PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP HCM/HR Functional Consultant over 9+ years of Experience in IT industry with primary focus in SAP HCM/HR Functional Specialization in SAP Confidential PA and OM
• Extensive Experience in SAP HR Sub - modules PA, OM, TM and BN in Integration aspects with PY in Manufacturing, and Energy Industries.
• Experience in Global implementation US, Canada, Argentina, and Asia
• Experience in Full Life cycle Implementations and Production support in SAP HR module and knowledge in Cross Applications.
• Completed three life cycle SAP Confidential implementations successfully involving requirement analysis and gathering, designing business blue-print, Configuration, testing and production support.
• Experience in SAP upgradation projects, provided support for basis and resolved various functional issues.
• Hands-on capabilities: Business process analysis, Blue printing, configuring, customizing, go-live support
• Production support for Confidential, Benefits, Time Administration (CATS), Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Manager Self-Services (MSS) &Employee Self Service (ESS).
• Experience in the development of Business Process model, End User Training and Documentation.
• Strong experience in various phases of SAP testing including Unit testing, System Testing, Integration testing and parallel testing.
• Strengths include strong understanding of businesses processes and translation of businesses solutions into SAP in most cost effective and client convincing manner.
• Act as liaison between Senior Management, Users and Technical Teams.
• Involved in creating cut-over plan and check list for End to End Confidential process.
• Excellent communication, inter-personal and analytical skills with the ability to communicate effectively with various levels of management, technical experts and end user clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Functional consultant - SAP HR (Global Implementation and Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Major part in Data conversion process team to convert all the HR Master data from Ceridian to SAP (US and Canada)
• Analyse current business processes and make recommendations
• Creation of logical plans to help others understand the environment, big picture, potential problems, and increase awareness/understanding of the solution or problem at hand and recommends standard SAP solutions.
• Follow all design work and integration testing protocols, change control procedures, uses standards, procedures, and practices in performing required work.
• Performs configuration work as needed to support new and existing functionality.
• Management and implementation of support Pack twice in a year. Worked closely with business partner for testing strategy for HRSP testing. Worked with Basis team for planning refreshes required for testing
• Developed and maintained configuration documentation
• Prepared functionality specifications and delivers to ABAP developers.
• Worked with Security team for role definition and on-going maintenance for HR roles Confidential, TAX, HRIS

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created personnel areas and personnel subareas according to business requirement and assigned to respective company code.
• Defined Info groups and assigned them to personnel actions to enter structured information of employees in the system.
• Configured the Enterprise Structure and Personnel Structure for PA, PSA, EG and ESG
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub areas for the primary wage type
• Configured Actions: Hire, Re-hire, Change of pay, Transfer, Retire and Terminate
• Trained HR Users to maintain employee master data
• Closely worked with Portal and ABAP team for implementation and Maintenance of ESS (employee self service) and MSS (Manager self Service)
• MSS - Designed and Maintained ADOBE forms for submitting actions by Managers (Hire, Re-rehire, change in Pay, Transfer, Retirement, Termination)
• ESS - Employee address update, Bank add & Update, Leave quota reports, CATS time entry thru ESS.
• Designed Workflow Approvals for Time and HR forms(hire, rehire etc) and worked closely with Workflow technical team to implement and on-going maintenance (Direct reporting Manager approvals, delegate approvals, substitution rule set up and approvals)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured and generated Daily Work Schedules, Period Work Schedules, Generate Monthly Work Schedules and Planned Working Time) required for Confidential .
• Configured the feature SCHKZ and TMSTA.
• Configured Absence and Attendance Quotas according to Clients requirements.
• Configured the Absence Quota generation through RPTQTA00 and Time evaluation Schema.
• Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) for employees entering time data into CATS.
• Implemented various user parameters for Time Sheets, Customized data entry screen, and customized reports to display time sheet data.
• Created Work Schedules, Period work schedules, Daily Work Schedules, Monthly Work Schedule Rules and Planned Working Time.
• Worked on implementation, production support of CATS time sheet for US and Canada.
• Created work schedules during implementation and added new work schedules during production support phase.
• Worked on Time Entry profile for US and Canada.
• Worked on time approval process and time reporting for Managers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured the system for Confidential USA.
• Defined Confidential organization, period modifiers and Confidential accounting area.
• Maintained features ABKRS, TARIF
• Configuring the Payscale groups for different payscale areas for different locations.
• Checking Tax Authorities, Tax-Types, Maintaining Tax Areas, and Defined and Assigned Tax Company to Personal Areas
• Created payment and deduction wage types with the respective valuation bases, processing classes and cumulating classes. Used BSI for tax calculation for the various tax authorities.
• Coordinating with FI team for posting the right amounts to the right accounts.Mapping the Wage Types to the right GL accounts through the symbolic accounts mapping.
• Major part in Data conversion process team to convert all the HR Master data from Ceridian to SAP (US and Canada)
• Reviewed and approved all the functional specification for HR interface to third party vendors
• (HR Data Mart, MSSB, Hewitt, United way, NEI, Fidelity)
• Worked with the implementation partners and tested interfaces.( HR Data Mart, MSSB, Hewitt, United way, NEI, Fidelity)
• Major part in the cut-over team US and Canada go-live.
• Key person to setup Org structure and employee details for ESS and MSS training for end users.
• Key person to setup Org structure and employee details for ESS-Time entry training
• Key person to setup Org structure and employee details for SRM Training.
• Provide all the inputs required for preparing training document for End Users.

Confidential

Functional consultant - SAP HR (Global Implementation and Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Analyse current business processes and make recommendations
• Creation of logical plans to help others understand the environment, big picture, potential problems, and increase awareness/understanding of the solution or problem at hand and recommends standard SAP solutions.
• Responsible for creating Function Design Document(FDD) based on the Use Case Documents recreating by the Business Analyst.
• Collaborate with the ABAP developers and the quality assurance team to develop and test significant new functionality and enhancements.
• Educate HR business process owners about SAP HR functionality and best practices.
• Work with the user community to determine the best solution to help resolve customer problems and satisfy customer requirements.
• Responsible for production support issues, configuring and maintaining different HR Modules
• Prepared the Business Process Documents for all the Actions.
• Configured all the actions as per the Business Process Document.
• Configured Dynamic Actions based on the requirements from the Customer.
• Configured Personnel actions. Confidential data. Bank details and Personnel data Qualifications.
• Worked on the screen modifications to Customize the settings for various Infotypes.
• Created a new relationship valid for an Organizational Unit to assign a HR administrator to an Organization Unit.
• Experience with Benefits Process Flow & Processing:
• Confidential and Benefits Configuration of Wage Types
• Payment and Deduction configuration and processing
• Special Payments
• Integration to Accounting
• Third Party Remittance
• Benefits Administration & Confidential
• Implemented a complete Benefits solution which included, Health plans, Insurance plans, Savings plans, FSA, Confirmation statements and Interfaces to various vendors
• Created variants of cost structure pertinent to health plans and assigned them to respective plans leveraging parameter and cost groups
• Customized complex Employer contribution rules utilizing custom calculation procedures, parameter groups and user exits
• Assigned wage types to benefits plans, created deduction models, maintained benefit constants and set up limits as part of Integration with Confidential
• Conducted design/demo sessions with stake holders and End Users as part of the design approval process
• Coordinated with ABAP developers and Plan administrators during the development and testing of Interfaces
• Created Test scripts for testing configuration activities, Interfaces and Integration with Confidential