Summary

• SAP HCM Solution expert with around 8 years of expertise comprising of full life cycle Global implementation, multiple upgrade and support projects.
• Varied experience on challenging SAP implementations for clients in different industry verticals including Energy, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Technology, Constructions and Education.
• Expertise in implementation of SAP HCM module with emphasis on Organization Management, Personal Administration, Time Management, Cross Application Timesheets CATS , Performance Management System , Payroll, Training and Event Management, Compensation Management, Benefits Administration, Recruitment, ESS-MSS.
• Comprehensive knowledge of global ASAP Methodologies and good understanding of HCM/HR module integration with other modules.
• Good knowledge of the country specific system settings and configurations across modules in HCM.
• Hands-on experience in project life-cycle activities, information gathering, analyzing, solution identification, recommendation, configuration, trouble-shooting, end user training, testing, and documentation.
• Exceptional Team Leading skills. Performed led intensive conflict resolution sessions between current and future state of systems.
• Designed various SAP reports using SAP Adhoc queries to help HR Admin/Supervisor to analyze the data in day-day basis.
• Worked on complex authorization structures and designed various WRICEF items by coordinating with the technical teams meeting the client requirements.
• Hands-on experience with various to Data Conversion and Mapping techniques.
• In-depth understanding of MY SAP HCM architecture as well as awareness of trends and directions in emerging technologies.
• Also ardent with ABAP/4 and experience with SQL Trace, ABAP Debugging, Runtime Analysis Tool and Performance Analysis tools.
• Facilitated the discovery session using a Learning Questionnaire which helps in future system predictions.
• Experience in Issue Management through Solution Manager with ASAP Methodology involved in various projects Roll-out, support maintenance and Upgrade projects.

Technical Skills

HCM/ERP: SAP HR/HCM R/3 Releases ERP 4.6C, ECC5.0, ECC 6.0, EHP5,EHP6

Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, Visual Basic, C, C , Java, HTML

Workflow Engines: SAP Business Workflow

OS: Windows 2000/XP/NT 98, Unix/Linux

Tools: VISIO, MS Office Suite, MS Project, HP Quality Center, Crystal Reports, Capture Wizpro, UPerform, SolMan, Putty, WinSCP, JS Console, Rev-Trac, httpwatch, Org Publisher 11.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr. Specialist HCM Solutions SAP

Key Responsibilities:

• Performed conflict resolutions between current and future state of systems.
• Configured FPM Floor plan manager for the upgradation of heavily customized Java based services to Web Dynpro services for timesheets CATS and emergency contact for US employees
• Configured SOAManager for time management along with the BASIS team, and helped the team configure the Business packages and activation of all required business functions required for implementation of Ehp6.
• Analyzed clients Business Process prepared As-Is process maps and documented the GAPS in business and prepared To-Be Process maps.
• Lead the Business Process and Blueprint Workshops and consequently developed the Solution Blueprint to capture the future state of the processes.
• Configured Adhoc queries for complex issues regarding Global Mobility, Tuition Reimbursement which helped HR Mgmt.
• Worked on a specialized global compensation chart for the HR compensation users and higher management using Org Publisher 11 for global compensation study and activities
• Coordinated extensively with the ABAP Developer for developing various heavily customized timesheets for hourly and salaried employees with respect to converting to WDABAP solutions as per the client specific requirements.
• Debugged and researched various WDABAP services for including client specific requirements inorder to help the ABAPer include code in the specific process point.
• Performed testing and prepared the blueprint, training documents, the test scripts and UAT for the client.
• Worked with the HR business users for supporting their day-day basis in resolving end user issues related to portal, time entries, approval of times, log-in issues and general issues related to new benefit enrollments, configuration all new acquires from enterprise structure to payroll etc.
• Worked with the communications team for the preparation of the Quick reference cards QRCs for portal postings
• Provided solutions for various issues with the interfaces for payroll ADP , Learning solutions Skill soft etc.
• Configured CATS data entry profiles CAC1 for the employee groups and levels according to the customer centric needs
• Worked on Data Migration by preparing mapping and layout documents for Master data and Transactional data and utilized LSMW to upload the legacy data to the SAP system for the newly acquired businesses by Discovery Communications Inc.
• Successfully managed customer expectations while meeting project goals, objectives major milestones and project deliveries.

Environment: ECC 6.0,Ehp5,Ehp6

Confidential

Sr. SAP HR Consultant -Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the SAP HR functionalities including the interfaces for PA, OM, Time, Payroll, PD, ECM - CRT tool, Recruitment, Benefits.
• Responsible for interfacing IDoc for various 3rd party interfaces including Payroll with ADP Pro Business, Benefits for Hewitt, LSO for Skillsoft.
• Worked in resolving various issues encountered during daily critical IDocs transmissions including the payroll, employee details etc.
• Defined Payroll Areas and assigned relevant Period Parameters, Date Modifiers and created Control Records.
• Configured Additional pay types and Recurring pay types for various countries and modified features accordingly.
• Configured various wage types according to the processing classes and valuation classes for processing of Gross Pay and Net Pay.
• Worked on the year end Payroll, Benefits, Time and Performance activities
• Configured various attendances and absences, work schedules according to the processes followed.
• Worked on Performance management tool for the mid-year and year end activities
• Worked on resolving portal related issues encountered by users.
• Worked in coordination with technical consultants and provided Functional Specifications according to the reporting needs of the users
• Configured various customized relationship and reporting structures.
• Scheduling of the jobs and scripts through SAP and maneuvering through JS Console for monitoring for job cancellations and ensuring the smooth functionality of the interfaces using Putty and WinSCP proactively.
• Configured Adhoc queries, which helped HR Mgmt. team to track the plans.
• Documenting all the interfaces used by HR with the details of each job scheduled, script details and the program used for future reference at The Coca Cola Company.
• Successfully managed customer expectations while meeting project goals, objectives major milestones and project deliveries.
• Involved in the regression testing, UAT, Global Access Management GAM testing, load balancer testing with respect to HR process including testing the processes in SAP and the portal.
• We had new roles being implemented according to the GAM project and we streamlined a lot of data controls and accesses.
• Part of the process improvement team: Interaction with the business users regarding various processes followed at The Coca-Cola Company and improvements in the process functionalities.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential

Sr. SAP HR Consultant -Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed conflict resolutions between current and future state of systems.
• Lead the Business Process and Blueprint Workshops and consequently developed the Solution Blueprint to capture the future state of the processes.
• Participated in Weekly status reviews as Team Lead with client and senior management.
• Involved in analyzing the client's business processes and gathering the client's requirements
• Performed testing and prepared the blueprint, training documents, the test scripts and UAT for the client.
• Designed Blueprint document for different business process in HCM and worked closely with Business leads and configured it according to the Client requirements.
• Conducted Training sessions for users on basic understanding of SAP HCM before Workshop Sessions for Blueprint design.
• Analyzed clients Business Process prepared As-Is process maps and documented the GAPS in business and prepared To-Be Process maps.
• Implemented some Personnel Administration including personal actions, info groups and info menus
• Configured Dynamic actions for automatic triggering of different infotypes and dates on date specification infotype Infotype 0041 .
• Modified various infotype screens using screen control table.
• Configured Organizational Management which included a very detailed study of the whole organizational hierarchy by setting up set up Organizational units, Jobs, Positions and maintained infotypes 1000, 1001, 1005 and 1610.
• Implemented Time Management and configured absence and attendance quotas, deduction rules, rounding rules substitutions, addressed accruals and collisions in work times. Captured various attendance types including breaks and vacation time.
• Provided support to leave request application in SAP, configured time wage types to display under ESS based on country.
• Worked on Time and Payroll Schemas and PCRs according to the company policies.
• Configured Payroll control record for Bi-weekly and Monthly processing of payroll for Hourly , Part-time and Salaried employees accordingly
• Maintained features Like ABKRS, PINCH, LGMST, ANSAL etc.
• Configured various wage types according to the processing classes and valuation classes for processing of Gross Pay and Net Pay.
• Worked on Data Migration by preparing mapping and layout documents for master data and Transactional data and utilized LSMW to upload the legacy data to the SAP system

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential

Sr. SAP HR Consultant -Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP best practices solutions for Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Payroll Time Management modules for 16 countries.
• Led the Training sessions for users on basic understanding of SAP HCM before Workshop Sessions for Blueprint design.
• Analyzed clients Business Process prepared As-Is process maps and documented the GAPS in business and prepared To-Be Process maps.
• Worked on complex authorization structure and designed a combination structural authorization flow for the client's matrix organizational reporting structure successfully
• Configured Organizational Management which included a very detailed study of the whole organizational hierarchy.
• Configured Organizational Management which included a very detailed study of the whole organizational hierarchy by setting up set up Organizational units, Jobs, Positions and maintained infotypes 1000, 1001, 1005 and 1610.
• Implemented Personnel Administration including very complex personal actions, info groups and info menus.
• Creation of Info groups and Info type menus, with IGMOD feature.
• Coordinated with the SAP-Basis team in setting up the SAP system with the Best practices and updating with latest LCPs applied and in creating authorization profiles for the HR administrator.
• Prepared user manuals and extensively conducted the training sessions for end user.
• Defined Payroll Areas and assigned relevant Period Parameters, Date Modifiers and created Control Records.
• Configured Payroll control record for Bi-weekly and Monthly processing of payroll for Hourly , Part-time and Salaried employees accordingly
• Maintained features Like ABKRS, PINCH, LGMST ,ANSAL
• Configured wage types for the processing of the Net pay and Gross pay.
• Worked on various Time and Payroll Schemas and PCRs according to the company policies.
• Integrated systems for ADP-SAP payroll processing and payroll processing with various 3rd party interfaces according to the country specifications.
• Configured SAP Adhoc queries and designed various SAP Reports which would assist the HR Management team to track the plans and help to analyze the data in day-day basis.
• Worked in coordination with technical consultants and provided Functional Specifications according to the reporting needs of the users.
• Tested and prepared the blueprint, training documents and the test scripts for the client and also UAT using RWD.
• Successfully managed the team and the customer expectations while meeting project goals, objectives major milestones and project deliveries.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured solutions for Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, PMS, Payroll Time Management modules.
• Facilitated various end user trainings including continuous sessions for data gathering and analysis on the as-is and the to-be processes for blueprinting.
• Worked on SolMan for issue tracking, issue management and resolution
• Involved in the core team for suggesting improved versions to the existing system.
• Worked with HR Supervisor in day-day basis in resolving end user issues.
• Debugged various production support issues
• Creation of Info groups and Info type menus, with IGMOD feature.
• Maintained features Like ABKRS and PINCH for defaulting payroll areas and administrator groups.
• Configured Adhoc queries, which helped HR Mgmt. team to track the plans.
• Defined Payroll Areas and assigned relevant Period Parameters, Date Modifiers and created Control Records.
• Worked on various Time and Payroll Schemas and PCRs according to the company policies.
• Worked in coordination with technical consultants and provided Functional Specifications according to the reporting needs of the users as most of the project demanded involvement of HR with ABAP.
• Assisted the project lead in preparation of presentations and project documentations for the configuration guides of business scenarios.
• Facilitated various testing cycles and end user trainings including regression testing for all the test cases also helped in creating various test cases

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managing the project by coordinating with the business process owners in facilitating the project team understand the business process and their requirements.
• Involved in analyzing the client's business processes and gathering the client's requirements
• Designed Blueprint document for different business process in HCM and worked closely with Business leads and configured it according to the Client requirements.
• Coordinating with the functional and technical teams for the delivery of best solutions.
• Worked in coordination with technical consultants and provided Functional Specifications according to the reporting needs of the users.
• Configured solutions for Personnel Administration, Organizational Management and Time Management modules.
• Worked on integration with FI components by preparing cost center assignments to personnel
• Facilitated various testing cycles and end user trainings including regression testing for all the test cases.
• Coordinated with the SAP-Basis team in setting up the SAP system updated with latest LCPs applied and in creating authorization profiles for the time administrator.
• Configured Adhoc queries, which helped HR Mgmt. team to track the plans.
• Involved majorly in Global Employment, development reports in changing LDB's from PNP to PNPCE.
• Maintenance in integration of SAP HR to third party payroll system.
• Solving issues in ESS and MSS for conflicts of requests for particular work items.
• Involved in development of new services in ESS and MSS.
• Successfully managed a team and the customer expectations while meeting project goals, objectives major milestones and project deliveries.

Environment: ECC 5.0

Confidential

Role/Position: SAP HCM Consultant

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensured optimal planning and segregation of duties and highly motivated the team to get customer expectations too
• Worked on various issues related to PA, OM, Time Mgmt., Compensation, Benefits Payroll modules with Solution manager
• Configured various Adhoc queries to meet the requirement
• Successfully managing customer expectations

Environment: ERP 4.6C