SUMMARY:

• Having rich experience of 11+ months of Workday HCM Support Consultant and 7+ years of SAP HCM Functional Consultant. Being a SAP Certified Application Associate with the HR domain experience has complemented in SAP & Workday HCM Functional role to gather maximum requirement in Client presentation, Designing, Configuring, and Testing. In depth knowledge of the Human Resources business processes which comprises the life cycle of an employee from recruiting, hiring, training, identifying and developing talent, employee maintenance, payroll, and benefits.
• PA / OM: Configure Supervisory Organization, Locations, Job Family, Job Profile, Positions and Benefit plans.
• Compensation:Compensation package, compensation grade, and compensation plan
• Performance Management: Goal setting, midyear, and year end processes.
• Time Management: Absence management including vacation, parental leave and other LOA types
• Business Process: Hire / Rehire Action, Approval, Approval Chain and Checklist
• Security: Security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially.

SAP SKILLS:

• 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.
• Performance Management: Appraisal templates, smartforms for appraisal process.
• PA / OM: Wage type maintenance, Maintain Master Data, Personal Reporting Structures & Relationships
• Training/ Event Management /Learning Solution (LSO): Course Creation, Curriculum, Booking, and Pre - booking. Billing and Cost center allocation Integration, Notification Abbreviation and Recipient Groups, User Specific Output control, creation of smartforms to send notifications, and custom reports.
• Employee Expense Management: Configuration, Unit Testing & Regression Testing
• Travel Management: Configuration, Unit Testing & Regression Testing
• 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 forPCRs and custom iViews for portal.
• SAP BO for LSO - Creation of objects and joins as per the client’s requirement in Universe Design Tool and created reports and dashboard in InfoView and BI Launchpad
• 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.
• Functional Consultant with advanced skills in all facets ofImplementation combined with superior knowledge working with cross functional teams to implement SaaS Human Capital solutions for all types of organizations.
• One point contact with internal stakeholders, implementers, third party vendors, and the client to identify requirements, design enhancements and functionality to meet user requirements
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Responsible for Requirement Gathering, Configurations, Setups, Gap Analysis, Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End User and Super User Trainings, and Post Production Support.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholders and team members.
• Efficient in making Requirement traceability Matrix
• Configuration of Workday’s business process framework, configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
• Responsible for conducting weekly meetings with stakeholders and production group in order to meet milestones and highlight areas of concern
• Excellent Team player with Result-oriented, Fast learner, Excellent communication skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supports the implementation of Workday HRIS system and post-implementation HyperCare.
• Perform configuration work as needed to support new and existing functionality.
• Uses knowledge of HR business functions and involves the key players to identify and assessing operating needs and issues, and suggest IT solutions (possibly cross-functional or global) for one or more business function.
• Clarified QA team issues and Reviewed test plans to make sure that all requirements will be covered in scripts and tested properly.
• Coordinated in performing Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Created Supervisory Organizations, Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchies, and location hierarchies’ maintenance, and modification of Workday Business Processes and definitions.
• Setup business process steps, such as Action, Approval, Approval Chain and Checklist, and how they work and integrate with security groups.
• Worked on the creation of benefit plans, job profiles, and job families.
• Configuration of Workday’s business process framework, configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
• Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Implemented Workday performance management including goal setting, midyear, and year end processes.
• Configured absence management including vacation, parental leave and other LOA types.
• Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.
• Perform system, UAT, and regression testing, throughout the life of the implementation
• Created functional document for script development, testing execution, defect tracking and resolution
• Perform regression testing efforts to support release management and phased rollouts in different geographic regions

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.
• During the breakfixes, provide the detailed information on the issue and also, provide the solution by highlighting the table names and field name 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 Pay grade Type, Pay grade 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 variousReview 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 budget plan and budget assignment testing on the third party software and also, test the link between ECM and PM modules.
• 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 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.
• Creation of Smartforms to send notification to employees on the trainings
• 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 testingfor 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, and program groupings.
• 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, testingand 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.