SUMMARY

• Workday Analyst with 2 years of experience in understanding teh Business Process Flows, Case Tools, and Business Analysis and 5 years as a SAP HCM Consultant
• Adept in Identifying and Solving Business Problems and implementing appropriate technology solution.
• Extensively worked on Workday data conversion, iLoads and Workday integrations.
• Good noledge on EIB Inbound/Outbound integrations, Workday Studio, Report Writer and Calculated Fields.
• Well versed with functional concepts of Workday HCM.
• Strong experience in modules such as Time Management, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management and Payroll which includes 1 full cycle implementation, 1 SIT and Go - live and 5 support projects
• Strong Experience in teh Configuration, SAP HR Testing, End User Training, End User Support and their Documentation. Tools used HPQC, Mercury, Remedy and SM7. Knowledge on HP ALM, UFT.
• Stellar organizational and communicational skills; verbal and written
• Payroll: Wage Types, Processing Time Data, Payments and Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Calculation Rules, Internal Tables, Cumulating, Storage, Deductions, Taxes, Benefits/Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Schema/PCR changes, Bank Transfers/Direct Deposits, Third Party Remittance and Off-Cycle Processing, inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Taxes: Tax Tables, Tax info types, Tax related processing classes, Tax Areas, Tax Authorities, and Taxability models and tax combos for US Payroll.
• BSI updates: TUBs, Cyclic, SUI and upgrade.
• Personnel Administration (PA): Personnel actions, Maintain Master data, Configuration and Customization of Info type Menu, Payroll data (Pay Scale and Wage type Structures), Organizational Assignments and Integration of PA/OM.
• Organization Management (OM): Organization Structures, Reporting Structures and relationships, Evaluation and Reports, Simple and Detail Maintenance, Structural graphics, Integration of PA/PD.
• Benefits: Benefit Area, Benefits program selections, Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Saving Plans, and Annual Enrolment etc, vendor outbound programs.
• ESS/MSS, Talent Management: Benefits enrolment through portal, performance management, Master data update.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Workday Studio: Workday 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24Workday Studio, Report Writer, Core Connector, CCB and Payroll Interface, Oxygen XML editor, XSLT and XSD, Enterprise Interface Builder, Cloud Connect, SAP R/3 HR Module (Payroll, Master Data, Org. Management, Time Management, Benefits, Compensation Management), ERP Software SAP ECC6.0 and SAP R/3 4.6C,SAP Module SAP HR/HCM

Databases/ RDBMS: MySQL, PL-SQL, PostgreSQL, MS-SQL Server 2005/2008,Oracle 9i/10g/11g.

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows XP/7/NT/8/2003, MS DOS, Mac

Software Life Cycles: SDLC, Waterfall and Agile models

Office Tools and utilities: MS-OFFICE - Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, HPQC (HP quality Center)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Knoxville, TN

Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for management of vendor interfaces, including integration design, interface processing, monitoring, error identification and resolution.
• Responsible for Workday security, which included, planning, implementing and maintaining security guidelines based on criteria provided by management.
• Designed global data warehouse integration to expedite migration of employee records from multiple system into Workday
• Collaborated with customer success managers and product managers from software vendor to design year end compensation system functionality
• Led activities for retiring old legacy systems supporting compensation/payroll
• Designed and built cross application conversion and parallel validation processes.
• Develops custom reports to meet teh requirements of company management and staff.
• Implemented Onboarding, PTO time-off plan and Retro pay processing and re-configured Benefits for Open Enrollment.
• Working on various enhancements related to EIB Integrations, Core Connectors, CCB, Studio Integrations and Custom Reports.
• Loading of data into various tenants using Inbound EIBs (Ex. Holiday Calendars).
• Maintain tools and templates for each Workday update
• Work on Workday conversion processes and tools like iTool, EBI, Workday Studio etc.
• Integrate Workday with external vendor software
• Help support various projects or application outsourcing clients with integrations across multiple third parties and client's.
• Worked with HR and payroll operations to identify support issues dat can be improved through teh use of automated processes or technology.
• Responsible for teh HR IT systems understanding how they work and teh ability to assess integrations and interoperability with other existing and planned systems.
• Perform assessments of vendor products to meet SRA objectives.
• Responsible for business process configuration and build work.
• Drive all aspects of project testing including development of testing strategy and test scripts, secure and coordinate testing resources, compile metrics and documentation of testing issues and completion, and issue resolution.
• Troubleshoot end-user log-on and other system access issues.
• Create test plans, test case and test scripts for manual/new feature testing
• Enter, maintain and manage defect information and issues in defect tracking system
• Runs automated test suites for user acceptance, performance, load/stress, functional and regression testing.
• Working closely with teh Developers and Engineering Teams in teh review and modification of teh product and its specifications

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building teh integrations both inbound and outbound.
• Configured PICOFs to integrated with payroll vendors
• Created inbound studio integration to update external payroll deductions.
• Configured various notifications to integrations.
• Experience leading project teams in all phases of teh Workday implementation lifecycle
• Help support various projects or application outsourcing clients with integrations across multiple third parties and client's
• Participate in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers
• Tested data in sandbox environment, validate, and migrated to production tenant.
• Create test scripts, develop test plans and track defects using HPQC.
• Run Automated Regression Test Scripts using QTP.
• Written reports dat extracts Workday data and manipulates teh data in other formats for various needs.
• Worked on teh creation of benefit plans, job profiles, and job families.
• Trained users including modules and functions overview, navigations, Workday links, and explained documentation
• Summarized open/submitted issues tickets, questions, response, bug-fixed, resolved, and enhancement requests
• Integrate Workday to packaged Software’s and custom applications using SOA
• Organized and updated testing phase deliverable such as scenarios, scripts, test cases, and issues log
• Supported client support and data Maintenance
• Managed on-going base issues list and fixed in timely manner prior to teh production

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Sr SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Analysis, Design, Configuration and implementation of SAP HR R/3 and ECC systems with a Masters in Human Resource Management.
• Good Knowledge and experience in configuration and implementation of SAP HR modules in teh areas of Personnel Administration and Organization Management
• Experience in Global Implementations and Support environments.
• Defined teh Enterprise Structure, Personnel and Pay Scale Structures.
• Involved in teh creation and customizing Infotypes.
• Created Organizational Units, Jobs, Tasks and Positions and assigned teh Tasks to Positions.
• Integrated Organizational Management with Personnel Administration by running teh reports RHINTE 10, RHINTE 20, RHINTE 30.
• Ability to bridge teh gap between Technical and Functional teams in IT / SAP HR projects.
• Proficient in conversion of business requirements into functional for solution development, unit and integration testing and other aspects of software development lifecycle.
• Good Knowledge of ASAP methodology, Business Process model, end user training, and documentation.
• Experienced in Unit testing, Functional testing, End-to-End testing, Integration testing& User Acceptance testing, writing Test Scripts, Test cases.
• All teh defects in teh WMS is logged in QC ALM Version 11 and attending teh test case status meetings
• Customized teh basic settings for Personnel Administration.
• Configured and maintained teh master data of teh company using teh transactions PA30 and PA40.
• Involved in creation of Info groups and Info type menus.
• Created personnel action and reasons for actions as per teh enterprise requirement.
• Created dynamic actions.
• Defined employee attributes, administrator groups and administrators
• Trained end users on teh implemented SAP HR modules explained with live examples and solved various issues and presented teh clients with end user documentation.
• Excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal skills, strong analytical ability and problem solving capability.
• Supported SAP Payroll for Canada & USA; backup consultant for SAP Personnel Administration, Org Management, and Benefits
• Resolved production support tickets, via configuration, employee master data, and/or business processes in SAP HCM and Payroll areas
• Monitored SAP HCM ticketing queue; assigned tickets to appropriate global resource (s)
• Motivated others in process development and utilization.
• TEMPHas worked in high-stress environments.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Proficient experience on Gross-to-Net Payroll including Arrears & Claims Processing Deductions, Cumulation, Off-cycle, Garnishments, FI Integration & Third party postings, Process models, Remuneration statements, Time wage types and Benefit integration, Zero-net processing and Reports( adhoc reports ).
• Cumulating and Storage. Deduction Models, Taxes, Benefits/Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Bank Transfers/Direct Deposits.
• Symbolic accounts, mapping of Wage types to GL accounts and Posting.
• Development of Business Process model and maintenance, end user training.
• US payroll schemas and sub-schemas copying U000 (US accounting schema), UTX0 (US Tax calculation), and UT00 (processing of time data for payroll accounting) and payroll driver RPCALCU0, Remittance and Reconciliation.
• STDs/LTDs and FMLAs., Worked on Payroll Results adjustments and Tax Overrides.
• Maintained Year-end activities for Payroll and generated teh standard reports.
• Tax info types, Tax tables, Tax authorities, Tax areas, Taxability models, Tax Reciprocity, Tax specific tables, Tax related processing classes and Tax Overrides. Integration of SAP with BSI and maintenance of Tubs for latest updates in SAP.
• Health, Insurance Plans, Savings, Spending Accounts, Eligibility & Termination, Payroll Integration.
• Worked on building Interfaces and its Integration with R/3 and interface testing.
• Involved in Break-fixes, Operational support, Enhancements and Small Projects with Success Factors tool, pertaining to business requirements of Suncor Energy. Data Scrambling activities and HRSP Support Pack testing.
• Involved in Small Projects Estimates and Providing Functional Specifications and coordinate with Technical Team for development.
• Worked on modules like Recruitment with 3rd party Interface/tools like Virtual Edge and Success Factors.
• Proficient experience on Gross-to-Net Payroll including Arrears & Claims Processing Deductions, Cumulation, Off-cycle, Garnishments, FI Integration & Third party postings, Process models, Remuneration statements, Time wage types and Benefit integration, Zero-net processing and Reports( adhoc reports ).
• Worked on rules and functionality of partial period factors, and assign teh factors to teh wage types to be factored and creating wage types for Cost Accounting. Generated Payroll Calendars.
• Wage type models and feature LGMST to default basic pay wage types in info type 0008, Setup feature TARIF to default pay scale type/pay scale area/planned compensation indicator in info type 0008, and setup feature ABKRS to default payroll accounting area in organizational assignment info type 0001.
• Set up Wage Types for Basic Pay (info type 0008), Recurring Payments / Deductions (info type 0014), Additional payments (info type 0015).
• Created Symbolic Accounts for teh wage types and also configured teh Time characteristics for teh wage types.
• Garnishment Document Category and T5UGM Garnishment Originator, Government and Company service charges.
• Off - Cycle Payroll- payroll for corrections, through IT 267, Bonus Payments, Correction Runs, Advance Payments.
• Created Symbolic Accounts and linked them to GL Accounts.

Confidential, North Carolina

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird & Created Requirement Documents and Work Instructions (WI)
• Created SAP Functional & technical specifications and end user documents
• Writing Functional specifications and coordinate with ABAPER's in development of Interfaces
• Testing & executing teh interfaces by creating teh mock files for all inbound and outbound interfaces
• Raising teh defects in HPQC and fixing teh defects for interfaces
• Error handling and Error reconciliation of interfaces in SAP for Payroll, Benefits and PA & OM
• Configuration of SAP for Payroll, Benefits, PA, OM, ESS MSS and Time for enhancements and SAP bug fixes and Shadowed teh Success Factors BizX suite
• Helping teh client in Data conversions & custom reports
• Develop Test Scenarios and test scripts based on Requirements documents and Functional Specifications for Payroll, Benefits, Time, PA & OM and ESS MSS modules along with custom reports.
• Lead End-End Testing, third party vendor testing (TPV's), Standalones, Integration Testing and parallel testing
• Developed training documentation and process hand-off documentation
• Configured Payroll procedures using IMG by defining teh parameters of payroll module - payroll periods, period modifiers, date modifiers and payroll past period and Payroll Process Models
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area groups for teh primary wage type and defined wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay.
• Defined Payscale structure by defining pay scale types, areas and levels for exempt, non-exempt and Union employees.
• Defined entry permissibility for info type and defined wage type characteristics.
• Customized schemas, sub-schemas and rules for payroll data processing.
• Created wage type catalog and checked wage type group for Basic pay.
• Worked in payroll averages, retroactive accounting, wage type valuation, absence valuation factoring and accruals.
• Configured master data and payroll to process garnishments. Maintained teh infotypes 194,195 and 216 for processing teh garnishments.
• Created remittance rules as per teh client's requirements.
• Created pay scale grouping for allowances and created wage types for Recurring and deductions (0014) and Additional payments (0015).
• Worked with teh different info-types required to run payroll (008, 009, 0011, 0014,0015,0207,0208, 0209, and 0210).
• Created teh Payroll area, generated payroll periods using period and date modifiers, and assigned a control record to each payroll accounting area.
• Configured and maintained teh features ABKRS for default payroll area, LGMST for default wage types, TARIF for default pay-scale data.
• Created Wage types, Wage type groups for recurring payments and deductions, additional payments infotypes, Wage type permissibility for all ESG, PSG groups.
• Mapping and documentation of "As Is" administrative business processes.
• Analyzed business and system needs, requirements and processes.
• Define benefit area, benefit providers and teh basic settings for teh plans.
• Defined various benefit plan types and plan status as per teh client requirements.
• Configured Health plans, Insurance Plans, Pension Plans, COBRA, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Savings Plan and Miscellaneous Plans.
• Defined employee groupings: parameter groupings, salary groupings and age groupings.
• Defined cost variants, cost rules, eligibility variants and eligibility rules.
• Configured features BAREA, BSTAT and BENGR
• Responsible for teh Integration of Benefits with Payroll.
• Assigned templates to form types in COBRA Plans.
• Configured different employee criteria groupings like age, salary and seniority groups.
• Worked with features CSTV1, CRDV1, COVGR, EECGR, and ERCGR.
• Configured IMG settings for health plans, insurance plans, savings plan (401K plan) and COBRA plans.
• Maintained teh benefit plan premiums through cost variants and cost rules.
• Created and configured teh Enterprise structure (Personnel Area, and Personnel Sub Area) and teh Personnel Structure (Employee Group, Employee Sub group).
• Assigned personnel areas to company codes, employee subgroups to employee groups, personnel sub areas to personnel areas. Assigned Employee Subgroup grouping for Collective Agreement Provision and Personal Calculation Rules.
• Configured Info groups and assigned them to personnel actions to facilitate entry of structured information of teh employees for complex HR processes. Maintained feature IGMOD to setup info groups based on organizational assignment.
• Configured Actions with country reassignment feature to implement expatriate / repatriate functionality.
• Created dynamic actions to populate info type 0041, Date specifications for certain actions.
• Defined Country Specific-Info types and maintained info type attributes.
• Worked with Benefits Open Enrollment for year 2013.
• Configured CATS for ESS functionality
• Designed Testing methodology for Portal Configuration
• Prepared and delivered written communications relating to SAP HR production support activities
• Configured SAP HR ESS MSS Portal with Benefits Module

Confidential

 SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted HCM Payroll workshops, gatheird business requirements, and created blueprint documentation.
• Full Life Cycle Implementation and production support on PA, OM &Payroll.
• Conducted brainstorming sessions with teh management and super users and designed teh Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure and Organizational structure and mapping them into SAP
• Configured Structures in HR including Enterprise Structures (Personnel Areas, Personnel Sub-Areas) Personnel Structures (Employee Group, Employee sub-Group).
• Maintained teh Features like PINCH to default Administrator Group, IGMOD for Info Group Modifications.
• Involved in Organizational Reassignment of teh company Performed Personnel Actions including Hiring, Promotion/Demotion/Lateral Transfers and Termination.
• Created organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions, assigned teh tasks to teh positions and integrated all of these into teh enterprises organizational plan.
• Configured Dynamic Action for new hire action.
• Created and configured teh Enterprise structure (Personnel areas, and personnel sub areas) and teh personnel structure.
• Maintained Employee Master Data using transaction codes PA30, PA40
• Configured teh payroll areas and created control records.
• Created payroll control area defined period parameters and date modifiers, generated payroll periods and calendar for cumulating.
• Handling global Support activity for modules like PA, OM and Payroll, Benefits'
• Responsible for LSMW uploads for uploading new bank information for employee to be able to select teh same via ESS to create IT0009.
• Handle all teh master data changes due mergers and acquisitions. Run LSMW scripts to upload teh data.
• Created functional specification documentation for teh development team relating to all Payroll reports, interfaces, conversion mappings and forms.
• Involved in full life cycle implementation including Mapping of Business Processes, Configuration of Personnel Administration, Payroll, Benefits, Testing and Training.
• Participated in teh requirement gathering, Performed GAP analysis between client requirements and SAP R/3 and recommended necessary enhancements & customization.
• Worked on Payroll issues, BSI Tax, Benefits, Garnishments, Process Model, off cycle, Tax wage Types (Payments & Deductions) were created to match all teh legacy pay codes.
• Created Payment Model's for recurring payments and deductions, maintained teh feature
• Garnishment documents /order types were created. Service charges rules were enforced
• Created Custom PCR's in both payroll & Time to meet teh client need.
• Worked on configuration of Off cycle process models and regular payroll process models
• Existing Pay-Codes were analyzed for different payroll processing requirement.
• Created Payroll Areas to accommodate different pay period, pay frequency and payment dates and Configured different Base Pay wage types for different employee groups
• Created spreadsheets to gather data for each existing pay-code/deduction code to map them to SAP wage types.
• Wage Types (Payments & Deductions) were created to match all teh legacy pay codes, Created Payment Model's for recurring payments and deductions, maintained teh feature MODDE for defaulting payment and deduction schedule, defined deduction frequencies, set limits on deduction, included priorities and arrears processing for calculating deduction's.
• Garnishment documents /order types were created. Service charges rules were enforced through configuration.
• Off-Cycle reason-codes and wage types were configured.