SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in Business analysis, implementation, customization, and production support of SAP HCM module, ADP (Automatic data processing), maintaining and supporting SAP HR modules with an emphasis on organization management, time, benefits and payroll.
• Deep working knowledge and understanding of HR business processes.
• Organizational Management: OM Objects, PA (Personnel Administration), PD (Personnel Development) and OM (Organizational Management) Integration, OM Relationships, OM Number ranges, Expert mode, Org Staffing and Change, Simple Maintenance.
• Outstanding contributor to any project team and possess excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Work independently with minimum supervision, problem solving attitude, self - learning skills in a multi-Vendor environment.
• Experience in SAP/ADP payroll interface by transferring the data from SAP to ADP.
• Strong business process knowledge of Configuration, Personnel Administration, Benefits, Organizational Management, Time Management, Payroll with knowledge on ESS/MSS in HR.
• Functional SME for BW reporting for Payroll, ECM, Benefits.
• Modified the HR payroll system to the specific requirements of enterprise - IMG Configuration, New and updated Standard Schemas/Rule development(s), Payments and Deductions, Arrears Processing, Valuate Wage Types, Process Absences, Generate time wage types, Process Averages, Use factoring, Create cumulating wage types.
• Excellent understanding of all aspects of the Human Resource business processes and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions in the most cost effective manner.
• Experience in data conversions and data upload into SAP from legacy systems using LSMW/BDCs.
• Configured Time Evaluation Schema, Rules and integrated with Payroll Schema. Expert level configuration of Time and Payroll Schema(s)
• Experience in developing test scripts for the areas concerned & use of HP Quality center version 10 & 11 for all the phases of testing - Functional unit tests, Integration & User acceptances tests - during projects.
• Good understanding in FI/CO module and its integration with HR/HCM module.
• Experience in ABAP Debugging and troubleshooting issues/bugs and knowledge of ALE/EDI integration.
• Experience in assisting business users to perform End of Year US payroll activities and Tax reporter for Quarterly reporting. Maintained excellent coordination between onshore and offshore teams for development and support work.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing and testing the workflows from Employee to Manager/Payroll specialist groups.
• Managed and controlled the work plan.
• Supported in test cycle, training and application support.
• Worked with portal resource on developing enhancements to ESS/ MSS changes as per business needs.
• Secured the CONA Configuration.
• Worked on the interfaces between CONA and business.
• Excellent understanding in operation of the internal Payroll tables.
• Experience in direct SAP implementations working with functional leaders.
• Supported in the implementation of CCSWB (Coca Cola Southwest Beverages) project.
• Specialist in:
• General payroll process, gross and net payment, integration with time keeping, payroll clusters tables, off-cycle payrolls, retroactive calculations, rules and schemes, etc.
• USA Benefits and their integration with payroll.
• USA Compensation module Experience in SAP Time Evaluation (positive recording).
• Handled user issues ex. time clocks, benefits, ID badges and driver commissions.
• Involved in handling FLSA calculations and acquisition of few unions.
• Good understanding in the payroll process using payroll results for payments, deductions, tax processing, garnishment etc.
• Performed User Acceptance testing for all the interfaces of Non - CONA HR applications.
• Experience in creating and editing schemas via transaction PE01.
• Actively tracked all the applications and make sure ready for Day-1 Implementation.
• Have deep understanding of system controls and security available for the Human Resources module. Implemented various options to control info type views.
• Supported PA, OM modules and worked on data migration for merger project.
• Managed and handled employee queries.
• Experience in executing payroll function in the payroll driver using schemas.
• Worked with business and tech team in parallel for new custom reports on PA, OM and Payroll.
• Performed extensive testing along with developing test scripts for HR Payroll to FI posting scenarios that include fixed cost center posting, regular and off cycle payroll posting scenarios.
• Documentation of customer-specific requirements to ensure successful implementation SAP system for ESS.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing for PA, OM modules.
• Good service attitude, time availability, resilience to stress and adaptation to change.
• Hands on experience with Integration to Customer Interfaces, Building Custom Reports, Unit Integration Testing and Cut over Activities.
• Responsible for incident and break fix resolution, documentation and perform analysis of business issues and issue solution.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Perform Base HR configuration in the Finance system to make it a HUB for interfaces to run between workday and other SAP systems like Finance, CRM, SRM & other third party systems.
• Worked on the data loads along with the technical resource for all the PA, OM and BN info types. Did the trouble shooting and handled issues raised out of the data migration.
• Configured company specific processes in the info type menus, personnel actions and dynamic actions.
• Configure wage types based on client requirement with symbolic a/c and G/L mapping.
• Configured the process of payroll results from SAP to ADP and saving back the data in the SAP system in the SAP format.
• Created LSMW for data upload into various Info types as per the requirement and assisted client in data loads.
• Editing payroll schema with using payroll operations and functions.
• Configured action feature to send SAP mail for info type changes in Personnel Administration.
• Configured HR to customize the selection screen settings for interfaces that are based on logical database(s) using SPRO and HR PA/PP modules.
• Developed custom IDOC/Segments. Segment definition to write out records as high as 2000 repetitive segments of data.
• Experience in integrating with SAP HCM using Dell Boomi Atmosphere and SAP PI.
• Worked on route cause for benefit arrear clearing issue and tweaked custom rule to handle the same.
• Implemented Variable Pay Compensation with SF and SAP PI as the middleware.
• Maintained the Benefit administration process: enrollment, maintenance and termination of participation using features.
• Maintained payroll organization, defining period and date modifiers, and generating payroll periods.
• Analyzed and configured Benefits module to implement health, insurance, and saving plans for 401(K) administration including testing benefits deductions in payroll processes for benefit plans.
• Payroll Integration with Benefits, Time and FI for payroll postings.
• Defined employee and employer contribution variants to determine which factors influence the permitted employee contribution for every plan.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Payroll Area (ABKRS), payroll control record, pay periods, and retroactive accounting.
• Utilized the PINCH and ABKRS features to define administrator groups and payroll areas for the customer and relate personnel numbers to administrators
• Processed payroll and tax info types 0008, 0009, 0207, 0208, 0210, 0234, 0235 (other taxes USA), 0267 (additional off- cycle) required for running payroll.
• Managed tax related wage types, and tax related processing classes 67, 68, 69, and 70.
• Moved employees HR and payroll data from legacy system to SAP system.
• Maintained custom US Payroll Schema and PCR’s as setup by the client.
• Maintained the Processing Class, Cumulating Class and Evaluation Class for Wage Types as needed.
• Assigned wage types to symbolic accounts and assigned them to G/L accounts for posting to FI/CO module.
• Maintained in SAP US Payroll (Gross & Net), Garnishments, Tax Configuration, Tax Reporters, and Tax Update Bulletins (TUBS), BSI & SAP integration, year and tax process.
• Created benefit areas, plan types and providers, configuring General Benefits Information Info type 0171.
• Worked on Info types 0167, 0168, 0169, 170.
• Defined benefit areas (BAREA), benefit providers and the basic settings for health, insurance and savings plans as well as Benefits Adjustment Reasons, participation and coverage termination criteria.
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for benefit plans.
• Configured BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR features and managed eligibility rules for employees relative to their status.
• Configured termination groupings and maintained TRMTY feature.
• Assisted with COBRA applicable plans.
• Involved in to the activities of the Customization, configuration and Implementation of ESS (Employee Self Service) module giving all the facilities like who’s who, Personnel information, Leave management, Pay slip details, Modify Tax withholding and Time management.
• Designed functionality for updating One Time Payments/Deductions, Recurring Payments/Deductions through ESS/MSS .
• Coordination with the Portal and ABAP consultant to deliver the product.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined the Enterprise Structure by creating Personnel Areas (PA), Personnel Sub-Areas (PSA), and Employee Groups (EG) and Employee Sub-Groups (ESG).
• Configured Info type Menus for HR master data (PA30) per customer requirements.
• Configured LGMST, TARIF and ABKRS features to default the basic pay wage type, pay scale type/pay scale area and payroll accounting area.
• Defined and Maintained the Objects and relationships that comprise an organizational plan.
• Configured the public holidays, holiday calendar and factory calendar according to client requirements.
• Activated Work Task notifications and called them accordingly in template.
• Configured attendance/absence types and time quotas.
• Supported Performance appraisals all through year after flexible template implementation.
• Added few enhancements in the template as per requirement and worked with developers in changing logic.
• Trained end user on usage of TRM and supported issues after go-live.
• Configured 2015 template with TRM integration. Also accounted few process changes upon business request.
• Developed Functional Specs for automation of few manual processes in Talent Management.
• Configured the work schedules like Break, Daily, periodic work schedule and maintained work schedule rules according to client requirements.
• Integrated Talent and ECM modules. Used ratings from TM to configure Matrix in ECM.
• ESS Applications like bank details, personnel profile, address and benefits are re-designed to ABAP with AS-IS feel in portal
• Performed research on Pre-tax, post tax WT’s on incorrect taxation of WT.
• Automated various manual payroll processes for severance pay, bereavement pay, etc., by creating new PCRs that handled all the employee sub group specific business rules.
• Configured new wage types and wage type groups for Basic, Recurring and Additional payments.
• Created new tax models to handle company’s new taxation policy.
• Redesigned remuneration statement to group wage types into direct compensation, cash allowances, non- cash allowances, reportable imputed income and non-reportable imputed income.
• Configured new Pay scale type, Pay scale area, Wage types, recurring payments/deductions, additional payments, vocational and holiday bonus under Payroll.
• Created Organizational Structure using Simple and Detailed Maintenance.
• Created Organizational Units, jobs, tasks, and positions and assigned the tasks to the positions and cost center assignments.
• Worked on various organizational management info types including 1000, 1001, 1003, 1005, 1007, 1010, and 1013.
• Integrated personnel administration by using RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE30, and RHINTE20 reports.
• 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.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Custom reports for Training and Event management module, Creation of Master data for Business Events, etc.
• Year end activities like Form 16 processing, payment to third parties, etc. Create & Edit PCRs in payroll & time modules.
• Configuration of Employee Remuneration information IT2010 using valuation bases for paying Overtime in absence of time evaluation.
• Functional knowledge on the AWE workflow which needed approval levels for the Expense report to be routed to its supervisors.
• Configured info types menus in the master data screens (PA30) as per requirements.
• Created dynamic actions to populate info type 0041, Date specifications for certain actions and international assignment.
• Setup new Payroll areas & assigned period parameter and date modifier & activated feature ABKRS for new payroll areas.
• Created subtypes of info types for Forms of Address, Name Affixes, and Marital Status and Address types.
• Customized various integrations from PA to other Sub modules in HR.
• Configured PINCH to default Administrator groups.
• Regrouped the Personnel areas and Personnel Subareas according to the client’s requirements.
• Worked as a functional resource and guided the ABAP team with all the changes being added in to the programs.
• Expert in data conversion using Legacy Systems Migration Workbench (LMSW) tool from legacy systems.
• Defined evidence of insurability (EOI) requirements in accordance with the policies of the plans that are being offered.
• Creation of Custom reports for CTC, Master data, Performance appraisal, etc.
• Worked with SAP on resolution of T750XADJUSTMENT and few upgrade issues while implementing Ep6.
• Configured OADP to handle portal changes as per customer requirement.
• Worked with portal resource on developing enhancements to ESS/ MSS changes as per business needs.
• Created LSMW for data upload into various Info types as per the requirement and assisted client in data loads.
• Worked with business and tech team in parallel for new custom reports on PA, OM and Payroll.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Payroll support for all the group affiliates - support in monthly payroll run, posting documents, master data issues during payroll run
• Reading payroll logs during production support. Creation of wage types, addition to remuneration statement.
• Performance appraisal reports, Appraisal form compliance report, one page employee profile report, etc.
• Created Personnel actions as per client requirements and customized the reasons for change in personnel actions.
• Defined and Maintained the Objects and relationships that comprise an organizational plan.
• Maintained and configured Info types and wage type characteristics and maintained tables T512W (wage type valuation) and T511 (wage type characteristics).
• Defined and maintained pay scale types, areas, groups and levels for defaulting wage types in basic pay.
• Setup and maintained wage type catalog, wage type characteristics and entry permissibility per info type.
• Created custom info-types using PM01 and Created dynamic actions.
• Worked with payroll specific info types 0008, 0009, 0207, 0208,0209, 0210, 0234 (additional with holding info US over rides), 0235 (other taxes USA), 0267 (additional off- cycle).
• Created new PCRs and enhanced Schema to handle changes based on pay area requirement.
• Created schema for vacation and sick leave accrual in payroll. Handled the changes in these schemas to make have pay area specific accruals.
• Worked on Gross payroll and outsourced the gross payroll to ADP for net payroll calculation.
• Designed interfaces to handle the Gross payroll data transfer between SAP R/3 and ADP systems for Gross to net calculation.
• Created and checked Wage type catalog, defined Employee subgroup grouping and Personnel sub area grouping for primary wage types and defining wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay.
• Developed interfaces that transfer master data and benefit related information to ADP systems for net payroll calculation.
• Defined ESS I-Views: Working Time: Leave Request, Time Accounts, and CATS Regular/Record.
• Configured benefit areas, first and second program grouping for health and insurance plans.
• Defined benefit plan types, Dependent/beneficiary eligibility.
• Configured the work schedules like Break, Daily, periodic work schedule and maintained work schedule rules according to client requirements.
• Defined eligibility and termination criteria for various employee groups at Benefit plan Level.
• Assisted in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and implementation of an Employee Self-Service (ESS) and Manager Self Service (MSS) application for all employees.
• Configured Benefit Providers, Employee Criteria groupings, Cost Groupings, Coverage Groupings, Employee and Employer Contribution etc. for Health, Dental and Insurance plans
• Defined ESS user groups and analyzed user authorizations.
• Worked on Benefits and Payment: Participation Overview, Salary Statement, Employment and Salary Verification.