SUMMARY

• Energetic, driven, and accomplished Project Manager/Sr. Workday HCM Consultant with a track record of success in managing, hand on delivery of complex IT modernization and system integration projects.
• Proven success directing global quality and process improvement initiatives, systems engineering projects, operations, and program management across diverse industries. Guide teams throughout project life cycle, applying advanced communication, training, and mentoring skills.
• Over 5 Years of Hands on Workday HCM global Implementations - Core HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Advanced Comp, Absence Mgmt, Time Tracking,Payroll
• Over 5 years of Hands on Workday Integrations: PECI, PICOF, Global Payroll Integrations, Benefits - Medical, Dental, Insurance, 401k Fidelity, FSA, HAS,COBRA Integrations, Active Directory, Service Now, Etime, RoboMQ, KSX Time Integrations, SAP G/L & ADP Global View Integrations
• Over 5years of Migrations from Legacy & SAP HCM to Workday
• 12 Years of Hands on system design and configuration of SAP HR, Payroll, Time, Benefits, Talent Management, Performance Management, HR Security and Interfaces with third party, Cloud based various HR applications.
• 10+ years of broad-based project management expertise with international specialization; dedicated advocate for change to identify, support and enhance business value from concept to completion.
• An expert in the creation of business case, road maps, team building, strategy for HR applications, project plans, design of HR business applications and HR business process transformation strategies resulting in operational productivity and reduced costs.
• Very strong in HR business processes design for large global organizations to streamline process across entire organization reduce process cycle time. As the liaison between core HR and the information technology organization supporting a variety of business initiatives and re-engineering projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Workday HCM
• Technology Innovations
• HR/Payroll Processes Design
• Workday Core HR,Benefits,Comp
• Workday Time, Leave,Reports
• Workday Onboarding,Recruitment,ESS,MSS
• Project Planning
• SAP HR, ESS, MSS, Payroll,
• Kronos
• End User Training Talent, Time, Benefits
• HR Process Design/Redesign
• Vendor Selection
• SAP HR to Workday Migrations
• Project Management
• ERP Projects
• Workday EIB, XML,XSLT,Workday Studio,Core Connector
• Quality Assurance
• Customer Solutions
• Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies.
• Project Risk Management
• Team Building
• Presentations,Roadmaps,Stakeholder Mgmt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Workday Payroll /Time /Benefits Comp Consultant

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

Responsibilities:

• Backfill Payroll Manager Position to Support Workday Payroll/Time/Benefits /Comp. Managed the Team, Status, issues log,
• Provided Guidance to Payroll team for day to day support.
• Managed Team Tasks, Conducted Status Calls.
• Reviewed All Existing Payroll Processes and Conducted Pain Points analysis in existing Payroll Processes.
• Managed Project Plan, Timeline, Status reports, issues& risk log
• Conducted Absence Management and Time Tracking Requirement Gathering Blueprint Sessions
• Conducted Gap Analysis and set up Prototypes for walkthrough sessions
• Configured Time off plans-Paid time off, Personal Days, Vacation, Jury Duty, Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Maternity Leave, Bereavement, Leave, Jury duty leaves, Paternity Leaves, STD,LTD etc
• Configured Time off Eligibility Rules, Accruals, Validation Rules and Integration with Payroll
• Configured worker Eligibility rules for Salaried, Hourly Employees for Time off and Time tracking
• Configured Balance period, quota, work schedule, Period work schedule,
• Configured and differentiated Time off plans and leave types
• Configured Multiple Time off Plans for each country and its components
• Configured calculation engine to drive off Time off plan functionality
• Configured the business processes related to Absence Management
• Identified and used delivered reports relating to Time off and leave of absence
• Configured Time Entry Templates for CA and Non CA Employees for US for exempt, Non Exempt and Unions
• Configured Time Tracking, Over Time Rules, Holiday, Worked Holiday, Shift Payment, Double Time,7th Consecutive day.
• Resolved Defects, issues in Build 1,Build 2 and Completed Production Build and Accrual and Balance Conversions.
• Created EIB loads using EIB Templates
• Created reports for ADP
• Coordinated with HRIS, HR, Payroll Teams on Scheduling the Integration, and Establishing Business Processes for Hiring, Personal data changes, Salary changes, Manager Changes, Termination etc, so the required data fields are populated in the Workday for the Integration to process smoothly.
• Payroll Config
• Set up Earning Codes, Deductions, Period Schedules,Pay Component groups,Pay component related calculations, Third party Intrfaces
• Co-ordinated Documentation of Test Scenarios, Test cases and Testing plan, test data, test systems.
• Managed Testing cycles for the Integration with HRIS and IT Teams. Testing Status meetings, issues documentation, documented issues using Jira tool.
• Managed status meetings, cutover planning and go live.
• Managed Error handling process and Post go live error resolutions for Rejection of Files.

Sr Workday Techno Functional Consultant

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Absence Management and Time Tracking Requirement Gathering Blueprint Sessions
• Conducted Gap Analysis and set up Prototypes for walkthrough sessions
• Configured Time off Plans .EMEA - France, Germany, UK, Belgium and US
• Configured Time off plans-Paid time off, Personal Days, Vacation, Jury Duty, Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Maternity Leave, Bereavement, Leave, Jury duty leaves, Paternity Leaves, STD,LTD etc
• Configured Time off Eligibility Rules, Accruals, Validation Rules and Integration with Payroll
• Configured worker Eligibility rules for Salaried, Hourly Employees for Time off and Time tracking
• Configured Balance period, quota, work schedule, Period work schedule,
• Configured and differentiated Time off plans and leave types
• Configured Multiple Time off Plans for each country and its components
• Configured calculation engine to drive off Time off plan functionality
• Configured the business processes related to Absence Management
• Identified and used delivered reports relating to Time off and leave of absence
• Configured Time Entry Templates for CA and Non CA Employees for US, Canada
• Configured Time Tracking, Over Time Rules, Holiday, Worked Holiday, Shift Payment, Double Time,7th Consecutive day.
• Resolved Defects, issues in Build 1,Build 2 and Completed Production Build and Accrual and Balance Conversions.
• Created EIB loads using EIB Templates
• Created reports for ADP
• Coordinated with HRIS, HR, Payroll Teams on Scheduling the Integration, and Establishing Business Processes for Hiring, Personal data changes, Salary changes, Manager Changes, Termination etc, so the required data fields are populated in the Workday for the Integration to process smoothly.
• Co-ordinated Documentation of Test Scenarios, Test cases and Testing plan, test data, test systems.
• Managed Testing cycles for the Integration with HRIS and IT Teams. Testing Status meetings, issues documentation, documented issues using Jira tool.
• Managed status meetings, cutover planning and go live.
• Managed Error handling process and Post go live error resolutions for Rejection of Files.

Sr. Workday Consultant

Confidential, Palo Alto

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and Analysed Business Requirements for Time and Absence
• Configured Time and Absence Modules according to Country specific Business Requirements
• Documented Business Requirements, process rules and standard operating procedures
• Documented functional design for Time tracking and Time off and Reports
• Interfaced with Business to develop solid understanding of Time off, Time Tracking business rules, current process flows and reporting needs
• Conducted Gap Analysis and discuss with business with recommended option.
• Prepared conceptual design, systems process flow documentation and data flow diagrams.
• Assisted in developing test plans and scripts for unit testing, UAT.
• Working relationships with Key Contacts such as HR Management, Systems Technical Staff, Project Management Staff, Senior HR Staff, Financial Management Team and Outside Functional and Technical Consultants.
• Configured Time off Plans .EMEA - France, Germany, UK, Belgium and US
• Configured Time off plans-Paid time off, Personal Days, Vacation, Jury Duty, Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Maternity Leave, Bereavement, Leave, Jury duty leaves, Paternity Leaves, STD,LTD etc.
• Configured Time off Eligibility Rules, Accruals, Validation Rules and Integration with Payroll .
• Configured worker Eligibility rules for Salaried, Hourly Employees for Time off and Time tracking.
• Configured Balance period, quota, work schedule, Period work schedule.
• Configured and differentiated Time off plans and leave types.
• Configured Multiple Time off Plans for each country and its components.
• Configured calculation engine to drive off Time off plan functionality.
• Configured the business processes related to Absence Management.
• Identified and used delivered reports relating to Time off and leave of absence.
• Configured Time Entry Templates for CA and Non CA Employees for US, Canada.
• Configured Time Tracking, Over Time Rules, Holiday, Worked Holiday, Shift Payment, Double Time,7th Consecutive day.
• Created EIB loads using EIB Templates
• Created reports for ADP
• Configured Time Tracking, Time Entry components, Time Types, Period Schedule, Work schedules, Holiday Calendars, Time clock events, Time tracking calculations, Time Shifts, Time tracking and Absences and validation, Eligibility and complex accrual rules for US and Canada, India.
• Integrations with Kronos and etime for Mfg employees time to Workday
• Coordinated with HRIS, HR, Payroll Teams on Scheduling the Integration, and Establishing Business Processes for Hiring, Personal data changes, Salary changes, Manager Changes, Termination etc, so the required data fields are populated in the Workday for the Integration to process smoothly.
• Co-ordinated Documentation of Test Scenarios, Test cases and Testing plan, test data, test systems.
• Managed Testing cycles for the Integration with HRIS and IT Teams. Testing Status meetings, issues documentation, documented issues using Jira tool.
• Managed status meetings, cutover planning and go live.
• Managed Error handling process and Post go live error resolutions for Rejection of Files.

SAP HCM Sr Consultant HR Processes & Systems Design & Implementations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting business process design workshops for over 30 Key HR/Payroll Process reengineering; redesigned the HR processes to streamline and reduce process cycles and create efficient processes resulting in reduction of Process cycle Time by over 35%, thus resulting in huge saving for the Organization
• Identified key pain points, conducted 40+ interviews with managers and business partners to gather the pain points. Analysed the pain points and identified changes/fixes for policies and systems.
• Developed the Short Term and Long Term Roadmap for Confidential
• Conducted Multiple Blueprinting sessions, Design and Prototypes Set up, Requirement Gathering sessions for HR Projects, Org Structure Design, Job Catalogue, Compensation Salary Increases, Bonus, Benefits Open /New Hire Enrolment Project, Time Management Project
• Developed Project Plan, Time Line, Resource Estimates, Cost Plans, Team building, Defined Issues Log, Risk log, Documentation Process, Systems Landscapes, Testing Strategy, Established Project Templates.
• Designed, Configured, Testing, Deployment to employees Merit Increase Plans, Bonus Plans, Executive Bonus Plans, Performance Management Plans, Integration with Compensation Management.
• Plan and managed IT Service Management tools and process discovery activities, conduct executive scans and strategic assessments, analysed and report findings and make recommendations .
• Managed the Design of Kronos Integeration with SAP HR together, based on industry best practice.
• Worked collaboratively with clients, up to and including CIO level and Directors, to develop and execute solution strategies that support organizational direction
• Managed Kronos Solution Integration implementation to support best practice processes needed to deliver business requirements.
• Managed Design, Configuration and development & testing of solutions using Service Now HR Case Management including quick prototype and demonstrations for Case Management, HR Task Management
• Managed Open Benefits Enrolment 2016
• Managed End user Training Strategy and Plan.
• Defined Change Management Strategy and Communication Plan.
• Advised and help end-users understand SAP data, determine best reports to use, set report specifications, and analyse report data
• Managed UAT, Testing issues
• Managed Cutover, Go Live Preparation Activities.
• Managed Production supports after Go Lives of Projects

Sr Workday Techno Functional Consultant

Confidential, San Carlos, CA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Requirement Gathering Business, workshops, Analysis, Presented System Demo's,
• Conducted Super User Training on Workday HCM System functional overview
• Managed Business Process, System Design and Implementation for all Employees & Non Employees .
• Developed Project Plan, Time Line, Resource Estimates, Cost Plans, Team building, Defined Issues Log, Risk log, Documentation Process, Systems Landscapes, Transport Process, Testing Strategy, Testing Tools: HPQC, Winn runner, Established Project Templates.
• Managed key stakeholder expectations, concerns, and planned to mitigate risks and issues Communicated with the Management Team
• Designed and created organization, supervisory organization, subordinate organizations and Organization Hierarchies with assignments
• Customized the Staffing Models, Hiring restrictions, Job Families, Job Profiles, Job Family groups Position Management, Position attributes assignment, Cost centre, Cost centre hierarchies.
• Designed, Configured, Testing, Deployment to employees Merit Increase Plans, Bonus Plans, Executive Bonus Plans,
• Designed and configured the Salary Increase and Bonus plans on various complex eligibility rules for various worker populations Salaried and hourly workers
• Designed and Configured Compensation Components, Creating Compensation Plans, Compensation Rules, Compensation Packages, Job Profiles
• Designed and Configured the Salary Structures in Workday, Compensation Grades
• Designed and Set up the Compensation Segment Security and Initiating Compensation Event
• Designed and Set up Advanced Compensation Reports for Compensation Business Partners and Managers
• Designed and Set up Compensation Component, Compensation segment security, rules, reports
• Configured security roles for Data Domain Security with View & Maintain access and Business Process roles security for HR Business Partner, HR Analyst, HRIS Team, Pay agent, Manager, Employee, VP Compensation, roles based security, user based security and Job based security groups
• Designed and Configured Business Processes & sub processes for Hire, Job Change, Promotion, Compensation Processes-Salary Change, Termination, Transfers, Org Reassignment, Leave of Absence, staffing movements, Prehire & Benefit events
• Designed and customized/configured workflows rules for Business Processes.
• Build Several Complex reports using multiple sets of Business Objects using advanced report writer, standard report writer and reporting tools, calculated fields, integrations
• Build Inbound/outbound integrations using core connector, Workday Studio,EIB, XSLT.
• Created Interfaces New Hire/Termination/ Employee data changes files to third parties using core connector, Workday Studio,EIB, XSLT
• Created customized complex Integrations using Studio integrations for Inbound and outbound
• Created and upload Mass Changes for Salary, Bonus, Benefit Changes, Master data changes using iLoad and EIB Spreadsheets.
• Designed and Created Custom XSLT file to transform the content into a CSV file format, transformed the files using calculated fields .
• Resolved issues, trouble shooting and fixing problems at development, system testing and postproduction stages for various HRMS modules
• Provided level 3 support for the Workday system including, but not limited to research and resolution of system issues, user support and scheduled activities
• Create, modify and maintain integrations and configurations while ensuring the integrity/quality of data transmitted.
• Create detailed system integration specifications, field mapping, and system process designs.
• Managed End user Training Strategy and Plan.
• Defined Change Management Strategy and Communication Plan.
• Conducted and Delivered End user/Super user Training
• Managed UAT, Testing issues
• Managed Cutover, Go Live Preparation Activities.
• Managed Production supports after Go Lives of Projects