SUMMARY:

• Management of IT Teams in support of multiple ERP and specialized software solutions such a SAP, Success Factors, Taleo, Access Commander, Sunflower, etc.
• Director responsible for development of the company’s IT staff supporting ERP and other Business applications and for project communication and support liaison between the IT staff and Business Application User Groups
• SAP Configuration Lead for HR, Benefits, Time, Gross to Net Payroll implementations, upgrades & production support for multiple releases
• Payroll Tax configuration, processing, reporting and reconciliation support
• Supported highly visible projects to bring into and/or maintain compliance with Labor Law mandates and Union contracts
• Development and maintenance of SAP Time Management module that included work schedules, quota generation & time recording and evaluation processing support
• Participated in project life cycle phases that included: blueprinting, scope/design, requirements gathering, project build, test and production cutover and post - production ongoing support
• Provided /mentoring to both IT staff members and business end users
• Experience in the following areas: transporting development requests, client maintenance, debugging programs, SAPScript development and maintenance, eCATT, CATS, Master Data & Payroll IDoc development & processing, some Authorizations & Security experience using the Profile Generator, development of info-sets and queries, Solution Manager document repository.
• Configuration in SAP HCM modules: Organizational Management, Compensation Management, Personnel Cost Planning and Objective Setting & Appraisal
• Development in SAP integrated tools that help facilitate testing and reconciliation processes that included: EPI-Use cloning and report writer solutions, Confidential, cloning, report writing, document and tax reconciliation solutions, Work Soft automated testing software solution, Panaya parallel testing software
• Developed interface specs and IDocs for outbound/inbound files with HR, Time & Payroll data (outbound) and Financial Data (inbound) using the SAP Interface Toolbox and IDoc functionality to/from external vendors
• Service Request/Project Management & issue via ticketing solutions: Service Now, Agile/Jira, SAP Solution Manager
• Participating in the Workday Architecture Design, Testing and Implementation phases for a transition from the SAP HCM environment to Workday HCM

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• US/United States see Resume details above: OM/PA/Benefits/Time/Payroll/Accounts Payable/ eCATT/some Security/some Basis/iDocs/Interface Toolbox/some PD/etc.
• Canada: Phillips, Cristal, Cameron, Kiewit, Lennox, Confidential
• Work Schedules, Time Recording/Eval, Gross Payroll, Vacation Pay, Some Year - end support for Social Insurance, ROE generation: UK/Great Britain
• Cristal: Work Schedules, some Time Recording
• AP/Asia Pacific incl. Australia: Cristal, Confidential, Confidential
• Work Schedules, Time Evaluation/Schemas, Payroll troubleshooting some configuration: Puerto Rico
• Banco Popular: Payroll & Tax configuration
• Venezuela: PDVSA
• Payroll Blueprinting; Master Data configuration: Mexico
• Confidential: SAP Benefits & interface production support;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP Time Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Former IT Director, currently Lead Analyst responsible for managing/ leading a team of 10 ABAP programmers and configuration analysts.
• Currently, IT Lead Analyst assisting with the design architecture and software implementation/transition from SAP HR/Time/Payroll to Workday HR/Time/Payroll
• Lead, manage and evaluate the team responsible for the implementation and upgrading of the Corporate business processes in support of the SAP R/3 Database application and other non-SAP applications
• Lead and manage the maintenance of the Mainframe OS/390 Human Resources Information Management Database and the legacy business applications
• Lead design architect responsible for evaluating multiple ERP solutions and providing a robust design to for HR & Payroll processed as well and providing solutions for integration with the Finance and Labor systems.
• Ensure the successful completion of new development projects to meet the Business Requirements and system designs submitted to and approved by management.
• Establish and maintain communication of all business related information & issues with management and employees
• Coordinate and manage and new skills development for the staff as needed
• Interact with customers on a daily basis to resolve operational issues or problems as well as to continue the proper maintenance and support of production systems
• Interact with technical support teams regularly in support of the business system applications
• Participate on Advisory Teams involving my development staff and my management to provide direction for Payroll processing based in my prior exposure to multiple SAP payroll implementations as well as my former payroll programming experiences from other companies
• Facilitated the proper application support and testing strategies for successful implementation of technical development solutions
• Attended SAP software solution conferences to learn and understand the software vendor’s vision and goals for future product functionality releases then share the experiences and successful software programming solutions with the team

Confidential

Lead SAP HR/Benefits

Responsibilities:

• Lead integration and test consultant for the Success Factors Employee Central implementation for all HR, Recruitment and Compensation with Payroll processing remaining in SAP EC.
• Continuing production support for ECC 6.04 of the time evaluation and payroll issues as well as the Tax Reporting requirements for W2’s and Quarterly tax reporting.
• Provided configuration support for the Time Management, Payroll and Personnel Administration areas for the upgrade from 4.7 to ECC 6.04. Developed the unit test and QA test plan used to for the project upgrade. Provided lead support that included assisting the company’s Project Managers with all of the Project steps and timelines as well as the project team team’s build and test plans. for the Project upgrade planning.
• Provided remote configuration consulting support for to address complex SAP Payroll issues, which included extensive modifications to the payroll rules and schemas for the calculation of base pay and deductions and the calculation of personal taxes. Was the lead on the team which developed the solution for processing 401K pretax and post-tax deductions.
• Also provided and configuration support for Work Schedule maintenance, Time Recording, & Time Evaluation changes.
• Configured Entitlement Quota processes as a part of the acquisition project (Rinker acquired by Confidential ) and the leave accrual processes
• This role started as a full-time and transitioned into a part-time role in order to assist with support of productions issues, acquisitions and implementation of enhancements to the Personnel Admin, Time Management and Payroll issues

Confidential

Payroll Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included delivering the highest quality Acquisition & Conversion solutions in line with the SAP best practices for the following SAP modules: Org. Management, Personnel Administration, Benefits, Vacation Quota management, and Payroll
• Developed the project documents below to help manage & facilitate the RTI Acquisitions projects
• Defined the project schedule
• Defined the project scope
• Assisted with identifying the project primary & secondary resources
• Developed the requirements gathering documents
• Developed the test scenario scripts for all HR modules and development impacted
• Defined the baseline RTI specific test scenarios for the Remmele acquisitions project
• Developed the Production Cut-over sign-off document(s) for the Business and Sponsors for
• Completed the configuration design for functionality needed for the acquired company
• Developed all of the employee and organizational management data load routines
• Carried out tasks that ranged from requirements gathering and discovery to configuration & testing, also including documentation, knowledge transfer and general support of SAP OM/PA/BN/TM/PY areas
• Support responsibilities for the Acquisition project included:
• Creation of work schedules and Holiday Calendars for the acquired company
• Development of vacation quotas and automatic accruals per pay period
• Configuration of vacation absences to reduce the vacation quotas
• Development of the Time Evaluation schema/rules and table configuration to automatically generate the vacation quota and update the quota with the pay period vacation accrual based on a tiered schedule
• Configuration of wage types, processing classes, payroll posting settings for the new wage types
• Updates to existing payroll schemas/rules to properly calculate the acquired company’s pay
• Assisted with support of OM/PA ranging from creating new employee/personnel groupings & HR actions to maintenance of features & the org. structure thru the use of all the SAP OM transactions (i.e. PO10, PO03, PO13, PPOME, etc.)
• Provided and knowledge transfer to the clients as well and fellow consultants
• Provided support as needed for the production payroll functions already in place

Confidential

Level II SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on multiple projects for a wide range of clients simultaneously
• Provided simple to very complex support for both the Time Management and Payroll areas
• Provided support for multiple countries
• Carried out tasks that ranged from requirements gathering and discovery to configuration, documentation, knowledge transfer and general support of SAP Time Management and Gross-to-Net Payroll including Tax Reporter
• Responsible for delivering the highest quality solutions, on time and while applying SAP best practices solution
• Support responsibilities completed included:
• Created/updated CATS profiles
• Creation of work schedules and Holiday Calendars for multiple countries
• Configuration of absence, attendances and quota processing
• Development of complex Time Evaluation and Payroll rules & schemas ranging from automatic OT, DT calculations and shift pay to proration of salary and special payroll processes
• Configuration of wage types, processing classes, payroll posting, 3rd party remittance
• Provided Year-end support for Tax Reporter for the US and Canada
• Assisted with support of OM/PA ranging from creation new employee and personnel groupings and HR actions to maintenance of features and maintenance of the organization structure using the expert and graphical mode
• Developed documentation for the configuration and testing completed
• Provided and knowledge transfer to the clients as well and fellow consultants
• Configured the IDoc functionality for outsourcing of Payroll Master Data and Time Wage Types using the Interface Toolbox and IDoc functionality for transmitting Employee Master Data, Benefits and evaluated Time data to the ADP eTime and other software vendors.

Confidential

SAP Time Management & Payroll Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a team of 7 analysts/consultants.
• Management responsibilities included:
• Lead, manage and evaluate the team responsibilities for the implementation, upgrades and production support of the Company’s business processes for the SAP HCM/Payroll/Travel application as well as other non-SAP business applications that included Taleo, Success Factors and Dassian’s Automated Labor Costing (ALC)
• Coordinated the design and development for inbound/outbound interfaces between SAP and external vendors for Recruitment, Benefits and Employee Compensation processes.
• Liased/coordinated projects with the offshore programming staff, onshore staff and Business users
• Assigned help tickets submitted by the business to the correct identified production issues
• Participate in weekly meetings with the Business identifying business process improvements, end-user knowledge gaps, production issues and user concerns
• Worked directly with the CoE Director on identifying support resource gaps and managing the support teams’ work load; follow up with the staffing assignments in support of the identified gaps
• Worked directly with the CoE Director on identifying the proper software and hardware solutions/tools to aid in improved development support for the SAP HCM/Payroll/Travel systems
• Ensured the successful completion of HCM new projects, SAP upgrades/updates and ongoing issue resolutions
• Assist the development team with researching/troubleshooting issues, redesign processes, development of new processes and implementation of process improvements
• Provided to the business users on SAP process & procedures as well as provide to the SAP support staff on SAP configuration
• Documented new configuration as well as the corresponding processes related to the new configuration