PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of experience in Implementation of SAP HR with emphasis on Payroll (PY),Time Management (TM), Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), and Benefits.
• Completed 6 Full Life Cycle implementations including analysis, conceptual design, blue printing and detailed realization for the project
• Extensive experience in Global and Public Sector Implementations
• Participated in blueprint activities in the areas of Payroll and Time management
• Application design and development, client support services, business process requirements gathering, developing functional design documents and specifications, system configuration, developing testing strategy and plans, creating test scripts, unit and integration testing, user acceptance testing, quality assurance, user and documentation and post production support
• Extensive configuration and customization experience with gross to net payroll accounting and subsequent activities including but not limited to payroll and time schemas, rules, operations, functions, features, payroll master data, wage type setup and valuation, payments and deductions, payroll areas, regular and off - cycle payroll processing, process models, time management, leave management, salary factoring, remuneration statements and checks, banking, tax calculations, tax reporter, payroll and statutory reporting, garnishments, third party processing and interfaces, arrears and claims processing, payroll results adjustment, posting to accounting, month-end accruals, BSI setup and configuration, integration to finance, time and benefits.
• Prepared test scenarios and test cases, conducted unit and integration testing within HR module to ensure all components fit together properly
• Very good logical skills suitable for process design, development & implementation
• Technical skill set includes analyzing performance of SAP objects and extensive debugging of ABAP programs
• Thorough understanding of SAP implementation methodologies and tools; ASAP and Solution manager
• Ability to bridge gap between Technical and Functional teams for SAP HR Projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, mySAP 2004, ECC 6.0.

Programming Languages: C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, VB 6.0.

Platforms: Unix/Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.

Reporting Tools: Microsoft Tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Springdale, AK

Sr. Payroll Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Set up payroll configuration and convert employee payroll data for the latest acquisition
• Enhance FLSA calculation to match legacy practice and also automate the comparison of FLSA minimum pay between current and legacy practice

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Time /Payroll Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead blueprint sessions for payroll and design a solution for FMLA, FLSA, and ACA reporting
• Managed configuration of payroll and worked through third party benefit integration with payroll
• Configured US Tax models and Garnishments in accordance with the state and federal regulations for payroll withholding and compliances
• Executing off cycle runs and regular payroll runs via process model
• Nightly Positive pay file generation and designing a custom process for merging individual ACH files prior to the bank transfer.
• Configured specific components for tax reporter and supported year end activities
• Enhance FI posting program to switch symbolic accounts based on the job codes selected at the time of time entry
• Develop the payroll parallel testing strategy; manage the parallel testing for multiple testing cycles for legacy to SAP payroll comparisons for complete population of 12,000+ employees
• Implement Time Management Hybrid solution to integrate on-premise SAP with Success factors MTO
• Configure time management module including Schema, PTMW, Leave Management and FIORI Time Applications
• Design functional specs for the integration of multiple time recording systems feeding into SAP
• Design a custom interface to automatic PTO payouts between MTO (Manage Time Off) and SAP Time Management
• Provide and post Go-live support to the business users.

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Sr. Payroll/Time Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead process improvement workshops and design custom reports to support day to day business operations
• Implement work tax area override functionality in Time and Payroll schemas along with client specific enhancements
• Integrate third party mobile time entry devices with SAP
• Redesign standard labor distribution process by enhancing CATS and Payroll posting programs
• Design BI and HANA reports to support time entry audit requirements

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Time Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global Implementation of Time Management with ESS/MSS in 45 countries
• Define Global Standards for the implementation of unique Time solution across the board
• Responsible for the implementation of SAP Time Management solution (Including Schemas) for Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, China, Norway and Germany
• Integration of Multiple Time Clocks with SAP, includes Kronos, MII, Henry and Protheus
• Implementation of ESS/MSS Time Functionality using Enhancement Pack 6
• Integration of ESS Timesheet with Leave Request and Work Schedules Rules using EHP6
• Implement Time Managers Work Place with Message Processing Functionality
• Support prior go-lives which includes North America
• Design custom objects to support European Working Time Directive and Norway Sickness reporting
• Design functional specs for interfacing SAP Time with ADP and Cloud Pay for third party payroll processing
• Utilize HPQC for Integration and Regression Testing

Confidential, Boston, MA

Lead Consultant Time/Payroll

Responsibilities:

• Optimize Payroll Processing time by modifying key Business/System processes on the time side
• Re-design key Time processes in an effort to reduce the need for error handling on the payroll day
• Resolved issues with tax calculations and remittances, month-end accruals, third party processing, FLSA calculations, payroll results adjustment, etc
• Support business team with handling data errors for the weekly and Bi-Weekly Payroll runs
• Identify and fix master data related issues that resulted in huge over-payments immediately after Go-live

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. SAP HR Time/Payroll Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Implement ESS/MSS for Leave request and approval
• Implement, Support and Enhance functional areas of Time, Payroll and CATS Integration with CO, MM, PS, PM etc.
• Modify time schema as per the new union agreements.
• Support and Monitor several third party interfaces feeding time data into CATS.
• Implement client specific FMLA rules in conjunction with the standard regulations
• Configured specific rules identifying key earnings and deductions to derive the net amount for Garnishments mainly for weekly employees based on court order guidelines. Configured US Remuneration statement (Paystub).
• Configured elements for benefit integration and wage types and limits to enable 401k deductions, 401k Catch up deductions and medical/dental deductions.
• Created G/L symbolic accounts to map and interface to legacy finance system
• Review and test support packs on multiple SAP Systems
• Design custom solution to in corporate union based holiday pay eligibility requirements
• Perform business analysis activities and identify areas of potential process improvement.
• Implement Client specific rules for higher of two rates, Leave Donation etc.
• Perform an impact analysis of a configuration change on existing data and recommend a retro calculation of time and payroll as required.
• Worked closely with the Security team in identifying sensitive t-codes and redesigning the roles for GRC project

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP HR Time Management Lead

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Lead process workshops and review sessions with client for time management including shift planning and Gross Payroll modules. Mapped the client’s business processes to Industry best practices and ensured that all necessary business processes were reviewed by the client.
• Analyze client requirements and worked with the project manager in setting up project timeline to ensure smooth go live.
• Configure Time Management Module including schemas and Personnel Calculation Rules.
• Design functional specifications for interfaces from Kronos front end time recording system and external service order systems to CATS.
• Design functional specifications for interfaces from time evaluation clusters and (Gross) Payroll Clusters to ADP for Net Payroll processing.
• Design functional specs for CATS enhancements to support Minimum increment Validation checks and Custom fields in CATS time sheet.
• On implementing company’s request, worked remotely with City of San Antonio Production support team to resolve time management issues.

Confidential, Freemont, CA

Sr.SAP HR Time Management specialist

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Hired by the client to support the implementing company onsite consultants with go-live critical issues.
• Develop test scenarios and trouble shoot issues related to time evaluation/CATS/ESS/MSS.
• Responsible for all data conversions which included data mapping and data loading.
• Help identify any GAPS between the end client requirements and the current design.
• Functional engineer for designing interface and helping ADP in mapping Master data and Time data for ADP payroll.
• Create Business Process Procedure documents for PDL employees.

Confidential, Portland, OR

SAP HR Time Management Functional Lead

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in GAP analysis, design, configuration and implementation of Time Management Module.
• Provided functional specs for the CATS interfaces and enhancements.
• Maintained Time Evaluation and Payroll Schemas TM04, TM01 and UT00.
• Involved in writing personnel calculation rules to accommodate complex Union rules for premium and Holiday Pays.
• Involved in Quota generation rules modifications for the changes in the accruals based on the bargaining units.
• Maintained Schema UT00 to generate different payment wage types for the employees temporarily working out of job classifications.

Confidential, Marshall, MN

SAP Payroll Consultant

Environment: 4.7ee

Responsibilities:

• Writing the Use cases of the processes in order to provide the trigger events, prerequisites and the success guaranteeing procedures with SOX compliance.
• Analyzing the existing HR systems running on SAP spread across multiple business units, extracting the business rules and documenting the same.
• Involved in analyzing and documenting the interactions between SAP and other third party tools
• Enhancements to the Time management and Payroll modules.
• Identifying and documenting the HR processes that could be run in common for all the Subsidiaries of the Confidential .

Confidential, Denver, CO

SAP HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created and configured the Enterprise structure (Personnel Area, and Personnel Sub Area) and the Personnel Structure (Employee Group, Employee Sub group).
• Configured the various Actions involved in the life cycle of an employee. (Hire till Termination of Employee) and customized the info groups for each of the actions.
• Configured the various standard Infotypes (Add or Remove fields).
• Configured and created various subtypes for the standard Infotypes.
• Worked on the Internal and External number range allocation for the employees.
• Customized various Integrations from PA to other Sub modules within HR
• Configured work schedules of daily work schedule with break schedule and period work schedule.
• Defined absences and attendance types for diff. personal sub-area groupings.
• Solved the issues regarding the configuration of leave types, leave quotas, job classes, and personal areas/personal sub-areas..
• Time evaluation with clock times.
• Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) for employees entering time data into CATS.
• Bi-weekly payroll cycle support including trouble shooting for CATS and time evaluation

Confidential, Marshall, MN

SAP Payroll Consultant

Environment: 4.7ee

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Off cycle process models and regular payroll process models
• Create wage types for Time and Payroll and maintain various processing, evaluation and accumulation classes
• Configuration of saving bonds and saving bond file formats to send that to Banks
• Integration aspects of SAP Payroll and FI-CO. Worked on configuration of Third party remittance
• Mid year go-live conversions for the company code transfers
• Configuration of Absences/Attendances, Work Schedules, Holiday calendars and Quotas etc
• Payroll adjustment worked bench and claims processing
• Writing functional specifications for custom reports, enhancements and forms
• Time schema and rules for quota accruals
• Configure end to end configuration of Time Management and Payroll solution
• Custom functions & operations for both time and payroll schema