SUMMARY:

• Experienced professional with demonstrated success in establishing and implementing best practices as Workday Integration Consultant and business analysis.
• Has experience implementing and supporting workday enabled HR transformation initiatives.
• Worked on workday implementations and serving as a member of the workday Team.
• Unique ability to bridge the gap between the technical side and client side to uncover requirements and provide effective business solutions.
• Possess communication and people skills that enable me to effectively interact with the internal business and IT groups to fully understand needed requirements and provide systems that meet those needs.
• Experienced working with all levels of management, global virtual teams to collaborate and implement solutions.
• Possesses excellent people skills that foster positive and productive relationships at all levels of the organization structure.
• Excellent research skills, instinctive problem - solving, able and willing to learn everything.
• Dynamic in a variety of environments and self-motivated to exceed expectations.
• Knowledge in Workday Report Writer, Calculated Fields and creating custom integrations using Enterprise Interface Builder, Document Transformation and Workday Studio.
• Workday Integration Consultant having knowledge in HCM fundamentals, Types of Organization, Staffing Models and Workday Report Writer.
• Vendor Management - evaluation and negotiation of SOWs, manage customer-vendor relationship prior, during and after project execution and delivery.
• Having experience in Cloud Connects Integration for HCM, Payroll and implementing packaged integrations.
• Design and build new and enhance custom reports, dashboards and embedded analytics.
• Deliver excellent reporting and clear/concise communication to key stakeholders both within and across organization to ensure successful project completion.
• Adept at matrix management by balancing cross functional responsibilities across multiple business units.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to challenge the status quo.
• Able to impact and influence through concise and clear recommendations that build business and strategic understanding.
• Effectively work with the stakeholders, business and development teams using Agile/Scrum, Software Development Life Cycle, Waterfall methodologies.
• Able to turn around failing projects and establish framework for successful project completion - identify and proactively manage risks, understand team dynamics and escalate issues to senior leadership for resolution.
• Elicit business requirements from core business units via Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions.
• Proven track record to exceed expectations, which is reflected in advancement to positions requiring increasing levels of responsibility.
• Skilled at analyzing business needs and document business and technical designs for the Project.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Workday Integration

Workday Report Writer

Absence Management

Benefits

Compensation

Core HR

Time Tracking

Payroll

Manager Self - Service

Client Facing

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional

User

Business Process Optimization

Vendor Management

System Dev / Test Life Cycle

Agile / Scrum

UAT / Quality Assurance

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Workday Integration Consultant / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed workday outbound and inbound integrations using various integration tools such as EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder), Core Connector with DT for changes only file, Report with DT and Workday Studio.
• Created Cloud Connector Benefits (Packaged) integrations for different customers.
• Created Technical Specification documents and clarification logs for developed integrations
• Worked on tenant configurations at times for functional testing on Benefits module.
• Worked on creation of Security Groups, Security User and Roles as per requirement.
• Worked on XSLT to do transformations from XML to TXT, CSV formats using Exchanger XML editor.
• Managed all projects in accordance with SDLC and PMI standards.
• Design and build new and enhance custom reports, dashboards and embedded analytics.
• Fix defects raised and assist in other aspects like performance tuning and reporting analytics.
• Skilled at analyzing business needs and document business and technical designs for the Project
• Developed and maintained project plans using MS Project. Accountable for the approval and sign-off of the project plan with all affected project stakeholders. Accountable for delivery of all work tasks identified in the project plan.
• Developed and maintained all project related documentation, including but not limited to: Project Charter, Communication Plan, Project Plan, Stakeholder Registry, Risk Log, Issues Log, Weekly Status Report, and Change Management Log.
• Facilitated regular project status calls between the stakeholders and the project team.
• Provided end-user support, troubleshoot and documentation.
• Created Business Requirement Documents (BRD) to in corporate end-user changes resulting in enhanced form management & rating models that simplified workflow & improved productivity.
• Responsible for data collection, data aggregation, data analysis and data mapping in a strict timeline. Maintain documents on SharePoint site.
• Responsible for ensuring underwriting system correctly interfaces with multiple downstream & upstream systems. With QA on unit testing and test cases; managed issues list with vendor.

Confidential, Tumwater, WA

Workday Integration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported Workday HCM design workshop, prototype 1 workshop, SIT and UAT workshops, owned 40% of the presentation for prototype 2 workshop. Identified key decisions and key issues.
• Delivered business process configuration workbooks for each phase of the project.
• Configured business processes including definitions, notifications and condition rules.
• Owned the compensation framework set up in Workday including eligibility rules, compensation grade, grade profiles, steps and allowance plans.
• Design, develop and deliver various types of Workday reports to HR and other users including Composite, Matrix, BIRT, Dashboard, and other advanced reports.
• Designed and configured the layout for Employee/Manager/Business Partner landing pages Worker Profile pages.
• Build and maintain calculated fields in Workday.
• Managed defects from SIT and UAT testing and conducted client communications to identify resolutions.
• Configuring studio integration using workday delivered web services.
• Worked on modules like Self-service and Workforce Administration.
• Involved in preparation of custom integrations and loading data through iLoad.
• Monitor weekly Workday service updates and how they impact Thomson Reuter’s environment.
• Worked on Cloud Connects Integration for HCM, Payroll and implementing packaged integrations.
• Monitor the integrity of Workday data through regular audits, as well as partnering with the HRIS team to research, correct discrepancies, and ensure available reports are accurate, current, and useful.
• Created Project management plan and worked from initiation phase to closing phase
• Created Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) accountable for project deliverables
• Developed functional requirement document and coordinated with stakeholder cum sponsors cum business owners
• Developed workday integration plan and managed the project as a technical project manager
• Coordinated with product owners and program managers for workday related features of the project

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained close oversight of all SDLC processes, including initial requirements gathering, detailed functional and technical specification production, test plan review, internal validation plan execution, user acceptance testing and assistance, and final implementation.
• Tapped as a subject matter expert, recommending industry best practices to clients seeking to implement Confidential products.
• Engaged with business representatives to develop business requirements, documented process flows and directed problem solving initiatives. Identified obstacles, devised action plans, and developed end-user and documentation and post implementation support.
• Develop business requirements and manage web development projects for Internet Services & Operations organization.
• Creating the customer profiles based on personal and contextual data and using and business rules to identify the highest-impact offer during an inbound interaction
• Involved in documenting business rules applied to trade data, particularly data transformation procedures and data validation rules.
• Responsible for managing design and business deliverables for web projects.
• Creation of site templates using Share point designer & Visual Studio.

Confidential, Federal way, WA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Support team in an Agile environment with documented business requirements including high level Visio diagrams and data mapping for Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards providing data visualization.
• Collaborated with business owners to identify the scope, goals, deliverables, and project timelines, and relayed project progress to the entire project team, including the Chief Information Officer, IT Executive Team, key stakeholders, and senior management.
• Managed application development projects according to the SDLC process.
• Developed project plans and ensured projects remained on-target by modifying and reassigning tasks as project objectives required.
• Responsible for managing design and business deliverables for web projects.
• Developed Data Warehouse quality mapping reconcilement processes, QA test cases, managed UAT/issues lists, ad-hoc reports, vendor management, user and documentation, customer production support.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and development activities of the project.
• Migrated code to the production environment and provided support to production loads.
• Worked on complete SDLC from Extraction, Transformation and Loading of data using DB2.
• Trouble Shooting and debugging the code.

Confidential, Irwindale, CA

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked for production, maintenance projects and good experience in handling the Production Support activities cost effectively.
• Designed and developed Informatica Mappings and Sessions based on business user requirements and business rules to load data from source flat files, xml and sql server tables to target tables.
• Developed and scheduled Workflows using task developer, worklet designer, and workflow designer in Workflow manager and monitored the results in Workflow monitor.
• Did performance tuning at source, transformation, target, and workflow levels.
• Parameterized the mappings and increased the re-usability.
• Worked with high-volume data, tuning, troubleshooting of mappings and created documentation to support for the application.
• Gathered and developed requirements for implementing Web analytics on client websites.