sector system implementations
• Benefits Integration with 3rd party systems i.e. Benefit Focus, Fidelity
• Payroll integration with 3rd party systems such as ADP and Kronos
• Service Pack and TUBS updates
• Financial Transformation
• Functional Consulting for Payroll and Time in both implementation and support roles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Senior HCM Consultant

• Payroll Configuration Consultant for several large clients implementing ADP Globalview (SAP). Entire lifecycle from requirements gathering, blueprinting, configuration, Unit/Parallel/UAT testing.
• Integration consultant of HR to Payroll system integrations of Workday and Employee Central (EC) into Employee Central Payroll (ECP) and ADP Globalview for North American implementation projects, including US and Canadian Payroll. Time integration of Kronos Workforce Central into ECP,
• Support of global SAP Time implementation for a top-tier pharmaceutical company providing expertise of Time solutions, including daily and weekly regular/overtime, and double time, work schedule design, shift premium calculations, meal penalties, call-in and call-back for union and non-union as well as company subsidiaries for both the US and Canada.
• Time implementation of sick accruals for part-time hourly employees to comply with a new state law for part-time employees at a Public University.
• Implemented a global SAP Mini-master project for a large manufacturing client with over US $1.7 Billion in revenue, creating solutions for a global multiple company reporting structure including personnel areas/subareas, and cost centers. Directed the setup of global organizational reporting structure, created new global Personnel Actions and Infogroups, and setup global payroll, work and holiday schedules, using SAP standards for SAP functional configuration and feature implementation.
• Benefit support for new benefit vendor and plan implementation and subsequent Open Enrollment rollout for one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world.
• Year-end project support running SAP Tax Reporter for W-2/W-2C, and 1099s. Reconciliation or payroll taxes and reportable earnings using Payroll Recon and Query Manager 4. Form fix/configuration, wage type setup of taxable/non-taxable wages, and general functional production support.

Confidential

SAP Senior HCM Consultant

• Provide technical support to the business users, analyzing current system functionality and creating solutions for new products, as well as fixes and enhancements to the existing system.
• Provide product expertise in the area of SAP Time Management supporting business users by resolving complex system issues by providing fixes.
• Assisted with SAP Payroll issues related to Payroll, Time, Benefits, Organizational Management, and Personnel Administration. Activities included the creation of new wage types, changes to tax models and processing classes. Fixes and/or enhancements to Rules in the Payroll and Time Schemas, assistance of Position maintenance for HR business users and end-user support of Org Chart publishing.
• Contributed to Payroll year-end activities related to tax reconciliation and adjustments, earnings, tax levy adjustments, Vacation and Flex Holiday quota balances, and new 2014 Benefit limits.
• Resolved multiple system issues related to Hourly Salaried Employee Shift Premiums, & 24-Hour Cycle Time.
• Participated and assisted in the system configuration of the ATSA Supervisor Enhancement Project.
• Daily support and troubleshooting with the Stock Option interfaces to and from EASI and BAML.
• Lead testing efforts of latest SAP Support Pack Updates.

Confidential

SAP HCM Support Lead

• Led different HCM Benefits Improvement Projects including Payroll integration, Service Pack Update, and the Financial Transformation Project.
• Payroll lead for the outsourcing of AMD health and insurance plans to a 3rd-party vendor.
• Integral part of the outbound interfaces to the 3rd-party vendors, & inbound interfaces to SAP Payroll.
• Reconfigured existing Benefit wage types for outsourced plan model by adding to inbound interface payment and remuneration Infotypes for Payroll.
• Configured Benefit schemas (UBE1 & UBE2), and modified rules related to Benefits Infotypes for health, insurance, and savings plans, to decommission in-house Benefits.
• Creation of benefit-related wage types that included setting up processing classes of wage types.
• Created employee benefit enrollments and maintained production support of benefits plan & rate changes.
• Responsible for overseeing implementation of new Roth 401K plan and Fidelity interfaces.
• Created and maintained the symbolic accounts and mapped them with the G/L and expense accounts.
• Conducted parallel and integration testing of SAP Payroll
• Modified remuneration statements for evaluation of new Roth wage type.
• Requirements creation, development of unit test plans, creation of test cases, and traceability, and defect resolution.
• Service Pack 73-82 Update - HCM Support Lead of SAP Service Pack global service update for the 2012 year project test execution and defect facilitation to project completion by commanding daily test meetings, creating accountability of test staff.
• Financial Transformation Project - HCM Support Lead, determined from a tactical standpoint all HR SAP processes and interfaces involved in the upgrade regression testing effort, developing a suite of regression testing scenarios, leading the testing effort for the HRIT team driving HRIT testing effort to completion.

Confidential

SAP Payroll Consultant

• Identified system enhancement gaps for remapping of G/L wage types.
• Involved in Payroll catalog definition and worked with earnings, deductions, gross up & year-end adjustment wage types.
• Worked on mapping of Payroll accounts to SAP Symbolic accounts, and mapping to G/L accounts.
• Identified process integration points between compensation and payroll involving different bonus and commission wage type calculations.
• Collaborated with business users to identify requirements, design enhancements, and overall system functionality.
• Responsible for reviewing the developer Functional Design Documents (FDD) to ensure all functional requirements were being met.
• Responsible for reviewing the unit test plans and the quality assurance plans to ensure all requirements had been met.
• Performed integration testing work as necessary to insure that new functionality or enhancements did not adversely affect existing functionality.

Confidential

SAP HR Payroll/Time Consultant

• Successfully completed Integration Phases 1 & 2 deliverables for signoff by SCO Project Management Team.
• Created Payroll Areas to accommodate different pay period, pay frequency and payment dates.
• Configured Basic Pay wage types for different employee groups.
• Mapped existing legacy payment and deduction codes to new SAP wage types.
• Created Payment Models for recurring payments and deductions using the feature MODDE for defaulting payment and deduction schedules, defined deduction frequencies, and set limits on deductions, including priorities and arrears processing for calculating deductions.
• Created Daily and Period Work Schedules and setup by Personnel Subareas for Planned Working Time.
• Designed operations for time-related functions/rules in Time Schemas TM00 and TC00.
• Created Blueprinting Requirements Documents (BPRD) for various Payroll and Time processes.
• Customized the US standard Payroll Schema (U000).
• Defined employee grouping’s for account determination, created Symbolic Accounts required for postings to accounting.
• Collaborated with SCO’s Independent Verification and Validation Group (IV&V) by regularly communicating via meetings, and with the creation of deliverable documents for each development cycle.
• Facilitated workshops for SCO staff to develop time scenarios for Time system including the usage of Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS), testing of various Work Schedule scenarios, and using Time Transfer and Time Evaluation for subsequent payroll processing.
• Managed transport requests to QA environments for submission and approval.

Confidential

SAP HCM Consultant

• Functional expertise within SAP HR ECC 6.0, while doing system architecture analysis of custom in-house HR software application (PIX), Kenexa BrassRing recruitment software, and SAP Business Warehouse (BW), determining integration points and security role-based access.
• Led team efforts involving large foundational layer data and integration testing for the conversion of data from multiple interfaces including: SAP R/3, BrassRing, and PIX into SAP BW.
• Administered User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase designing test schedule, test plan, and detailed business use cases.
• Created UAT test deck presentations for business users, and coordinated with global HR resources for on-site UAT period. This involved scheduled conference calls and meetings with onsite and remote presentations for international business stakeholders prior to UAT as well as coordinating their onsite arrival.
• Designed test scope, test approach, and test entry and exit criteria for ‘Go-Live’ sign off by executive sponsorship.

Confidential

SAP Benefits Consultant

• Benefits Functional Analyst assisting in the setup of benefit enrollment plans, employee groupings, coverage options, cost variants, cost rules, plan rates, and assigning health plan attributes.
• Configured Benefit schemas (UBE1 & UBE2) and rules for US Payroll related to Benefits
• Infotypes for health, insurance, and savings plans.
• Created and analyzed Functional and Technical Detail Design Specifications (FDDS) and (TDDS) based upon blueprinting sessions for Benefits and Payroll.
• UAT analyst for client during User Acceptance Test (UAT), System Readiness & Review (SRR), and Regression testing phases acting as a lead liaison for client testing aiding client with testing scenarios and data setup. This included on-boarding using Taleo, Benefits, CM, PA, and PY, while communicating overall project status to project leads.
• Payroll functional support for client regression testing, running and posting payrolls, verifying payroll results, wage types, and remuneration statements.
• Created standardized SAP payroll reports for client using adhoc and table queries.