Sr. Workday Consultant Resume
Knoxville, TN
SUMMARY
- Workday HCM Consultant with 7 years of Functional and Technical experience in Human Resource including Reporting and Integration Workday Payroll, Health Care, Business Analysis, Business Process Flows.
- 5+ years as a member of Workday Implementation Consultant designing, developing, testing, and deploying integrations.
- Extensive knowledge of various HR transactions involved in Workday HCM/HR Integrations.
- Hands - On Experience in Configuring with Custom reports, Calculated fields, Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connector, Report Design, Business form Layout, Solution Manager.
- Build reports using Workday's report writing tools. Ability to help clients resolve reporting issues requiring in depth expertise in the Workday solution.
- Good Command over Employee Life cycle (Core HR), Employee self-service, Manager Self-service, Payroll Interfaces, Benefits and compensation modules.
- Generated and developed Custom Reports, Advanced Reports as needed by business.
- Maintenance and creation of Workday Supervisory Organizations, Locations, Positions, Cost centers, Cost Center hierarchies.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholders and team members .
- Assist company in fully integrating the Workday system into their current business environments and provide input on best practices.
- Proficient in Report Writing , Creating Custom Object, Custom Reports and Workday Calculated Fields
- Configured and tested Workday Compensation including Packages, Salary & Hourly Plans, Bonus and Merit plans.
- Setting up Workday Payroll/Compensation/Benefit/Time structure for the organization and connecting Workday with third party payroll system using third party payroll connectors. Data validation after loading into Workday and responsible for issue tracking and resolution.
- Organized and assigned Merit and Bonus plans individually which are related to organization’s departments and internal divisions.
- Provides functional expertise for system issues and resolution with functional end users.
- Experienced in business processes mapping and Providing Ongoing Production Support for various clients, including requirements gathering, process analysis, system configuration development of system tests, procedures, and documentation.
- Expertise in Workday Functional HCM with responsibilities not limited Organizations, Staffing Models, Job and Positions, Compensation, Defining Business Processes and Security Groups, Customized Report Generation.
- Knowledge on Compensation Plans like Salary, Unit Salary, Hourly, Allowance, One Time Payment, Merit, Bonus, Commission, Stock and worked on Compensation Grades, Grade Profiles and Steps and Compensation Eligibility Rules.
- Actively involved in sales cycle for signing up with new third-party vendor’s payrolls, time tracking and performance.
- Expertise in coordinating Functional and Technical teams to facilitate in time Project Deliverables.
- Ability to work as a Liaison with both the customer and developers.
- Effective communication and Global collaboration skills .
- Worked with clients to research, document, troubleshoot and resolve functional, integration and security issues and Solid understanding of Service Oriented Architecture concepts.
- Build custom Inbound EIB to update contact information (Other ID’s, phone, email, address).
- Excellent Problem Solving, Debugging and Communication Skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP Systems: Workday Version 33, PeopleSoft HCM 9.1/8.9/8.1
SAAS Workday: Workday HCM 28/29/30/31/32 , Core Connector Integrations, Report Writer, EIB’s, Workday Studio, Integrations Using EIB’s, Calculated Fields, Custom Reports, BIRT
Programming Languages: Java, SQL, PL/SQL
Operating Systems: Windows NT/00/03/07, Windows XP/Vista, MAC OS
Database Technologies: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, and MySQL, Oracle 10g/11i/11g, DB2
Languages: XML, XSLT, TOAD, CSV, HTML
IDE: Sublime Text, Net Beans 8.0, Eclipse
Tools: Workday Studio, JIRA, Notepad ++, SOAP UI, Oxygen XML Editor, MS Visual studio 2008, Excel, Visual Studio
Software Applications: MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Web, MS Excel, SharePoint
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sr. Workday Consultant
Confidential, Knoxville, TN
Responsibilities:
- Involved in full length Life-Cycle implementation of Workday modules and documentation of technical specifications and developing test cases.
- Designed and implemented various integrations including Payroll, Benefits and Internal EIB’s / Cloud Connectors Outbound Integrations.
- Liaison with HRIT team when required for modifications to integrations, EIBs, etc.
- Designed, configured and automate business processes to enhance the current application systems for HCM including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, Termination etc.
- Built and managed integrations using Calculated Fields, EIB, Document Transformation, Workday Connecter, XML, XSLT, and Web Services technologies.
- Configured Security objects including Management Hierarchies, Regions, Locations, edited Domain and Business Process Security Policies, Tenant setup and created reports to meet customer requirements.
- Responsible for testing of various Integrations, Security & Alert Configurations, Custom reports that was developed & delivered by workday implementation partners.
- Developed outbound integrations using EIB, Web Services SOAP, WSDL, XML, and XSLT Document Transformation for several integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems and provided necessary security for related functional area to launch the EIB.
- Documentation of Workday processes/configurations/customizations.
- Created Technical and Functional Design documents for new interfaces.
- Act as liaison with the information systems department to resolve programming and system problems.
- Generate different kinds of reports - Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports for client requirements within Workday Tenant.
- Created reports that extract Workday data and manipulate the data in other formats for various needs.
- Configured and tested Workday Compensation including Packages, Salary & Hourly Plans, Bonus and merit plans.
- Extensively worked on performing configuration and customizing Workday with end-to-end functional and integration testing.
- Validated data after loading into Workday and responsible for issue tracking and resolution.
- Developed Workday Custom Reports and utilized Report as a Service ability to use in integrations.
- Developed complex calculated fields to get data from different objects.
- Coordinated iterative working review sessions with the data gathers to correct data quality.
- Gained excellent Knowledge functional areas in workday, good experience in navigations and core concepts.
- Helped in troubleshooting integration issues and provided support in resolving defects.
- Coordinating with consultants located off-shore and sharing inputs and insights on the tasks at hand.
- Perform Business Process analysis and support for Workday Absence Management.
- Great networking with consultants from global system-integrators and consulting firms.
- Work with consulting partners on the Conversion tasks, Integration tasks, Security tasks, and Reporting tasks.
Environment: Inbound & Outbound Integrations, Compensation (Core & Advanced), Workday Payrolls Configuration, Workday Studio, Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, Custom Reports, Calculated Fields, Benefits, Absence management, Time management, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Oxygen XML.
Workday HR Integrations Consultant
Confidential, San Diego, CA
Responsibilities:
- Hands on Workday systems integration experience building custom integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation.
- Established and maintained positive working relationships with key client stakeholders.
- Designed and implemented various integrations including Payroll, Benefits and Internal EIB’s / Cloud Connectors Outbound Integrations.
- Built and managed integrations using Calculated Fields, EIB, Document Transformation, Workday Connecter, XML, XSLT, and Web Services technologies.
- Developed Custom Integration document delivery & Document Transform integration with document retrieval from RaaS.
- Designed, developed and implemented new and enhanced interfaces (Workday HCM, Payroll, Time Tracking, Benefits) with other internal and external systems.
- Configured several Compensation eligibility rules and used those eligibility rules and updated them in various compensation grade profiles, allowance plans, merit plans, and period salary plans.
- Extracting various employee information data as per the requests from HR associates and partners.
- Collaborated with clients work stream leads, data migration lead and stakeholders to build a solid and executable test plan.
- Configure/Modify Business Processes and objects as per business needs.
- Have done master testing for compensation plans after configuration and created user testing documents for plans configured and tested.
- Own functional defects identified document, configure, test and follow the SDLC methodology for production implementation.
- Participate in Workday Report build activity for estimated 20+ reports including Staffing, Events, Compensation, and Payroll report.
- Worked on setting up scheduling of reports and understanding the required permissions for report sharing and support the various reporting functions with Simple and Advanced Reports, defining columns, business objects, fields, columns heading overriding, multiple sorting techniques, sorting by secondary objects with respect to Workday functionality and client business requirements for new implementation initiatives.
- Experienced to work with Workday Report Writer and creating custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder.
- Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using EIB .
- Developed various calculation fields on specific reports to pull the required data.
- Worked on setting up scheduling of reports and understanding the required permissions for security report sharing, performing specific authentications on reports.
- Developed advanced reports using compensation data sources and on understanding the data behaviors using the data sources developed the reports.
Environment: EIB’s, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, Workday XML, Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, custom reports, calculated fields, Staffing, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Oxygen XML Editor.
Senior Workday Techno Functional Consultant
Confidential, Rosemont, IL
Responsibilities:
- Designed and built both Inbound and Outbound EIB integrations in various segments of Workday system.
- Changing the Supervisory Organizations, inactivating an Organization and moving the workers into different Supervisory Organizations.
- Managing and understanding the different data sources, business objects, primary business objects and secondary business objects.
- Creating the report writer reports, worked with standard and Custom Reports, using the security in the reports.
- Hire into Head Count and Job Management, Approval of Organization Assignments, consolidated approvals
- Experience in creating the Applicants, Hiring applicants into supervisory Organizations.
- Propose Compensation for New Hire, Edit Government Ids, Edit workday Account.
- Assigning Organization Roles, Assigning User based Security Groups.
- Developed various calculation fields on specific reports to pull the required data.
- Worked on setting up scheduling of reports and understanding the required permissions for report sharing.
- Staffing Movements, An employee changes in position, inbound process and outbound process.
- Termination Process, initiate termination process, review termination process, to do tasks.
- Assigning user based security groups to the applicants.
- Prepared employee master data like Job details, Worker history and contact information.
- Configured the processes like change job, compensation grades, mass hire, mass promotions.
- Developed advanced reports wherein I had to use different business objects and related business objects in developing awaiting steps in performance business processes.
- Setting up Business Process Frameworks, Workflows Management process designs.
- Updated the checklists and notifications in the On-boarding (Hire) business process to guarantee a great experience for the new hires.
Environment: Inbound & Outbound Integrations, Compensation (Core & Advanced), Workday Payrolls Configuration, Workday Studio, Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, Custom Reports, Calculated Fields, Benefits, Absence management, Time management, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Oxygen XML, JIRA’s.
Workday HCM Consultant
Confidential, Houston, TX
Responsibilities:
- Developing advanced, matrix custom reports and thorough understanding of Workday data sources and business objects.
- Worked on Business Process Configuration, like Professional Affiliation, manage certificate, manage Education.
- Support for Performance Reviews forms, Employee data (e.g. names, address, personal info), Organizations, Supervisors and Matrix orgs, Job, Job History.
- Facilitating test processes; writing and reviewing Unit Testing and UAT test plans and scripts as needed.
- Managing Custom Reports, Security Management, and Business Process configuration and, configuring the application per customer requirements and developing system interface.
- Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage.
- Handled company acquisition comprising- fit-gap analysis, required configuration, testing and facilitating data load via EIB.
- Helped customer implement Workday Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation.
- Worked and detail knowledge on Workday HCM data conversion process.
- Involved in Data Conversion and Testing Process Meetings for both HCM and Payroll.
- Worked on Compensation Components and created compensation eligibility rules based on management levels, job profile, and job family.
- Create complex calculated fields for Custom Reports to ensure required report delivery.
- Write reports that extract Workday data and manipulate the data in other formats for various needs and Involved in functional support.
- Configuring Workday system to meet client unique business requirements. Also developed test scripts for other outside systems that interface with Workday.
- Supporting existing reports and building new complex reports based on the client requirements.
Environment: Workday payrolls, compensation, benefits, Absence management, Time management, EIB, Workday Studio, Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, custom reports, calculated fields, compensation, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Oxygen XML.
PeopleSoft HR Functional Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Validated the new Benefit Programs, Eligibility Rules and Event Rules and worked on the Eligibility Configuration fields. Also, worked on setting up the Cross-Plan validation checks for 1x and 2x plan types.
- Reworked and reprocessed the events on the Event Status Update page such as Flagged Participants which have rows - out of sequence, job eligibility data change and multiple job indicators change to keep the Base Benefits table in sync.
- Identified the employee’s arrear balances and adjusted them where necessary, ensuring they are being deducted from their paychecks.
- Investigated and resolved exceptions for the Employee records by debugging and reviewing the eligibility results, ineligible participants report and missing elections report.
- Updated the Pay lines for the employee’s, calculated the retro-deduction amounts, refund amounts, additions and overrides to the pay lines before the salary or hourly payroll runs.
- Adjusted Leave Balances due to improper entry such as leave entered under the wrong plan, leave cards submitted late and leave cards entered under the wrong earnings code for the pay group.
- Worked on the retro-pay and retro-deduction functionality and processed retro deductions and refunds as necessary.
- Setup the Core HR, Compensation and Payroll functional tables/pages, for example, Business Units, Companies, Location, Unions, Job Codes, Pay Groups, Pay Calendar, Balance ID, Deduction, Earning, Garnishment and Tax Tables.
- Managed and coordinated all testing efforts including creation of Test Plans, Test Scripts for Unit, System Integration and User Acceptance Testing amongst other QA Analyst team members to ensure project was on track and deadlines were met.
- Lead the Open Enrollment testing efforts, evaluated the results and fixed the failed test cases before the code deployment.
- Day to day work involved working with users to customize and enhance PeopleSoft functionality based on business needs.
- Addressed post-open enrollment cleanup of data and conveyed recommendations for business process improvements and documented the procedures. Produced detailed training guides for the end users - highlighting the core functionalities and customizations.
Environment: PeopleSoft HR v8.8People Tools 8.48/8.53 (Payroll, Core HR, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Compensation, Retro-Pay, Retro-Benefits), Application Engine.