SUMMARY:

• SAP certified HCM Solution Consultant with international business experience directing successful transformational Human Resource and Technology related initiatives that are in-line with the business strategies.
• Over 8 years of result oriented experience in SAP HCM implementation and configuration in the following sub-modules Personnel Administration, Organization Management, Payroll Time Management, Compensation, ESS/MSS, Training Events Management, Benefit Administration and Personnel Development.
• Worked on 3 full life cycle implementations and 2 support roles SAP R/3 project lifecycles implementation, post-implementation hyper-care, production support and upgrade short-term engagements encompassing various HCM sub-modules and across different verticals using ASAP Methodology.
• Facilitate training for super-users and prepared training documentations using uPerform.
• Responsible for preparing the business requirement specifications, blueprinting workshops, proof of concept, test cases, and testing at Quality Systems and troubleshooting of on-going SAP system enhancements, Support Packages installations and upgrades in the system landscape.
• In-depth research, problem solving, business process analysis, workflow and troubleshooting skills during SAP Implementations.
• Professional work ethics, great phone personality, written oral communication skills, excellent Personnel Management and negotiation skills.
• Influential communicator with clear understanding of Canadian Human Capital Management processes skills such as managing positive client, stakeholder and partner relationships in driving project to completion.
• Successful Team player with abilities in collaborative efforts, analytical conflict resolution, problem solving skills and experience in project oriented and sustainment activities.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Tools: BDC, IDocs, ALE, LSMW, BADI, User Exit, Webdynpro, Adobe Form, Workflow, ARIS, CATT, Workplace, TDMS, TAO, LSMW
• Reporting: Standard reports, SAP ALV Reports, SmartForms, SAP Query, Web Reports, Crystal Reports, Ad hoc reports, BW Infosets, InfoCubes, BEX.
• Methodology: ASAP, SCRUM
• BUSINESS PROCESS TOOLS:
• ARIS, HP Application Lifecycle Management, HP Quality Centre
• Ancile uPerform, TDMS
• SAP Solution Manager, ChaRM

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management Lead SAP design, implementation and training for both hourly and salaried employees involving multiple Collective Bargaining Agreements with a 99.9 accuracy rate and minimal disruption during cut-over. Skills include project planning, estimation, budgeting, and providing leadership to teams of various sizes including functional and technical resources in dispersed geographies.
• Change Management Accurately targeted messages to achieve resonance and feedback. Change agent for value realization, managing attitudes and behaviours while assisting in major projects, integration, local training, SAP service channel OSS support for issue resolution, and development efforts.
• SAP HR Re-implementation Redesigned Enterprise, Personnel and Organizational structure to leverage SAP best practice and create the foundation for PBF/ESS/MSS rollout. Actively involved in leading data conversion strategy, configuration within Personnel Administration and Organizational Management modules, unit testing, integration testing, cut-over and go-live and hyper-care activities.
• Blueprint and Requirements Gathering Conducted workshops with users for gathering of blueprint requirements and data conversion. Directed blueprint as-is and to-be activities, prepared configuration documentation and user training materials. Designed functional specifications for new interfaces, reports, additional conversion programs based on user specification.
• Quality Assurance Identified risk migration strategies, performed due diligence activities on configuration dependency, defect management, SAP enhancement package testing, site readiness and established data governance and prioritization roadmaps. Resolved issues that arise with interface connectivity to and from core system, including middleware and upstream/downstream issues, and emergency fixes that need to be tested on multiple platforms.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP HCM Consultant FPARS Project

Accomplishments:

• Cutover Team lead Managing HCM transports, OM Data uploads, cutover planning and cutover related transition activities with minimal disruptions.
• Led creation of clear and detailed project documentation for planning, blueprint and realization phases under strict timelines and guidelines.
• Ensured SAP implementation best practices throughout the life cycle including business process re-engineering and solution blueprint.
• Managed project risks and issues including product related escalations to SAP Canada and SAP AG.
• Bridged the gap working with external consultants IBM , multiple internal stakeholders, functional and technical resources to deliver from as is to to be state.
• Development and data migration from legacy systems into the SAP landscape with 99 accuracy and minimal disruption.

Significant Contributions:

• Collaborated with functional leads on gathering business requirements from users. Reviewed and participated in solution design meetings and monitored progress.
• Created 'future state' process model in ARIS depicting methodology for HR-OM/PA integration. Created a 'current state' business process model in ARIS analyzing the pain points, especially the manual process inefficiencies within HR and Payroll.
• Designed technical and functional specifications and development of new functionality.
• Identified assessed 1018 Cost Distribution related risks in relation to cost splits. Based on assessment provided to the project team about limitation to cost splits a decision was made to proceed with 1018 not exceeding 12 split entries. This action prevented performance issues without impacting payroll runs.
• In the role of techno-functional lead, assisted other team members understand an issue, explore the options and determine solutions.
• Project Preparation, Business Blueprint BBP , Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live end-to-end stages of implementation and integration of Public Sector Funds PBF Management with HR/FI/PY.
• Configured HR-OM related Infotypes, both custom and standard, and integration with PA.
• Integration of Public Sector Funds Management objects such as Grants, Functional Area and Funds to be integrated with Cost Distribution object in OM to PA.
• Data validation of HR-PY wage types table t510 and 510n ensuring accuracy across system landscapes.
• Performed all OM Master Data uploads 1018, 1008, 1007, 9101, 9100, and 1013 in PRD, DEV QA clients.
• Worked with TDMS extraction tools Extraction of tables from PRD to PT2 system landscape.
• UAT, REF testing on DEV, QAT PROD servers for SAP Enhan.P5 SPS07.
• Document/Re-Engineer Qualification upload process from external database to SAP PD.
• Initiated Legacy data upload: FLEET Qualification PD update using LSMW.
• Implementation: re-org management and restructuring using IMG.
• Create and manage Change Management processes ChaRm for updating NCs, ACs and transport process with all associated testing documentation.
• Extraction of HR Master Data for third party interfaces such as Talent Flow, IDSM, AODA and Fleet Ministry of Transportation Ontario interface.
• Review deliverables produced by internal SAP functional and technical team members.

Integration, Testing Reporting

• SAP HR Production Enhancement support package testing on REF, Dev, QA and PROD environments.
• Data validation tests for FPARS project in regards to Data extract from BI and PRD.
• Integration Testing, UAT testing of HR-OM configuration changes.
• Used Quality Centre automation across multiple platforms and validated automation test results. Familiar with CATT procedures and HP Quality Centre.
• SAP ESS portal UAT testing - for Non-Union employees.
• Configuration of reports and extracts for Complement Management Report system.

Hypercare Production Support

• Provide systems support for the Human Resources modules of the SAP system Organization Management, Compensation, Training Events Management, Personnel Development Qualifications including various SAP-HR reports, extracts and interfaces.
• Troubleshoot client issues related to SAP HR.
• Monitor development defects and provide input to drive process improvements as necessary
• Generate scripts for UAT test cycle related to Support stacks and Enhancement package implementation in various clients.

Confidential

SAP HCM Solution Consultant

• Gathering of Requirements and translating the same to SAP technical functional using IMG.
• Provided SAP HCM Functional Expertise, Guidance, Presentation and Instructions to Client.
• Requirement gathering for mapping new client business processes and objectives develop necessary product modifications that satisfied client expectations.
• Defined processing types and the method for assigning processing types and time wage types to time pairs, according to their processing class.
• Defined and Configured Benefit Area and Assigned currency unit, Benefit plan providers based on cost area to different categories of employee benefits using IMG.
• Configured 600 New Appraisal templates based on Quality and Quantity scales defined by client.
• Enhancement Configurations tested in Dev server, Integration Testing conducted on QA and after Business Sign off transported to PROD.
• Released functional changes after client testing ensuring all solutions are tested and signed off approved by client business unit before moving the same from DEV to QA and then to PROD environment tCodeSE09/scc01.
• Modified Configured New Educational Titles adding new courses and educational degree qualification for Employee appraisal purpose.
• Created various customer specific wage types maintained processing classes and evaluation classes.
• Configured wage types with characteristics and defined the valuation basis for wage types to incorporate into indirect valuation modules.
• Configured and maintained the features such as ABKRS for default payroll area, LGMST for default wage types, TARIF for default pay-scale data.
• Functional Configuration of Employee Self Service.
• Configured Time Management External Recording Services on IT2002 Attendance using schema TM02 used function MMSRV to export time data back to MM component.
• Configured Working Week schedule in IT0007 using table T559A, used feature WWEEK to default working week in Planned Working Type IT.
• Defined period parameters, periods, date modifiers, assigned new payroll accounting area, generated payroll periods.
• Defined Cost Groupings based on Coverage Groupings for employees based on criteria such as location, age, salary and seniority.
• Liaise with Clients for troubleshooting: investigate, analyze and resolution of SAP HCM related error issues in a time bound manner.
• Participation in Development and maintenance of training documents and Business Processes work flow documentation.

Confidential

SAP HCM Consultant

• SAP HR end-to-end lifecycle implementation for client Xerox as part of global roll-out.
• Conducted business blueprint sessions, identifying business needs, documented, coordinated with the technical teams along with configuring and customizing in SAP HR.
• Documented Business Process Master List, Question and Answer Database, Gap Analysis and End-user training manuals.
• Developed Organizational Structure by mapping of organizational units, positions, jobs, task and established relationship between these objects.
• Configured payroll area, period parameters, date modifiers, control records and setup the permissibility to employee groups and employee subgroups and to personnel area and personnel subarea through the logical values.
• Configured Holiday classes, Personnel subarea grouping, daily work schedule, period work schedules, day types, work schedule rules and work schedules, planned working time.
• Configured Time Data Recording and Administration considering substitution types, absence types, counting classes for period work schedules, time quotas, rules for rounding classes and counting rules.
• Created time quota types, absence entitlements along with rules for absence and attendance quotas.
• Configured Public Holiday Calendar, Holiday Classes, Personal Sub Area Grouping, Daily Work Schedule, Day Types, Period Work Schedule in Planned Working Times Infotype 0007.
• Contributed in configuration of Personnel Actions, Infotypes, Features and InfoGroup to automate the PA processing.
• Maintained Infotypes for Personnel Administration and other relevant Infotypes as needed.
• Performed DEV, QA and Pre Prod testing for all the new configurations developed and conversion documents prepared.
• Prepared the training material and provided training to the business users.