SUMMARY:

• Overall 14+ years of experience, this includes 7 years of domain experience and 7+ years of SAP HCM Functional Consultant experience. The 7+ years of experience as a SAP HCM Functional Analyst includes three full Global life cycle Implementations, production support projects, upgrades, and roll out.
• Being a SAP Certified Application Associate and having a rich domain experience has complemented in SAP HCM Functional role to gather maximum requirement in Client presentation, Designing, Configuring, and Testing. In depth knowledge of the Human Resources business process which comprises the life cycle of an employee from recruiting, hiring, training, identifying and developing talent, employee maintenance, payroll, and benefits.
• Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM): Merit process, Long Term Incentives, Budgeting, Compensation Plans, Pay Grade Structure, Salary Survey, Performance Ratings, Appraisals linking, Inbound and Outbound Interfaces.
• Training/ Event Management /Learning Solution (LSO): Course Creation, Curriculum, Booking, Prebooking etc, Billing and Cost center allocation Integration, Notification Abbreviation and Recipient Groups, User Specific Output control, and custom reports.
• Performance Management: Appraisal templates, smartforms for appraisal process.
• PA / OM: Wage type maintenance, Maintain Master Data, Personal Reporting Structures & Relationships
• Benefits Administration: Benefit Plans, Cost and coverage rules, Dependent and Beneficiary Eligibility rules, EOI.
• ESS (Employee Self Service) / MSS (Manager Self Service): Configured iViews, designing functional specifications for PCRs and custom iViews for portal.
• Good understanding of the aspects of Human Resources business process and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions in the most cost effective and client servicing manner.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Being a production support, involved in the blueprint, configuration, unit testing, and regression testing of Enterprise Compensation (ECM), Performance Management, PA, OM, LSO, and part of payroll modules.
• Requirement gathering and blueprint preparation. Provides detailed functional requirement to the technical resource.
• Prepared Functional specification documents for all the enhancements and new features.
• Prepared Functional specification documents for custom development for ECM, PA, OM, LSO, and ESS.
• Continuous interaction with client and third party vendors during the enhancements and breakfixes.
• Configured Budget Structure - Defined Budget Types, Periods. Custom program for Budget Allocation and Reallocation, and added new bonus plans.
• Designed the Pay grade structure - Defined the Paygrade Type, Paygrade Area, Paygrade and Paygrade Level.
• Created custom interfaces and reports.
• Created key custom report end-to-end from gathering requirement, providing suggestions for improvement to business and third party resources, and involved in both unit and regression testing.
• Configured various Review Item Attributes, Eligibility rules, Guidelines and Program groupings, LTI Plans, and created custom infotype for bonuses.
• Designed Functional specification for “sending notifications to managers” during various stages of compensation planning process.
• Involved in development of custom programs and custom Infotype to handle LTI administration process.
• Involved in the creation of courses, subprofiles and delimiting the courses.
• Implemented ESS for launching and completion of courses.
• Involved in the creation of custom reports to pull the score and completion data
• Involved in the creation of custom program for the course and completion updates
• Configured third party vendor information and resource details
• Involved in the development of new programs and reports to pull the course updates from the third party vendors.
• Currently lead the Learning Solutions support team and involved in implementing change requests/resolving tickets for issues
• Part of the hypercare team who would take care of critical business issues.
• Involved in the creation of custom program and reports to read the data from PM tables.
• Developed functional documents for creating smartform for various templates which are used in the appraisal process by managers and employees.
• Provided online assistance to the employees for the issues which they were confronting during the PM deadline submission.
• Configured basic value set to capture the 5 point rating scale for appraisals, custom pushbuttons to define the approval process.
• Created template and defined various criteria groups and criterion within the template and assigned relevant columns, statuses and value lists through PHAP CATALOG.
• Involved in testing of Performance management templates and related workflow tasks.
• Involved in design and development of custom fields on PM infotypes
• Involved in configuration of Infogroups for Personnel Actions.
• Involved in testing of various PCRs for personnel actions through the Portal
• Data conversion of PA and OM Infotypes.
• Worked on Time, PA & OM demands.
• Involved in SAP support package upgrade, internal HCM upgrades, and creating and testing bonus, and long term incentive packages for different countries.
• Involved in the year ending activities like Updating the calendar / Public holiday calendar and Public holidays.
• Being in the production support, involved in the configuration of the Bonus, Long Term Benefits, Interfaces, and reports
• Involved in creating/updating functional specs as needed as part of different Change requests.

Confidential, Texas

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the blueprint, configuration, testing and post Go Live production support of Enterprise Compensation (ECM) and Performance Management module.
• Requirement gathering and blueprint preparation
• Prepared Functional specification documents for PCRs for MSS
• Prepared Functional specification documents for custom development for ECM, Benefits, and PM.
• Configuration of customized Benefits for both US and India.
• Created LSMW programs for data conversion of PA, OM and ECM infotypes /custom tables during and after cutover
• Involved in post Go Live production support for ECM and Benefits.
• Continuous interaction with client during the project cycle.
• Configured Budget Structure - Defined Budget Types, Periods. Custom program for Budget Allocation and Reallocation.
• Designed the Pay grade structure - Defined the Paygrade Type, Paygrade Area, Paygrade and Paygrade Level.
• Designed and configured the Job and Salary Survey structure
• Configured Long Term Incentive programs
• Configured various Compensation plans, Reviews, Review Item Attributes, Eligibility rules, Guidelines and Program groupings.
• Designed the functional specifications for “updating custom columns with salary survey data used during Merit increase process” on the portal.
• Designed Functional specification for “sending notifications to managers” during various stages of compensation planning process.
• Involved in development of Outbound/Inbound Interfaces for Stock option providers.
• Involved in development of custom programs and custom Infotype to handle LTI administration process.
• Involved in information gathering on various benefits programs and developed configuration documents
• Implemented ESS for entering and changing benefits information.
• Setting Health, Insurance, Savings, FSA, Miscellaneous and Credit Plans
• Configured health plans, setting options and dependent coverage levels, derive correct cost, and restrict dependents through dependent groupings for all relevant plans.
• Configured insurance plans, setting imputed income, costs and coverage based on age, and setting evidence of insurability.
• Involved in development of custom program to read data from Performance management tables to facilitate compensation administration process.
• Prepared Functional Specifications document for creating smartform for various templates to be used during the appraisal process by managers and employees.
• Configured basic value set to capture the 5 point rating scale for appraisals, custom pushbuttons to define the approval process.
• Created template and defined various criteria groups and criterion within the template and assigned relevant columns, statuses and value lists through PHAP CATALOG.
• Involved in testing of Performance management templates and related workflow tasks.
• Involved in preparing Configuration document for ECM and PM.
• Involved in design and development of custom fields on PM infotypes to facilitate integration between PM and ECM.
• Involved in configuration of Infogroups for Personnel Actions.
• Involved in testing of PCRs for personnel actions through the Portal
• Involved in setting up of the Job creation process.
• Data conversion of PA and OM Infotypes.
• Worked on Time, PA & OM demands.
• Involved in SAP support package upgrade, SAP EP upgrade and On- boarding Hiring E-forms testing for different countries.
• Involved in year ending activities like Updating of Factory calendar / Public holiday calendar and Public holidays.
• Worked on ESS/MSS testing on Applications like Personal Information, Company Information, Organizational Assignment, Working Time, Leave request, Competence Management, Personal Management etc.
• Currently lead the Compensation Production support team and involved in implementing change requests/resolving tickets for issues
• As part of the Annual Compensation project, am involved in configuration of different pieces of the ECM module - Budgeting, Compensation Plans - Merit, Bonus, Equity, Eligibility rules, guidelines, program groupings, as needed
• Involved in creating/updating functional specs as needed as part of different Change requests
• Involved in identifying and resolving issues related to inbound Equity payroll interface from Smith Barney into SAP.

Confidential, San Diego

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the documentation, upgrade, configuration, testing and post Go Live production support for HCM Modules
• Involved in configuration of ECM module - Budgeting, Compensation Plans - Merit, Bonus, Equity, Eligibility rules, guidelines, program groupings, etc
• Involved in configuration of Organizational and Performance Management - Organizational Structure, and Appraisals
• Involved in designing the pay structure including Pay grade type, area, grade and level
• Involved in configuring ESS - address change, bank information, office / communications data, personal data, and company’s code of conduct.
• Involved in configuring MSS - budget planning, Bonus awards, change in personnel area and work location, work hours, position creation, organization reassignment, promotion, demotion, and salary revision
• Involved in configuring Benefits, Time Management System and Talent Management as this was configured along with the configuration of succession planning.
• US Specific services included configuring Federal and State Taxes, employment verification, education assistance, rewards planning,
• Participated in/led requirement gathering workshops for ECM in North America and EMEA regions
• Participated in workshops in North America and EMEA to design the To Be processes for ECM
• Customized infotypes were created.
• Post Go Live production support was extended

Confidential, Foster City, CA

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the blueprint, configuration, testing and post Go Live production support of Enterprise Compensation (ECM) and Performance Management (PM) module.
• Requirement gathering and blueprint preparation
• Configuration of R/3 system for ECM and PM
• Configuration of Benefits for US.
• Prepared Functional specification documents for PCRs for MSS
• Prepared Functional specification documents for custom development for ECM and PM.
• Involved in designing the benefits for the organization.
• Created LSMW programs for data conversion of PA, OM and ECM infotypes /custom tables during and after cutover
• Involved in post Go Live production support for ECM.
• Configured Budget Structure - Defined Budget Types, Periods. Custom program for Budget Allocation and Reallocation.
• Designed the Pay grade structure - Defined the Paygrade Type, Paygrade Area, Paygrade and Paygrade Level.
• Designed and configured the Job and Salary Survey structure
• Configured Long Term Incentive programs
• Configured various Compensation plans, Reviews, Review Item Attributes, Eligibility rules, Guidelines and Program groupings.
• Designed the functional specifications for “updating custom columns with salary survey data used during Merit increase process” on the portal.
• Designed Functional specification for “sending notifications to managers” during various stages of compensation planning process.
• Involved in development of Outbound/Inbound Interfaces for Stock option providers.
• Involved in development of custom programs and custom Infotype to handle LTI administration process.
• Involved in development of custom program to read data from Performance management tables to facilitate compensation administration process.
• Prepared Functional Specifications document for creating smartform for various templates to be used during the appraisal process by managers and employees.
• Configured basic value set to capture the 5 point rating scale for appraisals, custom pushbuttons to define the approval process.
• Created template and defined various criteria groups and criterion within the template and assigned relevant columns, statuses and value lists through PHAP CATALOG.
• Involved in testing of Performance management templates and related workflow tasks.
• Involved in preparing Configuration document for ECM and PM.
• Involved in design and development of custom fields on PM infotypes to facilitate integration between PM and ECM.
• Involved in information gathering on various benefits programs and developed configuration documents
• Implemented various plans which includes health, insurance, savings, and FSA
• Health and Insurance plans were configured where the dependent coverage levels and the restriction for the dependents were implemented.
• Implemented ESS for entering and changing benefits information.
• Involved in configuration of Infogroups for Personnel Actions.
• Involved in testing of PCRs for personnel actions through the Portal
• Involved in setting up of the Job creation process.
• Data conversion of PA and OM Infotypes.

Confidential, LA

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the blueprint, configuration, testing and post Go Live production support of Payroll, Time Management, Personnel Administration, and Organizational Management modules.
• Requirement gathering and blueprint preparation
• Customized the Personnel structure and the Organizational Structure
• Integration of OM and PA with Talent Management
• Implementation and Support of SAP HR Module
• Involved in data gathering of the business process flows and suggested changes to configuration document.
• Detailed discussion of the current business processes, mapping the existing business process to SAP
• Involved in Customizing areas of Personnel Administration, Master data and OM
• Assisted in configuring the Enterprise structure by defining Personnel areas and Sub areas
• Configured the Organizational structure by setting up organizational units, jobs, positions, assigning tasks to jobs and positions, and Reporting Structure
• Defined public holiday calendar for personal sub-areas.
• Configured daily and periodic work schedules with break schedules to support varying shifts and provide both paid and unpaid breaks and establish WS rules.
• Defined absence rules and attendance types for different personal sub-area groupings.
• Solved the issues regarding the configuration of leave types, leave quotas, job classes, personal areas/personal sub-areas SAP.
• Defined selection rules for day types and evaluated clock times for further evaluation.
• Transferred time data, both negative (only exceptions to work schedule) and positive data recording (all attendances and actual times are supported).
• Monitored Time Quota Accruals and handled related inquiries and issues.
• Defined benefit providers, areas, plan-types, employee eligibility and default plans.
• Defined the data specifications for health plans and options that represent employee and dependent coverage choices and created coverage, termination types, rules and criteria,
• Assigned wage types to health insurance, savings, spending accounts and credit plans.
• Configured data entry profiles for the cross application time sheet (CATS) for employees entering time data into CATS; worked on CAT6 and CAT7 modules and achieved needed approvals.
• Created pay scale structure consisting of pay scale type, area, group, and levels.
• Defined employee sub-groupings for PCRs and CAP and maintained feature ABKRS, LGMST and TARIF.
• Configured payroll specific infotypes as well as tax processing and garnishments in U.S. payroll.
• Created control records and configured payroll procedures by defining payroll periods, period modifiers and payroll for retroactive accounting periods, as well as pay scale structures for employee subgroups and personnel sub-areas.
• Defined payroll periods and date modifiers for each payroll accounting area.
• Created wage types and defined their characteristics, and their valuation rules for the payroll accounting.

Confidential, Bristol, Tennessee

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the documentation, configuration, testing and post Go Live production support of Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, and Training and Event Management modules.
• Requirement gathering and blueprint preparation
• Configuration of R/3 system for PM, OM, and &EM
• Prepared Functional specification documents for custom development for PM, OM, and T&EM.
• Maintained Organization Structure by specifying respective Relationships between various object types.
• Configuration of Enterprise & Personnel structure according to the clients requirements.
• Maintained Personnel Administration with respect to the Requirement and client specifications.
• Configuration Settings related to Master data Maintenance i.e. Info Groups, Info menus, and other respective info type details which will trigger in Master data.
• Configured Pay Scale Type, Pay Scale Area and assign to Enterprise Structure and assigning Pay Scale Type and Pay Scale Area to Basic pay.
• Revise Pay Scale Groups, Levels and Pay Scale Ranges.
• Configuration of payroll components like wage types with relevant characteristics.
• Defining Wage type Permissibility for each personnel sub area and employee subgroup in Basic Pay, Recurring Payments and Deductions and Wage Type Characteristics.
• Revise Default Wage Type Model and assign to Enterprise Structure
• Maintained screen modifications according to the client requirements.
• Responsible for Unit, Integration and User acceptance Test.
• Documentation includes functional specs, report specs, Testing Documents, Configuration Document and User manuals.
• Responsible for handling various issues related to PA, OM and Time Management during the support phase of the project.
• Configured the Business Event Groups, Business Event Types and Business Events. Setup Business Event Calendar, Attendance Calendar.
• Defined Booking, Prebooking and firmly booked scenarios.
• Involved in configuration of Room Reservation Management process.

Confidential, Flushing, NY

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the documentation, configuration, testing and post Go Live production support of Compensation Management (ECM), Personnel Administration (PA), and Time Management (TM) modules.
• Prepared Functional specification documents for Time Management and Personnel Administration
• Customized end-to-end configuration and suggestions provided for the benefits of the client and customized accordingly.
• Configured Budget Structure - Defined Budget Types, Periods. Custom program for Budget Allocation and Reallocation.
• Designed the Pay grade structure - Defined the Paygrade Type, Paygrade Area, Paygrade and Paygrade Level.
• Designed and configured the Job and Salary Survey structure
• Configured Long Term Incentive programs
• Configured various Compensation plans, Reviews, Review Item Attributes, Eligibility rules, Guidelines and Program groupings.
• Defined the Enterprise Structure by creating Personnel Areas (PA), Personnel Sub-Areas (PSA), Employee Groups (EG) and Employee Sub-Groups (ESG).
• Configured Infotype Menus for HR master data (PA30) per customer requirements.
• Maintained Internal and External Number Range (Feature NUMKR) allocation for the employees based on Blueprint directives.
• Configured LGMST, TARIF and ABKRS features to default the basic pay wage type, pay scale type/pay scale area and payroll accounting area.
• Customized personnel actions and action reasons as well as Info groups for various personnel actions.
• Created work schedules, period work schedules, daily work schedules and planned working time.
• Defined Public holiday calendar for Personnel sub areas.
• Customized feature SCHKZ for defaulting work schedule rules for each PS and ES grouping.
• Maintained absence catalog and assigned counting rules.
• Performed personnel sub area grouping for substitution types. Defined absence and attendance types for different personnel sub area groupings.
• Creation of absence types such as casual/sick/annual leaves & quotas.
• Creation of absence counting classes and valuation rules.
• Automatic generation of absence quotas; overtime; unpaid absence.
• Handled absence valuations, and time wage type valuations.
• Defined the leave quotas based on employee group and employee subgroup by using the infotype 2006 (Absence Quota).
• Maintained Schemas and rules in Time Evaluation. Maintained the time schema TM04 for time evaluation without clock times.
• Involved with post go live support.

Confidential, Corona, CA

SAP HCM Functional Consultant

SAP HR Modules: Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, and Benefits

Responsibilities:

• Defined the enterprise structure (personnel areas and sub-areas), pay scale structure (pay scale type, area, group and level) and the personnel structure (employee groups and sub-groups) of the enterprise and linked the pay scale and enterprise structures
• Configured user parameters and the number range intervals for personnel numbers
• Maintained infotypes like personal data, family data and addresses to facilitate entry of employee information
• Created Info groups, Info type menus, and created new info types.
• Worked on Organizational Plan (Organizational Structures, Reporting Structures, Relationships)
• Necessary Configuration of Organization Structure & Staffing.
• Configured the Organizational structure by setting up organizational units, jobs, positions, assigning tasks to jobs and positions, and Reporting Structure
• Benefits:
• Defined benefit areas, benefit providers and the basic settings for the plans.
• Configured health plans, insurance plans, saving plans (401K plan)
• Defined qualification events, coverage termination types, rules and criteria. Assigned the wage types to health (0167), insurance (0168), savings (0169) and 0171.
• Defined features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT, ELIGR, TRMTY, CSTV1, COVGR, ELIGR modules, cost rules, coverage rules, and eligibility rules.
• Integrated Benefit plans with Payroll using wage types. ESS and MSS
• Customized ESS to display employee master data from the infotypes -Personnel Data (0002), Bank details maintenance (0009), Address (0006), Family members (0021)
• Customized ESS/MSS for Leave management and online pay-slip display.
• Expanded business unit from 7 to 25 employees through hiring. Identified potential candidates, arranged interviews, assessed candidates through behavioral interviews and managed on-board activities by applying sales approach with the candidates. Created requisitions for the new employees and updated the status of the interview process.
• Created internal website for employee orientation and updated site periodically.
• Involved in OD activities such as team building, intrinsic motivation, and career interests.

Confidential

Executive Business Development

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the secretarial jobs of CEO which includes preparation of quarterly and annual reports.
• Escalated customer complaints and their reports
• Designing White paper, brochures, and advertisement for the various products.
• End-to-end interaction for scheduling press conferences, interactions with travel department.
• Nodal point between the employees and the CEO.