SUMMARY

• SAP certified solution consultant with 14+ years of experience in providing effective business solutions in core HCM payroll implementation projects with several full life - cycle implementations.
• Expertise within SAP on-premise payroll, Employee Central Payroll (ECP), with thorough understanding of Success Factors EC to ECP integration, Benefits, OM/PA and Time.
• Lead projects from ‘Discover’ to ‘Deploy’ stages, Proficient in the use of SAP Accelerated Implementation Project (AIP) methodology, Activate, Agile implementation methodologies.
• Strong customer focus and proven ability to enhance human resource business process performance within Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Office Furniture, Construction, Oil / Gas Energy, Confidential, and Public-Sector Industries.
• 12+ years of Business Analyst experience with extensive involvement in design, development and testing of software applications for Fortune 500 companies.
• Exceptional hands-on experience in translating HR core business goals and requirements into solutions by guiding clients through effective blueprint workshops, facilitating decision making through best practice solutions, guiding configuration and subsequent testing with results-oriented focus, providing knowledge transfer to clients so they understand how specific configuration enables their requirements and correlate to final product.
• Competencies in Gross Payroll, Gross-to-Net Payroll, Benefits, and core HR
• Excellent functional knowledge and configuration experience with payroll schema modifications and creating personnel calculation rules and features.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SF EC Payroll Design QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed output of deliverables produced by the system integrator to assure quality, efficacy, and best practices relevance.
• Created formal deliverable acceptance criteria for each deliverable and entry/exit criteria for each project milestone schedule checkpoint.
• Verified need for customizations, particularly for the RICEFW items.
• Ensured all deliverables are of high quality based on best practices, align with customer’s program goal, meet deliverable acceptance criteria, including documented feedback and review.
• Attended and QA reviewed all of design workshops of system integrator in order to ensure all requirements and processes are correctly mapped and design direction is moving in accordance with industry best practices.

Confidential

SF EC Payroll Implementation Solution Architect and Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully went Live on 01/01/2020.
• Effectively lead blue-print sessions to gather requirements and to empower client to utilize best practice solution to minimize complexities.
• Designed EC payroll system, with integrations to FI system, Time management system and Benefits management systems, and TIS Confidential management system.
• Identified Gaps that are not configurable through standard SAP solution, provided custom solution along with time requirements and resource requirements.
• Configured Following system components for successful payroll operations…
• Enterprise structure components such as Co.Codes, Pers.Areas, Prs.SubAreas,
• Emp Groups, Emp Sub-Groups in SAP HR then integrated these components with Success Factors EC system.
• Wage types to process Earnings, Deductions in payroll effectively and efficiently, then mapped these components to appropriate wage components in SF EC portlets.
• BSI -10.0 Tax Factory configuration and integration with ECP
• US Tax components for several states and localities. Modified tax models to facilitate custom taxation for wage types.
• Garnishments that included child support, tax levies, creditors, and automatic ACH disbursements of Garnishments.
• FI posting activities that included creating symbolic accounts, assigning WTs to symbolic accounts, symb. Accts to G/L accounts assignment based on personnel structure.
• 3PR (Third Party Remittance) creating HR payees, Vendors, assignment of WTs to vendors.
• Developed functional specification documents for creating ER benefits contributions, and to calculate 401k ER contributions and EE’s annual limits based on age & seniority.
• Managed and conducted integration tests & Parallel payroll tests with aid of SpinifexIT testing tool
• Assisted in configuring PCC (Payroll Control Center) for payroll operations in EC.

Confidential

SAP Payroll Support

Responsibilities:

• Improved efficacy and accuracy of employee pay-statement through re-design of HR Forms in collaboration with technical resources.
• Corrected FI posting process issues that were outstanding from Go-Live. Corrections included symbolic account assignment corrections to WTs, G/L account assignments to Symbolic accounts, incorrect employee grouping assignments to G/L accts.
• Re-designed and re-vamped Garnishments process to process employee garnishments efficiently.
• Redesigned and improved efficacy of Overpayments recovery functionality

Confidential

SAP EC Payroll implementation

Responsibilities:

• Lead project to successful go-live on-time
• Effectively lead blue-print sessions to gather requirements and to empower client to utilize best practice solution to minimize complexities.
• Designed EC payroll system, with integrations to FI system, Time management system and Benefits management systems.
• Identified Gaps that are not configurable through standard SAP solution, provided custom solution along with time requirements and resource requirements.
• Configured
• Enterprise structure components such as Co.Codes, Pers.Areas, Prs.SubAreas,
• Emp Groups, Emp Sub-Groups in SAP HR then integrated these components with Success Factors EC system.
• Wage types to process Earnings, Deductions in payroll effectively and efficiently, then mapped these components to appropriate wage components in SF EC portlets.
• BSI -10.0 Tax Factory configuration and integration with ECP
• US Tax components for several states and localities. Modified tax models to facilitate custom taxation for wage types.
• Garnishments that included child support, tax levies, creditors, and automatic ACH disbursements of Garnishments.
• FI posting activities that included creating symbolic accounts, assigning WTs to symbolic accounts, symb. Accts to G/L accounts assignment based on personnel structure.
• 3PR (Third Party Remittance) creating HR payees, Vendors, assignment of WTs to vendors.
• Developed functional specification documents for creating ACH file for the employee direct deposits, and for the Child Support bank transfer files.
• Created custom PCRs (Personnel Calculation Rules) to facilitate calculation of union dues, OT payments and to create custom cumulation buckets.
• Managed and conducted integration tests & Parallel payroll tests with aid of EPI-Use variance monitor tool
• Successfully Delivered all milestones on-time and within budget.
• Lead off-shore team of 1- Functional consultant & 2- Technical consultants.

Confidential

EC & EC Payroll Solution Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully supported several projects in various implementation stages to ensure customer satisfaction and for successful go-live preparations.
• Assigned infotypes to country groupings for EC interface with ECP
• Configured actions and action reasons within SAP PA for EC mapping requirements
• Trouble and fixed mapping issues between EC & ECP for wage types/pay components
• Recommended ECP implementation strategies to client, that included implementation Schedules, required resources, integration requirements, integration methodologies.
• Worked closely with Time-off consultant to provide time types for EC payroll process and to keep track of time quotas, integration strategies with EC Payroll.
• Worked closely with integration of Benefit focus and SAP benefits module for savings plans.

Confidential

Payroll Solution Consultant / lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed proof of concept that helped in landing the project
• Guided business operations team through blueprint sessions, lead the payroll team of 4 functional consultants through configuration and go-live
• Created blueprint documents for Payroll design
• Configured
• Enterprise structure components Co. Codes, Pers.Areas, Prs.SubAreas, Emp. Groups, Emp. SubGroups based on blueprint
• FI posting activities that included creating symbolic accounts, assigning WTs to symbolic accounts, symb. Accts to G/L accounts based on personnel structure.
• 3PR (Third Party Remittance) creating HR payees, Vendors, assignment of WTs to vendors etc.,
• Conducted and managed integration tests & Parallel payroll tests for payroll components that included intricate earnings, deductions, accruals, FI posting and 3PR
• Provided knowledge transfer and hands on training of superusers.
• Successfully went live with US payroll as of 1/1/2016

Confidential

Payroll Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted payroll implementation workshops for the client to educate and prepare them for the project implementation
• Provided expert advice on the process of payroll implementation methodology and necessary architecture.
• Provided project plan with time schedule and resource requirements.

Confidential

ECP Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured wage types in ECP and Mapped wage types to pay-components of EC
• Set up BSI tax-factory integration with EC Payroll component, updated tax rates.
• Supported ECP to EC integration through mappings, and data replication tests
• Conducted thorough Unit Testing, Regression, integration and parallel testing of the US payroll functionality; provided configuration and end user documentation.

Confidential

HCM Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, and conducted system wide testing to ensure correct functionality of the payroll system after the software upgrade.
• Implemented Overpayment functionality in close cooperation with the technical team and conducted thorough testing of the system to ensure the overpayment functionality.
• Utilized EPI-Use Variance Monitor testing tool for payroll results comparisons

Confidential

HCM Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Configured US payroll system as per the blueprint guidelines.
• Extensively worked with designing and integrating Personnel Calculation Rules, Schema changes, and Features for accurate payroll processing.
• Configured payroll system for optimal payroll processing
• Wage Types with PCL, EVCL for optimal processing in payroll
• Month end accruals for some earnings to satisfy FI posting requirements
• Payroll areas, and generated calendars for 8 different payroll areas.
• Deductions with limits, totals and balances, priorities and arrears,
• Payment models for certain deductions to be deducted in certain weeks
• Custom cumulations for union dues calculations, and some ER benefit contribution percentage calculations
• Off-cycle payroll with reasons, and process models,
• Benefits integration in payroll module
• Created employee pay-statement using HR forms to design on-line pay statement (PE51)
• Designed and conducted Unit testing, Integration testing and parallel testing with EPI-USE VM, HP-QC tools to ensure the accuracy of payroll results.

Confidential

Merging and acquisitions

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented payroll merging of newly acquired companies’ employees into existing payroll system through creating new company codes, payroll areas, FI posting and 3PR integrations along with other critical configuration points. Met all project milestones on time and within budget to customer’s satisfaction. Achieved successful go-live on time.
• Configured company codes, Personnel areas, subareas, assignment of PA/PSA to Co. CDs.
• Created new wage types, set up PCL, EVCL, Mapped wage types from legacy earnings and deduction codes to new Wage Types.
• Developed Personnel Calculation Rules to facilitate customization of earnings, deductions, union dues
• Managed employee data transfer from legacy system to SAP with LSMW tool for ETL.
• Conducted integration tests and parallel payroll tests to confirm accuracy of payroll results
• Provided functional specifications documents to Technical team to develop custom reports for benefits providers, and for corporate report requirements.
• Configured FI posting and 3PR processes to integrate with existing corporate models.

Confidential

Project Description/Scope: Upgrade Project (EHP2 and Notes implementation to ECC 6.0 system) (US Postal Services, Minnesota)

Responsibilities:

• Successfully developed test scripts, test scenarios and performed manual tests to ensure integrity of the upgrade to customer’s satisfaction within established period.
• Trained users on how to conduct HR processes such as… Position transfer, hiring new employee, employee termination, Intercompany transfers, pay-changes, etc.,

Confidential

HCM Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Guided client through blue-print sessions, and decision-making process for best practices and in designing the optimal payroll solution.
• Successfully configured gross payroll system and unit tested to customer satisfaction with on-time delivery.

Confidential

Senior HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in testing and documenting new version of SAP ERP software prior to customer release ECC6.0
• Verified and developed configuration documents.
• Tested configured system according to BPP documentation and verified documentation flow.

Confidential

HCM Consultant 

Achievements:

• Guided client through decision making process for efficient month-end accruals solution.
• Developed functional specifications and month-end accruals configuration within customer-set schedule.
• Configured FI posting activities that included creating symbolic accounts, assigning WTs to symbolic accounts, symb. Accts to G/L accounts based on personnel structure.
• Configured 3PR (Third Party Remittance) creating HR payees, Vendors, assignment of WTs to vendors etc.,
• Unit tested and documented results of testing with recommendations for improvements.

Confidential

Senior HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed and conducted Go-Live parallel testing process for payroll
• Guided client through configuration corrections process with Best practices guidelines.
• Configured wage type PCL, Cumulations and EVCL settings, Health Tax, PPIP insurance, EI for Quebec.
• Configured Deductions with Totals and Balances, created deduction models
• Configured Business Numbers Tax IDs, assignment of BNum to Org. assignment
• Successfully completed parallel payroll runs within stipulated time and to customer’s satisfaction.

Payroll Consultant

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Successfully converted Payroll process from Peoplesoft to SAP
• Configured Payroll Calendars, Wage Types, Payment/deduction models
• Created complex PCRs to facilitate union dues deductions (21 Unions), modified schemas.
• Configured FI posting and 3PR activities (Symbolic accts, G/L acct, Vendor assignments to WTs)
• Identified & Configured Wage types to process earnings, deductions in payroll effectively and efficiently.
• Configured Off-Cycle Payroll reasons and process models, Garnishments for Child Support
• Managed master data transfer from legacy system to SAP
• Created Configuration documentation and Business process documentation for the client
• Trained client super users on payroll process steps and configuration steps.