SUMMARY:

• Over 15 Years of experience as a SAP HR Success Factors Lead and Techno Functional Consultant in Industries like Energy, Utility, Retail, Public Sector, Manufacturing and Technology.
• Certified Success Factors Associate in Employee Central , Compensation and Recruitment consultant with three full life cycle implementations and Support Projects. Served as a Project Lead in multiple Projects.
• Knowledge in HANA cloud integration platforms/landscapes with third party systems.
• Robust in E2E process consulting includes Scoping, pre - kickoff, Pre-implementation studies workshops, gap analysis, cutover activities and final deployment.
• Familiar with performing Computer System Validation in GxP Environment.
• Successfully implemented SAP HR Projects in PA & OM, Payroll, Benefits & Compensation, Learning Solution, Portals (ESS, MSS), and Migrated Data from Lawson, PeopleSoft, AS400, Banner and Mainframe Systems to SAP.
• Extensive experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements for conceptual design and coordination with ABAP development team for customization and implementation of the same.
• Experience in the design and architect solutions of Business Process model, end user training, documentation and cloud based HCM solutions Success Factors.
• Supported Upgrade from 4.xx to ECC 5.00/6.00. Annual Open Enrolment, Payroll Adjustments, Year End Processing and Reconciliation, Third Party Remittance, TUBS and Support Packs.
• Prepared test scenarios and test cases, conducted unit and integration testing within HR module to ensure all components fit together properly.
• Ability to bridge the gap between Technical and Functional teams in SAP HR Projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 4.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, mySAP ERP 2004(ECC 5.0), SAP Enhancement Pack 8 ECC 7

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, MVS/ESA, OS/390

Programming Languages: C, C++, JAVA, PL/SQL, HTML

Database: Oracle, DB2

Tools & Utilities: Microsoft Tools, Project Management and Mainframe tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP HCM and Success Factors Lead

• Participated in workshops for discussing the as is and to be process flow of all the above modules in Success Factors from Hire to Retire. Gather requirements for Hire to Retire process to design and configure the system.
• Participated in Meetings for leveraging integration of EC with third party vendors like Fidelity, Benefit Focus from Boomi to HCI. Performed data mapping for EC to third party integrations.
• Participated in technical discussions for replacing Boomi to HCI cloud integration tool.
• Work with Confidential HRIS Team and stakeholders to decide best practices and strategies.
• Responsible for updating Workbooks, Configuration, Test planning, test execution and reporting of Test scripts in HPQC.
• Helped client in implementing the required features with upcoming releases.
• Resolved defects associated with HRIS Project. Worked closely with Business owners for defect resolution in all modules.

Confidential, Chicago IL

SAP HCM and Success Factors Lead

• Worked with Accenture Implementation Partner for Apple Americas Global Reporting Project.
• Responsible for gathering requirements for reports to be developed in SAP Analytics Cloud, Business Objects, BPC, BW/4HANA and S/4HANA implementations
• Worked in S/4H CDS views and data sources

  Data extraction, in multiple functional areas, from SAP source systems such as ECC, S/4 HANA, CRM and from non-SAP systems Ensures that the delivered solution fulfills the needs of the business.

• Creating Security models within Success Factors S/4 and BW/4HANA.
• Assists in determining the data integration system project scope, time and required resources
• Provides support and analysis of data collection, mapping, aggregation and balance functions
• Performs requirements analysis, documentation, testing, ad-hoc reporting, user support and product leadership
• Produces detailed business process flows, functional requirements specifications and data models and communicates these requirements to the design and build teams
• Plans and authors the required functional SDLC documentation, requirements documentation, and user documentation set. Leads and sets direction to onshore Global development teams in support of Project Apple.

Confidential, Memphis TN

SAP Success Factors Lead

• Worked with EIR as Implementation Partner for global HR cloud transformation Project.
• Integrating Non-SAP applications/data sources with SAP Analytics Cloud for reporting and visualization. SAP BW4/HANA data modeling, extractions, data staging, loadings, transformations, and reporting with S/4HANA.Worked in S/4H CDS views and data sources

  Data extraction, in multiple functional areas, from SAP source systems such as ECC, S/4 HANA, CRM and from non-SAP systems. Assist in SAP BO Data Services, SLT replication methods and ODP.

• Created Roles and assigned Permissions to authorized Managers, HR Business Users to view and edit Forms to implement Role based Permissions as part of Security protocol.
• Assign Roles to users in various countries and troubleshoot missing permissions.
• Created Proxy file to provide proxy rights to authorized users.
• Create tickets to SAP and Microsoft for issues related to implementation.
• Establish new processes, standards and controls geared towards strengthening pay-for-performance culture. Develop and monitor key performance indicators and metrics to ensure efficient operations.
• Implementation and Testing of Success Factors in Employee Central, Recruiting, Reporting and Analytics, Onboarding, Learning Management Solution LMS, Performance management, Compensation and Variable Pay modules.
• Loading Look up and conversion tables, load Employee Data Files, share reports with Business Users, launch forms, review field-based permissions, adjust Interfaces and schedule jobs, generate compensation statements.

Confidential, WI

SAP Success Factors Lead

• Implementation of Success Factors in Employee Central, Recruiting, Onboarding, Reporting and Analytics, Learning Management Solution LMS, Performance management, Payroll, Compensation and variable pay modules.
• Managing Team of 15 resources internal and external third-party contractors.
• Responsible for Project Delivery and meeting deadlines.
• Managing content and evaluating content for compatibility with Success Factors and SAP.
• Internal SAP expert for HR and Success factors domain in North America, Germany and Mexico.
• Gather requirements, configuration development as per the client requirements in Success Factors Employee Central, Compensation, variable pay, LMS, Recruiting and Onboarding.
• Configuration of Employee central core, Time off, Position management and deployment of complex custom MDF solution. Data conversion and design Adhoc reports.
• Perform initial configuration tasks in Provisioning for Compensation and other modules.
• Configuring complex SF compensation requirements for Salary, Bonus and Equity plans. Upload a compensation plan template which is an XML file.
• Set up the Compensation template-manage field Id’s, guidelines. Launch the Worksheet.
• Define Compensation planner and create route map.
• Manage eligibility rules for employee groups not eligible for compensation.
• Create one to one mapping of fields of Compensation and Performance Management.
• Generate rollup reports for Compensation planning and budget information.
• Create hierarchy for executive review and rollup reports in compensation.
• Use Cross domain reporting for generating complex reports for compensation planning report to allow cross domain join with Form status and Performance Management.
• Set up permissions for security under Compensation for Executive review, Employee Central providing Admin rights to maintain objects.
• Mapping correct Roles and authorizations (RBP) for business users.
• Responsible for configuring Succession and Corporate Data Models and their respective country specific models through XML modifications.
• Managing Proxy users to access another user’s data and functions.
• Configuring Home Page and personalize instance with various portlets company’s Logo, Theme management and password policies.
• Create Picklist for customer specific data.
• Propagation for specific fields.
• Add Associations and Event Reasons to the Instance.
• Creating rating scale, Route map, manage template and launch forms.
• Apply quarterly releases for Success factors and doing research activities.
• Support data migration for inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Assist in providing user training during launch activities.
• Assist in functional testing - unit, quality and regression testing.
• Assist with rollout of new domain functionality.

Confidential, Dallas TX

SAP HCM Success Factors Lead

• Design and configure SAP, Success Factors and related systems based on HR best practices serve as their data migration lead for a large-scale SAP HCM and Success Factors integration project.
• Ensure successful implementation of success factors including Employee Central, Compensation, variable pay, Onboarding and Recruiting, LMS, Performance and goal Management while adhering to product standards.
• Gathering requirement for creating Workbooks for compensation programs, design system.
• Work with Implementation Partner to create EDF, CDF, EHF files from SAP to SF.
• Create tickets to SAP and Microsoft for issues related to implementation.
• Worked with Finance consultants to resolve issues related to Posting of Wagetypes, Symbolic accounts mapping with GL accounts and Posting to General Ledger Accounts.
• Generated Posting for testing of correct cost centers and balancing debit and credit on Pay slip.
• Created Roles with proper authorizations and assigned them to Target group as per security.
• Worked with SRM consultant to sync Organizational structures including jobs and Positons after transfers and other action related to Org changes. Resolved issues related to workflow.
• Develop necessary system configuration to satisfy clients’ needs.
• Participate in client and corporate meetings
• Maintain one’s own professional development including continuous learning of new lines of HR business and Success Factors’ products/technologies.
• Lead small teams onsite and offshore on projects and internal tasks.

Confidential

SAP HCM Senior Consultant

• Upgrade, Maintain and Enhance SAP- Provide expert level understanding of SAP configuration and functionality in the assigned business areas.
• Monitor and apply Tax regulatory and legal changes through BSI that affect business processes and SAP functionality.
• Resolved Payroll and Finance issues related to Overpayments, Claims and Paystub issues. Used Reports Payroll Reconciliation: PC00 M10 REC, Wage Type Reporter, Display Payroll Results: PC PAYRESULT, Claims Processing: PC00 M10 CLAIMS or Components of a Claim: RPCLMSU0
• Work with SAP Development team to design and test reports, interfaces, forms, and conversions; perform validation and reconciliation of data conversions.
• Research, analyze, apply, and test SAP support packages to assure up-to-date SAP functionality.

Confidential, Houston TX

SAP HR Senior Consultant

• Lead and Support the operational integrity of the outsourced payroll solution in the Americas in support of the global SAP HR Ops strategic direction.
• Support for the operational integrity of connected ancillary payroll services within
• Americas design, such as BSI tax reporting and filing, claims, general ledger reconciliation, and Overpayment recovery.
• Support for interfaces for payroll and time delivery, including but not limited to
• the Payroll Vendor Interface and Time System Interfaces.
• Responsible for assisting in deployment integrity when deploying solutions, to ensure
• that developed outsourced solutions meet the functional needs of the business and map to the overall design landscape
• Analyze, prioritize, review proposed changes and approve testing results related to
• production issues that arise
• Conduct root cause analysis sessions with the appropriate vendors for Production
• Issues including claims handling, negative pay, over deductions when an employee is on leave with benefits continuing to be deducted, and when the employee returns from leave, the first pay period earnings do not cover the balance of benefits deductions from missed payroll periods
• Provide operational support to our BP functional business partners as well as other third party vendors.
• Serve as the interface point between IBM, ADP, eTime and Aon Hewitt on functional and technical questions/issues.
• Provide project management leadership for enhancements
• Ensures involvement at Key points in Project life cycle for system enhancements.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP HR Solution Architect

• Responsible for working with Third Party Vendors like Aon Hewitt, Fidelity, ADP, Business Solver, People fluent etc. to support export of master data and Payroll Results through interfaces via Idocs for payroll processing .
• Troubleshoot Payroll configuration including SAP ADP Tables T5UF*, BSI, tax reporter, filing, general ledger reconciliation, claims, deductions, overpayment recovery.
• Troubleshoot the issues related to control of retroactive accounting for wage types in the net results in RT Table.
• Responsible for Payroll Consolidation Project. Created New Action Type for Changing Pay frequency for Canadian employees from Biweekly to Semi-Monthly in SAP and ADP. Changed ABKRS Feature for changing the Payroll area for all Hourly employees. Creating Dynamic Action for default Payroll Area.
• Enhanced Interface to Fidelity 401 K Benefit Provider. Added new codes for few Actions in master data - maintaining Leave, change in Pay etc.
• Worked with Third Party Vendor Aon-Hewitt to maintain HR Master Data.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis sessions with Cap Gemini Team both Technical and Functional Consultants for enhancements, upgrades and Production related Issues.
• Responsible for all enhancements to Interfaces with third parties. Addition of Job Title Field in Interface to Business Solver Benefit Provider.
• Resolved issues in Interface to People fluent for Talent management.
• Worked as the interface point between Capgemini, ADP and Aon-Hewitt on functional and technical questions/issues.
• Analyze, prioritize, review proposed changes and approved testing results before transporting any changes to Production.
• Participated in workshops for redesigning of Enterprise structure for US and Canadian Employees and then merging with Centrica UK based employees.

Confidential, Houston TX

SAP HCM Lead

• Responsible for successful delivery of SAP HCM solution from Hire to Retire process. This includes support, upgrade and extension of SAP HCM applications.
• Configure SAP HCM, as well as assist client in the selection, implementation planning, fit analysis, testing, rollout and post-implementation support of SAP HR application solutions.
• Assisting clients in comparison of SAP HCM application solutions and SuccessFactors HR application solutions and making recommendations as to the best-fit for the client’s needs.
• Work with Project Systems and partner personnel to transfer knowledge regarding best practice configurations.
• Used HP Quality Center for uploading test scripts and test cases for approval before major releases.

Confidential

SAP HCM Senior Consultant

• Act as primary liaison between HR users, IT and third parties like Taleo, ADP, e-Time.
• Worked closely with business users to understand their current needs and coordinated with key stakeholders, HRIS Managers and Consultants from different teams to find a solution to production issues.
• Involved in Configuration, Functional Specification preparation, Test Scenarios preparation & Testing of the Interfaces.
• Created estimates for Projects for HCM Functional and Technical Team to work on enhancements and development planned for coming Releases.
• Worked in BSI Tax Factory to apply Tax updates for different States as per Release Bulletins.
• Design and implement the Benefits Services Applications Benefit enrolments, Participation Overview in ESS Portal Application.
• Provide support to HR deployment team for conversion of Master data as well as production support for development in various HCM modules.
• Customized the Homepage framework with Custom Links to the services Configured services like timesheets, approval views, approval customizations, benefit enrolments, personal administration services like adding family members, bank information, etc.
• As part of the ESS functionality, gather requirements for Head Count iView from the BI System and implemented it, configured new Features for allowing Managers to view the PCRs based on their employee groupings/payroll area
• Configured the Team Calendar, Employee Search, Absence Data Overview in MSS
• Configured the Working Time applications in ESS Leave Request, Record Working Time
• Work with offshore ABAP developers to create Custom Reports.

Confidential, Framingham MA

SAP HCM Senior Consultant

• Responsible for implementation and production support of SAP Time Global System CATS ESS MSS for US, Mexico, Ireland and other countries.
• Design SAP system for Canada to capture exception time of employees.
• Involved in gathering requirements from key stakeholders, Business users for Implementation for India and China and created Functional specs for application development team.
• Created estimates for design and implementation efforts for various Projects.
• Act as primary liaison between HR, IT and third party tools like Winshuttle, Kronos.
• Support deployment Team for conversion of master and Time data from legacy system Peoplesoft to SAP.
• Worked in PA OM Modules to set up correct master data for processing of Time data.
• Make corrections to recorded leave, overtime, and alterations to working times recorded by Kronos. Process time evaluation error messages
• Worked on Payroll and Finance FICO, SRM, MM integration points through which data is passed. Responsible for resolving data issues between cross modules related to missing idocs.
• Creating the DME payments by cheque- automatic, posting to Accounting - manual, Posting third-party Remittance - automatic
• Ensure that time data have been captured from Kronos and evaluated according to the schedule
• Used Spinifex reporting tool to create custom reports with advanced calculations.
• Communicate with employees and managers to resolve issues in recorded time prior to the start of payroll processing
• Issue information on the status of time-off accounts
• Executing Reports: ex: checking that working time regulations have been observed and creating reports on time data to inform Time Administrators to send a Report by email giving list of employees reporting to each Time admin as per their Cost Center.
• Responsible for resolution of remedy Tickets as per SLA.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

SAP HCM Lead

• Responsible for testing of Payroll, Benefits, PA, OM, ESS MSS, E-recruiting and Performance of SAP HR - Regression, Integration and unit Testing.
• Used HP Quality Center for creating Test Cases, Test Plans and Test scripts.
• Coordinating with HR Leads and IT Project Managers to streamline the Project scope
• Maintained all Functional, Design and Technical Documents in Solution Manager.
• Testing, small enhancements, fixing Break Fix issues in different areas of SAP HR.
• Led the team of 5 People in Regression Testing Team testing interfaces and data conversion.
• Worked on integration of HR with SRM for Org data distribution via ALE Distribution. Initial Distribution and nightly distribution in terms of change pointers. Troubleshoot issues related to HR and SRM integration missing objects sent from HR to SRM via Idocs: O Org Units Jobs, S Positions, P Employees and relationships of P with other objects.
• Created estimates for testing various functionalities as per Release dates.
• Design performance or User Acceptance Tests.
• Conducted payroll parallel testing using User Acceptance Payment Method.
• Verified data coming in SAP RT table and the data in the mainframe files including Tax Wagetypes.
• Performed Interface Run to verify SAP Output File with Mainframe files.
• Build the test cases for the same and creating test data in the form of 80-byte flat file, which in turn would be FTPed to Mainframe and executing the same.
• Worked on integration of Payroll with ESS MSS Portal, entering Payroll and Time data.
• Worked on UAT and internal testing of SAP LSO.

Confidential, Marysville OH

SAP HCM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

• Responsible for leading the team of HRIS division including verifying Payroll data, maintaining Jobs, Positions, Organizational reporting Structure.
• Work closely with HRIS lead to guide for HR and Payroll functional areas.
• Maintaining the Reporting Hierarchy, relationships of Chief to Organizational unit.
• Configuration of PA30 including editing and creating Smart Forms.
• Collaborated with other team members to resolve issues encounter during testing.
• Reviewed Open Positions and the one which needs to be reorganized into another division.
• Responsible for assigning Positions to new hires, rehires or changes within organization.
• Assisted Payroll division in maintaining Pay Scale changes.
• Understand and interpret user requirements & develop Functional Specification documents, test scenarios, test cases & test scripts.

SAP HCM Consultant

Confidential

• Responsible for leading the team of 7 Consultants and Configuring Payroll.
• Responsible for Configuring Positive and Negative Time Management CATS.
• Prepare Blueprint by conducting Meetings with the key Stakeholders and assisted the Business Analyst in preparing the Business Process Document.
• Prepared design of Payroll -Tax Models and Time management module - Absence types and quota types and Functional Specifications for application development team to understand worflow of leave request.
• Created estimates for Configuration and Testing of Time Management, PA and OM Sub modules.
• Created Personnel Calculation Rules to fulfill requirement of Client.
• Prepared Data Templates for Data Migration.
• Customize the Time Schema.
• Insured the successful transfer of data between Kronos timekeeper and in-house payroll system.
• Configured the Absence types and Absence Quota Types.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP HCM Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the creation of the Blue Print structure for the business processes by working with the key stakeholders and gathered the business data requirements from the client.
• Analyzed current process model to automate the sequence in which processing steps have to be performed for payroll subsequent activities.
• Handled high severity critical issues while on support.
• Created estimates for design, implementation and testing of Compensation and Benefits.
• Design Business Model, Job structure, pay scale types for Compensation and Benefits modules and created Functional Specifications.
• Apply Tax Updates by sync BSI and SAP Tables T5UT*.
• Resolved assigned tickets within the specified SLA.

Confidential - Busch Companies, MO

SAP HCM Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The project involved the implementation of ECC 6.0 in Time Management.
• Responsible for planning and integrating approximately 1800 new users as part of a recent merger.
• Act as primary liaison between HR, IT and third parties.
• Mapped the data for conversion from older version to new version
• Sap Solution Manager Workshop and scope statement.
• Worked on Customization Procedures and User Interface by modifying and creating the Info groups and Info type menus.
• Configured the IMG settings (Work schedules, Daily, Period work schedules, Break Schedules, Absences, Attendances and Quotas) required for Time management.
• Responsible for running Time evaluations using Time evaluation schema TM04.
• Evaluated time using Time evaluation report RPTIME00.
• Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) for employees entering time data into CATS.
• Implemented various user parameters for Time sheet, customized data entry screen, and customized reports to display time sheet data.

Confidential, Phoenix

Sap HR Functional Analyst

• Managed issues of end users who were responsible for the accuracy of SAP information and for the completion of any necessary approvals by senior management.
• Developed and led the end-user training program for Organizational Management and Personnel Administration.
• Provide support to deployment Team for conversion of master data from legacy to SAP.
• Support integration with third parties: ADP, eTime, Concur.
• Designed Personnel structure including Personnel areas, sub areas, Employee Groups Employee Sub Groups and Info types.
• Defined the administrator groups and assigned administrators to relevant administrator groups using feature PINCH.
• Designed and Configured the Info groups & Actions and the Reasons for actions to capture all the Events.
• Configured Pay Scale Structure and wage type structure.
• Used RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE20, and RHINTE30 to integrate Personnel Administration with the Organizational Assignment.
• Created Blueprint for Organizational management including Object types, Jobs, Positions, Relationships between objects.
• Created organizational chart of the company.
• Identify Positions for implementation of workflow linked with ESS MSS functionality.