PROFILE:

• SAP Certified HR Consultant with over 6 years of experience in SAP HR
• Experienced in working on all phases of the project like Discovery, Design, Realization/Build, Test, Cutover & Hyper care
• Sound facilitation skills - provided end user & conducted requirement gathering workshops
• Worked on Implementation & Production Support projects
• Performed both team lead and team member roles
• Providing support for all level of (Critical, Medium, Low priority) SAP HR application issues
• Conducting workshops & requirement gathering sessions
• Translating business requirements to system/solution design
• Drafting final deliverables such as BRNDs (Business Requirements Narrative Document), Functional Specifications, Configuration documents and Testing documents
• Designing HR data conversion objects - Data mapping template, Value mapping template, Configuration dependency template
• Solutioning and designing interface requirements
• Performing cutover activities and presenting the changes in Change control meetings
• Configuring SAP HR Payroll, OM, PA and Benefits modules to meet the design descriptions
• Performing verification and validation, including writing and executing test procedures and test scripts
• Conducting functional and technical reviews, correcting defects, and providing technical support

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP HCM consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and execution of the enhancement work
• Worked on SAP HR modules such as - Payroll, PA, OM, Benefits
• Responsible for Year End activities for US, CA and UK business units
• Contributed to and Completed 6 Mini-projects initiated by client to improve existing HR solution
• Collective bargaining agreement revision
• Configured Month End accrual for US monthly and weekly employees
• Data migration project to bring acquired company’s employee data into existing SAP HR solution
• Implementing Car Salary Sacrifice benefit for UK employees
• BI reporting project & Total Rewards projects
• Implementing global grading levels
• Worked on resolving production support related incidents in timely manner to abide by the SLAs for all sort of priority issues (Critical, High, Medium, Low)
• Resolved high priority production support tickets raised by the business during payroll run
• Troubleshoot retro runs
• Set payroll status infotype as required to fix master data errors
• Resolved errors occurring during the regular payroll posting and month end accrual posting
• Fixed payroll posting dates error
• Worked Wage type / Symbolic account reconciliation tickets
• Trouble shoot employee master data IDOCs
• Fixed OM/PA integration errors due to position movements b/w org units
• Worked on daily, weekly and monthly interface related issues
• Fixed ESS/MSS role related incidents
• Responsible for designing the solution that best meets the requirements, deadlines and budget
• Performed Cut over activities for the GoLive of all the Mini projects
• Participated in and Driven discussions with vendors, HR business users, HR executives etc
• Was responsible to monitor the execution of several interfaces (I/B and O/B) and fixing the issues if the data to be sent / to be received is missing for a particular run
• Led, executed and managed UAT test phase for two projects at MCBC

Confidential

HR solution consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for scope definition and requirements gathering
• Responsible for documenting the Project definition phase deliverables
• Conducted required workshops to gather business requirements
• Contributed to effort estimation sessions
• Created the functional specifications for inbound and outbound interfaces used for receiving and sending data from and to vendors like Mercer, Sun life, Desjardins etc
• Created configuration documents for Benefit Plans, Eligibility, Cost rules & Coverage rules for Employees & Dependents
• Created configuration documents for work/life events and adjustment reasons for offering benefit plans
• Coordinated with offshore team to develop and unit test the required custom objects such as earnings and deductions report and Interfaces with third party benefit providers

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for effort estimation, Process Design, Realization, and Testing Phase of Implementing Garnishment Functionality for US Payroll
• Responsible for deriving garnishment laws to be considered in the implementation using American Payroll Association’s guidelines
• Conducted weekly status calls with the offshore team members
• Responsible for Performance reviews of the team members
• Configured Disposable Net Adjustment Models, Non Exempt Models, Rules for determining Non Exempt limits, Service Charge Rules and Special Rules for Federal Tax Levy, State Tax Levy, Child Support and Creditor order types to abide by APA Guidelines
• Developed Unit Testing Scenarios for testing functionality of all Garnishment Categories
• Configuration done to set up Priorities for Regular and Retroactive arrears processing for Garnishment and Benefits deductions
• Configured Wage Types and HR Payee assignments for different Garnishment Vendors (for Third Party Remittance Processing)
• Conducted reviews of deliverables - Configuration docs, FSDs, Test scripts etc

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as error resolution team lead within the conversion team with team members in EMEA, APAC and North America
• Participated in the requirement gathering sessions which includes participants from client business end and Subject Matter Experts from implementation team (for Leaves, Benefits, Payroll infotypes)
• Involved in developing functional specifications, data mapping and value mapping documents
• Served as global SME responsible for providing guidance to regional teams for the development of Data mapping, value mapping and configuration dependency templates for conversion of HR Infotypes
• Served as error resolution coordinator to resolve conversion errors and worked with implementation development team and client end development team
• Worked with development team to implement the data and value mapping rules as required
• Worked with the solution team to fix the configuration errors occurred during the upload

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

HR Production support

Responsibilities:

• Year End Adjustments: Performed Year End Adjustment using subtypes ADJT, YAWA
• Helped client end payroll specialist to sort out errors faced during the payroll runs for weekly and bi-weekly employees
• Updated configuration of custom rule used for implementing month end accrual for monthly employees
• Configured priority and arrears configuration for new custom deduction wage types
• Developed functional specification for several BDC programs such as IT0008, IT004 and IT0015
• Changed the configuration of Wage types to Symbolic account mapping
• Created Dynamic action to create IT0171 and IT0758 as soon as hiring action is performed
• Resolved interface data related issues raised by the business
• Provided required support to the employees during the open enrollment period
• Provided user on Benefits Administration Transactions like running Enrollment Monitor, Termination Monitor, COBRA Participation Monitor, Running COBRA Cost Summary reports
• Tested the Personnel Administration PCRs: Employee Onboarding, Personal Data change, Voluntary/Involuntary separation, Employee movements, Pay change, non employee Onboarding and Leave of absence.
• Configured several action types such as New Hire, Organization reassignment, Job Change, Registering surviving spouses etc
• Developed functional specifications for New hire reporting and Employee classification configuration
• Worked on several AdHoc queries to pull required data for OM and PA
• Ran Rhinte reports for creating holder relationships and checking OM and PA consistencies.