PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10years of experience as a SAP HCM Functional consultantin SAP/R3 and inIT consultingindustry.
• Highly proficient in all phases of SAP Life Cycle including Business analysis development, Testing, Implementing solutions, documentation, System demo, User training and production support phase.
• Extensive experience in functional configuration of SAP HR Accelerated projects including PA, OM, Payroll, PD, TM and Benefits, LSO, E - recruitment, ESS, MSS and Travel modules.Also configured Time Evaluation, Time Schema, CATS, Payroll Schema, Talent Management (Compensation, & Performance Management, Recruitment), ESS and MSS.
• Involved in Blueprint designing, Realization, Final Preparation, and GoLive and support Phases in SAP
• Consulting experience withend to end 3Full life cycle implementation, upgrade projects,associated release projects andfour Supportprojects in PA, OM, TM and Payroll &good experience in CATS.
• Very good knowledge on Gross and Net Payroll and the configuration steps.
• Have sound knowledge on Bridging Systems Interfaces (BSI) and time Data Collection System Interfaces (DSI).
• Experience in creating Work Schedules, Period Work Schedules, Daily Work Schedules and Public Holiday Calendar.
• Ability in the design of the functional requirements for the interface extraction and cross functional integration.
• Expertise in Integration of the Enterprise structure, Personnel structure and Organizational structure, including configuration of all TMand US Payroll as per the Enterprise requirements.
• Performed Troubleshooting and problem resolution for identified.
• Have extensive experience as business analyst and did provided documents and training materials for PA, OM, LSMW and ESS configurations which are easy to use.Also proficient in MS Word, Excel, MS Project, Visio and MS Office PowerPoint.
• Familiar with software project and project management concepts, practices and procedures including familiarity with project management software such as Microsoft Project.
• Experience in planning, writing and executing test cases and test scripts, based on business requirements or provided by another resource or business user using HP Mercury Quality Center and also in testing (Unit testing, Integration testing and parallel testing).
• Strength includes, strong understanding of ASAP Methodology, Business Process, problem solving, decision making,translation of business requirements into SAP solutions in the most cost effective and servicing manner.
• Good knowledge of Testing the system, end-user Documentation, Technical documentation and writing Reports along with production support.
• Experience in leading implementations of configuring global ERP solutions across multiple and globally with a proven track record of satisfied customers and providing quality solutions to complex challenges.
• Strengths include leadership, initiative, creativity, and problem resolution, and follow-up.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts in functional and easy to understand terms.SAP HCM Core Competencies
• Personnel Administration: Enterprise & Organizational structure, Organizational assignments, integration of PA/OM, maintaining master data, and Payroll Data (Pay Scale and Wage type Structures).
• Organizational Management: Organizational Plan, Organizational Structures, Reporting Structures, Relationships, Personnel Cost Planning
• Payroll: Wage Types, Processing Time Data, Payments and Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Calculation Rules, Default Values/Features, Factoring, Taxes, Benefits/Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Bank Transfers/Direct Deposits, General Ledger, Third Party Remittance, Off-Cycle Processing.
• Time Management: Work Schedules, Substitutions, Absences, Overtimes, Time Evaluations, Shift Planning and modified schema TM00 and TM04, FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act), CATS.
• Benefits: Benefit Concepts, Benefit areas, Benefit Plan attributes, Enrollment, Employee grouping for plans, Eligibility, Termination, Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Credit Plans, Savings Plans, COBRA and Reports, Payroll Integration.
• Designing, training and leading major business process re-engineering projects, and supporting information systems initiatives for Global business units.
• Planning, design and implementation of business process changes within assigned areas of responsibility.
• Developed and maintained thorough understanding of existing business processes.
• Developed and maintained thorough understanding of the computer application functionality required to make those business processes effective.
• Facilitated periodic review and assessment of current business processes versus the required functionality, and initiate proposals to modify or replace processes as necessary.
• Developed and maintained the business case supporting business process re-engineering initiatives, including cost/benefit, quality, cycle time, ROI and other metrics as appropriate.
• Developed methods and tools to support this effort.
• Monitored project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports and recommending actions.
• Organized effective task and steering teams to address complex and cross-functional project requirements, issues and objectives.
• Developed project monitoring and reporting systems and processes.
• Carried out complex assignments requiring the development of new and improved procedures.
• Acted as liaison with clients for trouble shooting, investigate, analyze and solve software problems.
• Mapped client’s business requirements, process and objectives

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP HR/HCM Module: PA,PD,OM,TM,Payroll, Gross/Net Payroll and Benefits.

HR Reporting tools: Ad Hoc query, Smartforms, HRforms and SAP Script.

ERP Packages: SAP Versions ECC 7.2, 6, 4.7E & 4.6c

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/XP/2000, Windows NT.

Third party vendor /interface applications: ADP, Taleo HR, ATS, and Workday

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sicklerville NJ

Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Cloud computing and SAP SuccessFactors implementation and integration options analysis, Blueprint.
• SAP SuccessFactors BXS integration to SAP HCM, SF On premise, onboarding and cloud LMS, Talent Management
• Workshop on SAP Successfactors to identify the architecture, prerequisites, implementation options, integration options, middleware technologies compatible with implementation options, configuration, customization and integration to hybrid on-promise and full cloud, change management and training.
• Provided SFSF implementation and configuration of Employee Central, Performance, Compensation, Recruiting,Payroll:
• Tested all payroll areas, run payroll and posting run after upgrades
• Created new wage types, assign wage types to symbolic accounts and assign symbolic accounts to GL (General Ledger) account.
• Worked with all various Wagetype tables in Payroll and Time Management.
• Worked directly with Payroll Administrators to make sure Payroll runs correctly before the start of a Pay period. Identified payroll issues and resolved them.
• Configured and stabilized the new Payroll OverpaymentRecovery Functionality that was delivered by SAP in Enhancement Pack 4 (EHP4).
• Initiated a project to create ESS based solution to send employees New Jersey Wage Theft Notification Letters and Pennsylvania Residency Certification Forms electronically.
• Wrote functional specs to create W2 Balancing Report that compared reportable wage (/7xx) and tax amount (/4xx) and found employees who have taxes out of balance
• Created a custom Wage Type Taxability Report that would show taxability for each tax authority and tax type per wage type.
• Created various custom wage types for salaried and hourly employees including bonus wage types, wage types for deductions, and additional payments
• Defined and maintained Processing classes, Evaluation classes and their specifications for maintaining wage types through logical views.
• Configured Personnel Areas for new work locations in Payroll tables T001P, T5UAP and T5U0P and feature ABKRS&TARIF.
• Performed unit testing of changes (configuration, custom development, etc) in development and staging environments, including regression testing of functionality that may be impacted by change
• Done small project for configuring Canadian payroll, Taxation, and Benefits.
• Consulted with ABAP developers and provided technical specs to develop customized solutions
• Heavily involved in writing specs for Interfaces (PI) to report payroll deductions to third party
• Created profiles and for those profiles created data entry screens.
• Created new field for the time entry screens. Used user exits to check the correctness of the data.
• Created some time management rules and involved in the changing of the schema according to the requirements.
• Assigned the time management status for the employees using the feature TMSTA.
• Defined Various Work Schedule rules and defaults for each PS & ES groupings using feature SCHKZ.
• Defined the personnel area, personnel sub area and PS groupings for the substitution types using the feature VTART.
• Assigned the counting rules to the attendance and the absence classes.
• Maintained and created the time quotas and also their generation rules.
• Defined deduction rules for absence and attendance quotas and assigned these rules to the counting rules.
• CATS’time sheet was integrated with Human Resource andFI-CO Modules.
• InCATSdefined the different Data Entry Profiles in Customizing for various modules and also configured theWork-List

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

• Created payroll area, generated payroll periods, accumulations intervals and assigned a control record to payroll accounting area
• Created various custom wage types for salaried and hourly employees including bonus wage types, wage types for deductions, additional payments and direct deposit
• Implemented Garnishments and ThirdParty Remittances
• Configured off-cycle payroll for payroll adjustments and worked on tax models
• Performed Year End Activities, Claims Processing and Tax reporter related tasks.
• Configured and resolved issues in payroll posting by creation of symbolic account and assigning wage types to these symbolic accounts for subsequent mapping to G/L accounts.
• Reconfigured 401K Plans, non-qualified plans, correcting errors in employee and employer contribution rules, and configuration of the limit
• Defined Benefit area, Benefit provider and Flexible Benefit Schema.
• Configured health plans, insurance plans and savings plans
• Production support of all activities, for weekly and bi-weekly payroll run.
• Maintained and upgraded BSI Tax Factory Tubs and responsible for Support Pack Upgrade testing and sign off
• Performed year-End Tax Adjustments by analyzing the payroll result for error and them correcting them by creating IT-221 and then execute the Off Cycle Payroll Type C.
• Executed Tax reporting test runs to check Tax Figure.
• Handled Overpayments and Claims and used RPCLMSU0 to run claim reports.
• Familiar with Solution Manager and Charm creation process
• Handled post production support, issues resolution, Responsible for error handling and issues log in production support
• Personnel Administration:Created different personnel area and sub area, and assigned personnel area to the respective company code.
• Defined employee group and employee sub group under personnel structure and assignment of employee subgroup to employee group (V T503Z)
• Worked on Configuration Design Documents (CDDs) for OM and PA which details the configurations required to set up these modules
• Maintained the number range interval for personnel numbers, define NUMKR feature.
• Created dynamicactions for IT0041, for Hire, Rehire, Change in position, Termination, Leave of absence, return from leave etc
• Performed data conversion utilizing LSMW
• Configured & Tested all MSS/ESS Id’s and ensure that it’s working fine and user id have no security/ authorization issues.
• Configured Info type Menus, Info groups, Personnel Action, reasons for Personnel Action, Action Menu, determined choice of info type menu.Organizational Management:
• Created Organizational structure through expert mode, defined various objects like Org unit, Job, Position, and work center. Also maintained and created relationships among them.
• Used feature PLOGI to integrate Organizational Management with Personnel Administration in order to automatically transfer data between modules.
• Created and configured Organizational Structure of the Enterprise which included Organizational Unit, Jobs, Positions using transaction codes PPOCE and PPOME.
• Created the basic enterprise structure inOMand required Personnel administration Infotypes forHCMmini master to support CATS
• Used Mercury Quality Center to build and organize test scripts and log defects
• Participated as IT resource and determined for scenarios used in Regression testing in UAT environment before Go-live and after each new Release before move to production
• Used SharePoint for documentation and Lotus Notes Assignment Database for tracking of assignments and their statuses.Benefit:
• Defined Benefit area, Benefit provider and Flexible Benefit Schema.
• Configured health plans, insurance plans and savings plans
• Configured Flexible Spending Accounts Integration.
• Configured qualified, non-qualified, HSA&Roth plans
• Defined cost rules and coverage rules
• Integrated Benefit module with Payroll
• Involved in creation of Benefit Plans and creation of wage types and assigning the wage types to these plans.

Confidential, CA

Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

• Customized the Enterprise Structure by creating the Personnel Area & Sub-area, Assigned it to the corresponding Company code, Defined Employee Grouping & Sub-Groupings.PA:
• Created personnel action and reasons for actions as per the enterprise requirement
• Configured Shift differential for several locations for both salaried nonexempt and hourly employees.
• Involved in creation of info types by using the transaction code PM01 and Customizing the existing Info types like Bank Details.
• Configured Employee Self Services and Manager Self Services
• Configured & Tested all MSS/ESS Id’s and ensure that it’s working fine and user id have no security/ authorization issues.
• Worked in Production support solving the issues, Remedy tickets.
• Work Schedules, Holiday calendar, Absences, Absence Counting, Absence Quotas, Leave Entitlement, and Planned working time.
• Created absences and attendances and linked them to Absence quota and attendance quotas using counting rules and deduction rules.
• Excellent experience in Time Structures, Work Schedules, period work schedules, and Daily Work Schedules and in creating Public Holiday Calendar for Enterprise Structure.
• Worked on schemas: Time Evaluation processing using schemas TM00, TM04.
• Configured the features LGMST to set the default Wage types, TARIF for the Pay scale area & Pay scale type, ABKRS to set default Pay roll area.
• CATStime sheet was integrated with Human Resource, FI-CO, and Funds Management Modules.
• InCATSdefined the different Data Entry Profiles in Customizing for various modules and also configured theWork-List
• Experience in writing rules for Seniority Overtime, Shift differential, Vacation payouts, Vacation, sick time, company holidays worked, vacation rate, regular rate issues,
• Experience in processing weekly, semimonthly, bi-weekly payrolls from simulation, real payroll

Confidential, Houston, TX

Process Analyst- SAP HR Integration& Support

Responsibilities:

• Developed Enterprise structure to fit company needs including Personnel Area, Personnel Sub-area, Employee Group and Employee Sub-group.
• Customized Actions and Info groups, and assigned the info groups to personnel actions to enter structured information of the employee in the system for each of the actions
• Defined the authorizations for master data maintenance and personnel number assignment for persons being hired.
• Created dynamic actions to create info types and populate info types with specified values
• Configured Infotypes menus in the master data screens (PA30) as per the customer’s requirements.
• Involved in creation of info types by using the transaction code PM01 and Customizing the existing Info types like Bank Details.
• Configured and created various subtypes for the standard infotypes
• Configured the features LGMST, TARIF and ABKRS to default the basic pay wage type, pay scale type and area, and payroll accounting area, respectively while creating the basic pay infotype
• Defined employee groups and subgroups and assigned the employee status to groups.
• Facilitated blueprinting and fit-gap workshops for PA/OM
• Performed data conversion utilizing LSMW
• Performed PA/OM fit-gap analysis for North America against Globally defined Template
• Involved in setting up the system for the payroll controlrecord and maintaining for defining the payroll past for retroactive accounting recognition.
• Defined administrators for personnel areas using PINCH feature.
• Used programs RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE20 & RHINTE30 for integration between PA & OM.
• Created Organizational Units, jobs, tasks, and positions assigned the tasks to the positions, cost center assignments
• Maintained the numberranges for Organizational Units.
• Created PA/OM functional design document based on client workshop requirements
• Customized and unit tested PA/OM
• Performed Unittesting,paralleltesting and integration testing, facilitated UAT, provided end-user training and transitioned documentation and processes to service center
• Used Mercury Quality Center for designing and documenting functional and integration test scripts, run tests and document test results