SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of experience in implementation, customization and support of SAP R/3 HR module in both private and public sector and SAP SuccessFactors in Employee CentralModule and Performance management and Goal Management for 4 years.
• Strengths include strong understanding of the business enterprise processes and skills to provide effective and cost - efficient SAP solutions according to the business requirements.
• Extensive problem solving, decision-making skills coupled with excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Hands-on capabilities include:SAP full life cycle implementationsas per SAPBizx/LaunchmethodologyPrepare, Realize, Verify and LaunchandASAPmethodology includingblueprinting, configuration, customization, testing, pre go-live and post go-live and Experienced with the following SAP R/3 versions:4.7, 5.0 and 6.0 EHP 4
• Experienced on up gradations of new releases. From4.7to6.0 EHP 6
• Experience in the development ofBusiness Process model, End user training,andDocumentation.
• Extensive experience in the functionalconfiguration, customization and maintenanceof SAP HR involvingPersonnel Administration (PA), Organization Management (OM), Payroll (PY), Time Management (TM), Taxation, and Benefits Administration.
• Experience in creatingTime Structures, Work Schedules, Period Work Schedules, andDaily Work SchedulesandPublic Holiday Calendarfor Enterprise Structure.
• Interacted effectively with the business and IT users to understand theas-iscurrent process based on which the newto-beprocess was modeled.
• Excellent communication and multitasking skills.
• SAP R/3 HR Functional including: Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, time Management, Payroll, Taxation, Benefits.
• Payroll: Wage Types, Processing Time Data, Payments and Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Calculation Rules, Internal Tables, Factoring, Cumulating, Storage, Deductions, Taxes, Benefits/Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Bank Transfers/Direct Deposits, Third Party Remittance and Off-Cycle Processing.
• Time Management: Work Schedules, Time Recording (Substitutions, Absences, Absence Counting, Absence Quotas, Leave Entitlement, Overtime, Availability), Time Evaluation processing using schemas TM00, TM01, TM02, TM04, and TC00, Generating Time Evaluation Reports, Updating Time Management Info types and CATS.
• Personnel Administration: Enterprise structure, organizational structure assignments (Global settings, organizational data and integration of PA/OM, job positions, organizational unit), default values, personnel data, payroll data, customizing user interfaces.
• Organizational Management: Evaluations & Reports, Personal Cost Planning (Simulations & Comparisons), Org. Structures, Reporting Structures & Relationships, Job & Work center Indexes, Simple & Detail Maintenance.
• SAP SuccessFactors: Employee Central, Performance Management and Goal Management, Compensation Management.
• Employee Central:Experience in creating/configuring Generic Objects, Foundation Objects, Custom Portlets/Views, Custom Objects, Workflow mechanism tight to Objects. ExperiencedonSuccessFactorsRole Based Permissions (RBP), Business Rules (Configuration), Associations & Data Models.Knowledge on provisioning system for creating the super admin and users and also activation of different Employee central scenarios
• Performance Management And Goal Management:Configuring goal templates, performance templates, route maps, rating scales, launch forms etc..

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Skills: C, C++, MATLAB, JAVA

Operating systems: Windows (98/2000/NT/XP), MS-DOS and Linux.

ERP: SAP R/3 version 4.0 to ECC 5.0

Microsoft Tools: Microsoft office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Colorodo Springs, CO

SAP SuccessFactors Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SFEmployeeCentralconsultant.
• End to end configuration for EC.
• Attended kick-off meetings to understand Business processes and policies.
• To help Business to complete configuration workbooks in line with SF standards and their requirements.
• Followed SAP Launch Methodology for system configurations and conducted the Iteration 1, 2 and 3
• Completed Iterations to test configured system and vetting data before migrating to production system.
• Have worked closely with HR Process Owners for the successful deployment of the Success Factors.
• Data Migration testing and conducted end user trainings.
• Understanding Business needs in line with the policy.
• Configured different portlets as per the business requirement.
• Setting-up and implementing strategy to achieve the targeted results within timelines.
• Created custom fields, adding/hiding standard fields inemployeePortlet
• Done Text Replacement, mass changes and email notifications.
• Expert at translating business goals and system requirements into Employee Central (EC) solutions through effective configuration, workshop delivery, system configuration and testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with below mentioned Implementation features in Performance & Goal Management Module: Goal Management (Setting up ofEmployeeGoals -creating new goals, maintaining, aligning, cascading and execution of goals)
• Was part of configuring email notification template settings -for Welcome message notification, Password change, Goal creation, Goal Deletion, Document Routing, and Document Return to Evaluation notification
• Involved in configuration of transfer ofemployeefiles - automatic manager transfer: transfer of documents from old manager to new manager
• Involved in configuring different additional features along with Year-end process for PMGM (For already Implemented location)
• Provide administrative and reporting training schedule and roll-over plans to the customer in timely manner
• Coordinate with other technology work teams to ensure project success
• Prepare functional and technical project plan
• Document and track customer product enhancement requests and discovered bugs
• Responsible for delivering a quality work based on business requirements and still providing support for the minor issues.

Confidential, Maryland

SAP Success Factors Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Executed the project based on SFLaunchMethodology process
• Created Foundational Objects as per the requirement
• Setting up Data Models ( Corporate & Succession Data Models)in employee central as per company requirements.
• Implemented Employee central for the scenarios like org chart, position Management
• Worked on the propagation rules.
• Configured multiple workflows for different Event reasons
• Developed custom port lets usingMeta Data Frame work Objects (MDF)
• Pick lists were exported & updated according to requirement
• Hands-on experienceRBPs in defining User permissions & Admin. Permissions
• Worked on Data models - Corporate, Succession, Country-specific and Propagation data models
• Configuration of foundation objects like Location, Geo Zone and Frequency etc.
• Configured of MDF Foundation objects like Legal Entity, Division and Department etc.
• Configuration of other objects including personal, employment and generic objects.
• Used Import and Export option for picklists, generic objects upload and download.
• Configured various Event reasons, Derivation Rules and setting up event-reason derivation rules.
• Configured Workflow Derivation Rules and Setting up approvals for workflows.
• Created Dynamic Roles and Dynamic Groups for the Workflow Configuration.
• Configured Succession Data Model for all Portlets, Fields enable and Label changes.
• Configuration of People Profile with the help of background and permissions elements.
• Setting in User permissions using Manage Permission Groups and Manage Permission Roles.
• Standard event transactions with workflow support - Hire, Rehire, Terminate, Absence, Terminate, Transfer, Promotion, Demotion, Probation, Job Change, Data Change, Job Reclassification, Pay Rate Change, Position Change, Return to Work.
• Implemented TIME OFF using generic objects like Holidays, Holiday calendar, Work schedule, Time types, Time account types, Time accounts and Rules;
• Created Ad hoc MSS Reports, HRSS Reports, and Local regulatory reports in Employee Central
• End to end testing of configuration with the help of test users.
• Knowledge in moving test/development instance data to production.
• Completed full lifecycle of the Employee Central implementation: Sales, Prepare, Realize, Verify and launch.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SAP Success Factors Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Act as SME and advise clients on best practices for configuration to meet their business needs
• Document and analyze requirements ensuring fit with functionality, providing solutions to meet the business need
• Develop working prototypes, test, deliver and support configuration of the product.
• Import and export of data.
• Maintaining system data, starting process and initiating activities as key performance milestones.
• Educate and facilitate knowledge transfer of processes, configuration and overall functionality.
• Worked on Performance Management from configuration to launching.
• Educate and facilitate knowledge transfer of processes, configuration and overall functionality
• Collaborate with other internal consultants to ensure cross business learning.
• Translate business requirements into system configuration objects and create solution design for Success Factor Employee Management solution on compliance with Best practices.
• Design business requirements and perform fit gap analysis between client requirements and standard SuccessFactor Employee Central Solution.

Confidential, IL

SAP HR Analyst/Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Created change requests/tickets to resolve the problems faced by the end users.
• Worked on time, payroll and benefits administration issues.
• Worked on AD Hoc queries.
• Generated reports using Business objects, Access.

Confidential, LA

SAP Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Defined Enterprise structure, Organizational structure and personnel structure.
• Set up and maintained organizational structure including organizational units, jobs and positions.
• Involved in integration with personnel administration.
• Maintained the number ranges for organizational units.
• Configured and maintained the master data.
• Maintained master data for hiring a person, pay change, transfer, retirement, termination and leaving.
• Customized personal data, family data and addresses to facilitate entry of employee information.
• Configured user parameters and the number range intervals for personnel numbers.
• Worked on the internal and external number range allocation for employees.
• Defined Pay Scale Structure according to Enterprise specifications.
• Defined Pay Roll periods and Pay dates for each Payroll Accounting Area and created Control Record for each Payroll Accounting Area.
• Customized the wage types based on blue print using tables and checked the wage type characteristics.
• Customized Absence Valuation and Time Wage Type Selection
• Configured and maintained the features such as ABKRS, LGMST and TARIF
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area for the primary wage types.
• Customized Schemas and Personnel Calculation Rules related to Payroll run
• Worked on Off-cycle Workbench
• Maintained tax related processing classes and assigned to taxable wage type to calculate tax
• Involved in the process of data gathering about the various benefit programs available to employees.
• Configured health plans, insurance plans, saving plans (401K plan).
• Maintained features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and TRMTY.
• Defined Evidence of Insurability conditions for health and savings plans.
• Defined different cost rule and cost groupings according to employee attributes for health plans and insurance plans.
• Defined and configured the vesting rules.
• Configured Work Schedule Rules according to Client requirements.
• Defined Attendance Types and Absences Types according to client requirements.
• Configured the Absence Quota generation through both RPTQTA00 and time evaluation schema.
• Configured absence valuation Time Wage Type Valuation
• Responsible for running Time evaluations using Time evaluation schemas.
• Evaluated time using Time evaluation report RPTIME00.
• Customized Personnel Calculation Rules for calculations during Time Evaluation.

Confidential, CA

SAP HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business and system needs, requirements and processes.
• Drafts detailed internal scope documents, business requirements and systems specifications.
• Participated in blue printing phase.
• Involved in identifying the necessary Gap’s from HR implementation.
• Personal Administration/Organizational Management
• Defined personal data and payroll data for administrative and payroll purposes.
• Created Personnel areas, sub areas, Employee groups and sub groups.
• Assigned Personnel sub areas to personnel areas and employee sub groups to employee groups.
• Used Organizational Management component for comprehensive human resources planning to create organization structure.
• Defined pay scale groups, pay scale levels, types, areas, and setting up of payroll period.
• Determined appraisal feature-grouping personal areas and employee subgroups for personal areas, assigning appraisals criteria to employee’s subgroups and defining valuation constants for groups.
• Defined and maintained objects and relationships that compromise an organizational plan.
• Maintained the criteria for employee search using the status indicator STAT2.
• Create new wage types for deductions, additional payments and delimiting the obsolete wage types.
• Created wage type catalog and created wage type groups for basic pay, recurring payments and deductions.
• Maintained tax related schemas and rules, defined tax authorities and tax types, maintained tax areas and defined tax models.
• Worked in payroll averages, retroactive accounting, wage type valuation, absence valuation factoring and accruals.
• Created counting classes for absence valuation.
• Defined the steps for pay scale reclassification.
• Defined and maintained processing classes and evaluation classes.
• Defined work schedules (daily/monthly/period).
• Defined Attendance, Absences, Substitutions, Overtimes, Break Schedules and Public Holiday calendars as per client requirements.
• Defined absence quota types and set up automatic accrual of absence quota in time evaluation.
• Set up absence valuation rule.
• Worked on time evaluation driver RPTIME00 and customized Time Evaluation Schema like TM00, TM01, TM02, TM04 and TC00.

Confidential, MS

SAP HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Mapped all business processes of the client to R/3 processes using CI template.
• Produced Business Blueprint document and BPML.
• Worked on BPP’s, BPML, and Control Objectives.
• Developed Enterprise Structure and personnel structure for salaried and hourly employees.
• Date types for date monitoring, date specifications, info types for hire date, service dates and termination dates.
• Organizational structure for branches and department’s, jobs/positions and tasks.
• Account assignment for cost centers at branch and department levels.
• Dynamic action for termination.
• Personnel actions reasons for various actions.
• Defined payroll controlling using the process schema and functions.
• Defined the work center and basic pay data set-up at the start of payroll.
• Worked with Processing Classes 01, 03, 06, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 31 used in running the payroll.
• Calculate average, values for wage types used in previous payroll periods, valuating wage types in the current period using these average values.
• Creating and checking wage type catalog, defining employee sub group groupings and employee sub area groupings for primary wage type and defining wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay, recurring payments, deductions and leave compensations.
• Defined remittance rule, setup HR creditors, maintain wage types for processing/remittances assigned symbolic accounts to GL accounts involved in year-end activities.
• Posting payroll results to FI/CO.
• Created tax companies.
• Unemployment insurance and priority of tax wage types.
• Worked with tax related processing classes like 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 84.
• Used Tax Reporter to create regulatory reports to federal and local agencies.
• Worked on the reporting process from Table RT to PCL4.
• Defined forms cluster PCL4 for retro calculation purposes.

Confidential, OH

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Up-gradation from version 4.0 to 4.7.
• Performed blueprint activities for Personnel Administration and Organizational Management in order to determine SAP to-be process requirements.
• Performed gap-analysis between client requirements and SAP R/3 and make determinations on efficient alternatives.
• Performed baseline and final configuration for Organizational Management. This included the configuration of customer specific object codes and actions to create organizational objects.
• Performed baseline configuration for the Personnel Administration module. This included the configuration of Personnel Actions, Dynamic Actions and the Enterprise and Personnel Structures.
• Defined root qualification group to setup ESS.

Confidential

SAP HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and tested the PA module.
• Involved in Pre Production support, solved issues with Time management and Benefits.
• Involved in Pre Go-Live and Post Go-live support.
• Configured the Time Attendance / Absence types and other Time data Recording and Administration activities.
• Maintained number ranges, object types and info types in basic settings.
• Defined and mapped the time pairs with the ATT & ABB types.
• Defined the rules for the Absence & Attendance counting.
• Mapped with the Employee subgroups for time quotas.
• Worked in Production support.
• Optimized legacy results and SAP results.
• Involved in unit testing, integration testing and regression testing.