PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a highly skilled SAP Payroll/HCM (Certified) senior consultant, with over 14 years of SAP Payroll/HCM lead consulting, global implementation and configuration experience involving multi - currency, multi-country and multi-company code implementations.
• He has very sound understanding of American, Canadian Benefits, HR practices, payroll procedures, reporting and remittance requirements with both public and private sector clients.
• He is an expert in gross payroll, net payroll, PA, and master data and has given SAP Payroll/HCM courses both internally and to clients.
• He has configured American, Canadian, and International payroll and has implemented union collective agreements in unionized and concurrent employment environment .
• Developed test scenarios and test scripts for SAP payroll, benefits, and time management modules.
• He has used HPQC and Remedy Confidential different projects.
• He has customized payroll and time evaluation schemas and rules.
• He has prepared functional specs for reports, payroll functions, user exits, interfaces, and Z program development.
• He has configured time management and time evaluation modules.
• He has configured Canadian and USA Benefits modules.
• He has in-depth knowledge of the full SAP R/3 HR suite, and how it integrates with the other modules, particularly FI/CO/FM and PS.
• He has full life cycle implementation experience and provided consulting services from pre-sales, demos, define and design phases to develop, implement and production support phases.
• Ubaid has provided 3rd level production support to multiple USA and Canadian clients while working as a Payroll/HCM specialist Confidential ’s global outsourcing center. He has configured CATS and worked with ABAP team on user exits.
• Recorded transactions, and loaded and changed master data using Confidential .
• He has set up BSI, configured Tax Reporter and generated quarterly and annual tax forms, magnetic media files for Federal and multiple State tax authorities.
• He has configured W2, T4, T4A, and Releve 1 and worked on year-end adjustments.
• Worked on T4, T4A, and W2 reconciliation and balancing.
• Production of T4, T4A, Releve 1, and W2.
• He has eight years of experience in public accounting serving a variety of clients in different area of business including accounting, tax, audits, software implementation and .

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPEREINCE:

Confidential

Senior Payroll/Time/Benefits/HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Trained payroll and benefits team on SAP payroll, benefits, and posting documents.
• Worked on maternity leave top up and STD process and trained user on the processes.
• Participated and contributed on banking and finance conference calls.
• Worked on parallel payroll testing.
• Reviewed Blueprint document and configuration worksheets.
• Reviewed Legacy reports and mapped these reports with SAP reports.
• Reviewed Legacy payroll processes and mapped the processes with SAP processes.
• Created union benefits reports and union dues reports for different unions.
• Ran different SAP reports and trained user on these reports
• Reviewed posting documents.
• Worked on stop pay, failed EFT processes,
• Worked on payroll taxes and bonus tax.
• Worked on manual checks received for benefits from employees when they are on leave of absence.
• Worked on different payroll journal variants.
• Provided production support to user after go-live.

Senior Consultant/SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day production support and troubleshooting for live SAP concurrent employment payroll/time/HCM system.
• Worked with business to understand the different business requirements and documented those requirements.
• Configured SAP Canadian payroll.
• Customized payroll and time evaluation schemas and rules for different business requirements
• Configured limit on deductions functionality for union dues when employee has multiple personnel assignment in concurrent employment.
• Configured wage types.
• Configured vacation pay.
• Prepared functional specs for pay statement and worked with ABAP team on pay statement development and testing.
• Configured union collective agreement rate changes.
• Configured union dues calculation.
• Researched and worked on retro income and health tax issues and explained, clarified those issues to business team.
• Helped and trained other support team members on personnel calculation schema, personnel calculation rules, and configuration.
• Worked on year-end pension adjustment.
• Performed testing for various schema, rules, and configuration changes.
• Gave demo to business and QA team on how to run different test scenarios.
• Configured FI/CO posting.
• Helped user on different issues and answered their day to day questions.
• Configured off-cycle and trained payroll staff on off-cycle payroll.
• Configured Remedy payment.
• Worked on different benefits change request issues.
• Customized schema and rules for arrears processing.
• Prepared configuration documents.

Senior Consultant/SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day production support and troubleshooting for live payroll/time/HCM system.
• Worked with business to understand the different business requirements and documented those requirements for the Deployment 2 go-live.
• Configured wage types.
• Developed customer schema and personnel calculation rules.
• Developed test scenarios and test scripts for SAP payroll, benefits, and time management modules.
• Configured pay scale group, level, and table V T510
• Configured CRA and Quebec Business Numbers for multiple company codes.
• Configured feature 07Reg and 07Acn
• Configured feature ABKRS to default payroll area.
• Configured payroll area and generated payroll periods.
• Configured 3rd party remittance.
• Used HPQC for testing and for tracking defects and documented the tests results.
• Configured vacation for unions using schema, personnel calculation rules, and constant in table T511K.
• Configured pension for unions using schema, personnel calculation rules, and constant in table T511K.
• Configured public holidays and assigned public holidays to public holiday calendar.
• Configured work schedule rules and generated work schedules.
• Configured table V T510S to generate time wage types.
• Configured French translation for wage types, attendance types, absence types, and benefits plan types.

Senior Consultant/SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day production support and trouble shooting for live payroll/time/HCM system.
• Worked with business to understand the different business requirements and documented those requirements.
• Configured optional life, spouse life, and dependent life benefits plans.
• Enrolled employees in different benefit plans to test the benefits configuration.
• Ran payroll to verify the benefit plans employee deductions and employer contributions.
• Configured feature TARIF, ABKRS, and IVWID.
• Developed test scenarios and test scripts for SAP benefits modules.
• Used HPQC for testing and for tracking defects and documented the tests results.
• Configured wage types.
• Configured new reasons for personnel actions.
• Configure option life insurance and optional critical illness for spouse for common law spouse.
• Configured and generated work schedules for multiple countries base on regional holiday calendar.
• Configured tax tables for 2015 federal and provincial tax rate changes.
• Configured dynamic actions.
• Configured wage types.
• Configured action reasons.
• Prepared configuration documents.
• Configured personnel areas, personnel subareas, and set up grouping for personnel subareas.
• Configured pay grades and levels

Senior Consultant - SAP Time Management/HCM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on time management/HCM production support ticket resolution.
• Worked with Business to get business requirements for different production issues.
• Prepared user requirements specifications and functional requirements specifications documents.
• Configured vacation quotas.
• Configured time evaluation schema for monthly vacation quotas accrual based on pay scale level and years of service.
• Prepared unit test scripts and performed unit testing to verify expected results.
• Prepared user acceptance test scripts and supported user during UAT.
• Used HPQC for testing and for tracking defects and documented the tests results.
• Worked with portal team and performed ESS testing for different ESS issues.
• Prepared configuration documentation.

Senior Consultant - SAP Payroll/Time/Benefits

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day production support and ticket resolution for live US and Canadian payroll, time management, CATS, benefits, and personnel management.
• Customized payroll and time schema and personnel calculation rules.
• Worked with ABAP team on CATS user exits.
• Configured wage types.
• Configured FI/CO posting.
• Configured dynamic action to default date type on IT0041 for salary and hourly employees.
• Configured pay scale group and level.
• Worked on FLSA weighted average overtime calculation rate.
• Researched and solved payroll tax issues.
• Used HPQC for testing and for tracking defects and documented the tests results.
• Discussed the issues with business to understand the requirements and resolved the issues assigned.
• Helped user on different issues and answered their day to day questions.

Senior Consultant - SAP Payroll/HCM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on year-end project and production support.
• Ran year-end adjustments payroll and posting program.
• Ran third-party posting for year-end adjustments.
• Resolved payroll, posting, and third-party posting issues.
• Ran reconciliation report and reconciled W2.
• Ran tax reporter and generated W2.
• Worked with developer and tested custom reports.
• Worked with developer and tested new overpayment functionality.

Senior Consultant - SAP Payroll/Time Management/Benefits

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day production support and ticket resolution for live US and Canadian payroll, time, benefits/HCM system.
• Discussed the issues with business to understand the requirements and resolved the issues assigned.
• Configured wage types.
• Configured FI/CO posting.
• Configured 3rd party remittance.
• Customized schema and personnel calculation rules.
• Configured and mapped wage types to T4, and T4A.
• Production of T4, and T4A during testing.
• Configured pay stub form.
• Configured benefits rate change.
• Researched and solved payroll tax issues.
• Configured dynamic actions.
• Helped user on different issues and answered their day to day questions.

Senior Consultant - SAP Payroll/HCM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured Canadian payroll Confidential healthcare project in concurrent employment environment.
• Configured wage types
• Configured FI/CO posting.
• Configured 3rd party remittance
• Configured month-end accruals.
• Configured quota compensation.
• Configured union collective agreement rate changes.
• Worked on garnishment and trained payroll staff on garnishment.
• Configured changes to remuneration statement.
• Configured and mapped wage types to T4, and T4A.
• Production of T4, and T4A.
• Worked on Record of Employment (ROE) and trained staff on ROE workbench.
• Developed unit test scripts and performed unit testing to verify expected results.
• Developed user acceptance test scripts and supported user during UAT.
• Used HPQC for testing and for tracking defects and documented the tests results.
• Prepared payroll configuration documentation and documentation of payroll schema and personnel calculation rules.
• Configured benefit integration in payroll and worked with ABAP team on benefits interface.
• Worked on off-cycle and trained payroll staff on off-cycle payroll, replace payment and reverse payment.
• Worked on subsequent processes of off-cycle activities and process models.
• Worked on and resolve various payroll issues during payroll parallel testing.
• Worked with and supervised payroll manager and payroll supervisor on first few live payroll runs including pre-DME, bank file, payroll posting, payment posting, third party evaluation and third party posting.
• Provided production support after go live.
• Gave SAP payroll course to Winnipeg Regional Health Authority payroll management and staff.
• Reviewed payroll BPPs.

Senior Consultant - SAP Payroll/HCM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gave presentation to business team about SAP HCM/Payroll functionality Confidential business blue print kick off meeting.
• Conducted requirement workshops to understand the business processes and requirements of the client and mapped the client’s need and existing business processes with SAP functionality.
• Prepared and completed business blueprint document.
• Gave business unit playback presentation to management and business team after completing the business blue print document.
• Configured payroll and overtime to be banked functionality.
• Prepared configuration document.
• Worked on Sun Life saving plans interface and Mercer health plans and insurance plans interfaces.
• Performed interfaces testing to send file to Sun Life and Mercer.
• Tested loading payroll file from Mercer to SAP payroll using XI.
• .Worked with ABAP team and XI team during development, testing, and field mapping.

Senior Consultant/SME - SAP Payroll/Time/HCM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day production support and trouble shooting for live payroll/time/HCM system.
• SAP ECC 6-EHP 4 upgrade and coordinated testing effort with offshore team.
• Hay project - configured pay scale type, pay scale area, and defined pay grades and levels.
• Configured feature TARIF.
• Configured table V T510W pay scale to period parameter assignment.
• Configured vacation pay.
• Customized schema and personnel calculation rules.
• Configured dynamic action for union auto progression to create monitoring of task IT0019 based on pay scale group and level on IT0008.
• Configured header modifier and infotype header definition to show employee’s manager name and personnel number on IT0001.
• Defined compensation adjustment type for STIP target and assigned adjustment type attributes per compensation area in compensation management.
• Configured life insurance rate change in benefits sub-module.
• Recorded PA and OM transactions, and loaded and changed master data using Confidential .
• Tested new configuration, and documentation and team on new configuration.
• Used HPQC for testing and for tracking defects and documented the tests results.
• Helped user on different issues and answered their day to day questions regarding the best use of the system.

Lead Senior Consultant/SME - SAP Payroll/HR

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead and supervised a team of HR consultants and provided day-to-day production support and trouble shooting for live payroll/HR system.
• Trained offshore team on gross payroll, net payroll, US payroll taxes and tax models.
• Advised and guided payroll, tax, finance, and garnishment team on various issues and system problems.
• Customized schema and calculation rules for new union collective agreements and trained payroll team on schema and calculation rules.
• Configured garnishments.
• Configured FI/CO posting.
• Configured taxability models.
• Reviewed and analyzed support packs and year-end OSS notes.
• Configured Tax Reporter, SUI and W2 magnetic media file for year-end and quarterly reporting.
• Tested new configuration, and documentation and team on new configuration.

Senior Consultant - SAP Payroll/Time Management

Confidential, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Implementing new union collective agreements and union dues calculation.
• Customized schema and calculation rules for new union collective agreements.
• Configured new wage types for new union requirements.
• Configured FI/CO posting and month-end accrual for new wage types.
• Configured Limits on deduction functionality.
• Configured personnel actions and features.
• Time management - time recording, time evaluation and generated work schedules.
• Providing day-to-day production support and trouble shooting for payroll and time evaluation.
• Testing new configuration and documentation and client on new configuration.

Senior/Lead Consultant - SAP Payroll/Time Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day production support and trouble shooting for live US, Canadian payroll, and Time Evaluation.
• Implemented new union collective agreements and union dues calculation.
• Customized schema and calculation rules for union pension contributions and other calculations.
• Time management - CATS, time recording, time evaluation and generated work schedules.
• Trained production support team on payroll, schema and rules.
• Configured remuneration statement.
• Documented business payroll processes for different business units of the company.
• Configured wage types and Canadian eligible and non-eligible severance pay.
• Configured Canadian vacation pay.
• Defined tax type combinations, configured taxability models and new tax types.
• BSI regulatory bulletins and cyclic bulletins updates. State experience rate updates.
• Configured and changed FI/CO posting for wage types.
• Changed payroll area from weekly to bi-weekly payroll and implemented new union dues calculations.
• Configured and mapped wage types to W2, T4, T4A, and Releve 1.
• Worked on payroll results adjustments and year-end adjustments.
• Worked on T4, T4A, and W2 reconciliation and balancing.
• Production of T4, T4A, Releve 1, and W2.
• Configured US Workers Compensation Code and assigned experience rate to WC codes and assigned codes to Jobs, Positions, and Organizational Units.
• Configured SAP tables for USA Workers’ Compensation Report.
• Configured Canadian WCB assessable earnings and rate change for WCB.
• Recorded transactions, and loaded and changed master data using Confidential .
• Helped user with garnishment processing and configured arrear rules for some states.
• SAP documentation - configuration and how to run different USA and Canadian reports to get the required information.

Confidential

Lead/Senior Consultant - SAP Payroll/Time Management

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement workshops to understand the business processes and requirements of the client and mapped the client’s need and existing business processes with SAP functionality.
• Prepared and completed blueprint document.
• Configured US and Canadian payroll
• Managed UAT testing and gave demo to customer team about SAP configured functionality.
• Managed and trouble shooting USA and Canadian payroll issues during parallel testing.
• Helped other consultant configuring schema and rules.
• Configured payments wage types, deductions wage types and technical wage types using SAP model wage types catalog.
• Configured DME and Assigned house bank and account to the bank transfer.
• Configured Remuneration statement.
• Configured FI/CO posting and off-cycle.
• Configured features.
• Configured claims clearing wage types and set up procedures to clear claims.
• Configured work schedules, work schedule rule and generated monthly work schedules.
• Configured and tested overtime, weekend premium, and shift premium rules in time evaluation schema.
• Configured CATS and absence quotas.
• Configured USA tax companies, taxability models, tax type combinations, and assigned tax companies to tax authorities and tax types.
• Configured month end accrual and third party remittances.
• Configured garnishment, Tax Reporter, and worked on payroll results adjustments.
• Loaded master data and YTD payroll result for go live.
• Worked with ABAP team on Fidelity 401K contribution interface and health and insurance interface and performed testing for the interfaces.
• Managed issues and provided production support after go live.