Summary: 
I am a Certified SAP HCM functional professional with 14 years of experience, emphasizing in Payroll. During my career, I have taken on roles ranging from:

• Functional Lead / Project Manager – 100% Project Management
• Team Lead – 50% Project Management, 50% Configuration
• Individual Team Contributor – 100% Configuration

I pride myself in understanding the "end to end" integration of SAP HCM.

Education: 
BBA in Accounting 
SAP HR Partner Academy 

Recent Achievements:

• PepsiCo Quarterly Hero Award – Q4.2009 – SAP HCM Implementation
• PepsiCo Quarterly Hero Award – Q1.2011 – SAP HCM Implementation
• PepsiCo Vendor Excellence Award – Q4.2011– SAP HCM Production Support

SAP HR/Payroll Skills:
Payroll

• Payroll Areas, Wage Types, Tax Models, BSI, Infotype 0003 Functionality
• Posting to FI, 3PR, Checks, and ACH
• Off Cycle Workbench
• Tax Remittance and Tax Reporter
• Basic Schema Configuration
• Basic Rule Configuration
• Basic Benefit Configuration and Integration
• Basic Garnishments

Organizational Management

• Can build basic Organizational Structure with appropriate relationships.
• Solid understanding of O.M. objects.
• Solid understanding of O.M. infotypes.
• Solid understanding of O.M. cost object hierarchy.
• Understand the benefits of integration to Personnel Administration.

Personnel Administration

• Know the importance of the ‘Big 4’ (Pers Area, Pers Subarea, EE Group, & EE Subgroup
• Understand P.A. Infotypes
• Understand infogroups.
• Vast experience with feature & sub-feature configuration.
• Understanding of Dynamic Events.
• Strong experience with executing Personnel Actions.

Time Management & Time Evaluation

• ‘Super User’ level with CATS and transfer to HR master data.
• ‘Super User’ with CATS reporting.
• ‘Super User’ level with Time Evaluation.

FI/CO & A/P Integration with HR

• Solid understanding of Payroll Posting to FI/CO process.
• ‘Super User’ level with FI transaction codes to view FI documents and G/L transactions.
• Understand ‘F110’ processing in A/P.

Benefits Module Skills

• ‘Super User’ level with enrollment after system hire or life event.
• Basic understanding of benefit configuration & wage type generation.

Enterprise Compensation Management Skills

• Blueprinted SAP’s ECM module.
• Built ECM configuration guide.
• Maintain the core concepts of ECM planning, submitting, and approval process. Given multiple demos.
• Configured compensation plans, including Merit Increases, Market Adjustments, Bonuses, and basic LTI.
• Configured ECM iViews, including columns, column groupings, and data views.

Solution Manager

• Exposure to SM\'s documentation repository, transport migration tool, and issue ticket system.

Development & ABAP (RICEFs)

• Knowledgeable with ABAP debugging, including searching for error messages or problem fields and setting the necessary breakpoints.
• Authored Functional Design Specs (FDSs) for Payroll & ECM RICEF Items.
• Unit tested RICE items once coded.
• Understand file formats, encryption requirements, and various transfer technologies.

Security

• Authored security spreadsheets containing functional role descriptions, transaction codes, and read/write access to infotypes.

General

• Vast experience in OSS notes Searches & customer message creation.
• Experienced with SAP versions 3.0H, 3.1I, 4.5B, 4.6C, 4.7, and ECC 6.0.

Work Experience:
Confidential
5/09 – Present

Role: Payroll COE Lead and Configurer
(4/11 – Present)

• Managed team of 7 to 10 Payroll COE team members.
• Performed payroll configuration duties on an as needed bases.
• Led (drove on my PC and projected screen) numerous deep dive sessions for researching critical issues including 401k issue and HCRA/DCRA issues.
• Implemented policy for structured configuration testing and approvals.
• Responsible for managing the technology relationship between PepsiCo’s HR BPO and PepsiCo Payroll Services.
• Responsible for the build of week-to-week status report for all ‘mini’ projects and break/fixes.
• Responsible for studying and assigning break/fix tickets.
• Accountable for the coordination and delegation of all configuration and testing.
• Accountable for all ‘mini-projects’ including Year End, HRSPs, BSI Upgrades, and new requirements.

Role: Integration Lead and Configurer
(5/09 – 3/11)

• Involved with every phase of PepsiCo’s SAP HCM implementation from Project Prep to Blueprint to Realization to Testing to Go-Live to Go-Live Support.
• Solely designed, configured, and tested posting to SAP FICO and custom Oracle GL.
• Solely designed, configured, and tested third party remittance for account payable.
• Oversaw and approved “end to end” payroll design and build (i.e. time interfaces, CATS, time evaluation, gross to net payroll, checks, ACH, postings, and 3PR).

Confidential 
10/08 – 4/09
Role: Project Manager

• Managed team of 20 resources which included ABAP/4 and functional.
• Personally selected 17 of the resources I managed by personally conducting technical interviews.
• Directed 100% of configuration.
• Led re-designing meetings for FI/CO integration, claims processing, tax models, earnings and deductions wage type processing, infotype 0221 strategies, and general schema/rule work.
• Created weekly “Executive” status reports
• Updated MS Project Plan on a weekly basis.

Confidential
12/07 – 9/08
Role: Team Lead of Global Payroll

• For 11 month (full life cycle) project, directed the work of six payroll team resources
• Mentored three Capgemini payroll consultants on U.S. payroll configuration. In return, they mentored their client counterparts.
• Solely ran 6 payroll blueprint workshops which consisted of up to 10 business SMEs per session.
• Responsible for the Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Final Prep, and Go-Live Testing.
• Designed and analyzed system throughout Realization and Testing.
• Facilitated meetings and collaborated with colleagues via whiteboard session.
• Deep understanding strategy of using a Global Template and related configuration (i.e. subfeatures, schema/rule naming conventions, etc.).
• Configured portions of wage types, schemas, rules, features, house banks, off cycles, garnishments, process models, and the payment medium workbench.
• Unit tested the build of org units, positions, jobs, associated OM infotypes, personnel administration actions, associated PA infotypes, payroll, and payroll subsequent processes.

Confidential
07/07 – 11/07
Role: Project Manager - Enterprise Compensation Management

• Responsible for entire ECM rollout including Blueprint, Realization, Integration Testing, and Go-Live.
• Configured ECM Module Compensation Plans.
• Unit Tested Build in Portal via MSS.
• Managed Integration Testing of ECM Prototype.
• Created Related RICEF Functional Specs.

Confidential 
04/07 – 06/07
Role: U.S. Payroll Consultant

• Created the first drafts of all payroll process documents (BPPs).
• Training team completed the BPPs.
• Executed and documented 80% of ‘formal’ payroll unit testing.
• Advised project manager of Integration Testing strategies.
• Authored Payroll Parallel/Comparison test plan.

Confidential 
12/04 – 03/07
Role: U.S. Payroll Team Lead

• Managed 7 member payroll team.
• Responsible for the build of week-to-week project plan for all project phases and responsible for tracking of each designated task.
• Ultimately responsible for the coordination and delegation of the payroll blueprint document, payroll configuration, payroll configuration guides, payroll security, payroll BPPs, payroll FDSs, payroll unit testing, payroll integration testing, payroll comparison/parallel testing, and go-live support.
• Performed payroll configuration duties on an as needed bases.

Confidential 
09/02 – 11/04
Role: Lead U.S. Payroll Analyst for Halliburton’s COE Production Support Team

• Noteworthy: Recipient of COE’s prestigious “MVP” award nominated and awarded by COE customers.
• Lead consultant for analyzing all U.S. payroll processing issues.
• Initial point of contact for payroll processors and payroll managers.
• Configured ongoing maintenance and resolved payroll defects.
• Accountable for resolution documentation in COE ticket database.
• Supported payroll processing for approximately 40,000 active U.S. employees:
• Weekly
• Semi-Monthly
• Bi-Weekly
• Monthly
• Managed payroll job scheduling via SM36.
• Supported daily off cycle runs, daily employee maintenance, and annual year-end processing.
• Led routine maintenance of:
• HRSP application and related regression testing.
• BSI Tax Factory updates.
• BSI TUB content analysis and subsequent application.
• Noteworthy: Taught approximately fifteen end-user classes to keep payroll manager and processors up to date with functionality and standard processes.
• On call seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.

Confidential 
04/01 – 08/02
Role: Lead U.S. Payroll Analyst

• Originally placed on the Halliburton account through Accenture and was later hired on directly as an employee of Halliburton
• See responsibilities in the above Halliburton section.