Lead Functional Consultant Resume
SUMMARY
- 12+ years of experience in PeopleSoft HCM (8.3/8.9/9.0/9.1/9.2 ) modules: Core HR, Time and labor, Global Payroll & Absence Management, NA Payroll and hands on Base Benefits, Position Control, Compensation planning, Performance Management. Rich experience in multiple implementations, upgrades and support engagements as Project/HCM Lead with multiple Media, Finance & higher education’s clients.
- Possesses strong functional experience in PeopleSoft Core HR, Time and Labor, NA Payroll and absence management.
- Command over People Tools v8.4x and 8.5x, PeopleCode, Process scheduler, Application Designer, Application Engine and Workflow
- Presented Implementation & Upgrade Tools and techniques of Time and Labor at Collaborate in Las Vegas.
- Successfully completed HR Oracle® Fusion Applications 11g Release 7 (11.1.7) training provided by Oracle University.
- Strong foundation knowledge of Workday and Oracle Fusion with Deloitte internal training on Workday and Oracle Fusion application.
- Consulting and Project Management experience with multiple clients on product evaluation, new version fit gaps, upgrade evaluation.
- Managing the delivery of projects covering geography across the world, building capabilities and managing distributed vendor resources.
- Solution proposal for Higher Education Sector - PeopleSoft HCM Application.
- Architecting and implementing Project solutions, understanding abstract business concepts and providing reusable and comprehensive solutions. Creating and managing onsite / offshore teams, delivering within budget and with high quality on time.
- Planning and leading projects in Higher Education, Insurance, banking, finance and human capital management domains
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Lead Functional consultant
Responsibilities:
- Conduction business process Overviews
- Task status Reporting
- Design & test the T&L auto enrollment process
- Gather requirement T&L Rules and writing Time and Labor rules.
- Configure new earning and TRC code as required to fit T&L implementation.
- Configure Integration of Absence management to Time and Labor.
- Configure T&L AWE (Approval Workflow engine).
- Coordinating testing functions and integration testing with the Payroll team
- Troubleshoot T&L issues discovered in testing.
- Write PS Queries & SQL’s to support reporting needs.
- Prepare Payroll Parallel Plan, execute payroll after upgrade and compare results.
- Explain the difference in Payroll Gross, Deductions and Nets.
- Review and Writing test cases for T&L business processes
- Utilizing HP’s Quality Center to document and track the status of test execution, and report defects
- Developing Business Process Guides for T&L business processes
- Defining the batch cycle for T&L business processes
Confidential
Time and Labor and Absence Management Functional Lead
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate Design and configuration Workshops with Business Process Owners (BPO).
- Understand current pain areas and recommend solutions in versions 9.2.
- Prepare the fit gap for Time and Labor and Absence Management and discuss with BPO.
- Conduct detail requirement workshops for gaps identified and prepare functional requirement documents for all gaps.
- Prepare configuration workbook for all configuration items, TRC, TRC Program, Rules. Work Group, Security, Approval workflow, Absence entitlement and takes element, Element Groups and Eligibility groups, Process List, Run Types, Periods, Calendar, Calendar Groups etc.
- Configure the system as identified in workbook and perform unit test, system test.
- Create PS Queries for reporting needs, etc.
- Create test script and test Integration testing between Absence Management, Time and Labor and Payroll.
Confidential
HR & Absence Management Functional Lead
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for facilitating configuration workshops and requirement discussions.
- Conducted fit gap session to identify gap and gaps related customization.
- Helped client to create to be process documents.
- Trained users in the configuration of the Core HR and Absence Management modules.
- Identified Actions, Action Reasons, Job Code, Positions, Salary steps, Grade and plans and configuration of identified items.
- Configured Union Code, Rate Code, Job Code, Salary Plan, Step and grade in PeopleSoft Application.
- Configured salary step progression process.
- Created department tree and location tree.
- Facilitated enhancement workshops, and supported interface and conversion workshops.
- Planned and created test scenarios, scripts for various stages of testing including regressive unit testing, systems integration testing, user testing, and parallel testing.
- Integrated Core HR and Commitment accounting wrote integration script and tested the integration.
- Drafted functional specifications for enhancements, interfaces and conversions.
- Responsible for product configuration for Core HR and Absence Management.
- Responsible for facilitating configuration workshops and providing proof of concept presentations for potential configuration options.
- Performed requirement gathering for absence entitlement and took rules and documented the requirement for approval and sign-offs.
- Performed workshops to identify all required eligibility groups for Civil Service employees.
- Trained users in the configuration of Core HR and Absence Management modules.
- Configured entitlements elements and takes elements.
- Facilitated enhancement workshops, and supported interface and conversion workshops.
- Planned and created test scenarios, scripts for various stages of testing including regressive unit testing, systems integration testing, user testing, and parallel testing.
Confidential
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for updating status to project steering committee.
- Conducted demo of PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 to business team.
- Responsible for project planning and tracking project.
- Tracked project tasks and reported project status to higher management.
- Reviewed As-Is document, functional design document, and fit gap document.
- Involved in requirement gathering with team and finalization of requirement with business team for NA Payroll and Time and Labor.
- Conducted system test and system integration testing along with team.
- Involved in upgrade environment planning and cutover planning.
- Responsible for application of tax updates, testing and comparing result.
Confidential
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for project planning and project tracking.
- Accountable for project status reporting.
- Review Design documents such as balance conversion process.
- Review of functional design document, fit gap document.
- Responsible for requirement gathering and finalization of requirement with business team.
- Conducted demo of PeopleSoft Absence Management to business team.
- Configured and tested Absence Management module.
Confidential
Lead Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Task Planning, Task allocation and status tracking.
- Coordination with teams in project deadlock issue resolution.
- Managing client relationship and setting up expectation on delivery.
- Project status reporting to client and senior management.
- Worked as Time and Labor functional consultant and responsible for requirement gathering and solution design.
- Prepared and review of functional design document, fit gap document.
- Responsible for preparation configuring document and configuring the system for TRC, TRC program, Security groups, Shift, Schedule, Time Period, Time reporting template, Rules, Rule Programs, Workgroup.
- Prepared functional document for automatic enrollment, Employee Self Service, Manager Self Service and Dynamic group Security Requirement.
- Involved in report requirement gathering and preparation of functional design document for report
- Involved in integration of TCD clocks to Time and Labor.
- Created custom rules as per business process followed by the client.
- Worked on creating and customizing template based rules as per business process followed by the client.
Confidential
Project Lead
Responsibilities:
- Performed the role of project planning and coordinator.
- Managing client relationship and setting up expectation on delivery.
- Drive the study of existing system and prepare of as-Is document.
- Drive fit gap sessions and responsible for preparing fit gap documentation.
- Understood client requirement and prepared requirement docs.
- Responsible for process design in 9.0.
- Task Planning, Task allocation and monitoring a task status.
- Responsible for client meeting and status reporting.
- Drive demos for end user training.
- Drive testing phase as per the requirement.
- Drive parallel testing and help in comparing result of 8.8 and 9.0 after upgrade and explained/resolved the differences.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Designed the strategy for consolidation of Latina and GPS application.
- Analyzed the impact of consolidation of component and tables.
- Created consolidation script.
- Validated and tested the consolidation.
- Performed review of consolidation approach.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Performed as functional owner for Global Payroll.
- Revised the earning and deductions elements as retrofitting in PS 8.9 from 8.3.
- Responsible for all payroll related issues.
- Defined the payroll testing detail plan along with the client business super users in Paris.
- Responsible for parallel run result reconciliation between PeopleSoft 8.3 and 8.9.
- Assisted in Detail for Payroll core commercial bundle #1 to #11 patches.
- Responsible for functional testing for the patch impact.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Involved in requirement analysis, task and testing planning at onsite (Australia) and closely worked with client Business Analyst.
- Independently handled the business process study for India and New Zealand.
- Involved in the preparation of detail plan for PeopleSoft Payroll testing.
- Performed the parallel testing for India Instance with Legacy system.
- Performed the parallel testing for New Zealand PeopleSoft 8.9 Instance with People.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Studied the existing business process.
- Involved in the PeopleSoft fit gap analysis of Core HR, North American Payroll, Base benefit and Benefit Administration.
- Involved in the preparation of detail plan for PeopleSoft Payroll testing.
- Provided the user training on Core HR and NA Payroll for UAT.
- Involved actively in Time and Labor and NA Payroll test case preparation and review.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Provided general support and troubleshooting for PeopleSoft Global Payroll and Finance.
- Troubleshot elements like Earning Deduction etc. in GP and verified the pay roll run.
- Resolved setup related issues in the running application.
- Tested issues related to payment of element.
- Resolved problem of absence processing.
- Had full understanding of core engine of global payroll.
- Effectively involved in the requirement gathering of Time and Labor.
- Created time and labor configuration like TRC, TRC program, workgroup, Time Admin rule configuration, etc.
- Involved in the configuration of Time and Labor rules.
- Responsible for test plan/ script preparation for unit testing.
- Developed Data Scrambling SQR for HCM application.
- Developed application engine to purge data from Payroll tables.
- Actively participated in team meetings as well as the meeting with the other teams in Australia and India.
- Responsible for preparation of TDD, process document.
- Assisted the end users with queries in unit testing Using Test Environment.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for preparation of presentation on Absence Management and Time and Labor and conducted presentation to customer.
- Reviewed functional document related to HCM.
- Prepared requirement gathering checklist for onsite visit of the team.
- Verified the document in ordered to check for the language issue.
- Maintained all project communications and status documentation.
- Extensively involved in Absence Management configuration activity.
Confidential
Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Set up the payroll table, run the payroll, and verify the payroll run for newly hired employees and an old too.
- Reviewed and prepared test script for SQR interface, SQR Batch program, and application and fixed the code.
- Provided suggestion to onsite on data preparation and performance point of view.
- Created and modified PS Query for reporting purposes.
- Resolved the security issue of the access profile of user. Modification involved in changing search records to establish row level security.
- Maintained all project communications and status documentation.
- Ensured quality compliances and timely delivery project.
- Responsible for time escalation of quality /project issues to supervisor and senior management.
- Managed the projects issue and resolve to the satisfaction of customer.
