SUMMARY:

• SAP HCM Consultant with 8 years of extensive experience in implementing and designing solutions within the SAP HR/HCM module.
• Actively involved in 2 Full - life cycle implementations AS-IS to the TO-BE phases of Full Life Cycle in the Business Process Work Flow that includes Blueprint Designing, Final Preparation, Pre-Go Live, Go Live and Support phases in SAP.
• Extensive experience in SAP HCM module with emphasis on US payroll(PY), Time Management (TM), Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), Benefits (BN) using SAP R/3 versions 4.7, and ECC 5.0/6.0.
• Experience working on SAP Benefits component implementation projects by analyzing the Master Benefits Agreements, preparing the business blueprint documents, mappingthe client's organizational structure to SAP Benefits module, designingthe interface requirementsto insurance carriers, configuring the Benefits plans anddevelopment of the Functional and Technical Specifications for BenefitsRICEF objects.
• Extensive experience in integration of SAP Benefits to Payroll, Time Managementand third party systems. Experience configuring payroll for Benefits deductions, posting Benefits to Payroll and Third party remittance.
• Possesses a thorough understanding of all aspects of the Human Resources business process, comprising the life cycle of an employee including recruiting, hiring, employee maintenance, payroll and benefits.
• Good analytical skills in terms of understanding business requirements and preparing solution documents to meet the requirements.
• Knowledge of Ad Hoc query and SAP Query reporting tools to extract and analyze system data. Worked with Data migration tools LSMW, Idocs and ALE Data Transfer.
• Experience in working on Test Plans, Implementing projects in Testing Environment and Performing Unit Tests, Integration Tests, UAT and Regression tests for different modules.
• Experience in working with Onshore/Offshore model.
• Knowledge of Ad Hoc query and SAP Query reporting tools to extract and analyze system data. Worked with Data migration tools LSMW, Idocs and ALE Data Transfer.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills within the team and actively participated in projects within work groups and across organizations.
• Personnel Administration: Setup Number Ranges, assignments for all plan versions, maintained user-defined settings for info types, Defined country-specific info types and Time Constraints depending on object type, Personnel Actions, Maintain Master Data, Dynamic Actions, Personnel Number assignments, Configuration and Customization of Infotype Menu, Maintained Personnel Actions and Authorizations. Organizational Assignments, Integration of PA/OM.
• Organizational Management: Setup Number Ranges, assignments for all plan versions, Organizational Plan (Organizational Structures, Reporting Structures, Job and Work Center Indexes and Task Catalog), Simple Maintenance, Detail Maintenance, Evaluations and Reports, Integration of PA/PD.
• Benefits Administration: Enrollment, Termination, Participation, Insurability, Benefit Area, Providers, Parameter Groups, Health Plan, Insurance Plans, and Flexible spending Accounts, COBRA Events, Reports, Inbound & Outbound Interfaces and Payroll Integration.
• Time Management: Work Schedules (DWS & PWS), Break schedules, Holiday calendars, Planned working time and Overtimes, Time structures, integration of TM with master data and other components, generation of Quotas, Over-time rules, Time Evaluation, Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS).
• Payroll: Payroll Areas, Control Records, Wage types, Payments, Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Internal Tables, Factoring, Cumulations, Integration of Benefits and Payroll, Garnishments, Concurrent Employment, Off-Cycle Processing, Payroll Organization, Payroll Reports, Payroll Posting to Accounting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 Versions 4.7, ECC 5.0and ECC 6.0

Programming languages: C, Unix Scripts

RDBMS: MS SQL Server 7.0/2000/2003

Management and Project Tools: MS Word, Excel, Project, Visio and Access, SAP Solution Manager, Mercury Interactive Tools/Quality Center, Charm

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003

Web Technologies: HTML, Web Page Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP ECC 6.0 Global Implementation
• Involved in discussions with the key users on the existing business processes.
• Preparation of blue print document, Development of functional specifications.
• Created Health Plans, Insurance plans, Saving plans and related plan attributes.
• Configured the Benefit Administration including definition of Cost Groups, Credit Groups, and Coverage Groups.
• Maintenance and Modification of Features like BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT, CSTV1, COVGR and ELIGR.
• Integrated Benefits with the Payroll module.
• Maintained user exits as per the customer requirement.
• Customized the Benefit Plans - Health / Insurance / Savings / Miscellaneous plans to suit the company business process.
• Status change functionality (work/ life events) that supported current and new Benefit plan year.
• Conducted Unit testing and Integration testing. Managed all HR functional requirements of the modules and its integration activities, providing technical advice and support to the team members.
• Worked on inbound and outbound interfaces with Health/Life/Savings Plans vendors and third party systems.
• Responsible for Functional specifications for all Benefit interfaces.
• Configured Employee Self Service for, Benefit enrollment, Pay details etc.
• Configured FSA Accounts and definitions required for the administration of the county.
• Domestic partner functionality.
• Configured Short Term Disability (STD) and Long Term Disability (LTD).
• Created functional specifications for the interfaces for the health insurance, life insurance and tested the interface with insurance companies.
• Configured the ESS settings for Benefits Module.
• Has involved in preparing Business Process documents for HR processes.
• Supported post Go-Live for key HR issues and enhancements.
• Involved in carrying out unit testing, parallel testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing for entire life cycle of Payroll, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Benefits, Time Management.
• Prepared test plans and test cases based on client’s requirements in Mercury Quality center.
• Configured the system for 26 countries for PY/BN prospects on the basis of their requirement, worked on various Inbound and Outbound interfaces.
• Assigned and configured basic settings, plan attributes and employee groupings.
• Customized new Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Savings Plans, Stock purchase plans, Miscellaneous plans and Flexible Spending accounts.
• Configured Eligibility rules for the employees based on their duration of hours.
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for the plans.
• Defined Benefits Adjustment Reasons, Participation and Coverage Termination criteria.
• Configured Evidence of Insurability (EOI) conditions for health and insurance plans.
• Defined Savings Plans, Employee Contribution Variants and Rules Schedules.
• Defined and configured vesting rules based on schedules for 401K employer contribution.
• Setup and configured plans relevant for COBRA administration and also administered the Flexible benefit schemes.
• Configured the Payroll-Benefit Integration by creating wage type catalog and linking the wage types to the benefit plans.
• Initiated the end to end system testing for various Benefit plans and Benefits-Payroll integration.
• Trained users to perform Benefit configuration consistency check, Run Reports and customize them to their needs.
• Participated in Blue print documentation for various modules and implemented project using ASAP methodology.
• Testing and validating the interfaces file coming from SAP server either coming from vendor side to validate.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined and maintained the set up for payroll organization.
• Involved in translating business requirements into SAP HR/HCM solution that enhanced the system capabilities by incorporating the new requirements.
• Configured and maintained numerous features: ABKRS for default payroll area, LGMST for default wage types, TARIF for default pay-scale data and others.
• Created various Customer specific Wage Types from the Model Wage types for paying out basic pay and effecting deductions and additional payments to the employees.
• Designed Payment Models for bi-weekly and semi-monthly employees to define the pay periods during which the Payments/Deductions are made.
• Configured and generated Payroll Periods, Payroll calendars, Payroll modifiers, and configured Wage Types.
• Maintained processing classes by editing the specifications of valuation wage types /003 and /004.
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area groups for the primary wage type and defined wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay.
• Defined Tax Company and assigned it to each personnel area and personnel subarea of the enterprise.
• Assisted the business with year-end adjustment through adjustment workbench, earning, deduction and tax wage types were entered.
• Tested the Payroll part of the configuration thoroughly in unit testing, integration testing and system testing.
• Worked on functional design specifications.
• Worked with the US payroll schemas and sub-schemas U000, UTX0, UT00 and payroll driver RPCALCU0.
• Prepared the documentation for changes that were performed and created user manuals to assist the users.
• Worked extensively on Payroll outsourcing to ADP using the PU12 Interface Toolbox.
• Created payment models for recurring payments and deductions, maintained feature MODDE for defaulting payment and deduction schedule, defined deduction frequencies, set limits on deduction, included priorities and arrears processing for calculating deductions.
• Created symbolic accounts and linked them to GL accounts based on employee groups.
• Customized Remuneration statement as per existing pay stub.
• Worked on Payroll Schemas (PE01) and Functions (PE04) and sub-schemas U000, UIN0 and UT00. Also Payroll driver RPCALCU0.
• Worked on Payroll Infotypes such as 0008, 0009, 0011, 0207, 0210, 0234, 0235, 0267 and 0032.
• Defined Payroll periods and pay dates for different payroll area.
• Configured and maintained wage type Processing class, Cumulation class and Evaluation class.
• Maintained wage types according to the specific client requirement using OH11.
• Configured pay periods for different payroll areas as per business requirement.
• Created wage types for Basic Pay, Additional Payments and Recurring payments/deductions and maintained the tables T512W d, T512W O, T511.
• Reviewed and updated the configuration of disposable earning for garnishments.
• Created functional design documents for custom reports as per the client requirements.
• Edited the form used for printing remuneration statements to meet the clients requirements including wage types, amounts, bank details etc.
• Created Process Models to define the sequence in which processing steps are to be performed in a payroll run.
• Configured Off-cycle payroll for payroll adjustments.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed interfaces for data conversion programs to build out Aon-Hewitt’s (Outsourced vendor for Health & Welfare, Leave of Absence functions and processes) TBA system.
• Designed outbound interfaces for employee indicative data, employee actual hours worked data, employee commissions’ data, employee supervisor data to sync changes with Aon-Hewitt’s TBA system (Total Benefit Administration system is the system of record for Confidential US employee’s health & welfare enrollment).
• Designed inbound interfaces for Confidential to get the details from Aon-Hewitt about employee short term disability and military payments, employee benefit deductions and employee leave status and reason for leave.
• Made required changes to existing interfaces to support the project.
• Made SAP configuration changes to support the project.
• Responsible for entire delivery of HR Support and Projects onsite and offshore.
• Responsible for Functional Design Documents for new Change Requests.
• Created wage types for Additional Payments and Recurring Payments/Deductions and configured the wage type characteristics.
• Involved in various workshops with business users to identify and resolve process and functional gaps.
• Maintained the mapping of wage types and benefit deduction codes in custom table to support ADP payroll process.
• Maintained the mapping of state codes, pay codes and wage types in custom table for STD and Military payments to support ADP payroll process.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

SAP HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in study of business processes, requirement gathering, and prepared business blueprint as per client requirements.
• Reviewed current business requirements to configure and process garnishment orders as per state guidelines, court orders and company policies.
• Worked on TAX Levies in order to configure and update disposable amounts as per Form 668-W(c).
• Configured various disposable Net for Non Exempt amount as per each state guide lines.
• Configured Student Loans & Child Support garnishments which were not to exceed specified percentage (%) of disposable net.
• Facilitated workshops and meeting with individuals who oversee year-end activities to understand milestones and deadlines.
• Good exposure on SAP Payroll - BSI Tax Tables, Interfaces, BSI Tax Update (TUBS) testing (including test script creation & execution).
• Reviewed and created new tax models to support employees as per state and federal guidelines.
• Configured TAX Reporter to generate W-2’s, Form 941, and Form 940 reports for year end.
• Designed prepayment deduction models for employees for Long Leave of Absence (LOA).
• Configured FI Posting attributes (symbolic accounts and HR payee) required to post on to Accounting (FI) and worked with FI team during posting and reversing the documents.
• Closely worked with business users and QA team members during functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Resolved production support issues: related to Garnishments, Overpayments, Claims, issues with tax rate updates, configuration errors resulting in wrong taxable incomes and so on.
• Defined Employee Groups and Employee Subgroups and assigned Employee Subgroups to the Employee Group and the country code (MOLGA 10).
• Configured feature ABKRS to default payroll area in IT0001.
• Created new wage types and evaluated the wage types indirectly using the indirect evaluation modules TARIF and SUMME.
• Defined new actions for Hire, Position change and Promotion.
• Set up dynamic actions to create US tax related info types IT0207, IT0208, IT0209, and IT0210 when address info type record is saved.
• Worked extensively with transactions PA20, PA30 and PA70.
• Defined unit testing and integration test scenarios for testing the configuration and custom development ABAP objects.
• Configured feature PLOGI to integrate Organizational Management with Personnel Administration.
• Prepared test data for testing Organizational Management configuration and other SAP HCM applications by creating Organizational units, positions, jobs and tasks.
• Defined conversion strategy for loading info types 1000, 1001, 1002, 1007, 1008 and 1013.
• Defined evaluation paths that link different objects and different relationships in the SAP Organizational Management system.
• Configured structural authorization to restrict maintenance of employee information at organizational unit level.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full cycle of Implementation from blue printing to Post Go-live support.
• Lead the implementation efforts by holding meetings with all stake holders to analyze the scope, gather the requirements, prepare the blueprint documents and design the functional specifications.
• Served as the key resource to handle the complex integration issues between SAP Benefits, Payroll and Third Party Benefit providers. Designed and tested the interfaces using BENEFIT idocs.
• Configured complete Benefits Administration functions and designed enhancements in Benefits component.
• Defined First Program Groupings and configured feature BEGNR to default First Program Grouping in IT0171.
• Defined salary groups and assigned them to parameter groups.
• Defined Insurance plans and assigned the insurance plan attributes.
• Defined coverage groupings to define the coverage rules based on the coverage groupings.
• Defined coverage variants for the insurance plans to be dependent on Salary groupings, age groupings, seniority groupings and coverage groupings.
• Defined several new adjustment reasons like new hire, birth of child, marriage etc.
• Defined cost rules for each of the cost variants configured for the Medical plans. Assigned
• Assigned Medical plan attributes to link the plan options with dependent coverage options and cost variants.
• Involved in Benefits Changes and Open Enrollment.
• Made changes to dependent coverage options, cost variants, cost rules and plan attributes.
• Created new plans and terminated existing plans.
• Created Benefit Area, Benefit Plan types, Criteria (Age Salary and Seniority) Grouping
• Configured Health (Infotype 0167), Insurance (Infotype 0168), and Savings Plans (Infotype 0169 and General Benefits Information Infotype 0171)
• Configured Health Plans General Data, Dependent coverage options, maximum and minimum number of dependents, cost variants, cost rules and health plan attributes.
• Configured Insurance Plan General Data, Coverage variants, cost variants, plan costs and insurance plan attributes.
• Configured Savings plan general data, employee contribution/ employer contribution and saving plans attributes.
• Integrated Benefits with Payroll. Configured Wage types for Employee contribution/ Employer contribution, imputed income and provider costs.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined Personnel Areas and Personnel Subareas. Assigned Personnel subareas to Personnel Areas.
• Configured several new subtypes for IT0021.
• Configured feature SCHKZ to default work schedule rule in IT0007. Configured feature TMSTA to default time management status.
• Defined info groups and assigned it to the action types.
• Configured pay scale types, pay scale areas, pay scale groups and pay scale levels.
• Conducted blueprint workshops for the users to gather the requirements in Personnel Administration and Organizational Management modules.
• Activated the Account inheritance in Organizational Management in table T77S0 (Group PPOM, Abbreviation INHS).
• Worked extensively with transactions PP01, PO10 and PO13.
• Defined new object types 9A and 9B to identify division and branch information.
• Defined time constraint information for the info types based on the relationship between the object types.
• Defined First Program Groupings and configured feature BEGNR to default First Program Grouping in IT0171.
• Defined new evaluation paths and configured Hierarchy framework to display the custom object information in PPOME.
• Designed and tested the interfaces between Organizational Management to third party vendor providing services in FI/CO.
• Designed conversion programs and conversion rules to upload OM info type information to SAP.
• Defined Insurance plans and assigned the insurance plan attributes.
• Defined coverage groupings to define the coverage rules based on the coverage groupings.
• Defined coverage variants for the insurance plans to be dependent on Salary groupings, age groupings, seniority groupings and coverage groupings.
• Defined several new adjustment reasons like new hire, birth of child, marriage etc.
• Defined cost rules for each of the cost variants configured for the Medical plans. Assigned Employee, Employer and Provider costs for each of the cost rules based on age, salary, seniority and cost groupings.
• Assigned Medical plan attributes to link the plan options with dependent coverage options and cost variants.
• Defined holiday calendar and included the public holidays in the holiday calendar.
• Defined daily work schedules for different groups of employees. Assigned variant selection rules to the daily work schedules.
• Generated the work schedules for the work schedule rules using transaction PT01.
• Prepared Functional specifications for converting programs to convert time management infotypes IT0007 and IT0050.
• Generated payroll calendars for different period parameters and date modifiers.
• Worked with off cycle workbench for Additional payments and Adjustment payments.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured new subtype ‘Benefits Address’ for IT0006. Configured info type screen for this subtype.
• Configured action menu and info type menus.
• Defined Employee Subgroup grouping and Personnel subarea grouping for primary wage types.
• Defined new date type ‘Seniority date’ and ‘Service calculation date’ that are used in IT0041.
• Designed conversion requirements for loading IT0000, IT0001, IT0002, IT0006, IT0007, into SAP system from legacy system.
• Worked extensively with transactions PPOME, PPOCE and PPOSE.
• Defined new relationships between the standard object types and the custom object types.
• Defined coverage rules for each of the Salary groupings, age groupings, seniority groupings and coverage groupings.
• Defined coverage rules with base dollar amount and additional units.
• Defined stock purchase plans and assigned the attributes.
• Defined Benefit programs for different combinations of Benefit Ares, First Program Groupings and Second Program Groupings.
• Configured default and automatic Stock purchase plans for each Benefit area, First program grouping and Second program grouping.
• Defined Employee Contribution variants to be dependent on salary, age and seniority groupings via parameter groupings.
• Configured feature WWEEK to default working week in IT0007.
• Configured periodic work schedules for weekly and monthly rotating shifts.
• Configured deduction rules to deduct absence quotas for absences.
• Performed unit testing and integration of end to end time management processes.
• Worked with transaction PC PAYRESULT to display and evaluate payroll results.
• Tested the payroll processes using the payroll driver RPCALCU0.

Confidential, Austin, TX

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured IT0002 by defining new options for titles and name affixes.
• Defined reason codes for the personnel actions.
• Defined and configured rules to determine the Organizational key in IT0001.
• Configured indirect evaluation based on the master data (Indirect evaluation module ICOMP).
• Defined conversion strategy for converting Organizational and Personnel Administration date from legacy system in to SAP system.
• Configured structural authorization profile and assigned the object information and evaluation paths to the authorization profiles.
• Configured integration of custom object types and info types in hierarchy framework.
• Defined seniority groups and assigned them to parameter groups.
• Defined Employee contribution groupings for savings plans. Configured feature EECGR to determine the Employee Contribution grouping.
• Defined new Vision plans and assigned the Vision plan attributes.
• Defined options for Vision plans to differentiate No Deduction and Deduction options.
• Defined Employer Contribution variants to be dependent on salary, age and seniority groupings via parameter groupings.
• Defined Employer Contribution rules for each of the salary, age, seniority and Employee contribution groupings.
• Configured Adjustment permissions for Insurance plans.
• Configured deduction priority for absence quotas when multiple quotas are deducted in the deduction rules.
• Defined time IDs for entry of Absences and attendances via time managers workplace.
• Assigned time IDs to each combination of Definition set and subset.
• Designed and tested various enhancements in the time management module.
• Performed integration between time management and payroll.
• Assigned indirect evaluation modules to the wage types.

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defaulted pay scale type and pay scale area on IT0008 using feature TARIF.
• Performed unit testing and integration test of SAP HCM system.
• Defined EE Subgroup grouping for PCR and collective Agreement Provisions.
• Activated integration between Organizational Management and Personnel Administration in table T77S0 (Group PLOGI, Abbreviation ORGA).
• Configured number range objects RP PLAN for internal number generation for Organizational units, Positions and Jobs.
• Configured Employer contribution variants and employer contribution rules for Flexible Spending Account plans.
• Configured Employee contribution variants and employee contribution rules for Flexible Spending Account plans.
• Generated adjustment reasons in mass using the transaction HRBEN00ADJRSN.
• Defined the entry screen number and time constraint class information for the newly defined absences and attendances.
• Created customized personal data, family data and addresses to facilitate entry of employee information.
• Involved in setting up an Organizational plan which defines the relationship between organizational units.
• Involved in developing the matrix organization. Integration between PA and OM using PLOGI tables.
• Configured the IMG settings (Work schedules, Absences, Attendances and Quotas) required for Time management.
• Configured counting classes and set the counting class rules and assigning it to absence types.
• Creation of public holidays and factory calendar, work schedules, period work schedules along with the work schedule rules.