SUMMARY:

• Around 11 years of expertise in implementation of SAP HCM in various roles including Business Analyst, Lead functional consultant in multiple lifecycles.
• SME in functional configuration of SAP - HR/HCM involving Organization Management (OM), Personnel Administration (PA), Personnel Management (PM), Travel Management (T&E), Payroll, ESS / MSS and Mobility apps in T&E.
• Project experience as Manager in implementing Mobility apps (T&E app, ApproveIT app), Employee Self Services and Travel Management projects in major Go-lives and minor Enhancements involving 40+ markets.
• Involved in functional configuration of Benefits, Personnel Development (PD), Time Management, Compensation Management, Payroll, Organizational Structure, Training & Event Management, Success Factors
• Implemented multiple SAP-HR full life cycle implementations, involving requirement and analysis gathering, designing Business Blueprint, Configuration, Training and Production support.
• Coordinate with business team in gathering the business requirements.
• Played key role in converting business requirements to functional specifications.
• Has experience in being a Liaison between the business teams and technical teams.
• Gathering requirements and developing Enterprise Resource Planning, Architecture the method including continuous Improvements that increase the success rate for future SAP development.
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in an Agile methodology.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Responsible for managing and motivating team in order to complete tasks in a timely manner and deliver a high level of performance using Agile process.
• Experience in all phases of the Workday implementation lifecycle which includes Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.
• Good understanding of business process and experience in Implementation Projects for Core HCM processes including Staffing, Compensation, Payroll, Talent Management, Time Tracking and Absence Management.
• Conducted HCM End user training and Power User Training.
• Expertise in multi-tasking in major deliverables and production support. Has excellent skill in finding the root cause of the problem and providing solutions
• Supported post Go-Live projects for key HCM issues and enhancements.
• Working experience as Onsite lead in offshore delivery model.
• Good team player, Strong team orientation, hardworking and enthusiastic.
• Has very good logical and technical skills suitable for process design, development & implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: Workday, SAP, HANA S/4, Peoplesoft

Workday skills: Workday HCM, Integrations, Data conversions, Report Writer

Development tools: Workday Studio, My Eclipse, Oxygen

RDBMS: Oracle 7/8.0,9.0,10.0, MS Access, MS Word, Visio and MS Excel

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, LINUX

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE: 

Confidential, Cherry Hill, NJ

SAP Functional Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with business team in gathering the business requirements.
• Was a primary contact for business partners for functional area of responsibility.
• Prepared functional specifications based on the business requirements.
• Worked as a liaison and subject matter expert between technical teams and business owners for solution recommendations and improvements to current process.
• Reviewed and analyzed the issues and provide functional and technical estimates for custom developments.
• Tracked and reported on project progress using Agile methodology.
• Wrote User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stake holders.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning.
• Schedule daily Scrum calls or Standups, Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Gathered the requirements for SAP Upgrade and Identified the key areas for testing especially involving custom interfaces and program to make sure there is no impact.
• Involved in SAP upgrade and end to end regression testing of Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Benefits, Payroll, Interfaces, Work flow and Parallel Payroll Processing.
• Complete end to end testing that includes Unit, Integration, UAT in HP ALM tool.
• Performed knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer between business and myself.
• Supported the client through development of testing plan and scripts for HR modules, executed the plan and verifying the results so that they are complete and comprehensive.
• Involved in preparing development of functional specifications for FRICE items
• Worked closely with development team in building the custom reports and programs.
• Reviewed project deliverables like design document, configuration documents and functional specifications to ensure all the requirements are covered.
• Worked with Development, Testing and Implementation teams for the enhancement of current process.

 Confidential, Branchburg, NJ

Manager 

Responsibilities:

• End to end implementation of HR Travel and Expenses module in Portal and Mobility apps.
• Production support in HR master data (OM and PA) and Travel Management for North/South America, EMEA and Asia Pac markets.
• Worked in design and implementation of T&E and ApproveIT Mobile apps. These apps enable users to submit their expenses, scan the receipts, approve the expenses, delegate the approvals, etc. which was a one stop solution for employee expenses.
• Worked on Mobility App enhancements and upgrades.
• Conducted trainings to North America, Asia Pac, EMEA users on the Mobile App Functionality.
• Configured all the App related changes on ECC end.
• Worked on customization of the T&E and ApproveIT next app in SAP Web IDE development environment.
• Worked with team UI (User Interface) changes for the mobility apps.
• Involved in end to end testing of the Mobile apps to ensure the app are working on Apple devices.
• Provided support to end users in setting up the device in SMP using Mobile Iron.
• Organized all the deliverables with deadlines and set goals for the team to deliver tasks on time to meet the deadlines.
• Has worked with Mercury/Remedy tools for managing project and Production helpdesk tickets.
• Documented SOPs for business and technical team on the new enhancements that were delivered during each release.
• Made significant contributions towards documentation of EEM support methodology that serves as framework to understand overall Client expense management. This solution is not only used for internal resource onboarding but also employed by Client to conduct business overview for the new users.
• Proposed new ideas for business improvements; took maximum number of cases for business development and proposed business improvement process flows for future state. Provided Knowledge Sharing Sessions on new enhancement items to team members for team to support efficiently during go-lives.
• Have deep knowledge of SAP functionality in Travel and Expenses module and COMET solutions, which was instrumental while architecting and testing the apps in the Mobility project.
• Involved in interface testing, Workflow and Security Roles testing and ensured there is no gap in the process.
• Involved in two SAP upgrades and worked on end to end testing.
• Set up dynamic actions to generate system default information based on business requirements
• Mastered the art of multitasking major deliverables and production support. Has excellent skill in finding the root cause of the problem and providing solutions.
• Involved in pre and post- cutover activities for each release (Minor Enhancements and Major Releases).
• Provided hyper-care during Go live and provided post implementation support.
• Provided Technical, Functional support in HR, Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Financial Accounting, Workflow, Security and Travel Management modules in SAP

Environment: ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0); HANA S/4, EP 7.0, Interfaces: TIBCO and XI, Netweaver developer and Web Dynpro Perspective

Confidential, Lake Zurich, IL

Team Lead

Responsibility:

• Requirement gathering and blueprint preparation of Organizational Management and Personnel Administration Configured Organizational Management and Personnel Administration for USA, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Canada
• Prepared Configuration documentation, Unit testing documentation and integration testing documentation for Org/PA
• Created a new Enterprise Structure according to the business requirements
• Performed various personnel actions, specifically, hiring employees and performing organizational reassignment
• Configured Personnel Area Groupings and Employee Groupings. Assigned Personnel Area to Company Code
• Integrated expense to payroll
• Worked on setting up schemes, deduction and taxes related to payroll
• Worked on integrating with FICO module
• Wrote Functional Specs for all HR technical and functional developments.
• Prepared functional document for LSMW program for data conversion
• Involved in data migration from Ceridian into SAP
• Testing LSMW program to load data from Ceridian into SAP
• Full life cycle implementation of Travel Management ( Global Implementation)
• Prepared Business blueprint for HR and Travel Management
• Prepared User Requirements Specs, Functional Specs, Development Spec and Configuration Document
• Configured Organizational Management and Personnel Administration for Mini-Master Data.
• Configured Travel Expenses for USA, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Canada
• Configured per diem  expenses for Meals, lodging and  Incidental Expenses
• Configured T&E VAT for USA, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Canada
• Created new trip schemas for each country
• Created T&E and company paid travel expenses types for all four countries
• Configured Credit Card Transaction keys to Travel Expense types
• Customized wagetypes for T&E and company paid expenses, mapped Travel Expenses to G/L accounts
• Integration of Travel Management with Financial Accounting
• Data Loading from Ceridian into SAP
• Unit and Integration Testing of Travel Management in ESS Portal
• Unit and Integration Testing of Workflow in Portal
• Configured My Trips and Expenses in ESS portal
• Prepared Development Spec for custom report for Puerto Rico and Travel Expense Form
• Go-Live and Production Support

Environment: ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0); EP 7.0, ESS 1.0, Netweaver developer 04 and Web Dynpro Perspective

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Enhancement and Support in ESS Travel
• Gathering data from Peoplesoft interfacing with SAP using mini Master data
• Checking the interfaces in transaction AL11
• Checking failed batch jobs in Productions and directing them to authorized team
• Worked with end users issues and solved them
• Worked on ESS portal issues
• Tested currency issues in ECC and ESS portal
• Worked on Credit Card Clearing issues
• Checked for failed Credit Card files and reprocessing the failed files in SAP
• Checked for failed credit card transactions in Transaction PRCCE
• Generated files with corrected transactions in Transaction PRCCF
• Imported correct credit card file in PRCC
• Supported end users with solutions for their issues
• Provided Technical and End User support in ESS Travel Management

Environment: ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0); EP 7.0, ESS 1.0, Netweaver developer 04 and Web Dynpro Perspective

Confidential, Augusta, GA

ESS Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation of ESS travel Management
• Prepared business blue prints for Travel Management
• Prepared As-Is documents based on the clients presently used business processes
• Prepared To-Be documents according to the clients requirement
• Configured Travel Request and Travel Expenses
• Configured Trip Activity Types in Travel Request
• Created new Trip Schema for Morris Travel Expenses report
• Created reimbursable and non-reimbursable expense types including Per-Diem and VAT expenses for Morris Expense Report
• Created different locations and assigned different Mileage rates for mileage expense type
• Customized new Wage types for the created expense type
• Customized Travel Request/Expense Report forms in Pdf format
• Credit Card Clearing in Travel Expense Accounting
• Set up travel accounting to be transferred to Financial Accounting using Symbolic Accounts
• Integration of Travel Management and Payroll
• Integration of Travel Management with Financial Accounting (transferring to accounting) and Controlling
• Prepared documents for Workflow requirements
• Prepared BW specs to create BW reports for Travel Expense Report
• Configured My Trips & Expenses in ESS Travel to view all the trips created
• Solved different errors in ECC and ESS Portal
• Prepared Configuration documents and integration testing documents
• Configured Travel Management for Employee Self Services

Environment: ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0); EP 7.0, ESS 1.0, Netweaver developer 04 and Web Dynpro Perspective

Confidential, Woodlands, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Employee Self Service ESS
• Configured Travel Request and Travel Expense Report.
• Configured Travel Expense Report based on the clients requirement.
• Integrated SAP Travel Expenses with SAP Payroll
• Worked with the BW team for integration of Travel Management with BW
• Prepared functional specs for Travel Expense Report
• Coordinated with the Workflow team to set up Travel workflow
• Prepared workflow documents and gave presentation to the workflow team
• Developed Smart Forms for Printing Compensation Statement in ESS
• Configured Employee and Employer Contributions on Enterprise Compensation Statement
• Developed smart forms to set-up Remuneration Statement in ESS
• Configured the different data entry profile for the Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS) for employee entering data into CATS
• Supported the client through development of testing plan and scripts of Employee Self Service, executing the plan and verifying the results so that they are complete and comprehensive.
• Configuration of Life and Work Events in Guided Procedures.
• Set-up CVR parameter to display Record Working Time in ESS
• Configured Absence quota
• Set-up Quota Overview in Working Time in ESS

Environment: ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0); EP 7.0, ESS 1.0, Netweaver developer 04 and Web Dynpro Perspective

Confidential, FL

ESS Team member

Responsibilities:

• Configuration, Testing and Implementation of Employee Self Service ERP 2004 (ECC5.0)
• Performed knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer between District employees and myself.
• Supported the client through development of testing plan and scripts of Employee Self Service, executing the plan and verifying the results so that they are complete and comprehensive.
• Supported the client with complete documentation of BPP’s, BPML, and other documentation completed by their deadlines.
• Interacted with SAP for any technical and functional related issues in ESS portal.
• Involved in preparing development of functional specifications for FRICE items.
• Configured Travel Request and set up number range for all the employees at the District
• Configured Travel Advances in Travel Request and Travel Expense Report.
• Integrated Travel Request and Expense Report.
• Integrated Travel Management with Payroll for the reimbursement of expenses through Payroll
• Configured travel expenses management for the employees to enter the expenses after the trip is done
• Configured My Trips & Expenses in ESS Travel to view all the trips undertaken by the employees
• Prepared Workflow Technical Specs for Travel Management
• Worked with BW team for integration of  Travel Expense reports with BW reports
• Prepared Configuration documentation, Unit testing documentation and integration testing documentation for Org/PA/PD.
• Involved in Change Management process of HR.
• Has been involved in BW Blueprint preparation for BW HR project(PA,PD, Travel Management, Time Management, Benefits and Payroll)
• Has documented BW HR Dataflows and Business Content
• Developed BW HR reports in Benefits and Payroll
• Has worked with Mercury tools for managing project and Testing
• Created wage types for all benefits plans to enable Benefits-Payroll integration.
• Defined benefit providers, plan-types, Employee eligibility and default plans.
• Facilitated SAP Role generation for HR user team with the security team
• Responsible for all HR documentation including completion of deliverables.
• Coordinated development activities with technical team/basis team in terms of functional specifications for data migration, HR reporting
• Provided Technical and Production support for end users in ESS.

Environment: ERP 2004 (ECC 5.0); Upgrade under progress for ERP 2005 ( ECC 6.0) Oracle 9i- Solaris 5.9, Netweaver developer 04 and Web Dynpro Perspective