PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 8 years of proven experience as an SAP HCM (OM/PA) Consultant
• Acted as SAP HCM Business Analyst and Functional Consultant on projects with multi-country rollouts.
• SAP HCM PA/OM Implementation (One Global rollout and One US based implementation)
• Experience with Benefits, Payroll, and Time Management HCM implementations
• Expert client-facing skills with proven experience in blueprinting and conducting workshops.
• Skilled in Requirements Elicitation, Business Unit Analysis, Documentation, and Requirements Management.
• Developing test plans, test strategies, test cases, test data, creating and enhancing Test Scripts in QTP.
• Strong experience in conducting fit -gap analysis, authoring the Functional specifications and designing/ configuring SAP OM/PA as per the specific needs of each business process.

Area of Expertise (Business Analysis, Process Knowledge, Configuration, and Technical)

• SAP PA/OM
• SAP Time Management and Compensation Management
• SAP ESS/MSS and Payroll

Detailed Experience Summary

• Facilitate requirement gathering and conducts blueprint workshops with process experts, business users, technical team, and other stake holders
• Managed project artifacts including blueprint documents and process maps.
• Authored Training manuals and facilitated training sessions for training end users on various modules implemented.
• Deep Human Resources/Organizational Management Business knowledge
• Authored Test Plan documents and created automated test scripts using HP Quality Center for testing purposes.
• Configured the Enterprise Compensation Management module for Compensation planning and approval.

Certifications & Professional Affiliations

• Certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR)
• Society of Human Resources, Member

Professional Experience

Confidential
May 2012 - Current
SAP HR Functional Consultant
KPMG is one of the big four professional services firms’ currently implementing SAP HR.
MODULES: PA and OM

• Worked on designing and developing a global template for KPMG member firms across the globe including countries like Australia, China, Hong Kong, US, UK, France and Canada
• Responsible for coordinating with various stakeholders across different countries to organize requirement gathering workshops
• Gathering requirements by preparing questionnaires and organizing interviews. Consolidating requirements and securing sign-off on the requirements gathered
• Collaborating with Solution Architects and the Global BPL to design a global OM framework based on which other functionalities like workflows and compensation processes would be designed and implemented.
• Proposed custom SAP solutions based on unique business scenarios of the client.
• Collaborating with other module solution architects like MRS and Finance to propose a solution that is aligned with the client’s business processes.
• Configuring and setting up the SAP HR OM and PA modules to present the proposed global framework
• Building system demonstration to elucidate system functionality to the stakeholders involved.
• In charge of communicating with business and other stakeholders and securing all the required business process documentation to enable the design of the global framework.
• Preparing presentations and presenting Global OM framework design to key stakeholders and other global member firms.
• Preparing weekly status report and coordinating with solution architects to ensure that the project is completed on time and according to the project plan.
• Responsible for preparing deliverable documents and meeting all the project deadlines.

Confidential
November 2010 - April 2012
SAP HR Functional Consultant
DTE Energy is a Michigan based Utility Company and is currently in the process of automating paper based HR Forms apart from regular maintenance of SAP HR Production client.
MODULES: PA, OM, Payroll, Time Management, and Compensation Management

• Understanding Client requirements and needs for a personnel paper form and converting the requirements into SAP configurations.
• Responsible for field mapping and preparing functional specification documentation in the automation of paper forms relating to HR process like Change in position, Employee Separation etc.
• Developing test plans and testing scenarios for testing the Adobe Forms created.
• Prepared documentation to create custom Reports for extracting Overtime data based on manager authorizations.
• Assisted in conducting Year End activities like mock Time Entry load in QA system and testing support pack
• Extracting EEO reports and preparing the reports to upload to DOL website
• Customizing and Setting up guidelines for Compensations Planning.
• Responsible for testing transaction codes and conducting integration testing, unit testing and load testing.
• Authored functional specifications for requested changes relating to Time Management and CATS module and testing the new interface

Confidential
August 2008 - Current
Sr. SAP Business Analyst (part time project)
Marvel Technologies is a SAP Solutions Partner and a technology solutions provider. At present Marvel Technologies is developing add-on solutions based on SAP HR module. CompEz is SAP Certified and FormsEz is in the development and testing phases.
MODULES: PA, OM, Payroll and Compensation Management

• Involved in in-house product development of CompEz and FormsEz
• Responsible for conceptualizing and designing the SAP add-on solution that enhances the budgeting and compensation administration process.
• Responsible for meeting product delivery deadline for SAP Certification purposes
• Responsible for leading product demos Onsite and over WebEx to various end clients.
• In charge of preparing Functional Specification to assist the technical team in product development.
• Authored the Product Design Document, AS IS and TO BE Analysis documents
• Collaborated with the technical team during the product development and testing phase
• Involved in creating custom infotypes to be used in CompEz
• Established scenarios for Unit Testing
• Involved in Unit Testing, Load Testing and User Acceptance Testing of the finished product
• Leading Online and WebEx product demonstrations
• In charge of creating Training and User Manuals

Confidential
March 2008 - July 2010
SAP HR Business Analyst Consultant
All State Insurance is an insurance provider with customer base in US and Canada. Participated in Full-cycle Global Implementation project for the United States and Canada.
MODULES: PA, OM, Payroll, Benefits and Compensation Management
PA/OM

• Responsible for analyzing client’s AS-IS process and layout the roadmap for PA/OM modules of SAP HR in US and Canada
• Lead requirement gathering workshops and understand client business process.
• Responsible for authoring Global Blueprint Template for PA/OM implementation for US and Canada.
• Conducted GAP and TO-BE analyses in order to suggest best practices as it relates to the PA and OM modules
• Responsible for gathering requirements from business process owners and transforming the same into functional requirements documents and HR Configurations.
• Authored Conversion Documents and Interface documents for transferring Legacy data into SAP.
• Involved in the Dry Run 1, Dry Run 2 and in preparing the Production Client by validating cutover activities.
• Responsible in preparing data for upload into IT0000, IT0001, IT0002, IT0006, IT0759.
• In charge of creating test plans and test scenarios for unit testing, user acceptance testing

Benefits and Payroll

• Involved in configuration of wage types for basic pay, additional payments, recurring payments, and deduction.
• Configured Indirect Valuation Modules for different wage types.
• Configured Benefit Areas and setup benefits providers
• Setup different health plans, insurance plans and savings plan as per the company requirements
• Setting up of eligibility criteria for benefit plans as per employee groupings
• Enrolment and Termination of employees from plans as appropriate.
• Configured features BAREA, BSTAT and BENGR
• Responsible for the Integration of Benefits with Payroll.
• Involved in configuration of wage types for Basic pay, Additional Payments and recurring payments and deduction.
• Configured Indirect Valuation Modules for different wage types.

Compensation Management

• Involved in setting up the Compensation Management module for the client
• Maintained Eligibility and Guideline Criteria for processing employee records in MSS
• Setup the system to store information relating to Salary Surveys and Job Evaluation Results.
• Defining wage types for compensation adjustments
• Setting up the SAP system to calculate compa-ratio of employees.
• Created Dynamic Action for IT 0760 based on employee age and experience
• Created Budget and Compensation Data based on client business need
• Educating and Training end users to carryout planning and approval activities in SAP ECM Module.

Confidential
July 2006 - February 2008
SAP HR Consultant
DTE Energy is a Michigan based Utility Company implementing SAP HR modules. Team member involved in the implementation of PA/OM Time Management and Payroll modules.
MODULES: PA, OM, Time Management and Payroll
PA/OM

• Analyzed the AS IS process of the client and suggested best practices for better business efficiency.
• Creating Functional requirements document for implementing the PA and OM modules
• Integrated OM with personnel administration
• Established Organization structure by setting up departments, jobs, positions and tasks
• Responsible for creating and maintaining employee groups, employee subgroups, personnel area and personnel sub area.
• Responsible for defining personnel actions and Infogroups.
• Configured Dynamic Actions based on the client’s business requirements
• Designed custom info types based on client requirement

Payroll

• Extensively worked on establishing pay scale structures’ including pay scale area, type and groups.
• Configured and maintained the payroll area, generated payroll periods using period and date modifiers.
• Created the payroll area, generated payroll periods using payroll and date modifiers
• Created wage types and defined related characteristics.
• Defined Pay Roll periods and Pay dates for each Payroll Accounting Area and created Control Record for each Payroll Accounting Area.
• Defined entry permissibility per infotypes and wage type characteristics

Time Management

• Created work schedules, period work schedules, daily work schedules and planned working time.
• Defined various work schedule rules and defaults for different PS and ES Groupings using appropriate SAP settings
• Defined various Attendance types, Absences types, Illness types and Substitutions types as per the client requirements.
  Defined Public holiday calendar for Personnel sub areas.
• Structured and established Employee master data as it relates to Time Management Infotypes
• Defined counting classes for period work schedules.
• Defined deduction rules for absence and attendance quotas & assigned deduction rules to counting rules
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing

Confidential
April 2004 - June 2006
SAP HR Consultant
HP Global E-Business is the BPO Division of Hewlett Packard India. As part of SAP HR Implementation, participated in configuration of the SAP HR module.
MODULES: PA, OM, Payroll, Time Management and Compensation Management

• Created Organizational structure by defining various objects like Org unit, Job, Position, and work center.
• Maintained and created relationships between Organizational units, Positions, Jobs and assigned cost centers to departments.
• Used feature PLOGI to integrate Organizational Management with Personnel Administration in order to automatically transfer data between modules.
• Created personnel action and reasons for actions as per the enterprise requirement.
• Involved in the setting up and maintenance process of enterprise and personnel structures in the organization.
• Involved in configuring and maintaining master data of the company using transaction codes PA30, PA40.
• Configured Daily Work Schedule, Period Work Schedules and assigned different work schedules to employees based on personnel area and sub area.
• Configuring and Defaulting Allowances to employees based on work schedules, special days and other monetary benefits.
  

Education

Human Resources, Master of Human Resources Management Degree (2006)
Confidential

General Business, Bachelor of Commerce Degree (2004)
Confidential