Workday Consultant Resume
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SUMMARY
- Over seven years of IT experience with more than four years of extensive Workday experience.
- In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment and maintaining HR systems.
- Good knowledge in understanding the Business Process Flows, Case Tools, Business Analysis and transforming them intoWorkday designs.
- Act as Liaison with the information systems department to resolve programming and system problems.
- Proficient in understanding HR modules like Benefits, Payroll, Compensation and Recruiting, staffing, interface, Business process and security groups.
- Design, build and test in the Organizational Management and personnel Administration modules, modeling the Organizational structure, analyze the gaps in the current organizational Plan and configuring new structures and workflow management based on Business Process.
- Build reports using Workday's report writing tools.Ability to help clients resolve reporting issues requiring in depth expertise in the Workday solution
- Generated and developed Custom Reports, Advanced Reports as needed by business.
- Maintenance and creation ofWorkdaySupervisoryOrganizations, 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 inWorkdayFunctional 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.
- Coordinated data conversion activities for the extraction, transformation and loading of employee data.
- Actively involved in sales cycle for signing up with new third party vendor’s payrolls, time tracking and performance.
- Experience in QA/Testing processes like User Acceptance Testing and System Integration Testing.
- Performed end to end Functional process testing.
- 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.
- Working experience with the global Cloud First team, sharing ideas and collaborating on fortnightly knowledge exchange sessions, sharing ideas and discussing challenges with consultants from global system-integrators and consulting firms.
- Technical Functional experience in PeopleSoft applications on various tools and release modules include Core HR, Payroll, Base Benefits, and Benefits Administration.
- Possess strong analytical and business background along with diverse system understanding and ability to master new concepts quickly, allows them to engage with all the levels of the client organization to deploy operational and technical solutions.
- Quick learner and excellent team player having ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Workday skills: Workday HCM and Integrations, Workday conversions, Workday Report Writer, EIB, Core Connectors and Workday Studio.
Technologies/Tools: XML, XSLT, XPATH, Oxygen XML, Payroll, People Tools.
Web Services: XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSD, REST.
Document Processing: MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Excel.
Databases: Oracle SQL, PL/SQL.
PeopleSoft Modules: HCM, Financials, EPM - Enterprise Performance Management.
Operating Systems: Window Server 2000, 2003, XP, Seven. Vista.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Austin
Workday Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Involved in implementation of Workday HCM modules HR, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting and Compensation.
- Analyzed complex sets of data to identify quality issues and proactively initiated steps for improvement.
- Coordinated and supervised the daily activities of the Workday HR System and act as primary point of contact to monitor and triage roadblock issues.
- Worked on Implementation all phases P1, P2, P3 and P4.
- Developing composite, 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 facilitatingdata 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 26/27/28, EIB, Workday Report Writer, Workday HCM, Calculated fields, Workday Studio, SharePoint, Jira, MS Excel.
Confidential - Plano, TX
Workday HCM Techno Functional Consultant
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: Workday, EIB, Workday Studio, Transformation using XSLT, XML, and SOAP Web services, Workday Report Writing, BIRT Reports, calculated fields, Compensation, Excel.
Confidential - New York
Workday Consultant
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.
- Created custom report for Time Sheet Worker for Time Block Report, Sick Time Off taken by worker etc. in Benefits, Core HR and Payroll.
- 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 withWorkdayReport 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: Workday, EIB, Workday Report Writer, BIRT Reports, Calculated fields, EIB and Workday Studio.
Confidential - San Francisco, CA
Workday Implementation Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed client’s HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and supported development of new business processes and a future state design.
- Hands on Workday systems integration experience building custom integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation.
- Participated in implementation of Workday HR, benefits, payroll and absence management.
- Worked on Simple Integrations with Workday Studio and applied XSLT transformations to XML Data.
- Worked on BP’s, Compensation and Custom Reports in Workday and generated simple reports.
- Responsible for gathering customer requirements and documenting them, analyzing key organizational and operational reports, designing and tracking.
- Created calculated fields for Custom Reports to ensure required report delivery.
- Wrote reports that extract Workday data and manipulate the data in other formats for various needs.
- Created Functional and Technical Design documents for new Interfaces.
- Created Compensation for new hire employees, Review employee hire, edit workdayaccounts and Worked on simple integration withworkdayStudio. Knowledge of Domain, Role and User based security.
- Created around 30 Merit based statements, salary statements, and equity award statements using Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) in Workday Studio.
- Changing the supervisory Organizations, Inactivating an Organization and moving the workers into different Supervisory Organizations.
- Created Generated Compensation Grade profiles to divide the grades into functional tasks, geographic regions and the required sub-categories for the business.
- Experience in creating the Applicants, Hiring applicants into supervisory Organizations.
- Propose Compensation for New Hire, Edit Government Ids, EditworkdayAccount.
- Assigning Organization Roles, Assigning User based Security Groups.
- Hire into Position resetting the passwords.
- Prepared employee master data like Job details, Worker history and contact information.
- Configured the time off business processes to route time off requests and adjustments to the appropriate roles for review and approval.
- Creating the integration Business Process, Create EIB's, Generate Spreadsheet Template, Launching/ scheduling the integration Templates.
- Created advanced reports and attached to the dashboards in the workday.
- Updated the checklists and notifications in the On-boarding (Hire) business process to guarantee a great experience for the new hires.
- Configured Domain Security Policies and merged them with Security Groups.
- Configured Business Process Security Policies for Business Processes like Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Unions and workforce planning.
Environment: Workday, EIB, Workday Report Writer, Calculated fields, EIB and Workday Studio.
Confidential - Petaluma, CA
Workday Techno Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Hands on Workday systems integration experience building custom integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation.
- Responsible for the EIBs and Studio integrations (inbound and outbound) with downstream systems.
- Experience in working with Amex & other third-party financial connectors in pulling linked expenses data by employee.
- Involved in development and maintenance open APIs.
- Creating the new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams.
- Participate in the discovery sessions with client and vendors, create the design and mapping documents and submit the same for sign off.
- Mapped HCM data in the outbound integrations systems, to deliver to cornerstone via web services.
- Created Core Connector integration to pull the new hire information.
- Rolling out employee self-services for attendance, Leave, time off, and w4 elections and personal data maintenance.
- Worked on creating custom reports based on the client requirements.
- Worked on EIB's to load the new data and change the existing data.
- Experience in using toolkits for connecting to third-party payroll providers like Paychex.
- Performed functional, usability, performance and security testing for a focal implementation project in Workday.
- Managed/created various Compensation Packages, Compensation Plans, Compensation Grade, Grade Profiles, Expenses items etc.
- Created mass compensation changes and also modified allowance plans and benefits.
- Generated final tables, reports and exhibits for different demographics.
- Worked with Simple and Advanced Reports, defining columns, business objects, fields, columns heading overriding, multiple sorting techniques, sorting by secondary objects.
- Worked with creation of work lets, developing a custom Worklet.
- Worked on advanced features like Display headings, display of subtotals, defining Filters, defining sub filters, Defining prompting overrides.
- Defined outputting of report to Work let options or chart options.
Environment: Workday, EIB, Workday Studio, Transformation using XSLT, Web services, Workday Report Writing, custom reports, calculated fields, compensation, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.
Confidential
PeopleSoft HCM Technical Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Documented and analyzed Human Resources management processes, systems and data flows to identify potential opportunities for improvement.
- Handling the PeopleSoft application technical issues, data issues, interface related issues.
- Monitoring the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly PeopleSoft job runs and fixing it if any issues occurred.
- Handling Time and Labor rules for NA Payroll.
- Mostly working on the Application Engines, SQRs, Data Movers, File Layout, People Code, Component Interface, Workflow, Integration Broker, Process- Scheduler and Security Management.
- Taking care of all Tax updates and doing fit gap analysis if any customizations involved.
- Coordinating Business user team for testing Payroll run and other interface jobs.
- Handling the tickets on the integration with Kronos Time and Labor application.
- Organizing meeting with business user for discussing about Tax update and Working closely with business user for finalizing customizations for each Tax update and ADP tax reporting update.
- Studying the entire application management process, procedures, identifying areas for improvements and implementing the same.
- Ensure implementation of quality processes on all change requests implemented.
- Work Assignment and Review, Holding status and staff meetings.
- Design, development and code walk through of all code delivered from my technical team, coordinating system, integration and user acceptance testing.
- Defining standards and guidelines, Training and Mentoring.
- Involved in developing new Application Engine to send Remainder mails to all the Time Reporters.
- Created new SQRs and Customized existing SQRs as per the requirement.
- Analysis of the functional Requirements and converting them into Technical Design Specifications.
Environment: PeopleSoftHCM 8.9, Payroll, Application Designer, People Code, HR, Benefits, SQR's, Oracle 10g, SQL Server.
