PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• PeopleSoft HCM Functional Analyst with 12 years of experience in implementing, upgrading and managing applications such as Core HR, N Payroll, Global Payroll, Benefits, Position Management, Time& Labor, Absence Management, and TAM/Recruiting along with 2 years in BI Reporting.
• Strong experience in PeopleSoft Project life cycle includes gathering requirements, fit/gap analysis, configuration, integration, testing, training, documentation, reporting, and support.
• Certified Expert PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 HR Consultant , Oracle SQL Certified Associate, Certified in Business Planning , ITIL & ITSM , Tableau Qualified Associate, and B usiness/ BI Certified Professional,
• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science& Engineering.
• Proficient in People Tools - Application Designer, People Code, Application Engine.
• Working experience in Databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and Tera Data.
• Experience with project management/software development methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Worked in projects for Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Utility, and Manufacturing sectors.
• Able to advise client on best practices, options, risks, and impact analysis of any process/system changes.
• Effective team player and individual contributor with steep learning curve and self-motivation.
• Excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, conceptual, analytical, and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HCM/HRMS: PeopleSoft HCM 8.x/9.x

PeopleSoft Applications: Core HR, NA Payroll, Global Payroll, Time&Labor, Benefits, Position Management, Recruiting/TAM

PeopleTools: Application Designer, People Code, Query Manager, Process Scheduler, Security, Application Engine

Reporting Tools: SQR, PS Query, Crystal Reports, Tableau, BO

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Tera Data

Programming Languages: People Code, UNIX, HTML, Java

Incident Management: Jira, Remedy, Service Now

Process Flow / Data Flow diagrams: MS Visio

Project Management Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2003/2008 Server

Engagement Experience: Application Development, Strategy/Planning, Fit/Gap Analysis, Business& Technical Process Reengineering, Data Conversion, Configuration, Testing, Documentation

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

PeopleSoft HR Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identify, build and manage key relationships with the project stakeholders and relevant teams.
• Elicit and document business rules, requirements and specifications from functional users and SMEs.
• Translate customer requirements into a best fit within the application, and develops processes and documentation that support the SDLC.
• Maintain and manage action items from various meetings.
• Ensure functional compliance is applied across application functionality.
• Work with the client to identify and prioritize defects, monitor defect resolution and support change request activities by functional and development teams.
• Track& communicate issues& resolutions effectively with business users and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Make recommendations and provide best practices for business process improvements.
• Liaise between Business and technical teams to ensure a mutual understanding of processes& applications.
• Co-ordinate in system integration testing and user acceptance testing with business users.
• Research questions involving functionality in various versions and modules of PeopleSoft.
• Coordinate functional activities with the technical team lead for production of deliverables.
• Provide assistance in development, testing, training, and production support activities.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2, People Tools 8.55, SQR and SQL.

Confidential, Boston, MA

PeopleSoft HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Establish PeopleSoft HCM system as one source of integrated global HR information using a single database worldwide.
• Attend requirements gathering sessions with business users& lead, and finalizing requirement specifications.
• Conduct Fit/Gap Sessions and deliver a Fit/Gap Analysis.
• Provide functional expertise to client on how to best use the system to meet their business needs and evaluate gaps for modifications/customizations.
• Provide alternative resolutions to disposition items (gaps) and documented/presented proposals.
• Identify and document “As-Is” & “To-Be” processes along with issues& root cause analyses.
• Contribute in development of a global solution for HR, NA Payroll, Benefits, Position Management, Absence Management, and Time&Labor transactions processing that follows industry standard.
• Recommend flexible and robust business transaction processes to accommodate changing needs while remaining “vanilla”.
• Assist in standardizing end-to-end business processes and supporting values (codes) to create frameworks that are usable across countries.
• Provide suggestions on new functionality in 9.2 that could streamline existing business processes.
• Manage the customization design and build effort.
• Resolve production issues for smoother business run.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2, People Tools 8.53, SQR and SQL.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The objective was to implement HR, Payroll, Benefits, and Recruiting for offshore drilling companies.
• Review PeopleSoft’s 9.1 SP1 HR& Recruiting functionality and identify where new functionality would resolve current issues and customizations.
• Deliver and overview demonstration of HR and Recruiting functionality. Provided answers to specific functionality questions.
• Provided functional expertise to client on how to best use the system to meet their business needs and evaluate gaps for modifications/customizations.
• Identified areas where functionality that is currently not being utilized can best be used moving forward.
• Requirement gathering for BT requirement for Profile Management.
• Provide demo to all project stakeholders& business leaders.
• Designed high level solution for the custom requirements like different reports.
• Configuration and Validation of setup data, and manage Profile security.
• Worked on Search and Compare functionality for Person Profile vs Job Profile.
• Tested all the Profile Management transactions for each role of ESS, MSS, and Admin.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1, People Tools 8.52, SQR and SQL.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The objective of this project was to implement PeopleSoft HCM Applications, Change Request, and Rollouts.
• Extensively involved in entire life cycle includes Requirement analysis & Design for rollout (country specific)
• Completely involved in all phases of Germany Rollout like Scoping, Mapping, Functional & Technical Design, Regression Analysis, Configuration, Testing and Bug-fixing.
• Responsible for system specifications analysis and preparing Technical Design Documents& Unit Test Plans.
• Work on HRMS setups & configuration as per business needs.
• Develop processes including CI for mass uploads from external system to PeopleSoft System.
• Design& Develop data conversion programs to facilitate data migration from legacy to PeopleSoft Systems.
• Handle bug fixing, enhancements, and entire internal quality process during System Test & UAT.
• Developed interactive reports using XML Publisher & SQR.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, People Tools 8.49, SQR and SQL

Confidential

PeopleSoft HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysing data with various systems/business users of the legacy system.
• Interact with system& business users on data mapping based on various business rules in the Legacy system.
• Coordinate with technical team during data conversion using automated data conversion processes such as Component Interfaces, SQRs, and File Layout among others.
• Contribute design application configuration document and configure apps with base lined config design doc.
• Review functional specs with business sponsors for approval
• Involved in developing configuration design documents, unit and system testing of the project.
• Develop test plans for system and User Acceptance testing.
• Establish test entrance/exit criteria and execute system and integration testing of the modules.
• Interface regularly with customers at various levels and resolve issues.
• Train business users and provided go-live and post go-live support.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, People Tools 8.49.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

PeopleSoft HRMS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handle PeopleSoft HRMS modules based change request tickets.
• Log the defects and get clarification from Development team and End users directly.
• Communicate with the end users for any change request clarification or updates.
• Handling enhancement requests including requirements study, analysis, discussions, and documentation.
• Work on PS query, pay group setups and department setups.
• Work extensively on People Tools& People Code to provide the support and resolve numerous tickets.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.0, People Tools 8.48.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

BI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of Business Objects Universes, which suits the standard, analytical and ad-hoc reporting requirements of the users and export universes to the repository that’s accessible to users.
• Troubleshooting of universe schema with loops, chasm and fan traps, and cardinality problems.
• Extensively used Source Qualifier, Aggregator, Joiner and Lookup Transformations.
• Create and test classes and objects to organize universe and create and support reporting needs.
• Create Custom Hierarchies for Multidimensional Analysis, run queries and create supply chain reports.

Environment: Business Objects 6.1.4, Oracle 9i, Windows 2000 Server.