SUMMARY:

• 12 years’ experience in implementation, testing, maintenance and support of ERP systems using SAP R/3 with specific functional experience in SAP - HR module
• Vast experience in the functional configuration of SAP HR module with emphasis on Payroll (PY), Personnel Administration (PA), Benefits (BN), Time Management (TM), Organization Management (OM), Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM), ESS/MSS and Personnel Development (PD).
• Recently completed Successfactors Employee Central training. I have very good knowledge of Instances & Provisioning system, Data Models, XML file, BCUI, Work flow, RBP, Picklist, Foundation Objects, MDF, Position management, Benefits & Time Off etc…).
• Completed 5 full life- cycle implementation of SAP-HR module including business process analysis, conceptual design, blue printing, configuration, testing and production support.
• Expertise in configuration of US & Canadian Payroll (Wage types, Gross & Net Pay, Features, Garnishments, 3PR, BSI, Reports etc.).
• Expertise with configuration of Work Schedule, Absence/ Attendance type, Quotas, time evaluation and CATS & TMW.
• Expertise in Benefit Module in creating Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Savings Plans, Pension Plans, COBRA, Credit plan, Miscellaneous Plan(Vacation Buy) and defining Eligibility Groupings.
• Worked on user maintenance, authorization and HR roles/profiles creation.
• Experience on leading onsite as well offshore team.
• Experienced in maintaining the balance between Technical and Functional teams in SAP HR Projects.
• Experience in the development of Business Process model, End User Training, and Documentation.
• Excellent understanding of all aspects of the HRIS/Human Resources business process with experience in gathering analyzing business requirements for conceptual design.
• Strong analytical skills combined with business sense, flexible, reliable and able to manage multiple priorities, good interpersonal skills and a positive attitude, team player with excellent relationship building skills, highly self-motivated, excellent problem solving and organization skills & Strong Multi-tasking and time-management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, SAP HR 7.0/HCM-EHP6/EHP5

RDBMS: MS Access

Programming Languages: C/C++

Web Technologies: HTML

Platforms: Windows.

Tools: MS Office

SAP HCM EXPERTISE:

Payroll: Payroll Organization, Payroll Area, Pay scale type/pay scale area, Wage types, Cumulating and Storage, Deductions, Taxes, Benefits/Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Bank Transfers/Direct Deposits, Third Party Remittance, Off-Cycle Processing, Payroll Process, Payroll Reports, Posting Payroll Results to Accounting, Default values/Features in Payroll, Processing Time Data, Created Custom Personnel Calculation Rules, BSI, Tax Reporter to print employees’ W2.

Time Management: Public Holiday Calendar, Daily Work Schedule, Periodic work Schedule, Work Schedules, Absences, Attendances, Managing Time Accounts using Attendance/Absence quotas, Absence Counting, Absence Quota, Calculating Absence Entitlements, Overtime, Time Evaluation, Time Managers Work Place and CATS.

Benefits: Benefit concepts, Benefit Areas, Benefit Plan Attributes, Adjustment reasons Employee Grouping for Plans, Eligibility and Termination Groupings, Dynamic Eligibility, Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Savings Plans, FSA’s, Credit Plan, Misc. Plan, Cost Variants, Coverage Variants and related Rules, Vesting and Investments, EOI conditions.

Personnel Administration: Create Company, Personnel Structure, Enterprise Structure, Organizational Structure, Organizational Assignments (Global Settings, Organizational Data and Integration of PA/OM, Job, Position, Organizational Unit and Org Key), Default values-Features, Personnel Data, Customizing User Interfaces.

Organizational Management: Concept of Organization Management, Organizational and Staffing interface, Expert Mode, General structure and Matrix organizations, Integration with Personnel Administration (Org Assignment, Integration setting, default, tools).

ECM - Enterprise Compensation Management: In depth understanding Budgeting, Compensation Planning process, Compensation Administration, Long Term Incentives and Job Pricing. Hands on experience in configuring Compensation Eligibilities, Guidelines, Compensation Approval workflows, Compensation statement, Reporting functionalities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Analyst - SAP HCM

Responsibilities:

• Providing Global payroll support including USA & Canada. Working on configuration of payroll areas, understand payroll control record process, configuration of Pay scale type, pay scale area, wage types (assign Valuation, accumulation, deduction, processing class, evaluation class etc..), recurring payments/deductions, additional payments, tax related configuration, Garnishment, Third Party Remittances configuration, and interface capabilities with ADP. Worked on BSI version upgrade as well as cyclic upgrade project. Applied BSI cyclic data file, TUBS & Tax locator file in tax factory.
• Configuration of benefit plans and pricing - Define benefit area, benefit providers and the basic settings for the plans, defined various benefit plan types and plan status as per the client requirements. Configured Health plans, Insurance Plans, COBRA, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Savings Plan, Credit plan and Miscellaneous Plans. Defined employee groupings: parameter groupings, salary groupings and age groupings, Defined cost variants, cost rules, eligibility variants and eligibility rules, Configured features BAREA, BSTAT and BENGR, Integrating benefit module with the US payroll, Worked with LSMW to upload data to SAP for Benefit Infotypes, interfaces to 3rd party benefit providers; open enrollment experience via ESS / SAP GUI. Worked closely with HR Benefit team and evaluate each benefit plan in the system and reactivate couple of plan and add extra plans.
• Defined Holiday calendars and assigned a unique calendar to each Personnel Area/Subarea.
• Configured daily and period work schedules according to the shift requirements of the client and customized the work schedule rules as per the client requirements.
• Configured attendance and absence types and maintained various messages(errors and warnings) to be displayed when employees record either attendance or absence before/after current time cutoff date, absence on a day off, absence on a holiday and when more than 24 hours are recorded per calendar day etc.
• Configured Attendance and Absence Quotas (Vacation entitlement) for different locations with differing validity and deduction periods, configured accrual rules for various employee groups with different levels of seniority. Maintained the relevant date types in date specifications infotype for various quota accruals.
• Worked on quota generations and deductions using attendances/absences by defining deduction rules and assigning them to counting rules.
• Configured Time Types, Processing Types and Time wage type selection rules.
• Created and configured the Enterprise structure {Client, Company Code, Personnel Area, and Personnel Sub Area} for various simulated companies as part of the training. Created and configured the Personnel Structure {Employee Group, Employee Sub group}. Configured the various Actions involved in the life cycle of an employee. {Hire, Promotion, Retirement, Termination of Employee} and the info groups for each of the actions. Configure the various standard Info types {Add or Remove fields}. Configured and created various subtypes for the standard Info types. Worked on the Internal and External number range allocation for the employees. Customised various Integrations from PA to other Sub modules within HR.
• Organization Management: Created and maintained the organizational structure objects like, organizational unit, jobs, and positions. Involved in setting up integration with cost accounting and integration for cost distribution. Involved in Integration of Organization Management with the personnel administration using RHINTE10 and RHINTE20. Assisted in Infotype Maintenance and Relationship Maintenance.

Confidential

Sr. Analyst - SAP HCM

Responsibilities:

• Providing production support to users on PA, OM, Benefits, Time Management, Payroll, ECM, ESS-MSS etc.
• Maintained Payroll organization defined and assigned Date Modifiers, Period Modifiers and generated Payroll periods. Configured Payroll Areas, Pay Scale Types and Levels for different employee groups and subgroups as per the requirement. • Assigned the new payroll accounting area to Period modifiers, created control records. Configured LGMST, TARIF to default the basic pay wage type, pay scale type and area while creating the basic pay. Created customer specific Wage Types from the Model Wage types for payments/ deductions as per requirement and assigned these Wage Types to relevant WT Groups. Maintained tax related wage types, and processing classes. Assigned wage types to symbolic accounts and then symbolic accounts to G/L accounts. Solved issues relating to the Off-cycle payroll . Participated in Payroll parallel testing team, compared payroll results in SAP to the results from legacy system. Worked on Garnishments, Taxes, Wage Types, Retroactive, Arrears, Remuneration Statement, Payroll Run, FI Posting, Reporting.
• Designed and Configured Benefits Architecture: Benefit Areas, Dependents and Beneficiaries, Plan Types, Benefit Plans and Plan Options. Configured Dependent Coverage Options, Cost Variants, Cost rules, First Program Grouping, Second Program Grouping, Plan Eligibility and Termination rules. Configured Benefits Integration with Payroll for Employee Pre-Tax, Employee Post-tax, and Employer Contribution and Provider wage types. Configuration of Benefits features: BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT, CSTV1, ELIGR etc.. Designed Interfaces for 3rd Party Benefits Vendors for reporting Demographic and Payroll Deduction information
• Configuration of work schedules, create absences type, absence quotas and understanding of time evaluation rules for absence quota generation. Also work on CATS.
• Creation of organizational objects and deep understanding of their associated relationships. Helping HR Users to maintain Org. structure, create new position, job, org. unit etc.
• Configuration of Personnel actions and dynamic actions,, maintain Master data, Configuration and Customization of Info type Menu, Payroll data (Pay Scale and Wage type Structures), Organizational Assignments and Integration of PA/OM. Configuration of new personnel area/Sub Area.
• Configure Compensation Areas, compensation plan & reviews (Merit, Performance bonus, Stock, Lump Sum, and Sign on Bonus etc), eligibility rule, matrix guideline & define compensation program.
• Created Launch pad, Implemented WebdynPro ABAP enterprise portal, provide annual enrollment support through ESS.
• Tested and verify system during EHP7 upgrade.
• Excellent working knowledge of third party tool like Arinso transfer Tool to move data from HRP to HRT/HRD.
• Provide required report to business by using SpinifexIT - Easy Reporter tool.
• Documenting process and providing end user training.
• Working closely with BASIS team, data center team, security team & change management team.
• Also provided support to Finance/Account, CRM & SD team whenever they need help.
• Regularly attend webinar on SAP HCM topics delivered by ASUG, AspireHR & SAPInsider etc. Also read SAP HR expert solution to expand knowledge.

Confidential

SAP HR - Sr. Associate

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to KIA Motors in SAP HCM sub modules PA, OM, Benefits, Time, Payroll, PD, Training & Event & ESS/MSS.
• Completed Year End 2011 & 2012 W2 tax form printing and magnetic media file successfully.
• Completed configuration for 2012 & 2013 Benefits related changes.
• Worked as a Lead for KIA Motor’s ESS-MSS project. Handle team which includes SAP functional, ABAP, web developer/designer and offshore consultants.
• Completed SAP provided online web based training on Training & Event Management module.
• Worked on Setting up SAP Users (SU01) authorization and Roles (PFCG) in HR.
• Learn basics of ABAP, which is one month classroom training provided by ABAP expert.
• Created SAP architectural design based on the new HCM business requirements.
• Define and develop SAP HCM business applications.
• Identify opportunities for business process and system process improvements.
• Maintain existing SAP HCM system applications and support any related production issues.
• Identify the root cause of the production issues and provide solutions.
• Keep track all the new development and existing system maintenance progress. Report the progress to management teams.
• Create user documents, functional specifications, interface, report etc..
• Conduct user training.
• Collaborate with SAP development team and other related functional and technical teams to accomplish the development requirements.
• Other related tasks assigned by management.

Confidential

SAP Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined Benefit area, Benefit Provider and basic settings for the plans.
• Configured Benefit plan status (Closed, locked & open) and Benefit plan types in plan attributes.
• Defined employee criteria group and employee contribution groupings.
• Configured dependent coverage options and options for health plan (Medical, Dental & Vision).
• Configured High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP).
• Worked with the features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR.
• Defined insurance plan data, insurance coverage rule & cost rule.
• Defined savings plan 401K general data, employee contribution rule & employer contribution rule.
• Worked on Vesting rule for 401K plan
• Set up Catch Up contribution for the plan 401K.
• Worked on FSA plan. Configured Medical spending account & Dependent care spending account.
• Worked with Termination grouping, variants & rules.
• Configured COBRA plan and assigned COBRA events to personnel actions.
• Created wagetypes for all benefits plan to enable Benefits - Payroll integration.
• Prepared end- user documents, test cases & Functional specification documents.
• Involved in configuration of payroll
• Configured the payroll area feature ABKRS
• Assigned different pay scale types and levels for different employee groups and subgroups using feature TARIF to default the values.
• Maintained recurring payments/ deduction (IT0014) and additional payments (IT0015).
• Defined and assigned Date Modifiers, Period Modifiers and Generated Payroll periods.
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area groups for the primary wage type and defined wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay.
• Created wage type catalog and checked wage type group for Basic pay.
• Worked in payroll averages, retroactive accounting, wage type valuation, absence valuation and accruals.
• Set up wage type catalog - create wage types, assign to wage type groups, processing class.
• Configured cumulation periods, cumulation wage types, and deduction wage types.
• Extensive knowledge of IT0221's
• Experienced in payroll driver RPCALCU0 and Schema U000.
• Created Custom Personnel Calculation Rules in both payroll and Time to satisfy the client needs.
• Assisted on clearing Claims relating to Year End Process.
• Maintained tax related processing classes.
• Configured the Tax related Infotypes such as Residence Tax(IT207), Work Tax Area(IT208), Unemployment State (IT209), Internal Data required for Payroll Processing.
• Detail knowledge of the entire payroll process from end to end.
• Involved in parallel testing and product support.
• Involved in benefits - Payroll integration.
• Wrote detailed conceptual designs
• Configured the HR-FI/CO postings of wage types.
• Support end users and other client staff.

Confidential, NV

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Applied knowledge of ASAP methodology with phases like - Project management, Business Blue printing, Realization, Testing, Go-live and Post Go-live support.
• Defined the work schedules, daily work schedules (DWS), period work schedules (PWS) and planned working time (PWT).
• Defined Attendance, Absences, Substitutions, Overtimes and Availability as per the client requirements.
• Maintained valuation rules and counting classes for paid and unpaid absences.
• Configured the Quotas for Absences, as per the requirements
• Configured Automatic Accrual of Absence Quotas. Defined Base Entitlement, Validity and Deduction Period, and Generation Rules.
• Create processing type & Time type for attendances and generate time wagetype using Table T510S - Time wagetype selection rule.
• Configured different data entry profiles for CATS for employees entering time data.
• Set up different layout for time display report CADO.
• Maintain IT 2010 - employee remuneration for different shift hours.
• Integration of time evaluation results with payroll.
• Evaluated time using Time evaluation report RPTIME00 and Time evaluation schemas - TM01, TM04 without clock time.
• Wrote end-user documentation, and coordinated training workshops for the users in Time management module.
• Prepared test cases for Time management.
• Providing production support to business users during the end phase of the project
• Configured the pay scale groups and levels and maintained the feature TARIF to default the pay scale data.
• Configured basic pay, additional payments, and recurring payments wage types and defined wage type characteristics.
• Revised payroll info-types (0008, 0009, 0011, 0014, 0015, 0207, 0208, 0209 and 0210) based on client specific requirements.
• Configured the Pay scale groups for different pay scale areas for various locations for salaried exempt, salaried non-exempt and hourly employees.
• Created custom PCR as per client need and insert it at right place in schema.
• Configured and maintained the features such as ABKRS for default payroll area, LGMST for default wage types, TARIF for default pay-scale data.
• Configured the client payroll organization, updated the infotype fields that would trigger retroactivity.
• Configured garnishment action for child support payments, etc.
• Configured off-cycle payroll and set up HR-FI integration.
• Defined Benefit Area, Benefit Provider and Flexible Benefit Scheme.
• Configured Benefit Plan Status and Benefit Plan Types (Closed, Locked And Open) in Plan Attributes.
• Defined Employee Criteria Groups and Employee Contribution Groupings.
• Configured Dependant Coverage Options and Options for Health Plan.
• Worked with the features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR.
• Defined Insurance Plan Data and Evidence of Insuralibility Conditions.
• Good working knowledge on Vesting rules and Employer Contribution Rules.
• Configured First Program Groupings, Second Program Groupings and Eligibility Groupings.
• Worked with Termination Groupings, Variants and Rules.
• Configured Dependant and Beneficiary Eligibility Rules.
• Configured COBRA plan and assigned COBRA events to Personnel Actions.

Confidential, TX

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined Health plans, Options for Health Plans, Dependant Coverage Options and Cost Formulas.
• Defined Insurance Plan general Data, Coverage Formula and Cost Formulas and assigning Insurance Plan Attributes.
• Configured Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Saving Plans (401K plan), FSA’s and COBRA Implementation.
• Configured the features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR.
• Defined Benefits Adjustment Reasons, Participation and Coverage Termination Criteria
• Defined Evidence of Insurability conditions (EOI) for health and Insurance plans
• Defined and configured Vesting Rules and schedules for 401K-employer contribution.
• Set up Catch-up Contributions for plans like 401K.

Confidential, OH

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Setting up of the different info types (0003, 0007, 0008, 0009, 0014, 0015, 0207, 0208, 0209 and 0210) required for running payroll.
• Defined and maintained date and period modifiers to change payment dates as per requirement.
• Configured and maintained the features such as ABKRS for default payroll area, LGMST for default wage types, TARIF for default pay-scale/area data.
• Configured various customer specific wage types from the model wages types for the payment of basic pay.
• Defined Permissibility characteristics for each wage type.
• Assignment of wage types to relevant wage type groups, assigning different payroll areas, pay scale types and pay scale levels for different employee groups and subgroups.
• Defined Tax companies, Tax Reporter, and their Employer Identification Numbers (EIN) and Assigned Tax Company to Personnel Area.
• Maintained Tax related Processing classes 68, 69 and 71.
• Configured benefits - Payroll integration.
• Created and Assigned wage types to symbolic accounts for general ledger(GL) posting.
• Assigned Payment/deduction schedule to wage type. Configured deduction by defining deduction frequencies.
• Created and configured HR Payee maintenance in third-party remittances for tax, benefits and regular maintenance.
• Worked on payroll driver RPCALCU0. Worked with the standard program RPCDTCU0 for the pre-DME process, RFFOUS C for paycheck generation and RFFOUS T for direct Bank deposit.
• Upgrade BSI version 7.0 to BSI version 8.0
• Assigned and Configured Basic Settings, Plan Attributes and Employee Groupings.
• Customized new Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Savings Plans and Flexible spending plans.
• Configured the features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR.
• Configured Eligibility rules for the employees based on their duration of hours.
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for the plans.
• Defined Benefits Adjustment Reasons, Participation and Coverage Termination Criteria.
• Assigned the Wage types to Health, Insurance, Savings, Spending Accounts.
• Defined Evidence of Insurability Conditions for Health and Insurance plans.
• Defined and Configured Vesting rules for 401K-plan and Dependent/Beneficiary Eligibility Rules.
• Assigned Employee Contribution Rules and Spending Account Attributes.
• Personal Administration/Organizational Management
• Developed enterprise structure to fit company needs including personnel area, personnel sub-area, employee group and employee sub-group.
• Maintained and configured the master data.
• Maintained master data using transactions PA30 and PA40 for hiring a person, pay change, transfer, retirement, termination and leaving, change entry date after payroll run.
• Created the wage types catalog and wage type group for basic pay.
• Defined pay scale types, areas, group levels and salary ranges, setting up for payroll period, defining pay scale reclassification.
• Worked on the Internal and External number range allocation for the employees.
• Customised the Dynamic action.
• Configured the Feature ZLSCH For Default Payment Method
• Created and Maintained the Organizational Structure Objects, Organizational Unit, Jobs, and Positions.
• Created and Maintained Organizational and Staffing Hierarchy through Transaction Codes PPOCE and PPOME.
• Assisted in Infotype Maintenance and Relationship Maintenance.
• Involved in Integration with the Personnel Administration and OM.

Confidential, AL

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured the IMG settings (Work schedules, Absences, Attendances and Quotas) required for Time management.
• Defined Public holiday calendar for Personnel sub areas.
• Customized feature SCHKZ for defaulting work schedule rules for each Personnel Sub Area and Employee Sub grouping.
• Defined Attendance, Absences, Substitutions, Overtime and Availability as per client requirements.
• Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) for employees entering time data into CATS.
• Configured Shift Groups, Specifying Profiles for Shift Planning and Time Constraint Classes.
• Implemented various user parameters for Time Sheet, Customized Data Entry Screen, and Customized Reports to Display Time Sheet Data.
• Defined the leave quotas based on Employee Group and Employee Subgroup by using the Infotype 2006 (Absence Quota).
• Worked with the different info-types 0008, 0009, 0207, 0208, 0209, 0210, 0267, required for running payroll.
• Created Wage Type and check wage type group for basic pay, additional payments, and recurring payments.
• Configured and maintained the features such as ABKRS for default payroll area, LGMST for default wage types, TARIF for default pay-scale Type and Area.
• Worked with the US payroll driver RPCALCU0.
• Defined the required steps for automatic pay scale reclassification by using RPITUM00 and RPLTRF00 reports.
• Defined and maintained processing classes, evaluation classes and their specifications for maintaining wage types through logical values.
• Defined the BSI tax company and assigned it to the personnel area.
• Configured health plans, insurance plans, savings plans and COBRA plans, vesting and investments for the savings plan.
• Maintained the benefit administration process: enrollment, maintenance, and termination of participation using features BENGR, BSTAT, ELIGR, and TRMTY.
• Defined and maintained benefit areas, benefit providers, dependents and beneficiaries, benefits plan types and status.
• Defined health plan general data, dependant coverage options, flexible benefit plan general cost variant, dependant coverage options and cost rules.
• Configured Vesting and investments for the savings plan.