PROFILE SUMMARY:

• SAP Consultant specializing in HR/HCM with around 9 years with extensive experience in Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), Time Management (TM), Benefits (BN), Payroll, USA, Canada, India, Indonesia, International (PY), Travel and Expenses Management (TnE), Training and Event Management (TEM), Learning Solution Object (LSO) Document Management System (DMS), Employee Compensation Management (ECM), Integrations with ADP, Kronos, Taleo, Recruit Max and people fluent Employee Interaction Center (EIC) and ESS and MSS.
• The Major Job responsibilities as a SAP HCM / HR Implementations - 4 end to end projects, Rollout 2 projects, Up gradation 1 project, Re Engineering 1 project, Process Improvement 2 projects and Production Support 2 projects.
• Global template used for multi-national implementations.
• Specialties and integrated expertise include accounting, auditing, assurance and advisory in Human capital operations and technology.
• Sound knowledge in understanding the uniqueness and challenges of industries across the commercial, public, and non-profit sectors.
• Got ability to offer a true global and integrated approach to issues or innovations that combines insight and experience from multiple disciplines and a wide range of knowledge.
• Value Delivery, Transformational Leadership, Technology Leadership, Value-based Marketing, Operations Management, Negotiations, Change Management, Building and Leading High-Performing Organizations, Human Resources, Solution Manager Implementation experience, SDLC, FRICE, ASAP and ASAP Focus.
• Experience includes all implementation stages, from business requirement collections, business process analysis, gap analysis, blue printing, configuration, prototype, data loads, unit test, integration testing, power and end user training, and production support.
• Worked on SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7 EE, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 configuration and consulting experience with Integrations.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills with experience of interacting with consultants and cross-functional project and team members. Able to quickly adapt to newer platforms and highly motivated to work in a group Strong analytical and troubleshooting experience in HCM.
• Knowledge on ABAP and SAP multi landscapes.
• Integration and Interfaces with ADP - SAP via Web Methods and SAP PI/XI
• Integration and Interfaces with Kronos - SAP Web Methods and SAP PI/XI
• Onsite/offshore functional and business analyst role.
• Vast and Rich Implementation and testing experience of HRSPs, CLCs and application of OSS notes to SAP system.
• Resolved and fixed issues through the Root Cause Analysis methodology.
• Involved in quality and CMMI activities of the projects.
• Monitoring the defects, Service, Changes requests and Tickets of the client and completion of all the related activities within the designated timelines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 HR/HCM (OM, PA, ESS, MSS, EIC, TnE, LSO, ECM, Time and Payroll)

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise on SAP HR modules like OM, PA, ESS, MSS, EIC, LSO, ECM, Time and Payroll Travel and Expenses Mgmt for US and Canada
• Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, configuration, design documentation and implementation of Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Benefits and Personnel Development. Provided detailed end user training materials and configuration knowledge transfer. Now providing post go-live support and Issue resolution incase.
• Responsible for the design and specifications documents for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, HR transactions and security roles providing quality assurance.
• Responsible to ensure that business objectives are translated and documented into functional requirements in such a way that the specifications are detailed accurate and sufficient to be passed on to the applications development personnel for execution.
• Understanding and Documenting of the Existing Business Processes in Knowledge Transition Phase.
• Responsible for Travel and Expenses Management inbound and outbound interface on daily basis.
• Taking care of TEM day to day business issues and Trip Issues.
• Implementation and Testing of HRSPs, CLCs and application of OSS notes to SAP system.
• Developing of new Interfaces and supporting exiting as well.
• Uploading legacy data into SAP system and upgrading
• Checking the ticketing system as per the team roster.
• Creating knowledge repository of solved tickets.
• Conduct Workshops and Create POC and Develop Solutions for Business Approval on new functionality developments.
• Working on complex tax issues.
• Expertise on BSI Tax factory updates and in integration with SAP on regular basis.
• Expertise on yearend activities including tax updates.
• Responsible for HR data replication to SRM, CRM and FICO systems.
• Helping security team to develop and modify the Security role of HR T.Codes.
• Created and maintained organizational objects: Organizational units, jobs and position. Assigned tasks to the positions. Assigned cost centers to the organizational units
• Involved in setting up the structure organizational key to define additional authorization checks. Maintained feature VDSKI for organizational key .Maintained the table T527, which defines the rules for creation of the organizational key.
• Sound knowledge and Evaluation path.
• Defined the administrator groups using the feature PINCH and assigned the administrators to the relevant administrator groups.
• Involved in integration with Personnel Administration using reports RHINTE10, RHINTE30 and RHINTE20.
• Involved in configuring and creation of Personnel structure (Employee group and Employee subgroups) and Enterprise structure (Personnel area and personnel sub areas).
• Created and maintained defaults for Master Data configuration using features ABKRS for defaulting payroll accounting area, NUMKR for defaulting number ranges, PINCH for defaulting administrator groups for Master Data Info Types.
• Defined number ranges for the personnel numbers in the master data. Maintained Employee Master Data using transaction codes PA30, PA40.
• Created Personnel actions and Modified existing personnel actions. Maintained feature IGMOD for defining info group modifier for various personnel actions based on personnel area and employee subgroups.
• Involved in creation of custom info type using the transaction code PM01.Maintained retroactive accounting triggering relevant to payroll and time management for info types and wage types. Maintained tables T588G, T 511, T777D, T582A, T591A, T591S.
• Set up Integration with Organizational Management and Personnel Development.
• Maintained the ESS service in personnel administration.
• Worked on Info groups, Infosets, Header and other fields.
• Defined dynamic actions and actions to suite requirements.
• Provided training to business and other levels on master data management.
• Defining components and component sets, Simple Objects.
• Setup Profiles for Communication Management Software and for Outgoing Addresses.
• Setup Email Profiles and Broadcast Messaging.
• Configure Profiles for Interaction Center Toolbars and Logical system and ITS URLs with portal developer and an ABAPer
• Define Profiles for Navigation Bar and Activity Clipboard
• Define Alerts and Alert Profiles
• Define Categories and Subcategories
• Define Processors and application constants
• Define Standard Responses for Email and Profile for Employee Search
• Define Communication Channels
• Maintain Number Ranges for Activity Numbers and Assign Number Range to Activity Case Type
• Configure Activity Status and Configure Activity Priority
• Configure Follow-Up Activities and Configure Activity Profile
• Configure Inbox Profile and Interaction Center Web client Profiles.
• Fixing of day today issue with RCA analysis
• Training at various levels.
• Documentation on configuration also user manual.
• Employee & Manager Self Service
• Involved in configuring of ESS and MSS related for multiple company codes.
• Coordinated with ABAP, Work Flow and Portal consultants for successful implementation.
• Provided most of the master data for create, change and Display. Also most of the actions are taken care my managers only.
• Involved in the setting up and maintaining ESS users.
• Involved in creation and authorization of users to ESS.
• Maintained the ESS service in personnel administration.
• Creation of test data and test scenarios for unit and integration testing.
• Involved in design and preparation of functionality.
• Provided Training at various levels.
• Fixed the issues with RCA methodology.
• Expert in DMS modules and provided end to end solutions on this module.
• Conducting workshops and gathering requirements.
• Blue Printing
• Training at various levels.
• Configuration and customization
• Numbering Range- Configuration
• Document Info Record
• Document Type - Configurations.
• Status Management Configurations
• Status Management Testing
• Object Linking Configurations
• Object Linking Testing
• Testing and creation of test cases.
• Go live and production support.
• Defined Employee subgroup grouping for PCRs and Collective agreement provisions
• Defined pay scale types and areas for each personnel area. Maintained feature TARIF for defaulting pay scale type and area .Defined pay scale types and levels for defaulting wage types.
• Defined pay scale salary ranges, standard pay increase and pay scale reclassification
• Involved in Creating wage type catalog and defining the wage type characteristics and permissibility per info type.
• Involved in the creation of payroll accounting areas and control records. Used feature ABKRS for defaulting payroll accounting areas and feature LGMST for defaulting wage types.
• Evaluate and control wage type characteristics (validity period, units, of time/measurements, etc.), insure that proper pay scale data taken from pay scale groups and levels correspond to valid wage type for indirect valuation.
• Involved in complete TUBs application process.
• Expert on PCR, Schema, Features and Fuctions.
• Created wage type classes and defined the limit classification .Created rules for deduction limits. Involved in arrears processing for retroactive issues. Maintained inflow and outflow wage types.
• Maintained the taxability model, tax types and tax areas.
• Responsible for maintaining employee tax information. Maintained infotypes 207,208,209,210,234 and 235 and 161 for maintaining employee tax information. Handled the retroactive issues related to maintaining employee tax information.
• Customization of settings for Payroll simulation, check completeness, retroactive accounting issues. Generation of remuneration statements and remuneration journals.:
• Defined and maintained set up for payroll organization. Created wage type catalog and check wage type group for basic pay, additional payments, recurring payments and deductions.
• Configured deduction models as per the business requirement of client and assigned them to plans in order to make deductions in the desired payroll period.
• Involved in the issues of arrears processing and handled the arrears recovery. Created recovery wage types and maintained processing classes 5, 6 and 20.Adjusted the wage type characteristics for retroactive issues in arrears processing.
• Handled the retroactive tax accounting and claims processing issues. Maintained the payroll results adjustment infotype.
• Maintained Taxability Model and Tax Related Processing Classes 68, 69 and 71.
• Configured master data and payroll to process garnishments. Maintained the infotypes 194, 195 and 216 for processing the garnishments.
• Handled absence valuations, time wage type valuations and factoring issues.
• Defining employee grouping/account assignment, symbolic accounts, wage type posting attributes and account assignment for Posting to Financial Accounting.
• Created and maintained gross up wage types and cumulation wage types.
• Worked extensively on the off-cycle activities and third party remittances.
• Maintained the prepaid deduction for the employees and handled the retroactive issues related to the prepaid deductions.
• Used Tax Reporter to create regulatory reports for federal and local agencies.
• Defined wage type characteristics and maintained tables T512W and T511.
• Created process model to automate the sequence in which the processing steps have to be performed for payroll subsequent activities.
• Maintained the benefit administration process: enrollment, maintenance, and termination of participation using features BENGR, BSTAT, ELIGR, and TRMTY.
• Defined and maintained benefit areas, benefit providers, dependents and beneficiaries, benefits plan types and status.
• Defined health plan general data, dependant coverage options, flexible benefit plan general cost variant, dependant coverage options and cost rules.
• Defined Insurance plan general data, flexible benefit plan general, attributes, cost variant, coverage rules coverage rules, cost rules and assigned insurance plan attributes.
• Defined contribution rules, vesting rules and investment options for saving plans.
• Maintained and administered the 401(k) saving plan.
• Administration and Maintenance of the COBRA and Flexible spending accounts.
• Involved in the set up and maintenance of the ESS in benefits administration.
• Handled the reporting and customizing tools in Benefits Administration and integration with payroll.
• Creation of public holiday/factory calendar; work schedules/planned working time. Used feature SCHKZ for defaulting work schedule rules for each PS and ES grouping.
• Defined Attendance, Absences, Substitutions, Overtime and Availability as per requirement. Performed personnel sub area grouping for substitution types. Maintained the feature VTART to define default values for the substitution types based on the enterprise and personnel structure
• Performed personnel sub area grouping for absence and attendance types. Defined the absence types and determined the data entry screen for each absence type.
• Expert on Schema, PCRs and fuctions.
• Handled absence valuations, time wage type valuations, factoring and averaging issues.
• Maintained the time schema TM00 and TMO4 for time evaluation with and without clock times.
• Maintained the database tables CATSDB and CATSHR tables for evaluating the time sheets.
• Maintained the PCR UMOD in time evaluation sub schema UT00.
• Got experience TnE from HR and FI side as well.
• Implemented from HR side and FI side in multiple projects.
• Expert processing of Allowances, Reimbursements, Expenses and company paid items.
• Expert on Workflow process and monitoring.
• Expert on fixing the day to day issue with RCA methodology.
• Expert on replication (PFAL) process via IDoc and ALE.
• Knowledge on Security roles for manager and employee for TnE.
• Integration with portal for summation of trips and approval as well.
• Integration posting
• Expert on processing of bank data into SAP and SAP to bank on credit card stuff, means inbound and out bond interfaces.
• Expert on credit card buffer details.
• Worked on latest version SAP 6.0 Ehp. 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6
• Involved in developed of custom tables, data elements, domains, views and Match codes using Data Dictionary.
• Developed Batch Data Communication (BDC) Programs to transfer of data from Legacy system to SAP System using call transaction and Session creation methods.
• Maintained SAP Scripts in Personnel Administration and Payroll.
• Got vast and rich experience on FRICE.
• Created SF and in few cases TS for Interface.
• Worked on In and Out bond interfaces, reports and conversions.
• Effectively coordinated with technical teams like ABAP, Basis, WebMethods, Tibco, Tivoli, Insight, XI/PIs team for successfully implementations.
• Also coordinated with 3rd parties like Banks, Govt. deportments, insurance providers etc.
• Sound knowledge on Batch jobs.
• Provided lots of custom reports to suite business requirements.
• Rich and vast experience on implementation of HRSPs and CLCs to suite business and legal requirements on timely manner.
• Copied the test data from production system to Quality and development other required systems before start implementation.
• In case of any product issue then reporting to SAP and getting fixed as soon as possible with OSS notes.
• Opening SAP systems to SAP for investigation.
• Checking SAP calendar regularly for update like OSS notes, CLC and HRSPs.
• Going through the each and every note and finding out the suitable note for implementation.
• Closely working with SAP ABAP for OSS notes application and SPAU activity.
• Closely working with SAP Basis for CLCs and HRSPs application.
• Closely working with SAP Security for logon groups lock and unlock while applying.
• Closely working with Data base teams for backup and storage.
• Testing in SAP Dev. System storing the changes in transports for further move along with notes.
• Closely working Business for quality testing business sign off for production move.
• Vast and rich experience in testing of SAP HR functionalities manually and using HPQC.
• Creation of test case and test scripts for testing
• Loading test scripts in QC test lab and test director.
• Validating in SAP each and every step to make sure everything working fine.
• Making business and client comfortable that this functionality good and suite for business.
• Kronos normally used for time capturing and time evaluation outside SAP.
• It’s most accurate system for time management activates compare to SAP.
• Feeding employee data to Kronos through Idocs or interfaces.
• Also taking the data from Kronos to SAP via Idocs or Interface, mostly interfaces.
• Interface loads into Ztables, Infotypes.
• Its web based recruitment tool and the access to will be given to the user and users will login to this tool and load the data into this tool,
• The loading data will be sent to SAP through interface.
• OM data which is required for recruitment will be sent to these tools.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.7 and ECC 6.0 HR/HCM (OM, PA, ESS, MSS, EIC, TnE, LSO, ECM, Time and Payroll)

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise on SAP HR modules like OM, PA, Payroll, Time, LSO (TEM), ESS/MSS, EIC, ECM, Travel and Expenses Mgmt for US and Canada, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
• Responsible for requirements gathering, analysis, configuration, design documentation and implementation of Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Benefits and Personnel Development. Provided detailed end user training materials and configuration knowledge transfer. Now providing post go-live support and Issue resolution incase.
• Responsible for the design and specifications documents for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, HR transactions and security roles providing quality assurance.
• Responsible to ensure that business objectives are translated and documented into functional requirements in such a way that the specifications are detailed accurate and sufficient to be passed on to the applications development personnel for execution.
• Understanding and Documenting of the Existing Business Processes in Knowledge Transition Phase.
• Responsible for Travel and Expenses Management inbound and outbound interface on daily basis.
• Taking care of TEM day to day business issues and Trip Isssues.
• Implementation and Testing of HRSPs, CLCs and application of OSS notes to SAP system.
• Developing of new Interfaces and supporting exiting as well.
• Uploading legacy data into SAP system and upgrading
• Checking the ticketing system as per the team roster.
• Creating knowledge repository of solved tickets.
• Conduct Workshops and Create POC and Develop Solutions for Business Approval on new functionality developments.
• Working on complex tax issues various countries.
• Expertise on BSI Tax factory updates and in integration with SAP on regular basis.
• Expertise on yearend activities including tax updates.
• Responsible for HR data replication to SRM, CRM and FICO systems.
• Helping security team to develop and modify the Security role of HR T.Codes.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant Payroll and Legal

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 HR/HCM (OM, PA, Time, Payroll, PD & Benefits)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering, feasibility study, Blue Printing and GAP analysis
• Create a Global Template for the Quote/Order Processing Scenario for B2B Scenario.
• Conduct Retrofit Analysis for Retail Specific Requirements.
• Conduct Workshops and Create POC and Develop Solutions for Business Approval.
• Responsible for Integration of SAP CRM and People Soft CRM Interfaces.
• Setup Authorization Profiles, Business Roles.
• Setup and Configure Quotes, Leads and Order Management Documents
• Configure Action Profiles, Status Management Profiles.
• Configure WEBUI for custom creating UI Components and Fields.
• Configure and Develop Smart form’s with Localized Content.
• Involved in data gathering for Enterprise Structure, Organization Management, Personnel development, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting and, Time Management.
• Participated in the study to understand the AS-IS process and define the TO-BE process to map the business process of Blount International legacy system into SAP R/3 system. Performed GAP analysis to produce Business Blueprint document as per ASAP methodology.
• Performed Customizing and Implementation in the Following areas
• Custom reports based on user requirements using Ad Hoc Query

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 HR/HCM (OM, PA, Time, Payroll, PD & Benefits)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering, feasibility study, Blue Printing and GAP analysis
• Preparation test cases to test business scenarios.
• Coordination with internal team for testing status and helping the team on test cases.
• Testing of scenarios in negative and position methods.
• Responsible for Integration of SAP CRM and People Soft CRM Interfaces.
• Setup Authorization Profiles, Business Roles for business users.
• Raising defects in QC if found issues.
• Coordination with project team for defect fixing.
• Given training to internal team members to how test the scenarios.
• Coordination business for functionality issues to get clarified.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 4.7 HR/HCM (OM, PA, Time, Payroll)

Responsibilities:

• Read and understanding all the 30 patches which are going upload into the system
• Understanding their current process and with old patches.
• Prepared test cases to test all the transaction code and scenarios after patch updating.
• Prepared configuration document to submit to the Patni library
• Submitted a document to client about what are the changes and modification ware takes place in patches updation project
• Prepared a mini blue Print for additional functionality.
• Given training at various levels

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6 to ECC 6.0 HR/HCM (OM, PA, Time, T&E)

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test cases to test the transactions and transaction codes for Org. Management, Personnel Administration and Cross Application (Time sheets)
• Add the prepared test scenarios and test cases in test lab & test directory to test a laymen and also through a QTP through a technical tester
• Finding out the defects or problems in technical upgrade
• Logging calls through Quality centre (Mercury) to fix defects
• Announcement of successful testing if laymen and QTP tester tests the test scenarios successfully then have to announce testing has been completed successfully

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0 HR/HCM (OM, PA, Time and Payroll)

Responsibilities:

• Client Requirements Analysis Studying of Existing business Processes
• Preparation of Blue Print Mapping Business Requirement to SAP Best Practices
• Customization of HR business scenarios on OM, PA, Payroll and Travel Management.
• Creation of functional specification for ABAP team development for the FRICE
• Legacy Data Migration from legacy ERP system to SAP.
• Using BC Sets for Configuration via Solution manager.
• Training to business users on all the SAP functionalities.
• In corporation of enhancements & new requirements
• Coordination on Integration with FICO and logistics.
• Cut-over / Go-Live / Post Go-Live Activities.
• Documentation of configuration, blue print, functional specs business special scenarios.