Professional Summary:

• A detail oriented Functional Consultant with over 8 years of experience in IT industry and with an extensive consulting experience for 6.5 years in ERP implementation, maintenance and support of SAP R/3 system, having been involved in numerous projects covering many industry and service sectors.
• Two complete SAP R/3 end-to-end project implementations in HR Module.
• Extensive experience in functional configuration of SAP HCM modules using ASAP Methodology with expertise in ECM, Payroll, Time Management, Benefits Administration, PA , OM , ESS/MSS Concurrent Employment as well as in Change Management organizational processes re-engineering, training strategy and training program definition, End users Training.
• Knowledge of integration with Fi/Co Modules and upgrade.
• Experienced in Blueprint to Go-Live and Post Go-live including Production stabilization, maintenance and support that typically fit the SAP HCM Business processes.
• Good understanding of all aspects of the Human Resource's business process and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions in the most cost effective and client-servicing manner.
• Good working knowledge of ASAP methodology and expert in analyzing 'AS IS' 'TO BE' status of the client and suggesting the solutions best suited for the implementation.
• Possess a thorough understanding of all aspects of the Human Resources business process, comprising the life cycle of an employee including recruiting, hiring, employee maintenance, payroll and benefits.
• Designed various SAP reports using SAP Adhoc queries to help HR Admin/Supervisor to analyze the data in day-day basis.
• Proven experience in requirements gathering, functional design and all facets of system testing.
• Experience in Issue Management through Solution Manager with ASAP Methodology involved in various projects Roll-out, support maintenance Off/On-shore and as well as Upgrade projects.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills with strong analytical ability and problem solving capability.

Software Skills:

• HCM/ERP: SAP HR/HCM R/3 Releases ERP 4.6B, ERP 4.6C, ECC5.0, ECC 6.0, EHP5.Kronos, Successfactors
• Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, Visual Basic, C, C , Java, HTML.
• Workflow Engines: SAP Business Workflow
• OS: Windows 2000/XP/NT 98, Unix/Linux.
• Tools: VISIO, MS Office Suite, MS Project, Crystal Reports, CaptureWizpro, UPerform, SolMan.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Functional HCM Consultant/ SAP Time Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designing and executing Time Test cases for Overtime calculation of Support c enter employees.
• Modified Vacation Payout Wagetypes to make it come through IT0416. Performed Functional Unit testing, created Integration testing documents.
• Created Time Entry process through ESS, and provided KT to end users on SAP ESS Time and CATS entries.
• Execute Payroll and Time processes to check if Wagetypes get generated successfully in payroll clusters.
• Created absence quotas, verify vacation balances by validating deduction rules for quotas.
• Work closely with Payroll team to check Payroll and Time integration.

Confidential

Sr. Functional HCM Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed clients Business Process prepared As-Is process maps and documented the GAPS in business and prepared To-Be Process maps for Kronos to SAP Daily Feed.
• Configured SAP best practices solutions for Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Time Management modules for Canada.
• Act as Liaison between Kronos Business team, and Legacy system to identify the interface model.
• Performed critical field mapping between SAP CATS application and Kronos.
• Designed Complex RICEF objects in relation to Time and attendance, and Vacation accrual.
• Worked on redesigning of Average Rate of Pay Report for vacation accrual.
• Designed the Inbound Kronos Interface, and the Out bound Demographic file.
• Performed Required Time Configuration for CATS profiles, Attendance and absence Quotas.
• Created Work schedule rules and modified existing rules for Canadian system.
• Scheduled and performed several rounds of System testing to Load the Kronos files into SAP, Perform Wage type mapping testing and related payroll and time activities.
• Tested and prepared the blueprint, training documents and the test scripts for the client and also UAT using RWD.
• Worked on T4 forms field mapping and JAT printing interfaces for Canada.
• Created and added entries for customized tables for Shift and line codes to keep the SAP system in sync with Kronos system
• Executed SAP Adhoc queries and designed various SAP Reports which would assist the HR Management team to track the plans and help to analyze the data in day-day basis.
• Worked in coordination with technical consultants and provided Functional Specifications according to the reporting needs of the users.
• Successfully managed the team and the customer expectations while meeting project goals, objectives major milestones and project deliveries.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant at CDCR on Shift Maintenance and Reporting: Implementation Phase.

• Providing Functional Expertise in creations on Process design documents for SAP functionality that interfaces with Kronos and Telestaff.
• Write Functional specification documentation for RICEF objects on SAP Time Reporting.
• Prepare prototype design for Quota Process, once Quotas are accrued in CLAS.

Senior Consultant At Micron on Numonyx Integration Team- HR

• Having been deployed as Sr Consultant on the Micron Numonyx Integration - HR project, I have been playing various roles throughout various cycles of the Project..
• BLUEPRINTING- Gathered information from Business and identified the Gaps between Micron Corporate HR processes vs Numonyx HR in the Time and Attendance recording and Management.
• Prepared Questionnaires for the client facing team on what information was needed to be gathered in regards to time tracking/work schedule rules, Time evaluation types, absence rules etc.
• PDD for Numonyx Singapore- Process Design Documentation- Prepared Time PDD that includes process capture for Time entry, Time transfer, Time evaluation Absences, leave request and OT calculation.
• Possess Fair understanding of statutory requirements which drive the requirements.
• REALIZATION Phase- Numonyx Singapore: Have actively taken part in the configuration of the Time system-Configured various absence types, Vacation Quotas. Worked on both System generated Quotas RPTQTAOO and manual Quotas.
• Worked extensively in setting base entitlements, deduction and validation rules for the various kinds of Absence Quotas.
• Worked on Leave Request Pool in ESS/MSS.
• Numonyx Italy- Configured Work Schedule Rules for Italy, and developed an all new Shift Interface. I have worked closely with Italy's ADP team to gather the requirements for this shift interface, and have given a detailed walkthrough of the IT0007 functionality.
• Written Functional Specification Documents and Configuration Object Entity documents for Benefits and Time processes for Singapore.
• Worked closely with Technical team in development of various RICEF objects related to absence and vacation reporting. Have written Functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• ITC CYCLE. Actively taken part in Integration test cycles. Performed testing of OT Rules, Absence Quotas, work schedules, and ESS and CATS.
• UAT Actively resolved many issues during UAT phase. Performed crucial testing provided resolutions in short turnaround times.
• HYPERCARE Resolved high to medium priority issues and Incidents during Hypercare - related to absence booking/ESS.
• On the whole- On the span of 12 months of my duration of the project- 9 Months were dedicated to Singapore Implementation and 3 months towards Italy development.
• Worked with Gross to net and gross pay calculations.
• Worked with SAP Standard programs RPCALCU0 Payroll Driver Program and RPCDTCU0 Pre DME Program
• Worked with the US payroll schemas and sub-schemas and PCR's.
• Created custom Schemas PE01 and PCR's PE02 .
• Configured benefit wage types to be processed as either pre-tax or post-tax according to the client needs and performed the necessary benefits configuration
• Customized the feature ABKRS, PFREQ and TARIF
• Worked with PE51 to modify the standard Form UF01 to create client specific Remuneration statement.
• Configured the Off-cycle payroll processing.
• Worked with Pre DME and DME RPCDTCU0, RFFOUS C RFFOUS T for check printing and ACH Transfer.
• Defined deduction frequencies, payment models, pay periods.
• Worked with symbolic accounts, assigning wage types to correct accounts.
• Worked with HR-FI Integration.

Confidential

Sr. Functional Consultant/Solutions Delivery Team

• Performed conflict resolutions between current and future state of systems.
• Lead the Business Process and Blueprint Workshops and consequently developed the Solution Blueprint to capture the future state of the processes.
• Performed testing and prepared the blueprint, training documents, the test scripts and UAT for the client.
• Designed Blueprint document for different business process in HCM and worked closely with Business leads and configured it according to the Client requirements.
• Participated in Weekly status reviews as Team Lead with client and senior management.
• Involved in analyzing the client's business processes and gathering the client's requirements
• Prepared various Functional Specifications and supported Developers for creating Technical Specifications for a special request from the client for the integration of CATS and Microsoft Outlook using Work Flow.
• Conducted Training sessions for users on basic understanding of SAP HCM before Workshop Sessions for Blueprint design.
• Analyzed clients Business Process prepared As-Is process maps and documented the GAPS in business and prepared To-Be Process maps.
• Worked on Data Migration by preparing mapping and layout documents for master data and Transactional data and utilized LSMW to upload the legacy data to the system
• Implemented some Personnel Administration including personal actions, info groups and info menus
• Configured Dynamic actions for automatic triggering of different infotypes and dates on date specification infotype Infotype 0041 .
• Modified various infotype screens using screen control table.
• Configured Organizational Management which included a very detailed study of the whole organizational hierarchy by setting up Set up Organizational units, Jobs, Positions and maintained infotypes 1000, 1001, 1005 and 1610.
• Configured a performance appraisal forms acc. to customer requirements.
• Configured and customized the screen layout of the Appraisal forms.
• Configured a complex cross functional 7 level approval process.
• Integrated systems for Payroll processing with 3rd party interface.
• Worked in coordination with technical consultants and provided Functional Specifications according to the reporting needs of the users as most of the project demanded involvement of HR with ABAP.
• Configured business event catalog, training calendar, day-today recurring activities, cost center assignments and external and internal faculties.
• Cost center assignment maintained both at Position and org unit level.
• Implemented Time Management and configured absence quotas, deduction rules, rounding rules, and work schedules and substitutions.
• Configured CATS according to the customer centric needs with integration of CATS with various modules like MM,PS
• Configured applicant actions, vacancy assignments and profile matchups.
• Configured various Benefits areas, Benefit plan types, Benefit Providers and COBRA.
• Maintained Insurance Plan general data, Coverage Formula and Cost Formulas. and assigned insurance Plan Attributes and Wage Types.
• Configured Benefits Enrollment, vesting rules and eligibility rules for the employees.
• Configured cost groupings and Contribution groupings to define costs for different locations and for different levels of employees.

Confidential

Sr. SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Had been part of Payroll team for 7 months.
• Had been part of MasterData maintenance team for 4 months.
• Worked on maintaining recurring payments and deductions and additional payments.
• Worked on issues related to loan deductions: Provided and maintained Wage types for Limits. Worked in table T51P6 to create the priority order for the loan limit wage types. Schema UDPO, URRS . Table t51d1- maintains limits.
• Worked on creating Garnishments document, created remittance rules.
• Maintained tax related wage types and defining taxability model on table T5UTZ.
• Worked on processing class 71 and Processing class 68 with specification 5 to enable gross up payments like Prize amounts for Armstrong employees.
• Created COLA infotype and restrict to specific group of employees by modifying the PCR by changing the decision operations OUTWP in order to control data elements on IT0001, 0007 and 0008.
• Took part in some critical production issues related to reversal of paychecks.
• Corrected the MasterData and rerun the payroll and run RFCHKN10.
• Update netpay wage types in the payroll results.
• Run the off cycle workbench to make the correct payment.
• As a part of Masterdata and Org management maintenance team for brief period, was involved in creating jobs, position assign requirements to positions through PPPM transaction code.
• Created Relationships, both bottom to Top A type and top to Bottom B type .
• Provided time constraints for infotypes.
• Maintained default position numbers through table T77S0.
• Created Tax combinations T5UTY group tax types or categories T5UTT that would accumulate for an authorities taxable wage base.
• Assigned Tax authorities and areas to tax model identifier T5UTE .
• Modified Processing class 71 value with specification 1 to let the system accumulate wage types with value of 1 or - in the RT table into the wage base tax categories defined in tax combination T5UTY .

Benefits:

• As a Team Lead, I closely worked with Project manager and the offshore team in Time and Resource allocations. A team sized 4 reported into me from offshore.
• Actively involved in the conversions and data mapping for Johnson and Johnson, Asia Pac region called the WILMA package, for a period of three months in year 2009.
• Have been the prime and single point of contact/Consultant for all the Payroll and Benefits administration activities of Office Depot and Sodexo.
• Actively took part in implementation and post support activities by analyzing the current functionality of the system and coming up with providing functional specifications to the development team.
• Actively involved in the Open enrollment activities of OFFICE DEPOT and SODEXO for Plan years 2009 and 2010 and 2011, Configuring new plans, Delimiting invalid plans, load new rates for Medical and Dental Plans, load zip codes, generate fulfillment and fact sheets.
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for the new plans.
• Provided functional specifications for new add on features like Imputed Income Opt out feature.
• Configured weekly and biweekly deduction models for Flexible Spending account Plans. Provide the necessary benefit integration
• Set up pay periods in T549Q, and also payment models and assign them to the benefit area.
• Configured Wagetypes for Benefit Salary and Frozen salary for Info type 0008 to calculate Insurance Coverage amount for IT0168.
• Worked closely with the ABAP team to design the layout of LTD/STD Files.
• Worked closely with the ABAP team to provide function specifications and provide enhancements to user-exits and existing function modules. Debug some custom programs and also perform unit testing to see the end results. Worked extensively on providing enhancements to HRBEN User exit which is HR BEN GET OFFER EXIT 001.
• Provided validation on the weekly and biweekly HSA and Imputed Income files. Well versed with reading the CRT tables from Payroll results table and analyze.
• Provided Test Data to the Quality Assurance team members.
• Work closely with Portal team to design the flow of logic and sequence of questions in the
• Questionnaire for ESS.
• Worked on changing Life events in ESS/MSS.
• Worked with Dev team to establish logic for workflow of manager's leave approval via MSS.
• Provided efficient walkthroughs to the Development
• Provided efficient walkthroughs to the Development team as well as the Quality assurance Team.

Confidential

HCM Functional Analyst

Responsibilities: Managing the project by coordinating with the business process owners in facilitating the project team understand the business process and their requirements.

• Involved in analyzing the client's business processes and gathering the client's requirements
• Designed Blueprint document for different business process in HCM and worked closely with Business leads and configured it according to the Client requirements.
• Coordinating with the functional and technical teams for the delivery of best solutions.
• Worked in coordination with technical consultants and provided Functional Specifications according to the reporting needs of the users.
• Configured solutions for Personnel Administration, Organizational Management and Time Management modules.
• Configuration of time management data integrating with Materials Management MM , Project Systems PS and Controlling CO modules though usage of CATS Cross Application Time Sheets.
• Also worked on integration with FI components by preparing cost centre assignments to personnel
• Facilitated various testing cycles and end user trainings including regression testing for all the test cases.
• Coordinated with the SAP-Basis team in setting up the SAP system updated with latest LCPs applied and in creating authorization profiles for the time administrator.
• Configured Adhoc queries, which helped HR Mgmt team to track the plans.
• Involved majorly in Global Employment, development reports in changing LDB's from PNP to PNPCE.
• Maintenance in integration of SAP HR to third party payroll system.