SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in Implementation and Support in SAP - HR R/3 Environment. Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle Implementation’s using ASAP methodology Experience in both Public Sector and Private Sector.
• Extensive experience in functional configuration of SAP HR Accelerated projects including PY, PA, OM, PD, Time and Benefits.
• Worked on Enhancing & Creating of Infotypes by creating structures.
• Experience in Payroll - Knowledge on payroll drivers, payroll files, editing personnel calculation Schemas, PCR’s and on Features.
• Good understanding on Payroll process flow in SAP HR and extensively worked on Dialog wage types & Secondary wage types.
• Worked on US specific Schemas, Payroll process and other tools
• Expertise in testing, quality analysis including resolving issues across modules.
• Experienced in year-end process configuration/activities.
• Knowledge in SAP HR modules like ESS & MSS.
• Configured Pay slip using HR form editor.
• Experience in Testing and Quality Analysis.
• Experience with Concurrent Employment.
• Experienced in coordinating with the technical team to get the technical development completed.
• Experience in the development of Business process model, end user and documentation.
• Worked on report generation SAP Query & Adhoc Query
• Logical Database: Knowledge of Logical databases for reporting.
• Knowledge of ABAP programming, to debug and test programs.
• Experience working on OSS notes.
• User Exits: Knowledge of user-exits.
• Excellent skills in communication, analytical and problem solving.
• Good Interpersonal skills, aggressive detail to project timelines and Integrated HR business processes strategies in line with business strategies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 6.0 - HR

Languages: C,C#, ABAP- HR

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Management Tools: MS Word, Excel, MS Project

Databases: MS Access, SQL, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Created customer specific Wage Types from the Model Wage types for payments/ deductions as per client’s requirement. Assigned these Wage Types to relevant Wage Type Groups.
• Configured Payroll Areas, Pay Scale Types and Levels for different employee groups and subgroups as per the requirement.
• Maintained payroll organization (Defining period and Date modifiers), Generating payroll Periods.
• Assigned the new payroll accounting area to period modifiers, created control records.
• Changed customer payroll schema and Personnel Calculation Rule for pay computations as per requirements.
• Was responsible for writing Personnel Calculation Rules (PCR) and integrating in the Schema/ subschema.
• Running the payroll calendars, changing the pay dates and see they don't overlap on the holidays.
• Worked on USA holiday calendars based on geographical locations and modifying the personnel work schedules of the employees.
• Maintain Payroll info types - IT0008, IT0009, IT0014, IT0015, IT0207, IT0208, IT0209 and IT0210.
• Assigned wage types to symbolic accounts and then symbolic accounts to G/L accounts for posting to FI/CO module.
• Defined Tax companies, Tax Reporter, and their Employer Identification Numbers (EIN) and Assigned Tax Company to Personnel Area. Define BSI tax company,
• Maintained tax related wage types, and tax related processing classes like 67, 68, 69, and 70.
• Involved in the configuration of different garnishments and had to configure different rules for the limits on garnishments & service charges.
• Solved issues relating to the off-cycle payroll.
• Implement new SAP Enhancements for Timekeeper Workbench (Crew Time card feature and Per-Diems custom screen as a set of guided functions to capture Wage type and Att/Abs type information) to address/encapsulate special client requirements
• Implement custom search help for Work schedule selection in IT0007; Configure search help for Receiver orders
• Develop an Enhancement Framework for ESS in MSS functionality.
• Created test cases for thorough testing of the attendance and absence types in Time management.
• Developed step by step testing cases and scenarios for critical testing of Time interfaces.
• Involved in preparation of System Test Cases for the complex modules like Benefits, PA, and Time Management in the Project.
• Involved in gathering the requirement and prepared PPD for approval.
• Configured the BAREA for US and Canada
• Created HR payees and assigned them to vendors
• Worked on complex groupings for the Employee criteria groupings
• Used the Features LIKE CSTV1 CRDV1 and etc. to differentiate the cost of the employee and ER contribution
• Used Complex groupings to differentiate the EE costs of health plans depending upon various conditions like Impats, Union Employees, Salary structure and also on the Employee Grade, level.
• I used complex grouping to differentiate the coverage groupings based on the Unions, Age, and Salary on Seniority basis.
• Achieved complicated Business scenarios.
• Worked on complex issues like calculate ABBR this is Annual Based Benefit Ratio Which is used for Sales Employees.
• Worked on configuring various the EOI conditions.
• Worked on the EE contribution groupings for the Savings Plans and used the ER contribution groupings for the union employees.
• Worked on the Health Savings Accounts HSA and assigned them to the High deductible Health Plans.
• Worked on Health Care Accounts and Dependent Care Accounts. Also worked on the Limited care Account for the HSA enrolled employees. Did complex groupings to set them as pre requisite and co requisite plans.
• Configured Miscellaneous plans according to the company requirement.
• Worked on COBRA relevant plans.
• Worked on FSA claims
• Configured the system for various adjustment Reasons and configured for the Open enrollment process.
• Worked and used Solution manager to accesses the shared documents like PDD’s and FS.
• Closely worked with the technical team on the WRICEF objects. Involved in Unit testing them.
• Analyzed and created many Test Scripts. Used HP quality center to load and execute the test scripts for the purpose of Unit testing and user acceptance testing.
• Worked on the plans specific to regions like California, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
• Worked on Canadian benefits. Configured the plans.
• Used the RWD uPerform to create the configuration documents and help the team to build the material.
• Trained the business users and did knowledge transfer.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 Ehp5.

Responsibilities:

• Setup pay scale structure, pay scale groups and levels and set up payroll period.
• Configured Payroll Area, Payroll control record, pay roll periods, Set Retroactive accounting for payroll area i.e. weekly and monthly.
• Defined pay scale structure, wage type structure for enterprise.
• Create Control Record through table by generating Payroll Periods, Period Modifiers and Payroll Past Retro Accounting Period for different employee subgroups and personnel sub areas
• Maintained US Payroll schemas U000 and personnel calculation rules related to Payroll run and used the payroll driver RPCALCU0 for running the payroll.
• Customized payroll schema U000 and exclusively worked on UT00, UAL0, UPPF, UPP0, UPP1, UVAL to calculate the averages and the factoring.
• Bank Details/DDP Processing:
• Configured feature ZLSCH for default payment method for country grouping 10 and 07
• Configured House Bank and House Bank Account
• Configured feature DTAKT for defining sending bank
• Configured paying company code
• Posting to Financials:
• Created Symbolic accounts for payroll posting
• Assigned wage types to be posted to symbolic accounts
• Forms:
• Created Pay stubs for US and Canadian payroll using TC PE51
• Created evaluation classes for configuring pay stub form.
• Worked on Off-Cycle workbench to deal with issues like Check Replacement and Reverse/Void Check.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases for HR Module.
• Tested Payroll run for Weekly, Bi-weekly, Semimonthly, Monthly employees.
• Benefits Area & Enrollment, Health & Insurance Plans, Saving's & Credit Plans, Spending Accounts, Eligibility & Termination, COBRA & Reports, Inbound & Outbound Interfaces, Payroll Integration, Company Insurance.
• Define benefit areas (BAREA), benefit providers and the basic settings for the plans.
• Health Plans - Defined Health plans, Options for Health Plans, Dependant Coverage Options and Cost Formulas and assigning Health Plan Attributes, and Wage Types
• Insurance plans -Defined Insurance Plan’s general Data, Coverage Formula and Cost Formulas and assigning Insurance Plan Attributes and Wage Types.
• Savings Plans - Defined new Savings Plan General Data, Employee Contribution Rules, Employer Contribution Rules, Vesting Rules and Schedules.
• Infotype 0171 General benefits Information responsible for the configuration of first program grouping and second program grouping. Responsible for the default values for IT0171 depending upon first program grouping and second program grouping with the report RPLBEN13.
• Configured Evidence of Insurability (EOI) conditions for health and Insurance plans.
• Interfaces: Worked closely on outbound and inbound interfaces for different vendors.
• Wrote Functional Specifications for changes in interface programs and also for newly created interfaces.
• Worked closely with Technical Team to make the program run as desired.
• Communicated with vendors for initial file testing and migrate the program to different environments.
• Worked on creating the TWS schedule for various Batch Schedules.
• Familiar with running Ad-hoc Queries for different scenario data collection.
• Initiated the End-to- End system testing for various Benefit Plans, Interfaces & Payroll integration.
• Maintain features - BENGR, BSTAT, ELIGR and TRMTY for enrollment, maintenance and termination.
• Involved in testing the integration of benefits (Third Party Vendor) with Payroll.

Confidential, Beaverton OR

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 Ehp4.

Responsibilities:

• Migration from legacy system to SAP ECC 6.0
• Loading data into SAP R/3
• Prepare project status Reports
• Supervise and support Train Business Users
• Responsible for understanding the solution, investigating interfaces requirements, finalizing layouts, performing mapping, developing theinterface FDDS, working with the developer to build the interface, and unit testing the interface.
• Prepare Test Cases for parallel testing and BP’s and Identifying Problem and solve issue.
• Configuration of Payroll organization, wage types
• Configuration of US gross & net payroll using BSI tax factory
• Handled payroll features
• Off-cycle payroll processing for advance payments and bonuses
• Deduction model, priorities of deductions, additional, recurring payments & deductions using deduction model
• Wage Types:
• Defined Wage Type Characteristics
• Defined Wage Type permissibility
• Maintained tax related processing classes like 68, 69, 70 and 71.
• Assigned Processing/Cumulation/Evaluation class to the wage types
• Created symbolic accounts for the wage types
• Configured the time characteristics for the wage types
• Configured Wage Type Arrear processing
• Configured Wage Type retroactive accounting processing
• Payroll Integration to Benefits Module
• Posting to Finance and Third party posting.
• Pre DME and DME activities
• Claims Processing:
• Created user defined version of schema UCLM
• Created variant for report RPCLMSU0
• Created Claims processing wage types of type Total Forgiveness, Clear Claims and Claims payments plans by copying SAP delivered wage types
• Integration test scenarios and test plan documentation.
• Worked on creating Test cases.
• Trained users in SAP payroll processes
• Participate in the Blue print to implementation phase of the Enterprise Time Collection project
• Configuration of Timesheet Profiles, Work Schedules (WBS, DWS, PWS), Authorization Groups for Timesheet profiles, new Attendance/Absence types, custom fields in CATSDB
• Reengineer existing CATS User Exits for new validations and implement new CATS User Exits
• Implement new SAP Enhancements for Timekeeper Workbench (Crew Time card feature and Per-Diems custom screen as a set of guided functions to capture Wagetype and Att/Abs type information) to address/encapsulate special client requirements
• Implement custom search help for Work schedule selection in IT0007; Configure search help for Receiver orders
• Develop an Enhancement Framework for ESS in MSS functionality
• Develop a tool for Mass upload of Time into SAP CATS with multiple input file options (PC, Unix) and error log reporting feature
• Testing of end to end ESS Portal Timesheet application and MSS Approval Transaction.
• Configured new benefit plans forHealth, Insurance, Savings, FSAandMiscellaneous plans.
• Worked on Infotype 0171 General Benefits Information Infotype. Configured the system for the respective fields like benefit area, first program grouping and second program grouping. Which are responsible to determine which benefit program employee is permitted to participate in.
• Created different groupings forcost criteria, coverage criteriabased on different groups of employees.
• Created new valuation basis for 401(k) pension plan and insurance plans.
• Created PCR s to calculate interest on pension plans and legacy plans for the retired employees.
• Created differentAdjustment reasonsas per client requirements and permissions for based on the reasons.
• Configured termination grouping and maintained featureTRMTY.
• Worked on UBE1&UBE2 for the calculation start date for the benefit plans as per the client requirements.
• Involved in testing the integration of benefits (Third Party Vendor) with Payroll.
• Created Test scripts for benefits deductions in the Payroll process like Insurance, Savings, Health Plans.
• Assisted Master data load team to identify the infotypes and fields fordata mapping.

Confidential, Allentown, PA

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 Ehp4.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted and involved in the meetings with the Third party benefit provided and documented the same after understanding the process.
• Did understand the current Business process in regards to the Benefits processes and the new functionalities to be added for the Automation.
• Came up with a solution which is a standard process and gave a solution that reduces heavy technical development and more accurate process for the Loans and tracking the history.
• Documented the same and submitted for the business approval.
• Once the Blueprint was approved worked on the Functional Speculation document for the Technical Development and explained the same to the offshore team.
• Configure the Benefit plans for the new savings plan i.e. 401k pre tax benefit pan and Roth plan.
• Copied the SAP standard wage types and modified as per the business requirement to carry the prepay period amount to be captured in the same infotype which have the same begin date and end date as this data is sent to ADP to be processed in the payroll.
• Changed the characteristic of the wage type so that it can carry both the goal amount and the per pay period amount in the same wage type in the Amount, number and unit field, so that all the data can be transmitted in the same MW segment when we run the IDoc
• Worked on the programs RPCEMDU0 CALL with the T Code - PC00 M10 OTEM, Program RSEOUT00 and Z0HR SAP HR TO ADP. Did generate the IDoc verified the data in WE02 and then run the remaining programs to send the data to ADP.
• Worked in the Interface tool box PU12 and the worked on the Interface format OTMU to check the History for the master data run.
• Worked closely with the business and configured the ADP connection, did configuration in Mappings and management. Configured the translation tables and added some condition to transfer the appropriate data from the IDoc to ADP terminology meaning wrote conditions to map the Source fields t the target fields.
• Mapped the IDoc segments like BS segment and MW segment and their fields to the appropriate ADP payforce fields and their deduction codes with ADP connections. Also worked on TNS Benefits Plans also mapped new benefit plans from the BS segment.
• Pointed the ADP connections to the test ADP payforce system and did the unit testing.
• Added the sequence of the programs to be executed for this automation and added in Batch session taking the frequency for the Inboud interface and IDoc frequency into consideration.
• Prepared the test scenarios with test scripts for the unit testing. Created test scripts for the User Acceptance testing.
• Documented the step by step process to be followed in production after the go live and was involved in user and created the documents.
• Involved in the other projects and also configure new payroll areas generated IDoc and mapped the same to the ADP payforce with ADP connection.
• Worked on ESS to reciprocate the new added plans in portal and give access to change same as other plans during the time of Life Event changes.
• Led the project step by step and completed in time on a very high challenging time lines.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Created employee subgroup grouping for PCR and Collective agreement provisions.
• Configuration of the deduction models as per the business requirements of the client and assigning them to plans for effective payroll deductions.
• Configuration of the Charity wage type as recurring deduction with frequency.
• Configured Off-Cycle Additional Payment Info type (0267) and Defined Default values for wage types
• Configuration of the variants for the Payroll driver program RPCALCU0
• Performed additional configuration changes to Garnishments, Third party remittances and taxes to streamline the payroll calculation process.
• Have set symbolic account split scenario for FI posting for withholding and unemployment taxes
• Configured the Symbolic Accounts for the wage types and the posting characteristics.
• Defined the payroll periods and pay dates for each payroll area.
• Created wage type and check wage type group for basic pay, additional payments, and recurring payments.
• Configured processing classes for the custom wage types.
• Defined and maintained processing classes, evaluation classes and their specifications for maintaining wage types through logical values.
• Performed the Tax Reporter simulation run and checking of wage types for tax form groups.
• Processed payments through Off-cycle payroll run.
• Customized Remuneration statement(Z1ST), Bank transfer(Direct deposit) via DME
• Defined Period parameters and Date Modifiers, Generated Payroll Calendars
• Supported Garnishments process
• Involved in Yearend activities (Country Legal change packages, support packs, patches)
• Involved in Yearend support pack testing, parallel payroll testing.
• Wring the Testing Scenario for UAT and End-to-End, Functional Testing.
• Involved in testing the integrating of the Personnel Administration component to Organization Management.
• Testing the test data on the PA30, PA40, PP01, and SE16 & SM30.
• Test customized Personal actions like on boarding employees, Employee movements including Transfer, demotion, promotion and reclassification within and out of organizational unit.
• Creating the Master data for HR and employees and validating all functionality in Portal.
• Defect tracking and status update through quality center.
• Create custom evaluations using Adobe Smart Forms, sending completed data back to standard SAP appraisal functionality.
• Functional Testing: Testing for functional modules like OM, PA, Payroll, Benefits and Time Management.
• Tested the Payroll Process for Benefit Integration & check for accurate calculations
• Integrating Testing: Testing the product after the new function ability is included into it.

Confidential, Rochester, NY

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Resonsibilities:

• Worked on the scenario related to the Calculation Field in the Insurance Plan Infotype. Suggested and implemented the solution by enhancing the routine “fill dynpro fields cove” to achieve the business requirement.
• Worked on scenario related to automatic rate program i.e. updating of the new costs of the plans in to the configuration table T5UBI to avoid the errors in the costs of the plans.
• Worked on the BAdI ZECM INFTYDB and method Method: IF EX HRPAD00INFTYDB UPDATE DB along with the developer to build the logic to update the “marital status” of the employee automatically.
• Worked on the FSD to develop an outbound interface to send the ER costs of the plans to the Third Parties.
• Suggested to enhance the function module HR BEN CALC EOI BEST COVERAGE and check the Adjustment Reason along with IT 0168 to Implement the logic.
• Maintained the Constants Table T511k and build the logic based on the fields created.
• Migrate the Confirmation statements from different SAP scripts and designed in a single Adobe Format.
• Designed the Benefit Confirmation statements in Adobe format, also added additional functionality like sending the statements via e-mail and capability of downloading the same by Benefits Department
• Configured the Table T588MFPROPC for the ESS and also did the Configuration in TableV T588M to make some filed mandatory as asked by business
• Worked with the portal developer to make some field’s mandatory form ESS side.
• Added and tested some verbiage in ESS to display the updated information during the time of open enrollment.
• Participated extensively in Unit testing, UAT and integrated testing.
• Used HP Quality center for testing and responsible for writing Test Scripts, executing and solving the Defects.

Confidential, KY

SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the different info-types Residence Tax, Work Tax Area, Unemployment State and Internal Data required for running payroll.
• Defined the pay roll periods and pay dates for each pay roll area.
• Created wage type and check wage type group for Basic Pay, Additional Payments and Recurring Payments.
• Defined and Maintained Date and Period modifiers to change payment dates as per requirement.
• Configured Off-Cycle Additional Payment and defined Default values for wage types.
• Customized Payroll Schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules and Functions.
• Configured and maintained the features for default Payroll area, default Wage types, for default Pay-scale Data.
• Worked with the US payroll schemas and sub-schemas U000, UTX0, UT00 and Payroll driver RPCALCU0.
• Tax Configurations:
• Defined tax companies and assigned tax companies to Personnel Area
• Defined Tax authorities and assigned tax authorities per tax types and maintained filing status
• Defined Employer Identification number and assigned it to tax authorities
• Configured tax models as per the requirements
• Configured Unemployment tax rates
• Configured BSI tax factory
• Created PCR and subschema for advance payment tax processing
• Reviewed and modified the existing test scripts based on the Functional Details specifications and the client’s business processes.
• Created detail test plan, test cases and test data.
• Develop a tool for Mass upload of Time into SAP CATS with multiple input file options (PC, Unix) and error log reporting feature
• Testing of end to end ESS Portal Timesheet application and MSS Approval Transaction
• Performed functional testing for newly implemented Timelink project.
• Tested various work schedule rules for each PS and ES groupings, attendances, absences, substitution, overtime and availability.
• Configured and maintained the master data of the company using the transactions PA30 and PA40.
• Involved in creation and enhancement of infotypes.
• Created personnel action and reasons for actions as per the enterprise requirement.
• Worked on the NUMKR feature and assignment of number range for employees
• Defined administrators for personnel areas using PINCH feature.
• Customized various integrations from PA to other sub modules within HR
• Used programs RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE20 & RHINTE30 for integration between PA & OM.
• End-User, conducting workshops.
• Created User documents.
• Knowledge transfer to the client team
• Creating documentation of business processes
• Weekly status updates

Confidential, IL

SAP HR Payroll Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 / ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Updated BSI TUB in SAP to update the tax regulations.
• Configured New Local Tax Authorities in SAP which involves:
• Identifying the appropriate SAP Tax code
• Configuration in BSI Tax Factory
• Configuration in SAP
• Done Support pack analysis as a part of year-end support activity and applied SAP notes while updating BSI TUBs for US bi-weekly payroll.
• Supported on the following:
• Arrears Processing
• Claims processing and simulating Posting to FI
• Sickness and Worker compensation adjustment processing
• US United Way deductions
• Imputed Income schedule for file creation
• Year-end support on W-2 processing such as reviewing all tax changes in the IRS website that would affect W-2 reporting.
• Used Tax Reporter (PU19) to produce quarterly and annual wage and tax reports for local, state and federal tax authorities.
• Fixed issues in Payroll inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Worked on Off-cycle work bench for Involuntary termination, Bonus Payroll and Payroll Adjustments.
• Created the test plan and test Scripts for the upgrade project from SAP 4.7c to ECC 6.0
• Created the Testing Strategy documents for the upgrade project.
• Responsible for functional testing of the upgraded modules.
• Defined the general data for health plans and options that represent the coverage choices an employee can make within a health plan.
• Worked on features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR
• Defined the dependent coverage that is used in health plans.
• Defined cost/credit formula criteria. For the coming new financial year.
• Defined coverage, termination types, rules and criteria, assigned wage types to health insurance, savings, spending accounts and credit plans.
• Screen modifications related to Benefits Infotypes.
• Created new Open Enrollment plan for the new hiring’s.
• Worked in Infotype 0171 and Infotype 0041
• Define employee/employer contribution variants to determine which factors influence the permitted employee contribution for every plan.
• Provided functional area knowledge to properly test the upgrade and make business process changes wherever required.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Jr.SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Performed configuration changes for pre-configured Benefits. This included the addition of new Health, Insurance, Savings and Flexible Spending plans.
• Customization of dependant eligibility rules and beneficiary eligibility rules for Health and Insurance plans.
• Configured Eligibility rules for the employees based on their duration of hours.
• Worked on Infotypes 0167, 0168, 0169, 170 and Infotype 0171
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for the plans.
• Defined Benefits Adjustment Reasons, Participation and Coverage Termination Criteria.
• Customized dependant coverage options and cost formulas for Health Plans.
• Customized vesting rules and schedules for 401K-employer contribution and performed maintenance of Cobra eligibility rules.
• Tested benefits deductions in the Payroll process like Insurance, Savings, Health Plans.