SUMMARY:

• Experience of more than 13 years in HR which includes 11+ years of SAP HCM experience on end - to-end implementations, support, upgrades and integration projects with Fit-Gap analysis, configuration, development, and customizations.
• SAP HCM Functional Consultant with 3 full cycle implementation experience
• Experienced with different kind of industries for SAP R/3 implementation and support in Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Energy, Oil, and Public Sectors.
• Subject Matter Expert in Payroll, and Time Management (Positive and negative) Benefits, Organizational management, Personnel Administration (PA), Recruitment, ESS&MSS.
• Certified in SuccessFactors Employee Central and SuccessFactors Compensation modules.
• Good Experience with US payroll end to end support including yearend activities. Worked on tax updates and handled critical posting issues and other third-party remittance, Off cycle issues.
• Extensive configuration and customization experience with gross to net payroll accounting and subsequent activities including but not limited to payroll and time schemas, rules, operations, functions, features, payroll master data, wage type setup and valuation, payments and deductions, payroll areas, regular and off-cycle payroll processing, process models, time management, leave management, salary factoring, remuneration statements and checks, banking, tax calculations, tax reporter, payroll and statutory reporting, garnishments, third party processing and interfaces, arrears and claims processing, payroll results adjustment, posting to accounting, month-end accruals, BSI setup and configuration, integration to finance, time and benefits.
• Excellent experience with Time management for Time recording and absence, over time related configuration and support issues.
• Extensively worked on Benefit related interfaces.
• Worked on annual Compensation process for merit increases and annual bonus setup
• Coordination with business users on any incidents, requests, issues related testing.
• Expertise in Business process analysis, blue printing, configuring, customizing, and go-live support.
• Knowledge of all aspects of SAP development including design, coordination, implementation, debugging, testing, and support.
• Excellent exposure in writing & reviewing functional specifications.
• Expertise in defining test scripts and executing test cases, carrying out integration, regression and parallel testing.
• Experience in testing tools like QC ALM, QTP.
• Extensively worked on Ad-hoc queries, reports and batch data processing using BDC, LSMW, Reports, Interfaces, SAP Scripts, Smart Forms Cross Applications Components - ALE, IDOCs and HR Workflow.
• Internally trained in Workday and involved with data conversion activities SAP HR as a legacy system
• Excellent interpersonal and communicational skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Resolving day-to-day OM, PA, Benefits, Payroll, ESS and MSS support issues related to system functionality, performance, efficiency, and training within area of responsibility.
• Worked on US compensation project (Interface: US Workers compensation data to Corvel)
• Provided mapping and tested the Benefits (RSP) interfaces: Fidelity, Aon Hewitt, Confidential etc.
• Assisted in preparation of test environment and performs testing with support of SAP & Fidelity team members, Testing Demographic, change and Remit files sent to Fidelity.
• Define test scripts and provide support to business through 3 rounds of testing with benefits provider (Fidelity).
• Responsible for Business validation of data and assists with data validation of files and in SAP.
• Worked on the HSA Remit interface and assisted business users team on testing.
• Reconcile employee contributions reported to benefit providers for Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings, and Savings and Retirement accounts to wage type reports and identify any discrepancy.
• Unit and integration test the benefit interfaces with 3rd party providers
• Worked on rollouts project Macau and Jordan.
• Worked on GPAY projects (Netherlands, Chile and Argentina) and coordinated with Informatica and ADP teams on Testing and the Defects.
• Worked on compensation module and participated in testing in 2x Pay and Merit increases.
• Configured Employee Self Services and Manager Self Services as per the requirements and configured personnel data, Bank Information, Addresses, Family member Dependents, maintained Skills Profile under Career & Job Work set.
• Worked on SuccessFactor integrations.
• Work with the Business Analyst to identify their requirements, design enhancements and functionality to help meet user requirements.
• Analyze the new inbound/outbound interfaces, design and help technical team
• Assisted with Open Enrollment and Benefit administration for retirees, including survivor information
• Created and executed UAT testing Scripts
• Assisted in preparation of test environment and performs testing with support of SAP & ADP team members, Testing Demographic and Benefits files sent to ADP
• Collaborated with other team members to resolve issues encounter during testing
• Responsible for US Year End SAP Payroll Activities.
• Responsible to Work Request/Change Request Management for Time and Payroll solutions.
• Responsible for the Payroll and Tax Related Problems.
• Applied various TUBS, Cyclic and Regulatory Bulletins in BSI.
• Support packs analysis of SAP OSS notes applicable to release and current production functionality and make sure no breaks.
• HRSP up gradation and regression testing for new patch levels and done the vigorous testing before and after up gradation.
• Involved in EHP7 upgrade and conduced fit gap analysis meeting to identify the gaps according to SAP Portal changes. Worked with Portal technical team and implemented required changes. Tested ESS and MSS modules thoroughly as most of the EHP7 changes are related to ESS/MSS.
• Worked with the compensation team on the yearend Merit cycle process and payroll integration.
• Worked with HP QC, HP ALM for defer tracking and test execution

Confidential, Houston, Texas

SAP HCM Time and Payroll Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the Blue print to Implementation phase and created the Configuration Worksheets.
• Customizing of complete payroll module of the client as per the business processes.
• Wage Types, Processing Time Data, Payments and Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Personnel Calculation Rules, processing classes, cumulation classes Internal Tables, Cumulating, Storage, Deductions, Taxes, Benefits/Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Bank Transfers/Direct Deposits, Third Party Remittance and Off-Cycle Processing.
• Configuration of deduction priorities and arrears, deduction models, limits on deductions, set up wage type cumulations
• Taxes: Tax Tables, Tax info types, Tax related processing classes, Tax Areas, Tax Authorities, and Taxability models for US Payroll.
• Configuration of Tax Company, tax overrides and unemployment rates in both BSI and SAP. Application and testing of BSI Tubs. Subsequent maintenance of tax models, enhancements related to customer tax classes and customer tax modifiers. Tax set up for expatriates. Configuration of wage types for manual payroll adjustments using IT221.
• Off-cycle workbench related configuration, set up process models
• Set up payroll forms for remuneration statement and payroll journal.
• Set up payroll posting to financial accounting, postings based on employee grouping, fixed cost center postings, configuration of third party remittance (taxes, garnishments etc)
• Experience in Year-End Tax Process of the US Payroll (Gross and Net).
• Tax reporter configuration (PU19) and provide support for W2 printing for various states in US (processing claims, yearend adjustments, W2 printing, SSA filing, MMREF File formats), Quarterly tax reports for Federal and various states.
• Enhancement to Payroll schema (customer copy of U000, UKL9, U500), payroll related features based on client needs, set up new schemas and rules and develop custom functions and operations to handle customer specific payroll calculation
• Configuration of various Holiday calendars
• Setting daily and periodic work schedules, setting defaults schedule, working week and time management status in IT0007
• Configuration of Time types, generation of wage types and set up integration with Payroll
• Set up Absence Quotas / entitlement and Absence Catalog, and linked the absences that reduces the corresponding quotas. Set up deduction and counting rules
• Set up substitutions, attendance quotas and attendance types
• Worked with TM00 and TM04 Time Evaluation schemas, created custom rules and schemas to handle OT calculation (Daily and Weekly calculation depending on Union Contracts)
• Setting Rotational schedules and generating labor filler codes in time schema, generation of unpaid time where the hours employees are paid current
• Helped design custom ABAP codes for generating quota accrual. Dynamically populated Quota records during hiring action. Used function call in dynamic action to determine the quota entitlement
• In PA used LOA actions to track the status changes for leaves like STD and LTD. Based on action reasons dynamically created IT14 records for payments and absences in IT 2001
• Designing interfaces with Third Party Time Recording systems (LMS, Kronos) to support the Time Management in SAP (updating employee remuneration infotype, absence infotype etc). Worked with interfaces between time clocks an SAP to feed time punches for Time evaluation
• Set up CATS screens and profiles, Integration of CATS with Time infotypes
• Worked on CATS user exit to add checks and provide additional functionality for Job upgrades.
• Defined various Premium types and created custom rules in both time and payroll to handle the correct payments
• Worked with the ESS team on designing the Time entry screen and the approval process
• Designed and Developed various Time related reports reading Time clusters
• Worked on Benefits inbound/outbound interfaces, MetLife and Confidential deductions, Fidelity, Westport and Savings Bonds deductions, Payroll deductions to be taken and some indicative data and outbound interfaces, such as Eligibility files, Fidelity and weekly and monthly FSA file to Confidential
• Analyzed and Configured health, insurance, savings plans (401k) and the existing 401K savings plans, Non-qualified Plans Reconfigured 401K Plans, and Non-Qualified Plans, correcting errors in employee and employer contribution rules and configuration of the limit.
• Create/Update interface functional specifications as needed
• Customized the Health, Insurance, Savings & Miscellaneous plans to suit the company business process and defined Rules to carry EE deduction and ER contribution.
• Defined qualification events, coverage, eligibility and termination cost coverage variants.
• Configured dynamic eligibility in health plans. Extensively used features for default values.
• Worked on open enrolment for yearly benefit elections changes
• Expertise in writing test scripts and executing test cases, carrying out Unit, integration, regression and parallel testing

Confidential, Plainsboro, NJ

SAP HCM Time and Payroll Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering based on BRDs and SOW, Blueprinting, Gap analysis, Scope Interpretation, Process design, Functional Design documents, Configuration documents.
• Improvements to existing Business processes. Provide Production support, enhancements to existing functionality.
• Complete design and configuration of Pay scale structure and its mapping onto SAP from Legacy system so that correct structure gets defaulted to all employees based Hess specific business rules.
• Complete design and configuration of Enterprise structure, personnel structure and Org structure for the Global Hess Corporation.
• Customized Time management (with and without clock times) module of the clients as per the business processes.
• Work Schedules, Holiday Calendars, Time Recording (Substitutions, Absences, Absence Counting, Absence Quotas, Leave Entitlement, Overtime, Availability), Generating Time Evaluation Reports, Updating Time Management Info types and CATS.
• Extensive configuration of time tables and rules for collective bargaining agreements, minimum call-in, shift differentials, holiday pro-ration based on average hours worked for part-time employees, daily/weekly and consecutive day overtime policies
• Worked on time schemas, personnel calculation rules(PCRs) and functions for time evaluation with/without clock times to generate time quotas, over time/time balances, time wage types from the time data.
• Payroll configuration including schema modifications, wage types,
• Data conversion/loading related to Payroll and Time info-types.
• Wage Type Configuration, customization and creation.
• Configuration related to gross to net pay, Benefits, Deductions, Process Models, and Schema
• BSI/Tax Factory, Tax calculations, Tax Models, Tax reporter and Tax Updates;
• Bank Deposits, Check Printing. Configured rules, operations, schemas to cover client specific scenarios.
• Yearend payroll processing, including tax adjustments, W2 generation, printing, extensively used PU19
• Work-Force Administration Related Process design, Functional Design and support for Portal.
• Extensive testing done for Time, Payroll, Benefits (Health and Welfare), PA, OM processes.
• Implemented ALE for transferring the HR mini-master to FI system and also for getting the Cost centers from FI to HR
• Functional, Process design documents, Configuration documents and Improvements to existing Business processes.
• Designed and Developed Complete Reporting strategy and reporting needs by using standard delivered SAP Reports, Custom Reports and Ad-hoc Query.
• Design, development and testing support for portal transactions and portal screens involving employment data and Personal data like Address Bank details, Benefits data, Family member dependent data,
• Worked on supporting Payroll/related interfaces, reporting.
• Interface design, development and deployment of Net compensation interface for compensation planning involving, pay scale structures, Jobs, exempt, Nonexempt indicator. Job pricing and other Compensation related activities. Designed and developed mass upload template/programs for providing Merit increase.
• Help in finalizing Security roles and implementing Structural Authorizations.
• Production support activities related to mass data changes involving 6000+ employees for Merit increase
• Mass data changes involving loading of time data, Payroll related data, PA OM and Benefits transactional data etc during Critical care stage of the project.
• Configuration of Benefits (Health and Welfare), Benefits integration with payroll, Benefits administration and support. Worked on all Benefits infotypes like 0167, 0168, 0169, 0170, 0171 and COBRA plans related infotypes 0211, 0212, 0270 etc
• Configuration of Garnishments (Info-types 0194, 0195 and 0216), setting up Garnishment wage types, vendors, and related data conversion,
• Production support, Trouble shooting of Benefits (Health and Welfare) related issues.
• Design, development, testing and defects resolution of Interfaces/reports related to Payroll, and Benefits (Health and Welfare)
• Data conversion, Data cleansing, Data mapping, Data Error resolution for Benefits (Health and Welfare plans) and Payroll
• Functional Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, of Benefits (Health and Welfare) administration.
• Post implementation Production support for ESS/MSS, HR Forms, Benefits and Payroll issues.
• Worked on developing and unit testing for Benefits (Health and Welfare) & Payroll reports and interfaces.
• Provide Data Conversion strategy for initial and current conversion. Also came up with a strategy to load historical data into SAP for supporting Business from historical perspective. Conversion loads, dry runs, resolving issues related to mapping, data quality, configuration etc. Helped in developing data mapping templates and led joint sessions to iron out data conversion issues.
• Worked extensively on MS Share-point for project documentation

Confidential, PA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Was being SPOC for SAP HCM (OM, PA, Time, ESS and MSS) related queries
• Customizing SAP System according to Client Requirements.
• Worked on OM, PA, Recruitment Time Enhancements and Projects.
• Time Management with Time Evaluation Enhancements - for countries where Time Management functionality is already being used.
• CATS time entry single/multiple, approval and transfer to HR upon save.
• Preparation Unit & Integration test scripts and perform enhancements/ project related Testing.
• Assisting in User Acceptance Testing.
• Preparation of Configuration Document.
• Worked on Solution Manager to create the Design Documents,
• Conducted Business walk through to the Business users and making them feel comfortable system before AT start.
• Involved in ESS and MSS Implementation:
• Plan and execute for various project phases including feasibility, scope analysis, requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data conversion, training, cutover and support
• Configured Employee Self Services and Manager Self Services as per the requirements and configured personnel data, Bank Information, Addresses, Family member Dependents, maintained Skills Profile under Career & Job Work set, Leave Request with approved by Line Manager and maintained Time Accounts and Time statement.
• Configured Record Working Time & Clock In/Out corrections with approved by Line Manager maintained Salary Statement and Compensation Statement.
• Configured Team calendar and Attendance Overview, Configured PCR's (Personnel Change Requests) i.e. Change Employee Group and Sub Group, Change personnel Area and Sub Area, Change Working Time, Request for Promotion, Transfer and Separation.
• Maintained Employees General information, Compensation Information, Configured MSS Reports (Manager Desktop), Coordinating with the workflow consultant to activate the respective workflows.
• Coordinating with the enterprise portal designing to meet the client requirements i.e. client logo and master head, headers and coordinate BASIS team to activate all ITS related services.
• Creation of I views, pages, work sets and roles and assignment of I views to pages, pages to work sets and work sets to roles.
• Maintaining the JCO's and System Configurations like, R/3 System configuration, UME Configuration, User mapping and Branding, Roles and Authorizations, User Management and maintained Portal Permissions and Portal Transports.

Confidential, PA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in team work planning, issue resolution, deadlines coordination and deliverables quality validation in line with service level agreements.
• Coordinated maintenance of issue log and monthly review meetings on project progress.
• Liaised with internal team such as ABAP/Basis/Functional to ensure that clients incident and service request requirements are understood and timeframes are adhered to.

Confidential, PA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Checking the functionality and configuration of the older version (4.7(Enterprise) with that of the upgraded version (ECC 6.0).
• Preparing test scripts to cover all transactions of the older system in tune with the business process.
• Meeting deadline dates for testing and clearing the HR related scenarios. To clearly indicate the functionality of the new system with that of the old system.
• Training the end users and handholding after go-live.
• Proposing functional enhancements for more benefits.

Confidential, PA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

•  Mapped the existing Business Processes with the Business Process Structure in the SAP system. Finalized the Business Requirements design for the various modules to be implemented.
• HR Structures: Creation and assignment of the Enterprise, Personnel & Payscale Structures of the company
• Organizational Management: Creation of Organizational structure in simple maintenance, created Jobs, Position, Reporting structure, Account assignment.
• Maintained the Number ranges for the Positions, jobs, Org units,
• Configuration of evaluation paths for better reporting.
• Personnel Administration: Creation of info groups, info type configuration, screen modifications, Actions, Master Data, Personal Data, contract data, Pay roll data, Date monitoring,, Organisational Data related infotypes configuration.
• Configuration of dynamic actions to stream-line data entry during actions. Used mail feature in dynamic actions to notify other personnel when an employee is hired or terminated. Used function call in dynamic actions to default correct values in infotypes.
• In Payroll data of PA module create customer wage types using wage type catalogs, configured Basic Pay by defining EE Subgroup Grouping for PCR and Coll.Agrmt.Prov, Pay Scale Types, Check Pay Scale Areas, Pay Scale Groups and Levels and also defined Wage Type Permissibility for each PS and ESG for Basic Pay as well as for Recurring payment / deductions, additional payments and Remuneration Information.
• Time Management: Define Public Holiday Classes, Personnel Sub Area Groupings for Work Schedules & Daily Work Schedule, Daily Work Schedules, Period Work Schedules, Day Types, Work Schedule Rules & Work schedules, Define Attendances and Absences types, PSA Grouping of Attendances & Absences, Define Absence Quotas types, ESG & PSA grouping of Time Quotas, Set Up Automatic Accrual of Absence Quotas using report RPTQTA00, configured custom defined counting rules & deduction rules.
• In International payroll configured the entire module by writing various personnel calculation rules, features, and programs.
• Copied the std schema X000 to Z000 to suit the SEEF’S requirement.
• Posted the payroll results into FI/CO Module by maintaining Feature PPMOD and assigning symbolic accts to wage types and then assigning the symbolic accts to employee acct determination and G/L accounts.
• Configured the remuneration statement form ZN01 as per the requirement of SEEF.

Confidential, PA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Client requirements
• Configuring the modules as per Client Requirements
• Integration of HR module with FI
• Reconfiguring of changes for Payroll
• Unit and Integration Testing and validations.
• Assisting business users on UAT testing
• Training Core Team.

Confidential, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mapping the business processes (AS-IS)
• Blueprint documentation.
• Understanding the Client Requirements
• Configuration of HR module (OM, PA, Negative time management, International Payroll)
• Unit and Integration Testing and validations.
• Conducting the Core team training on Business Processes configured
• The modules in scope are Organization Management, Recruitment, Personnel Administration, Time management and India payroll
• Involved in the project from realization phase.
• Core group training
• Mapping the business processes onto SAP
• Configuration Testing & Documentation
• Configuration, Unit & Integration Testing
• End user training