EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• SAP Payroll Consultant with US and Canadian payroll configuration, implementation and support experience across various industries, coupled with business process engineering experience. Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Experience in all phases of project development, from planning and engineering strategy roadmap through realization and post go - live support.
• Nine years of SAP HCM Payroll configuration experience including four full life-cycle implementations
• Proven ability to translate business objectives into clear functional and technical requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: SAP HCM to include OM, PA, TM, BN and PY; SAP Canadian Payroll; Visio Standard; Microsoft Office; Microsoft Project; Microsoft Windows; Adobe Acrobat; Microsoft Outlook.

SAP PAYROLL AND TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS: US and Canadian Payroll Schema, rules, and features; Wage type configuration; Third party remittance; CATS; Integration with time clocks; Payroll Rules; Tax processing; Benefits; Time Schema; Absence Quotas; Off-cycle processing; Garnishments; Month-end accruals; Work Schedules; Time Evaluation Reports: FICO integration; Year-end processing; Claims and overpayments; Time recording.

PROJECT SKILLS: JAD Facilitator, HP Quality Center, Functional requirements, Technical specifications, Testing, Project management, Accelerated SAP Implementation Methodology, SAP Solution Manager version 4, HCM best practices, Gap Analyses, Supply chain process re-engineering and data conversion.

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP Payroll Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the testing of payroll processing for 1,100 employees merged with Confidential as a result of the acquisition of Dreamworks Animation
• Created a test strategy for payroll testing of non-union exempt and non-exempt employees converting from Oracle to ADP (SAP)
• Developed end-to-end test cases for Cycle 2 payroll testing
• Participated in weekly Payroll Testing Result review sessions
• Utilizied my strong proficiency in MicroSoft Word and Excel to meet project objectives.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the conversion of HR, Benefits and Payroll data for over 4,000 employees converting from ADP (SAP) to Peoplesoft
• Conducted data analyses in support of the project management organization for the acquisition
• Collaborated and developed a data conversion strategy to convert all Dealertrack HR, Benefits and payroll data (SAP 6.0) into PeopleSoft
• Utilizied my strong proficiency in MicroSoft Word, PowerPoint, Visio and Excel to meet project objectives.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• HR Team Lead for the successful implementation of the Non-Employee Logical Access ( Confidential ) global solution
• Managed four off-shore resources to satisfy business requirements for enhancements to the SAP Personnel Administration module
• Experienced in IDOCS to transmit SAP data to other systems
• Produced functional specifications, test cases, test documents
• Utilized HP Quality Center to manage UAT testing and defect resolution.

Confidential, Folsom, CA

Senior Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Provided SAP Payroll and Time Management support including Kronos time clock integration, work schedule modifications and year-end processing
• Resolved issues with SAP HR interface to Kronos Workforce system, for example, duplicate time records from Kronos
• Experienced in IDOCS
• Created and executed LSMWs for mass updates.
• Drove the implementation of SAP gross Payroll accounting, time Management and NWBC portal
• Configured month-end accruals with SAP FI/CO
• Managed a team of 3 offshore resources through acceptance testing, go-live and post go-live support
• Interfaced with the client on knowledge transfer, project status and issue resolution.
• Wrote functional specifications for 4 US garnishment outsourcing interfaces
• Corrected US garnishment disposable net configuration, configured non-exempt rules, employer administration fees and adjustment models
• Drove the implementation and integration testing process for garnishment interfaces
• Managed user expectations and collaborated with ADP on solutions for identified gaps
• Resolved and documented all garnishment issues using HP Quality Center.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote the following functional specifications to expand the labor distribution functionality in the iCrew solution:
• To post gross payroll to finance in iCrew and Core systems
• To obtain the cost objects needed for posting when an employee inputs time for various tasks.

Confidential, Milwaukie, WI

SAP Payroll, Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the SAP Time Management Lead and Support to the SAP Payroll Lead for this full life-cycle implementation of an all-in-one SAP solution for the construction industry
• Configured time management and various payroll functionality such as, remuneration statement, union benefits, safety days processing and quotas
• Experienced in rules and schemas (payroll and time), garnishments, gross-to-net Payroll best practices, retroactivity, claims, off-cycle payroll, posting to FI/CO, posting to third party remittance and integration with Project Systems to post billable time to projects
• Created and executed LSMWs for data conversion
• Provided post go-live time management and payroll accounting support for this implementation
• Configured all benefits for employees in various collective bargaining agreements
• Counseled user through three rounds of integration testing and resolved any issues identified
• Ensured successful user acceptance testing of time management functionality, union benefits processing and absence quota processing
• Created functional specifications for FRICE objects.
• Lead consultant during blueprinting for Canadian Payroll and Time Management in a full life cycle implementation of SAP 6.0
• Experienced in Canadian payroll schema, Canadian payroll taxes (CPP, EI, Federal and Provincial taxes), Payroll best practices and ROE
• Completed union benefits data loads for go-live
• Created functional specifications for FRICE objects.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated issue resolution during SAP payroll parallel 3 testing
• Tested and resolved issues related to COLA (cost of living) and merit increases based on pay scale, grade and level
• Utilized Solution Manager to maintain ‘Known Exceptions List’ and ‘Parallel Issues Log.

Confidential, Newtown Square, PA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Achieved successful payroll to finance integration by configuring and unit testing third party remittance (for taxes, memberships and other payments), payroll posting to general ledger and the new liabilities allocation enhancement in ECC 6.0 (XCODI)
• Worked extensively with payroll clusters, payroll rules and schemas, payroll interfaces, month-end accruals, custom wage types and Solution Manager Version 4
• Interfaced with users and technical team to resolve payroll issues during integration testing.
• Facilitated workshops to capture functional requirements for Confidential (workflow, reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements and forms) objects.
• Maintained functional specifications for Confidential objects and coordinated testing of objects.
• Interfaced with users and project team to address payroll issues identified during upgrade from ECC 4.6c to ECC 6.0. Such as, processing of miscellaneous deductions, third party remittance, benefits and payroll and personnel administration
• Developed knowledge of equalized payment for teacher salaries to address upgrade issues.
• Created and executed over 300 test scripts in the test environment for all HCM modules (ECC 6.0, portal, MSS/ESS, Compensation, Personnel Management, Succession Planning, Organization Management, Personnel Administration, Benefits and Learning Solution) and customizations
• Guided technical team on defect management and resolution
• Utilized Mercury Quality Center version 9.0 to manage defects identified during various phases (e.g. functional and integration testing) of application testing.