SUMMARY

• Above Eight years of extensive experience as a SAP HCM functional consultant, configuration specialist in Payroll, Time Management, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management and Benefits Administration.
• Industry expertise in SAP HR - HCM Planning, Testing and Security Data expertise in Pharmaceuticals, Communications, Manufacturing, Banking and Public sector verticals using SAP HR Best Practices
• Expert in HR business process in the areas of Payroll (PY) and Time Management
• In-depth consulting skills, business knowledge and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate SAP technology into the clients' business environment to achieve client expected business results .
• Broad experience in functional configuration of PA, OM, PD, TM, Payroll, Benefits sub-modules of SAP HR/HCR with exclusive experience in TM, BN, PY & sub-modules
• Expertise in integration of various payroll sub-modules like PA-OM, TM-PY, BN-PY etc.
• Excellent understanding of all aspects of the Human Resources business process with experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements for conceptual design
• Experience with HR interfaces from the external system to SAP in OM/PA area
• Extensive hands on experience in Configuration of Payroll-USA (Gross), Benefits, Time Management, Garnishments, Deductions, Third Party Remittance and Taxes
• Explicable knowledge of US Payroll Process Flow including the Calculation of Gross Payroll, Net Payroll, Deductions, Postings to FI, Third-Party Remittance, Performing the Off-Cycle Payroll, Payroll Reporting.
• Payroll, Benefits, Compensation Management, Time Management, Travel Management, SAP ESS/MSS, E-Recruiting, LSO portals implementation experience.
• Expertise in performing Year End US payroll activities (1099, W2) and Tax reporter for Quarterly (941) reporting.
• Experience in Integration of the Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure and Organizational Structure, including configuration of all Time Management and US Payroll as per the clients’ requirements and expertise in integrating HR module with FI module
• Experience in testing scenarios related to the OM redesign and Payroll inbound and outbound customized Reports, Interfaces and enhancements
• Expertise and Excellent work experience in Business Objects reporting, ETL and Data Warehouse Solutions, SAP Best Practices, ASAP Methodology, Agile methodology, Reporting using SAP tools across multiple SAP systems including SAP HANA, BODS, BOBJ, SAP BW 7.0/ 7.4 and RDBMSs (Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server).
• Table, Sequence, and programming including SQL and SQL Script.
• Creating functional specifications for non-standard requirements and worked closely with ABAP resources to test, refine and validate custom programs
• Experience in analyzing business requirements for design and coordination with Technical development team for customization and implementation of the SAP R/3 system
• Extensively worked on validation of functional documents and experience in UAT, Unit Testing, Regression Testing and Parallel Testing for US Payroll.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Versions: SAP R/3 Version ECC 7.0, 6.0, 5.0, 4.7, 4.6c

Operating Systems: Windows and Mac OS

Programming Languages: SQL, Java, C, C++ and Python

GUI: SAP GUI

Management Tools: MS Office Word, Power Point, Visio and Excel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed Enterprise structure to fit company needs including personnel area, personnel sub-area, employee group and employee sub-group.
• Configured and maintained the master data of the company using the transactions PA30 and PA40.
• Created personnel action and reasons for actions as per the enterprise requirement.
• Configured the wage types, which are required for the payroll processing.
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area for the primary wage types.
• Mapping of Wage types to GL code for posting to Accounting.
• Allowance grouping & Wage Type model configured.
• Improving operational metrics, performance measurement and business case development
• Providing functional knowledge as well as managing client relationships
• Assisting clients in implementing HR payroll systems.

Confidential

Sr. SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuration, testing and implementation of the SAP Payroll system
• Matched the business structure and organized the payroll segregation of the employees by effective organization of the payroll structure
• Configured various one time and recurring deductions & payments for client. Configured basic pay, additional payments, and recurring payments wage types
• Configured the garnishments types and configuration to in corporate student loans and other deductions requested as per the employee requirements by the users
• Customized and modified the payroll (UMO0 - PCR UMOD) to adjust various limits of deductions while customizing the deduction limits models for various deduction wage types and to configure the sift differential as relayed by the time team for certain constant based wage types
• Configured Time wage types for over time and shift differential pay by working with the time consultant (Time Team)
• Tested the payroll schema during the UAT testing phase by creating the test case scenarios in accordance with the employee requirements laid down by the users & super users and checked the payroll cluster to see the successful and logical flow of all the /0, /1 technical wage types, /3, /4, /6, /7 tax wage types, Garnishment wage types, /X, /Z inflow outflow wage types in case of arrears
• Tested the configured retroactive accounting behavior of the US Payroll Program (RPCALCU0) and set the necessary earliest retro accounting dates during the payroll control record generation
• Configured and created arrears to cancel out wage types as per the user requirements
• Created Process Models to define the sequence in which processing steps are to be performed in a payroll run
• Responsible for providing reporting information via crystal reports, ADP reporting, or custom queries and assistance with all internal and external audits, workers comp, 401K Plan audits, and tax.
• Worked with the FI to gather the company code and company tax id for the applicable tax companies and required minimal configuration for successful BSI Integration
• This is a new implementation in ECC 6.0. The project involved understanding the various rules and deductions and configuring them in SAP
• Worked on year end production support
• Upon successful payroll configuration, configured the symbolic accounts for the expense and liability wage types
• Ran postings for posting the symbolic accounts to corresponding GL accounts as delivered by FI
• Configured symbolic account postings for the third party posting
• Configured wage types with processing classes 73 and 78 for third party remittances (3PR) and sign reversal for the same to correctly reflect in the GL documents
• Worked with the FI team to get the required check lots and numbers for the pre DME and DME program run
• Did bank configuration mostly in team with FI
• Involved in the maintenance of personnel events and integration with organization structure of payroll area, pay scale type, employee group, employee sub-group, pay scale group, pay scale level.
• Maintained Employee Master Data using transaction codes PA30, PA40.
• Involved in the creation of a customized info type in Personnel administration with two subtypes using transaction code PM01.
• Performing the knowledge transfer for the US payroll as a part of the knowledge transfer team
• Conducting in class training for the end users & super users
• Contributing in authoring, technical writing and publishing the training documentation for the client.