PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7years of IT experience with around 6years expertise in Implementation, Maintenance and Support of SAPHCM Components.
• Extensive experience in the functional configuration of SAP HCM accelerated Projects including Payroll, Time Management and Personnel Administration (PA)
• Expertise in US specific payroll, time Schemas, Sub Schemas and PCRs.
• Performed Implementation and Production support.
• Thorough knowledge of the different stages of a project and a well developed aptitude for meeting deadlines, recognizing potential bottlenecks, taking the required corrective action with good understanding and experience in the ASAP methodology, Blueprints and Gap Analysis
• Dedicated functional specialist / Consultant recognized as a valuable resource for SAP HCM system configuration, training and end-users support.
• Thorough understanding of the payroll schemas.
• Skilled in assisting the stakeholder in policy and decision-making.
• Created Functional Specification documents for outbound interfaces which send payroll results to external systems
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills with strong analytical ability and problem solving capability.

SAP HCM SKILLSET

• Gross Payroll: Wage types, Processing time data, Payment and Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Calculation Rules, Internal Tables, Factoring.
• Net Payroll: Deductions, Taxes, Benefits and Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Bank Transfer, Third Party Remittance, Off-cycle Processing.
• Time Management: Work schedules, Absences, Overtimes, Time Evaluation, Schema TM04, and CATS (Cross Application Time Sheet).
• Benefits: Holiday Calendars, Features, Standard Benefit reports, Cost Rules and Coverage Rules.
• Organization Management: Organizational structure, Organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions and reporting structure.
• Personnel Administration:Defined and assigned Personnel Areas ,Sub Areas, Employee Groups and Subgroups Personnel Sub Area Groupings, Employee Subgroup Groupings, Pay Scale Types and Areas, Pay Scale Groups and Levels, and Wage Types.

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• ERP: SAP R/3 version 4.6B,4.7EE, ECC5.0, ECC6.0.
• Programming Languages: C, C++, and Java.
• Databases: Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, and MS ACCESS.
• Operating systems: Windows 95/98/XP/2000, and Windows NT.
• Microsoft Tools: MS Officeand MS VISIO
• Testing Tools: HP QUALITY CENTER.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Kansas City, MOJanuary 2012 to August 2012
Version: SAP ECC 6.0
Payroll:

• Defined and maintained the set up for payroll organization.
• Created wage type catalog and checked wage type group for basic pay, additional payments, recurring payments and deductions.
• Configured features TARIF and ABKRS to default the values in infotypes 0001 and 0008
• Maintained processing classes by editing the specifications of valuation wage types /003 and /004.
• Calculated miscellaneous deductions for certain percentages of Gross using custom PCRs.
• 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.
• Maintained the setting up of report variants for off-cycle activities and did off-cycle Absence Valuations.
• Assisted the business withyear-end adjustment through adjustment workbench, earning, deduction and tax wage types were entered
• Created and maintained the posting variants.
• Tested the Payroll part of the configuration thoroughly in unit testing, integration testing and system testing. Created the test scripts to help the users to test the System.
• Configured master data and payroll to process garnishments and maintained the infotypes for processing the garnishments.
• Worked on functional designs.
• Created recovery wage types and maintained processing classes 5, 6 and 20.
• Adjusted the wage type characteristics for retroactive issues in arrears processing.
• Assisted he business with infotypes needed for taxes like 0207, 0208, 0209, and 0210
• 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 on year end adjustments.
• Payment/deduction models, tax model and features, BSI Tax Factory
• Worked on BSI Upgrade to 9.0 - creating datasets, datasources, and BSI User Access Maintenance.
• Worked on BSI Backup / Restore of new clients in test environments based on latest production SAP-BSI dataset.
• Worked with BSI configuration (Tax Overrides), TUB updates and good understanding of setting up BSI RFC Connection.

Time Management:

• Defined attendance, absences, and substitutions, as per the client requirements.
• Created public holidays and holiday calendar for personnel sub areas.
• Defined employee groups and subgroups with respect to time management by grouping personnel sub areas for work schedules.
• Maintained the time evaluation custom schemas TM04.
• Updated the infotypes related to the absence and attendance quotas for all the holidays, leaves and vacations.
• Configured data entry profiles for the cross application time sheets for employees to enter time data.

Benefits:

• Worked with employees during open enrollment and event enrollment.
• Configured the benefit module by setting up of benefit plans such as health plans, insurance plans and savings plans.
• Customized the benefit/payroll integration.
• Defined different cost formulas and cost formula calculation rules for health plans and insurance plans.
• Configured features for BAREA, BENGR,and BSTA
• Defined contribution rules, vesting rules and investment options for saving plans.
• Worked on standard benefit reports RPBEL01 for eligible employees, RPBENL02 for participation.
• Trained users with maintaining infotypes 0171, 0169, 0377, 0378, 0021, 0041 and 0019.
• Configured health plans, insurance plans, savings plans and flexible spending accounts.
• Defined cost rules and coverage rules.
• Integrated Benefit module with Payroll.

Personnel Administration:

• Defined the Enterprise Structure by creating Personnel Area (PA), Personnel Sub-Area (PSA), Employee Group (EEG) and Employee Sub-Group (ESG)
• Assignment of the Personnel Area and Employee Groups to the company.
• Configured the feature NUMKR for default number ranges PA04.
• Working on modifying existing Personnel Actions.
• Worked on features LGMST to default wage types for Basic Pay. Coordinating with the Technical Consultant in creating custom Infotype as per the business requirement.
• Assisted users to maintain basic infotypes like IT0001, IT0002, IT0006, IT0007 and IT0009

Organization Management:

• Assisted the client by defining the Organizational Structure by creating organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions.
• Assign various tasks and jobs to its respective position.
• Configured the working time to generate the work schedules for positions.
• Customized the account assignment for cost center at department level.
• Configured rule values to avoid positions to be over-occupied by defining planned working times for organizational units, positions, and work centers.

Confidential,UTJanuary 2009 to December 2011
Version: SAP ECC 5.0
Full-Cycle implementation, Business blueprint, Testing, Production support

• Worked with end-users to gather as-is process of legacy system to re-engineer to-be process.
• Conducted Business blueprint workshops to identify and resolve process and functional gaps.
• Trained end-users and worked in detail documentation of business process flow.
• Performed unit testing and was involved in integration testing, user acceptance testing
• Responsible for providing production support during post-go live period
• Worked with problems arising from returned deposits and third party posting.
• Worked on configuration of work tax areas and created variants for payroll.
• Worked on Offcycle Workbench processing with process models, retroactive processing as well as problems with direct deposits.

Personnel Administration:

• Defined enterprise structure, personnel structure and payscale structure.
• Configured features PINCH and VDSK1 to default administrator groups and organizational key.
• Configured master data for fast entry of employee information.

Organization Management:

• Created organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions, assigned tasks to positions and integrated all of these into the enterprise’s organizational plan using tables T527X and T528B. Assigned various organizational units and positions to cost centers in FI
• Configured rules to avoid positions to be over-occupied by defining planned working times for organizational units, positions, and work centers.
• Configured matrix type for the organization and working time to generate work schedules for positions.

Payroll:

• Generated payroll accounting areas and their corresponding control records.
• Configured payscale reclassification using reports RPITUM00 and RPIPSR00 and setup standard pay scale increase.
• Maintained tables T52D1, T52D2,T52D3 and T52D4.
• Configured basic pay, recurring payments, cumulation and garnishment wage types.
• Maintained number ranges for garnishment payees and vendor subgroups.
• 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.
• Performed month-end accruals and year-end adjustments according to the FI account closing dates.
• Created symbolic accounts and linked them to GLaccounts based on employee groups

Time Management:

• Customized factoring and average calculation for time wage types.
• Configured absence valuation using table T554C.
• Configured time wagetype valuation and overtime compensation.
• Maintained Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS).
• Configured absence and attendance quotas.
• Evaluated time using Time evaluation report RPTIME00

Confidential,Apple valley, California September 2008 to December 2008
Version: SAP 4.7EE
Payroll:

• Responsible for module implementation.
• All customized rules were reviewed to add new personnel area/subarea.
• Defined payroll program for the Adjustments Workbench and defined the Variants, Constraints and Permissibility of Wage Types for Payroll result Adjustments.
• Handled the retroactive tax accounting and claims processing issues.
• Maintained the Info type 0221 payroll results adjustment.
• Have good experience with the different payroll infotypes (0008, 0009, 0011, 0207,0208, 0210, 0234, 0235, 0267, and 0032).
• Configured off-cycle functionality.
• Created wage types and defined permissibility characteristics for each wage type.
• Strong in wage type configuration, creating and maintaining PCR\'s and incorporating it into the schemas as per the business requirement.
• Configured Tax authorities, Tax Types and Tax Models.
• Defined and maintained Processing class, Evaluation classes and their specification for maintaining Tax related wage types.
• Defined payroll periods and paydays.
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area for the primary wage type and defined wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay.
• Generated the features such as ABKRS for default payroll area, TARIF for default pay-scale data.
• Created the process model to define the sequence of processing steps in payroll.
• Customized payroll schemas and personnel calculation rules related to payroll run.
• Maintained and configured the schema and personnel calculation rules to calculate the averages and the factoring.
• Defined and maintained processing classes, evaluation classes and their specifications for maintaining wage types through logical values.
• Defined and documented the Business Rules and Specifications.
• Created Process Models and diagrams for Workflows.
• Experience with year-end and reconciliation adjustment workbench, Tax Reporter and SAP Payroll reporting. Worked with BSI Tax Factory.

Time Management

• Configured Work Schedules Rules according to Client requirements.
• Configured Absence Quotas.
• Evaluated time using Time evaluation report RPTIME00.
• Customized Personnel Calculation Rules for calculations during Time Evaluation.
• Defined public holiday calendar for personnel sub areas.
• Defined selection rules for day types.
• Defined public holidays and assigned them to public holiday calendar.

Benefits:

• Involved in defining events for qualification, coverage, termination types, rules and criteria.
• Maintained benefit providers, plan types and status and configured feature BAREA to assign benefit areas to personnel areas.
• Produced several cost variants and corresponding cost rule for three different types of health plans (medical, dental and vision) that employees could roll in.
• Configured Benefits Info types like 0167, 0169, 0171, 0172, 0376 etc. Run reports with regards to Enrollment, Termination, Participation, Monitor EOI and Participation Overview.
• Reconstructed employee criteria groupings and corresponding groups within them.
• Created options available from the benefit providers\' health plans to employees, depending on their preferences and family type.
• Defined the program groupings (BENGR and BSTAT), employee eligibility (ELIGR) for the benefit plans and participation termination for the employees (TRMTY)

Confidential,Boston, MA July 2007to August 2008
Version: SAP 4.7EE
Payroll:

• Defined pay scale types and areas for each personnel area.
• Maintained feature TARIF for defaulting pay scale type and area.
• Modified feature ABKRS for default basic pay in IT0008, also maintained the custom schema and sub schemas.
• Customization of settings for US Payroll simulation, check completeness, retroactive accounting issues.
• Created Wage types for 8, 14, 15, and 2010 Infotypes using PU30 and modified the characteristics using the table V_T511 to suit the client needs.
• Involved in creating the Schemas and sub schemas for implementing the client defined customized standard US Payroll schema (U000) and other standard functions.
• Expertise in understanding the payroll control record (PA03) and Standard Payroll driver RPCALCU0 with different variants.
• Prepared the documentation for the changes that were performed and created User manuals to assist the users
• Customized Remuneration statement as per existing pay stub.
• Debugged and troubleshooted payroll schema interfacing BSI for calculating

Time Management:

• Defined Attendance, Absences, Leaves, Overtime, Quotas & Leave Entitlement.
• Defined Public Holiday Calendar, Break Schedules, Daily Work Schedules and Periodic Work Schedules.
• Defined absence valuation rules for paid and unpaid absences.
• Configured schema TM04 and worked on time evaluation report RPTIME00.

Education:

• Bachelor of Engineering