PROFILE
ERP Professional with 7 years of implementation and support experience within the SAP HR module in SAP for multinational projects. Experienced with Oil & Gas Sector, Public Sector, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, and Public Transportation. Four full implementations (versions 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0). Skills sets include SAP HR Training, SAP HR Configuration, SAP functional consulting, HR Training and HR core business concepts. Involved in Blueprint Designing, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Support Phases in SAP HR Implementation. Experience in the Development of Business Process Model, End User Training, Documentation and Knowledge Transfer. Comprehensive Knowledge of Payroll & Time Management Schemas and rules, Good experience in CATS and Time Recording Methods. Experience in integration of Time Management with KABA Time Recording System. Involved in integration of HR & FI modules. Worked Extensively in Personnel Administration and Organizational Management Modules. Interacted with ABAP Consultants by preparing Functional Specifications required and delivering them using the Functional Design Documentation. Time Evaluation setups, interpreting IT 0050 and IT 0007. Pair formation using RPTIME00 Driver, and Rule Processing. Involved in Integration of HR with FI Modules. Ability in the design of the functional requirements for the interface extraction and cross functional integration. Good Understanding in Configuration of Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service. Expertise in Unit Testing, Parallel Testing, Integration Testing & System Testing, writing Test Scripts, Test Cases and used eCATT for testing external tools. Experience with Provincial regulation both union and non-union. Well versed in SAP Reports (Standard & Custom), ABAP Knowledge, debugging and all integration aspects with ESS/MSS. Experience in generating reports using Adhoc queries to match client’s requirements. Used Data Migration Tools BDC’s and LSMW to migrate data from Legacy systems to SAP R/3 Systems. Good Knowledge of Compensation Management, Travel Management and Benefits modules. Interaction with Business Partners to identify information needs and business requirements for reports. Excellent Communication and analytical skills, team player with demonstrated proficiency for learning new tools in a business environment, highly motivated with good interpersonal skills. Over 6 years HR Business experience.
EDUCATION: B.SC., MBA HR Management
SAP HR Certification
RWD uPerform Technologies.
Technical Skills:
ERP : SAP R/3 Version: 4.7, ECC5.0, ECC6.0
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows NT/2000
Database: Oracle 9i
Language: C C++
SAP HR Skills: SAP PA, OM, Time Management, Payroll, Benefits, Travel Management, ESS,MSS.
SAP Project Experience
Role: Senior SAP HR Consultant Jan 09’ - Present
Client: Confidential,Chester, PA
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Responsibilities:
Maintained and created relationships between Organizational Units, Positions for the timekeeper relationships for all live countries. Maintain the HR Master Data using some customized infotypes related to Leaves and Processing Levels. Used IT2012 to transfer the absence quotas correction for the routing problems occurred due to the interface bugs. Assigned new holidays to the already existing holiday calenders for new identified bank holidays in countries like Germany and Netherlands. Made Changes to the existing work schedules by using two different daily work schedules with reference to a period work schedule, taking the break schedule into consideration. Created absence types and defined rules to count absences and rules to round them. Determined entry screens and time constraint classes. Created new valuation rules and the counting classes to evaluate the absences. Created new leave types(Customized Solution) utilized globally updating the IT9800. Monitored the batch program which run automatically to route the leave from IT9800 to IT2001 requested via portal by the employee. Worked with the workflow team and the translation team to see the levels of leave approval routed properly to the direct manager and upper level managers. Modified CATS Profile for the absence type and also wage type routing to IT2010 for time entry without clock times and TM04 Schema to evaluate the same. Modified the existing customized Quota rules and the overtime block rules based on the new enhancement changes. Defined deduction rules for absence quotas and assigned these rules to the counting rules. Gathered the information on which fields to be provided for the TPV Payroll from SAP. Delivered the leave accrual information based on the FDDS. Adjusted the overtime wage types of IT2010 updated from the interface, maintained the groupings in customized tables. Audited all the outbound and inbound time files received from the interfaces for all the countries based on the payroll periods. For the inbound files transferred and checked the time records between the applications and CATS. Monitored about 45 interfaces for US and used CATA for the transfer. Suggested the changes needed to be done in the interface which was missing to update the IT2010 overtime records. Maintained new customized groupings for the overtime wage types. Created CATS Profiles and created customer specific fields for the Time Administrators and Time Keepers. Modified CATS Profile for the absence type and also wage type routing to IT2010 for time entry without clock times and TM04 Schema to evaluate the time.
Role: Senior SAP HR Consultant 02/2008 – 12/2008
Client : Confidential,Connecticut.
Confidential,is a Pharmaceutical Company with 1500 active employees and 800 non-active employees. My Role is to implement Time Management and Payroll.
Responsibilities:
Personnel Administration:
Determined and maintained basic settings for Personnel Administration. Defined the authorizations for master data maintenance and personnel number assignment for persons being hired. Designed the input templates, work processes and interface to PA. Defined employee groups and employee subgroups and assigned the employee status to groups. Created the payroll areas as per the employee needs and grouped together the personal numbers that are to be processed and determined the payroll periods. Involved in setting up the system for the payroll control record and maintaining for defining the payroll past for retroactive accounting recognition.
Payroll:
Determined and maintained the basic settings for Personnel Administration. Created the payroll areas as per the enterprise needs and grouped together the personnel numbers that are to be processed and determined the payroll periods. Modified the basic settings of Payroll such as Payroll Modifier, Date Modifier and generated payroll periods. Defined Payroll Modifier, Date Modifier in Payroll Organization and generated payroll periods. Configured Payroll Data and wage types, assigning various processing and evaluation classes. Defined Processing types to assign time pairs for determining wage types accordingly. Copied and customized wage types by changing various processing classes and evaluation classes. Created Schemas and sub schemas for implementing the client defined personnel calculation rules. Defined deduction frequencies, payment modes, pay periods, limits on deductions and deduction base wage types. Defined order types, created adjustment model for the disposable net, defined priorities, created and assigned forms to various letter types. Maintained Benefit related infotypes. Defined Benefit area, Benefit provider and flexible benefit schema.
Time Management:
Defined Public Holiday Calender and assigned the holidays to the calender. Created Period work schedules by specifying the sequence of daily work schedule for a work schedule for one or more weeks. Created Absence types, Attendance types, Time types and their characteristics. Customized Time Recording and Administration to set up absence and attendance types. To capture the working times both clock times and without clock times functionality is used. CATS clocking system is used to capture the attendances and absences. Responsible for troubleshooting existing reports to eliminate data discrepancies and respond to end-user inquiries.
Role: SAP HR Consultant, ECC 6.0 03/2007 – 01/2008
Client: Confidential,CA
Industry: Utilities
SAP HR Consultant on an Implementation Project for Southern California Edison Corporation (SCE), a utility company with 14,000 employees. My role is to implement Time and Payroll.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Time Management:
Participated in and Facilitating Client Meetings, interviews, workshops focused in collecting business requirements for SAP HR and Time Management. Participated in Project Scoping, planning and business process design. Participated in the gathering of requirements, design, configuration, testing and deployment of functionality related to HCM Module. Analyzed Global business processes and procedures. Configured Time Management, Payroll, PA and OM. Configured Time Recording using Portal Time Sheet(CATS through ESS Portal), Positive Time Recording, Work Schedules, holiday calendar, attendances, absences, Absences/attendance Quotas, Attendance/Absence counting rules, Leave Request Functionality, Time User Exits etc. Configured Time Evaluation, Cross Application Time Sheet. Configured Time Evaluation Settings, Groupings for Personnel Subareas and Employee Groups. Defined Time Types, Processing Types, Generation Rules, and Overtime Compensation. Time Evaluation with Clock Times, Time Data Processing. Worked with tables V_510S, T555Y, V_T555Z for Time Data Processing. Worked on Time Evaluation with clock times and without clock times using different schemas. Created sub schemas and wrote rules for handling the time with clock times. Defined various work schedule rules and default for each PS&ES Groupings using feature SCHKZ. Accommodated the mid-year leave policy changes, such as new union agreements on absence quotas. Actively Participated and significantly contributed to team based problem solving. Generated reports to support time transfer and time evaluation processes, resolving and correcting errors. Analyzing Time Comparison reports and taking corrective measures to rectify errors, locked records. Applying local rules to time schema Configuration and integration with Third-Party Payroll modules Functional Specifications and coordination of activities for custom programming with Technical teams.
Payroll:
Define Payroll Periods and Pay dates for each Payroll Accounting area. Defined and maintained Processing classes, Evaluation classes and their specifications for maintaining wage types through logical views. Define entry permissibility per infotype and define wage type characteristics. Created wage type and check wage type group for additional payments, recurring payments and defined their characteristics. Define and create adjustment models for disposable net. Set up the SAP/BSI Interface for tax calculations. Define tax companies and assigning them to personnel areas and Federal/State/County Employer ID number. Define tax authority models and taxability models and tax type combinations. Configured Adobe forms to generate W-2.W-4, remuneration statements in PDF file. Define employee groups for tax overrides and define override formulae. Create forms for notice and answer letters and assign forms to letter types. Created number ranges for garnishment transfers and vendor subgroups. Defined remittance rules for garnishments and determine garnishable net for calculation of garnishments.
Role: SAP HR Functional Consultant, ECC6.0 06/2006 to 02/2007
Client : Confidential,Kansas
Confidential, is a leading Confectionary Company in US. This project involves SAP HR Implementation to IBC. IBC Employs more than 35,000 employees and 52 branches all over the country. My role is to implement Time Management, Payroll and Travel Management.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead the gathering of requirements, design, configuration, testing and deployment of functionality related to payroll module. Developed flowcharts, blueprint documents, functional specifications documents, configuration documents, developed test procedures, and coordinated for testing of SAP Changes with process owners. Configured Time Management module, Time Evaluation and CATS(Cross Application Time Sheet) Configured Time Evaluation Settings, Groupings for Personnel Subareas and Employee Groups. Defined Time Types, Processing Types, Generation Rules, and Overtime Compensation. Time Evaluation without Clock Times, Time Data Processing. Worked with tables V_510S,T555Y, V_T555Z for Time Data Processing. Prepared test scripts and conducted unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing. Resolved issues effectively related to payroll module, SAP Payroll process from Time evaluation to Final posting. Followed established change control procedures to move any payroll related changes to production system. Developed and tested new functionality of business systems in payroll module. Analyzed Global business processes and procedures. Participated in projects to rollout SAP to new offices and perform enhancements to the business. Configured Travel Management, Travel Planning, Travel Expenses, Expense Management. Configured Time Management module and CATS(Cross Application Time Sheet) Implemented Time Evaluation Process, Time Recording. Time Schema Configuration support to SAP Time Team for Time tables. Time Recording using Portal Time Sheet(CATS through ESS Portal), Work Schedules, holiday calendar, attendances, absences, Absences/attendance Quotas, Attendance/Absence counting rules, Leave Request Functionality, Time User Exits etc., Time Balances, Time Schemas, Functions, Operations. Generated reports to support time transfer and time evaluation processes, resolving and correcting errors. Analyzing Time Comparison reports and taking corrective measures to rectify errors, locked records. Applied local rules to time schema.
Payroll:
Determined and maintained the basic settings for Personnel Administration. Created the payroll areas as per the enterprise needs and grouped together the personnel numbers that are to be processed and determined the payroll periods. Modified the basic settings of Payroll such as Payroll Modifier, Date Modifier and generated payroll periods. Defined Payroll Modifier, Date Modifier in Payroll Organization and generated payroll periods. Configured Payroll Data and wage types, assigning various processing and evaluation classes. Defined Processing types to assign time pairs for determining wage types accordingly. Copied and customized wage types by changing various processing classes and evaluation classes. Created Schemas and sub schemas for implementing the client defined personnel calculation rules. Defined deduction frequencies, payment modes, pay periods, limits on deductions and deduction base wage types. Defined order types, created adjustment model for the disposable net, defined priorities, created and assigned forms to various letter types. Maintained Benefit related infotypes. Defined Benefit area, Benefit provider and flexible benefit schema.
Role: SAP HR Functional Consultant, ECC6.0 02/2006 to 05/2006
Client : Confidential,Texas.
Responsibilities: SAP HR Support Role for PA, OM, Time and Payroll Modules.
Delivered Training to Business Process Owners, Power Users and End Users. Design of Conversion Strategy for Master Data Upload from Legacy System. Involved in Payroll Parallel Testing using Payroll Launch Suite of ERP Solutions. Personnel Structure – Change in Personnel Structure and Validated the impact on the same. Handled Payroll run time errors. Configured Payroll Data Wage Types Configuration Dynamic Actions Handled Interfaces Testing for Time Management with Third Party Vendor (KronosSystem). Customizing Procedures
Role: SAP HR Consultant at Energy East. 05/2005 to 01/2006
Client: Confidential,
My Role is to implement Personnel Development, PA, OM.
Configured & implemented including requirements and design phases for PA, OM, PD. Configured and implemented Personnel Development. Career &Succession Planning, Appraisals. Modified SAP Script forms, Developed CATTs to migrate legacy data. Worked with the BW Team to ensure the reporting requirements which linked legacy and current data were met. Responsible for the design and specification documents for enhancements, custom reports, interfaces and security. Provided Knowledge transfer in Configuration.
Role: SAP HR Time Management consultant, SAP R/3 4.7 10/2004- 04/2005
Client: Confidential,Pharmaceutical Company, B’lore.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
Significantly contributed to Business process design for SAP HCM Time Management Module, Requirements gathering, gap analysis, design documentation, system mapping, process mapping. Configuration/Customization of SAP HR System, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management and Time Management. Configured Public Holiday Classes, holiday calendar, Work Schedules, Personnel Subarea Groupings for Work Schedules, Daily work Schedules, Break Schedules, Period Work Schedules, Day types, Selection Rules, Employee Subgroup Grouping for Public Holiday Calendar, Set up Work Schedule Rules and Work Schedules, Default Values are configured for work schedules and Time Management Status, Configured Absence types, Absence Counting, Personnel Subarea Grouping, Employee Subarea Grouping for Time Quotas, Rounding Rules, Counting Rules. Configured Attendance Types, Time Constraint Classes, Overtime Compensation Types, Attendance Counting, Personnel Subarea Grouping, Employee Subarea Grouping for Time Quotas, Rounding Rules, Counting Rules. Configured Absence Quota Types, Attendance Quota Types, Attendance/Absence counting rules, Leave Request Functionality. Set up feature QUOMO for Quota type selection, Automatic Accrual of Quotas, Reduction rules, rounding rules, generation rules for Quota type selection, Methods of Quota Accrual. Set up Time Quota Compensation, Valuation of Absences with Quota Deduction, Time Constraint Reaction to Overlapping Time Infotypes. Configured and implemented Personnel Development, Training& Events. Career &Succession Planning, Appraisals.
Role: SAP HR R/3 4.7 04/2003 to 09/2004
Client: Confidential,Saudi Arabia
Confidential,is an affiliate of SABIC Group and SAP is implemented across its affiliates spread over KSA, USA and Europe.
Saudi Methanol implemented Human Resources module in the Organization along with Finance and Controlling modules.
Responsibilities:
Contributed significantly in setting up Organizational Plan. Created Objects such as Organizational Units, jobs, positions, work centers, persons. Set up Organizational Key, Defined Administrator and Administrator Groups using feature PINCH. Defined Infotypes, Infotype Menus and Dynamic Actions. Defined Employee Sub grouping, pay scale area, pay scale type, pay scale group and levels. Assignment of Pay scale type and area to Personnel Area. Defined Entry Permissibility per infotype and Define wage type characteristics. Created wage types for Basic Pay, Recurring Payments and deductions, additional payments. Determined the different existing work centres, Authorities and resources, work centers per organizational unit and planned labor costs. Created customer relationships and used them to link different positions and the employees to create custom evaluation paths. Support for SAP HR Module to Provide Business knowledge to SAP implementation teams, Business procedures, practices, change management and support to the user community