SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in configuration, implementation (ASAP methodology) & production support of SAP HR modules including Payroll, Time Management, Benefits, Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), Time Management (TM), Employee Self - Service (ESS), Manager Self-Service (MSS), Personnel Development (PD), Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) and Recruitment.
• Excellent understanding of all aspects of the Human Resource business processes and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions in the most cost effective manner.
• Experience writing functional specifications for Interfaces, Reports, User Exits/BADIs, Workflows, Forms and Conversions (RICEFW).
• Experience following ASAP methodology for multiple implementations and expertise in analyzing ‘AS IS’ & ‘TO BE’ status of the client and suggesting the solutions best suited for the implementation.
• Worked on HR Interface Toolbox, HR Data transfer Toolbox, SAP payroll outsourcing.
• Experience using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) tool for migration of data from legacy system. Experience in designing/writing functional specifications for custom conversion programs to meet the client requirements.
• Good understanding in FI/CO module and its integration with HR/HCM module.
• Working knowledge in designing SAP workflow.
• Working knowledge of ALE/EDI integration.
• Expertise in building SAP Queries.
• Excellent problem solving, logical reasoning, decision-making with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in assisting business users to perform End of Year US payroll activities (1099, W2, W2c) and Tax reporter for Quarterly (941) reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0.

Software Packages: MS Office suite (MS word, Power Point, Outlook, Front Page, & Excel), MS Access

Languages: ABAP

Operating systems: Windows 98,NT,XP,VISTA, Windows 7,UNIX

Tools: Remedy, HPQC 10.0

Web Technologies: html

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with cross teams to change the organizational structure of contingent employees.
• Worked on modifying the New Hire IDocs process and mapping to minimize the rejectsfor all employees.
• Created new custom info types, audit reports for info types.
• Created new wage types, wage type catalog, customized Payroll schemas
• Wrote Complex PCRs to calculate Severance Payment, Additional Base Payment, and VSA Payment.
• Created new time types for attendances, evaluation of time types, modified RFCs linked to downstream systems as per requirement.
• Worked on migrating few company codes from Global Payroll to US payroll, identifying the changes in tax Infotypes, benefits, payroll, and time management and modified them per requirements.
• As a part of migrating, had to bring in new PSA for new company codes, handled the entire PA, OM configuration.
• Created HR Process model for the new Company codes, changed the configurations of Rem. statement, and redesigned the Pay Checks to suit the new company codes.
• Worked with Payroll team and Bank of America to automate the corrections in Direct Deposit of employee’s payroll.
• Worked on Automating various payroll processes, to eliminate manual Winshuttle uploads involved during every payroll Period.
• Worked on Upgrade from SAP EHP3 to EHP6, identified key test cases, and validated all the configurations and tables, performed End to End testing with all business processes.
• Authored functional specs for various new developments like User exits, Reports, SAP Scripts, RFCs.
• Worked with Benefits team to include new savings plans, and change the existing saving plans.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

SAPHCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Resolved day to day production issues and tested thoroughly before moving the fix into production.
• Created payroll structure for new PA and configured from end to end to run the payroll smoothly. Even created new org structure for new PA (with new positions, jobs, org units, relationships) and integrated to existing org structure.
• Fixed a few dynamic actions that were configured on IT0009 and IT0041.
• Created TaxCompanies in SAP and BSIwith same name, and assign Tax companies to Personal Areas.
• Created HR- process models for off cycle work bench.
• Configured master data and payroll to process garnishments. Maintained the info types 194,195 for processing garnishments.
• Supported the garnishment deductions and worked with the Payroll team to generate the Child support ACH file to send to the respective states.
• Configured the Remuneration statement as per existing pay stub and worked with Tech team to convert the same to print the company logo during the check printing.
• Production support includes analysis of live payroll issues and to resolve the issue immediately or by providing temporary fix. Later the temporary fixes were turned as change requests and fixed permanently.
• Used HP Quality center to record and track the defects and maintained the documentation for the fixes.
• Maintained and created wage types for regular payments/deductions. Worked on the processing, cumulation and evaluation classes for all the wage types.
• Supported end-to-end Payroll process (Time recording -> Time transfer -> Time eval -> Payroll Run -> Fi Posting -> Bank Transfer -> Payment).

Confidential, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

SAPHCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported the PA, OM and PY (Gross) modules for the global implementation.
• Worked on the support tickets that were created by the business on various day to day issues on HCM module.
• Maintained and created the Org Mgmt. objects and relations between the objects.
• Changed couple of dynamic actions to suite client requirements and worked on user-exits for the changes requested.
• Worked on Test Plans and test scripts for all the personnel actions, org structures and Benefits module including Health, Insurance, Savings, and FSA plans.
• Worked with the Technical resources in setting up the Benefits portal and set up of Benefit forms for the portal.
• Designed and worked on the inbound and outbound interfaces to and from SAP to the providers for all the benefit plans.
• New change for implementing customer specific status and special payment statuses was created and assigned them to Personnel actions.
• Worked on Master and transactional data interfaces to ADP for the gross-net payroll calculation.
• Prepared the functional specs for technical team for the interfaces to ADP and other vendor and worked closely with the technical team for all the testing/trouble-shooting etc as part of change request from business.
• Worked on custom reports for the client, worked closely with ABAP team for developing the custom reports for PA, OM and Payroll.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Blueprinting workshop for PA, OM, Time, Payroll modules. Conducted workshops with the business in collecting all the requirements for the implementation.
• Performed GAP Analysis and made determinations on efficient alternatives. Prepared business Blue print document with gap analysis between AS-IS system and TO-BE system.
• Involved in project management activities include creation of project plan, project schedule, defect tracking, change request creation, and regular risk analysis / status reporting.
• Worked on the data loads along with the technical resource for all the PA, OM info types from legacy. Did the trouble shooting and handled issues raised out of the data migration.
• Migrated data from legacy through XI/PI. Created reports (ALV) and worked on interfaces (IDOCS).
• Created CATS profile and worked on the capturing the time data from time system to SAP and worked on time evaluations.
• Configured master data and payroll to process garnishments. Maintained the info types 194,195 for processing garnishments.
• Defined remittance rule, garnishment order types, created adjustment model for the disposable net payroll, defined priorities, created and assigned forms to various garnishment letter types.
• Defined Tax models, Tax authorities, Tax areas and Tax types.
• Defined the tax company and assigned it to the personnel area. Maintained the tax related Wage types, Infotypes (207,208,209,210,234 and 235) and processing classes (67, 68, 69, 70, 71, and 72).

Confidential

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Junior Consultant, assisted the senior consultant on the project from Blue printing phase to Go-live and support.
• Participated in the Blue printing sessions with the clients and done the requirement details document, Gap document and the process flow charts for all the HCM processes.
• Supported in gathering business requirements.
• Configured the Enterprise structures, Personal structures, Payroll Area, & Organization structure.
• Configured the Features and Set up info groups for personnel actions.
• Modified Screens to hide the fields on the info type as per the requirements and worked on custom enhancements for the standard info types.
• Configured various dynamic actions to fulfill client requirements.
• Created and maintained objects and relations between organizational units, jobs, positions, persons, work centers, and integrated all of these into the organizational plan using expert mode and simple maintenance.
• Created tasks and assigned to jobs and positions.
• Created Budget types, Budget periods, pay grades and levels for positions.
• Configured various Eligibility variants, Eligibility groups, Appraisal rules and Eligibility groups.
• Defined guideline variants, Guideline groupings and Guideline proration rules.
• Configured Matrix dimension methods and their segments.
• Created new Payroll Area, Defaulting the Payroll Area using the ABKRS feature, maintaining the Payroll Control record.
• Defining Period parameters and Date Modifiers, Generate Payroll Calendars