SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of total IT experience as SAP Success factor consultant, SAP HCM functional Consultant.
• Successfully completed Two Full Cycle implementations in SAP HCM Success Factor Employee Central, two Full Cycle implementation in SAP HCM, support Projects and One Rollout.
• Good exposure in SAP Success Factors Employee Central, Compensation Management and also very good business exposure in SAP HCM modules of US Benefits, US payroll, E - recruitment, ESS & MSS personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), Personnel Development and Talent management.
• Have a full understanding of Success Factors modules Succession Planning and Performance Management modules experience preferably required in Success Factors. - New requirements (new forms, fields, functionality).
• Testing experience on SAP HCM and Employee Central Applications.
• Hands on experience in Success Factors - Online Report Design -Work Force Analytics/Advanced Reporting/Adhoc Reports configuration of Report designer like pages, List Reports, Report Sharing, Bundles and Report Roles Maintenance.
• Configuration specialist in Payroll, Time management, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Success Factors & Benefits Administration.
• Experience in business requirement elicitation/ gathering techniques like interviewing questionnaires, brainstorming, and focus groups; conducting Joint Application Development (JAD), project meetings, reviews walkthroughs, customer interviews and coordinating various technical and managerial teams at all levels.
• Strong SAP consulting experience in Business Process Design, Life cycle implementation, roll out, upgrade and maintenance & support projects.
• Project management experience includes vendor management, customer interaction, scope definition, project planning, capacity planning, change control and release management.
• Expertise in Success Factors BizX HCM Suite configuration for Onboarding, Role based permissions and Admin user ID settings, Proxy settings, Notification settings, Pick list Management etc.
• Strong experience in integrating Material Management, Purchasing, Procurement, Project systems, and Sales and Distribution module with SAP FICO sub modules including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Activity-Based Costing, Product Cost Controlling, and Profit Center Accounting.
• Experienced in developing Test Plans and Test cases based upon the business requirements.
• Experience in Functionality Testing, System testing, Unit testing, Load testing, Volume testing, Performance testing, and Regression Testing.
• Leadership, Effective communication, Assertiveness and Software documentation skills (business requirements, functional specifications for RICEF items, test cases, training).
• Proficient knowledge on SAP FICO experience in various modules - FI (with SAP New GL, AP, AR. Treasury & Banks) Controlling (CEA, CCA, Internal orders, PCA, CO-PA, Product Costing). EC-CS (Consolidations), Asset Management (AM), Integration experience with Project Systems (PS), Production Planning (PP), Procurement (MM), Investment Mgmt. (IM).
• Extensive experience in implementing and supporting SAP R/3, ECC 6.0 Finance and controlling modules, Ariba and Concur technologies.
• SAP full life cycle Implementation experience, Roll-out, Upgrade & Support projects using ASAP methodology.
• Proficient in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) phases of SAP implementation projects including business requirements gathering, gap analysis, functional specs, configuration, customization, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, quality assurance, key users training, cut over management from legacy system (SAP & Non-SAP), go-live and post-go live support.
• Proficient in HPQC, QTP, U-Perform & On-Demand tools, User Exits, Interfaces using EDI Idocs, Workflow, Data Conversion, SAP Tables.
• Expert in creating SQL objects like Tables, Complex Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Indexes, and User Defined Functions to facilitate efficient data manipulation and consistent data storage.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Sr. SAP Success Factor Consultant

• Involved in Life cycle implementations involving Requirement gathering and analysis, Business Process Re-engineering, Business Blue-print, Configuration, Development, Testing, Training and production support Environment.
• Responsible for supporting the scoping, designing, and delivery of Success Factors Modules like Employee central, Compensation management and Performance Management.
• Involved in multiple life cycles of the projects - Requirement Gathering, Business blue print, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications, End to End Implementation, Go Live and Support. Also involved in Project estimates, Enhancement and Change Requests, Incident Resolution, Service Pack updates, Quality Assurance, Core User/End User Trainings.
• Created MSS Reports, HRSS Reports and business regulatory reports for end users.
• Implementation of success factor Employee Central such as configuration of Corporate, Succession, Country specific Corporate and Succession Data Models for Foundation and Employee Data Objects.
• Design business requirements and perform fit gap analysis between client requirements and standard SuccessFactors Employee Central Solution.
• Worked on Corporate Data model to configure the organizational structure, associations, workflow.
• Analyzed, validated and prioritized business requirements and developed test cases.
• Interacted with developers, Business and Management Teams and Stakeholders.
• SuccessFactors modules including performance, succession, compensation, recruiting and Employee central.
• Conducts requirements gathering and business process design sessions with the client for the Recruiting Management module in SuccessFactors.
• Reporting configuration and developing custom reports
• Document and analyze requirements ensuring fit with functionality, providing solutions to meet the business need.
• Created Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Sets, Manual Testing with HPQC, Triaging defects .
• Develop working prototypes, test, deliver and support configuration of the product.
• Educating the Community success factors tool to Business owners & end users for open discussions.
• Working on Success factor Compensation and variable pay Module implementation.
• Configure success factors Employee central with new MDF data model, MDF foundation objects and deployment MDF solution.
• Works with clients to determine the functional specification for system level solutions
• Managed HR new Dimension application Success Factor- Performance Management, Talent and Succession Planning.
• Process analysis to understand the flow of inbound/outbound shipments and the information flow between SAP and warehouse system.
• Configuration of payroll wage types, config of processing and evaluation classes. Success Factor Integration.
• Coordinates the completion of the configuration workbook deliverable and ensures the system is appropriately configured to the specifications.
• Highlighted the required business flow changes and manual actions required.
• Developing Functional specifications for the changes and Test scripts/Plans.
• Conducting workshops to present the to-be solution and seek business feedback.
• Liaison between business and technical teams. Gathered business needs and created documents in Business Requirement Document (BRD) format and presented it to Technical team for build.
• Conducted daily follow ups with business and technical team on progress of projects. Monitored and updated charms in Dart Service Desk, Change Request Management (CHARM’S), and Business Requirement Documents (BRD’s), test results and other documents in Solution Manager. Monitored the process of projects going through Development, Quality and Production environments.

Confidential, Glendale, CA

SAP Success Factor Analyst- Employee Central

• Involved in end to end implementation of SF Employee Central module.
• Work with supply chain team members to complete system configuration and unit testing of process designs in development/Quality environment and transfer set-up to production environment.
• Possess ability to design, develop and document the business requirements to technical configuration to client required outcome.
• Creation of Interface from SAP to Success Factor to upload the employee data via UDF in a batch mode.
• Writes functional designs for interfaces, reports and extensions.
• Translate business requirements into system configuration objects and create solution design for Success Factor Employee Management solution on compliance with Best practices.
• Provide proof of concepts of all new HR changes and SAP success Factors employee central.
• Executes and supports required testing phases resolving defects
• Support domestic and international business with daily activities and reporting requirements.
• Keep track of any issues that may affect the schedule, budget, or quality of the product or the testing process
• Responsible for the planning, system configuration and management of multiple projects.
• Design business requirements and perform fit gap analysis between client requirements and standard Success Factor Employee Central Solution.
• Involved in Open SAP Run Simple HR with Success Factors Employee Central (EC).
• Investigate reported issues, debug programs and work with developers to resolve issues.
• Member of Success Factors Employee Central implementation team. Responsible for requirements gathering, data migration and testing.
• Integrating the solution with SuccessFactors / SAP or 3rd party HRIS & solutions and Preparation of Test Strategy,
• Responsible for the continued maintenance and enhancement of FI-CO configuration.
• Resolved production issues related to kronos time data interface to SAP (Inbound) & SAP master data changes to kronos (Outbound).
• Trained in SAP Success Factor modules Performance management and Succession Planning.
• Interacted with middle ware team's SAP PI, Informatica and Ab initio team's for complex interface file transfer issues.
• Supported SAP interfaces from SAP to legacy systems like SABA, Taleo, Excentive, Org plus and CWT interfaces.
• Meet regularly with Business Owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
• Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications.
• Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• CO IO- Configuration of the Internal Order module to support capital and expense procurement process involving planning, budgeting, approvals, settlements, status management, reporting in integration with investment management.
• Designed ad hoc queries in SQL Server management studio based on request. Examined reports and presented findings in Excel.
• Played an active and lead role in facilitating (JAD) Joint Application Development sessions to identify business rules and requirements and then document them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical people.
• Documented the Requirement traceability matrix (RTM) and created Flow Diagrams using MS Visio.

Confidential - Pittsburgh, PA

SAP Success Factor Analyst

• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
• Worked as end user on post SAP implementation.
• Compiled & Reviewed Data Migration Scope and Requirements Document.
• Successfully deploys system to production.
• Work with Success Factor team to create Employee Data File (UDF) interface to load the user details in batch mode for BP performance Management.
• Participated in a number of user meetings which involved study of Business process, gathering and documenting requirements.
• Interacted with the end client to gather requirements, developed Business Requirements, Techo-Funcional requirements.
• Participated in the Solution Design for Success Factors Employee Management Solution in compliance with the Best Practices.
• Managed and created dashboards for leadership to provide status
• Oversees daily management of Success Factor system.
• Work with the application team to resolve any issues that arise out of the testing process
• Reviewed Monthly financial reports and provide detailed analysis and comments (variance analysis - Actual vs. Budget, Actual vs. Forecast)
• Developed Management reports (Account Receivable, Accounts Payable, headcount, liquidity etc.)
• Monitored account payable and account receivables on the daily bases and monthly cost reporting by using SAP.
• Created & Maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, AR Aging using SAP.
• Prepared monthly and quarterly Management Reporting Package to satisfy internal and external reporting requirements.
• Preparation of ad hoc financial analysis ranging from revenue analysis to operating statistics.
• Prepared reports using Excel, with pivot tables, macros, V lookup, SAP, etc.
• Data Migration testing using SQL and checking source and target data integrity.
• Checked the modules of the application and used SQL queries to extract the data from database.
• Involved with the development team to verify bug fixing and update bug report status using HP Quality Center.

Confidential, Boston, Massachusetts

SAP HCM Functional Analyst

• Handling leave request approval, non-employee creation, employee's contract extends though HCM process Forms workflow issues.
• Supporting SAP to Active Directory Interface issues related to employee's personnel data.
• Validated data with Legacy system and tested interfaces.
• Identifying and analysing the existing business process/requirements of the client and mapping into the SAP system and Co-ordinate with the Technical Team.
• Handled complex HR interface issues & involved in the Major HR full load and delta load files transmission from SAP to legacy systems.
• Executed Test scripts for Employee Central test cases which included Hire, Leave, and Termination, Rehire, suspension, address change, Pay change and other HR Transactions.
• Made use of SQL queries to conduct data analysis and presented the findings to the business and technical teams.
• Conducted JAD sessions, group discussions and team workshops for better understanding of functionalities of the existing system and redefined business rules that govern the system based on inputs from end client.
• Prepared Use Case Diagrams and Workflow diagrams using MS Visio to define the business process.
• Analysed, designed, estimated and implemented the changes for a new system based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.
• Communicated frequently with all team members and stakeholders and followed up when required to ensure project timelines are met and success was ensured.
• Interacted with testing team to create Test plans, Test Cases.
• Developed Training material and assisted Customer Service Representatives (CSR) with training and communication for effective real time trading using the reengineered application.
• Actively used SQL to query the database to verify the values displayed on the GUI. Used SQL statements for Back-end Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2K, Windows XP and UNIX

Programming Languages: C

Software Tools: IBM Rational Clear Quest Web and Windows Clients, UATS and ARS Remedy

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, Java Script, ASP

RDBMS: Oracle 8, SQL Server 6.5

GUI: Visual Basic 6.0

ERP: SAP-HR, ABAP-HR

SAP HR Skills: SAP-HR (HR Renewal, Personnel Administration