SAP HCM and BI Senior Consultant

Professional Summary

• 13 years of SAP experience with expertise in SAP HCM and SAP BW.
• Subject matter expert & consultantfor globalSAPHRsystems, data and processes
• Has expertise in SAP HCM- including PA, PD, Time management, Payroll, Talent Management, FI/CO-HR Integration, ABAP/Ad-hoc Queries, ESS& MSS, ALE customizing and basic ABAP Programming
• Has worked on SAP BW- SAP BW solution design and development, translating business requirements into solid solutions. Data extraction from flat files, standard and custom R/3 tables and non-R/3 systems, DataSource, InfoObjects, Transfer rules, InfoSources, Update rules, ODS, InfoProvider, Multi Providers.
• Extensive workingknowledgein ASAP Methodology, Data Modeling, Solid experience in Data Extraction from LO Cockpit, LIS, Legacy system and Flat files.
• Expert in understanding integration of process, data and technology; articulate project impacts to existing solutions or data management efforts to stakeholders
• Functional consultant with ability to define the scope of the business capabilities required to support a project using appropriate models and delivery vehicles. Design solutions that meet the needs of the business, consistent with overall architectural guidance.
• Design SAP integrations related to payroll, time and attendance, recruiting, benefits, etc.
• SupportsHRdata and process governance, ensure data governance standards are followed
• Working with Human Resources and Legal to gather and document requirements and consider technical solutions; working with technical team/architect to answer questions on requirements; coordinating user acceptance testing (develop test plan and scripts and coordinate testing with users);
• Advanced relationship management and communications. Advanced understanding of Human Resource related processes. Strong Customer Focus and Initiative. Creative - taking innovative approaches to problem solving and devising inventive and creative solutions. Familiar with the selection and application of information gathering methods, tools, and techniques.
• This includes the identification of information systems which support critical business processes, the assessment of risks to those systems' availability, integrity and confidentiality and the co-ordination of planning, designing, testing and maintenance procedures and contingency plans to address exposures and maintain agreed levels of continuity.
• A full range of project life cycle including analysis, design, development, implementation and support. Process designconsultantto team identify process impacts on technology/data and potential constraints
• Partner withHR/business to define implementation requirements for HCM functionality including data, configuration, integration, and portal needs
• Lead Analyst responsible for development of current and future state process mapping, business requirements and delivery of functional specification to HRIS, UAT Test Lead, Ensure user acceptance of system solution. Responsible for quality assurance, creation of test scripts and testing execution - ensure compliance with stabilization requirements. Develops documentation and training supporting system or processes changes. Lead analyst for stabilization phase, troubleshooting of production related data issues and questions
• Support project manager in design of training strategy and stakeholder communications; collaborate with architects to ensure development and maintenance of strategies
• Effectively communicates system or process changes to users with varying technical knowledge
• Configuration knowledge of interface between SAP systems with external SAP and non-SAP systems via ALE method. Experience with implementing HR solutions with complex integration requirements
• Identify and monitor key indicators that may affect the project and technology trends that may better fit the project.

Significant Achievements

• Implemented 17 full life cycle projects
• Successful PA and OM Implementation of the SAP 4.7 AME Region Template Project for 23 countries in Istanbul and Dubai, ahead of time and under budget
• Managing an ongoing Coca-Cola Bottler Kazakhstan project initiative to implement payroll to the client
• Providing SAP Turkey Official HCM training and creating an effective working practices documentation
• Very extensively worked in Performance Tuning, BW Statistics, Aggregates, Process chains, Testing, Go-Live, Production Support, End-user training, Documentation, CTS Transports and OSS Notes.
• Rich experience in Design and Development of BW Reports, Web Application Designer, BEx Analyzer.
• Designed various ABAP programs including transactions and reports
• Lead teams in the various projects responsible for the successful implementing of SAP project

Employment History

SAP HCM and BI Senior Consultant January 2011-Present Contractor

• Lead team for the projects.
• Delivers SAP HCM consulting expertise both the functional and the technical level.
• Designed, developed, and maintained structural authorizations and standard/derived roles for position-based HR security strategy, driven by complex span-of-control requirements.
• Security support for integration testing, user acceptance testing, and training efforts
• Created new roles for ECC 6 systems: HR module, based on concepts of task roles and position roles
• Provided detailed documentation of SAP Security procedures to client.
• Performed BW security and authorizations and created reporting roles and maintained security; on InfoCube Level, On Characteristic Level, On Characteristic Value Level, On Key Figure Level, On Hierarchy Node Level.
• Performed SAP Business Content for storing authorizations and user assignment of authorizations.
• Set up general authorizations that are based on the SAP-wide authorization concept.
• Set up HR-specific structural authorizations that check by organizational assignment if a user is authorized to perform an activity.
• Supported Clients Like:

Client: Confidential- July 2011 - February 2012

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)
• Responsible for Business Blueprint, configuration and implementation of Enterprise structures, Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, and Payroll. It's a full cycle SAP ECC 6.0 implementation as a functional team leader.

Client: Confidential - July 2011 - Dec 2011

• Full cycle project
• Talent Management
• Objective Setting and Appraisals
• Employee Self-Service (ESS)
• Manager Self-Service (MSS)
• Travel Management (FI-TV)
• Compensation Management (PA-CM)
• Responsible for requirements analysis, process flows, functional configuration and implementation of ESS, MSS, and Performance Management. Also responsible for the design and specification documents for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements , forms , workflows and security roles.Provided knowledge transfer to client resources in IT and HR.

Client: Confidential- May 2011 - June 2011

• Recruitment (PA-RC)
• Employee Self-Service (ESS)
• Manager Self-Service (MSS)
• Functional team leader for an ESS, MSS, and internal recruitment process. Responsible for design recruitment process on SAP ECC 6.0, design screens for internal applications and announcements and reports for apllicant selection.
• Design solutions that meet the needs of the business, consistent with overall architectural guidance.

Client: Confidential - April 2011 - July 2011

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)
• Functional team leader for SAP ECC new implementation project.

SAP HCM and BI Senior Consultant June 2008-Dec 2010 Infra-Logics Information Technologies - Turkey

• Implemented HCM Modules with SAP Netweaver 7+ and Business Intelligence with version 7.0, 3.5.
• Developed and maintained roles and performed user administration for ECC, Solution Manager, and Central User Administration (CUA) landscapes
• Support for integration testing, user acceptance testing, and training efforts
• Technically conversant in configuration, performance tuning for large BI sites, implementation of BI Accelerator [BIA], process chains and the management and deployment of processes and procedures for regression testing required during various Project Phases.

Client: Confidential - May 2010 - December 2010

• Employee Self-Service (ESS)
• Manager Self-Service (MSS)
• Senior Consultant SAP ECC implementation.Using ASAP methodology conducted all tasks for Business Blueprint phases of project.Responsible forESS and MSS to prepare functional and technical spesification documents.

Client: Confidential - Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY) for KSA
• Off-cycle Payroll Process
• SAP Business Warehouse (BW) for HCM
• Senior Consultant for the implementation and continued use of SAP's Solution Manager as the primary repository for process documentation.
• Using ASAP methodology conducted all tasks for Business Blueprint and Realization phases of project.
• Responsible for requirements analysis, process flows, functional configuration and implementation of new implementation.
• Also responsible for the design and specification documents for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, workflows and security roles.Provided knowledge transfer to client resources in IT and HR. Conducted train-the-trainer training sessions.

Client: Confidential- 2009

• Full cycle project
• Employee Self-Service (ESS)
• Manager Self-Service (MSS)
• Compensation Management (PA-CM)
• Budget Management

Client: Confidential-2008

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY) for Kazakhstan

Client: Confidential- 2007-2008 Full cycle project (Continued project)

• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• SAP HCM implementation in a cluster that comprises Middle East, Turkey and Caucasus., Authorizations, Structural Authorizations

SAP HCM Senior Consultant, London, UK May 2008 - July 2008 Confidential

• SAP HCM Implementation

SAP HCM and BI Senior Consultant June 2006-December 2010 Confidential

• Lead team for the projects.
• Communicate with clients to identify methodology and road map phases of SAP HR implementations.

Client: Confidential-2007-2008

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)

Client: Confidential - 2007

• Full cycle project-
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)

Client: Confidential- 2006

• Personnel Time Management (PT)
• Designed and implemented Custom Time management processes with standard SAP functions.

Client: Confidential -2006

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)

Client: Confidential-2006

• Manager Self-Service (MSS)
• Managed full lifecycle of SAP portal development, including documenting functional specs, technical specs, coding, unit testing, thread testing, system integration testing, and implementation.

Client: Confidential- 2006

• Full cycle project
• SAP Implementation Project (FI,CO,AA,SD,PP,MM and BW modules)
• Project Manager and BW Consultant
• Project Manager for the implementation. Responsible for 15 direct reports mapping 400+ scenarios, business process procedures, functional specifications and technical pecification into a uniquely developed process map.

Client: Confidential 2006

• Full cycle project
• Talent Management
• Objective Setting and Appraisals
• Personnel Development
• Recruitment (PA-RC)

SAP HCM & BW Senior Consultant March 2005-May 2006 Confidential

• Led a team for the projects.
• Communicate with clients to identify methodology and road map phases of the SAP HR implementations.
• Determine the HR business processes requirements and project scoping.
• Identify technical issues that may surface to possibilities and supports solutions.
• Conduct a functional workshop to analyze business design, solutions, and reengineering processes.
• Communicate with the functional team leader to gather HR data elements both pre-requisites and co-requisites in the Data mapping and conversions.
• Divide areas of the responsibilities and the functional ownership to the team members.

Client: Confidential 2005

• Full cycle project
• Senior BW Consultant
• Logistics Business Warehouse
• Responsible for SAP BW solution design and development, translating business requirements into solid solutions. Data extraction from flat files, standard and custom R/3 tables and non-R/3 systems, DataSource, InfoObjects, Transfer rules, InfoSources, Update rules, ODS, InfoProvider, Multi Providers.

Client: Confidential 2005

• BW Consultant
• MM Business Warehouse
• Israel

SAP HCM & BW Senior Consultant August 2001-February 2005 Confidential

• Delivers SAP HR consulting expertise both the functional and the technical level.
• Provided customer support on the functional/technical issues encountered in the production system.
• Conceptualized on the technical design to address new requirements.
• Delivers SAP HCM training
• Determine the technical tasks involve in the configuration stages within the SAP IMG nodes.
• Reports directly to the Project Manager for status, deliverables, and project milestones.
• Analyze, design and configure the Business Warehouse module.

Client: Confidential 2004

• Full cycle project
• HR Team Lead for 4.7 to ECC 6.0 upgrade. Using ASAP methodology conducted all tasks for Business Blueprint and Realization phases of project.This included process definition, testing and configuration support for the areas of PA, OM and Payroll.

Client: Confidential 2003

• HR Team Lead for 3.1H to 4.6 upgrade. This included process definition, testing and configuration support for the areas of PA, OM and Payroll.

Client: Confidential 2003

• HCM Consultant, Upgrade

Client: Confidentialy 2002

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)

Client: Confidential 2002

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)

Client: Confidential 2002

• Recruitment (PA-RC)

Client: Confidential 2001

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)

SAP HCM Consultant March 1999-Nov 2000 Confidential

• Analyze and design business processes and the application requirements to implement the SAP HCM module.
• Configure and carry-out the unit tests for every configuration, working across the other teams to ensure integration requirements are met and developed according to the specifications.
• Work with the other team members to assess current capabilities and identify high-level requirements.
• Assist the Process Team Lead with validating the business requirements.
• Identify and define business process and the application requirements.
• Create the To-Be processes/deliverables.
• Communicate with the functional team leader client-side to gather HR data elements both pre-requisites and co-requisites in data mapping and conversions.
• Configure the HR processes in the SAP system and unit test.
• Document configuration and end user scripts.
• Create the functional designs (RICEF - Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions and Forms).
• Work with the development and reporting teams to ensure a consistent configuration and development information.
• Serve as a resource for the change management team as they evaluate training and performance support needs and design the training and performance support products.

Client: Confidential 1999-2000

• Full cycle project
• Personnel Administration (PA)
• Organizational Management (OM)
• Payroll (PY)
• SAP Project team member during the design and implementation phases of an SAP R/3 3.0F implementation for a large organization. Provided HR business process knowledge and high-level SAP HR configuration knowledge. Instructed the client on the configuration of Payroll, analyzing client requirements, and developing initial configuration and end-user scripts. Also responsible for solving Payroll configuration issues by using product knowledge and SAP's OSS.

Education

• BS in Business Administration
• Certificates: Certified SAP HCM Consultant