PROFILE:

• I am a Project Leader in SAP HR IT and have completed multiple full cycle implementations at global clients. 15 years of overall IT experience with 10 years in SAP HCM has enabled me to critically understand the technical side of SAP from the perspective of writing Techno Functional Specification, requirements gathering, understanding and documenting the business processes related to HR, identifying the gaps to suggest the fit - gap analysis, configuration. Prepared various project related documentations like Blueprint, Configuration document, Functional Specification for Reports and Interfaces, Unit and Integration Test Scripts. Provided training to end user community and technical team members. Used implementation methodologies like ASAP and Solution Manager.
• Set up Payroll (Payroll Organization, Wage Types, Payroll Schemas & Rules for Union and Non - Union employees, Payroll Process Models for Regular and Off-cycle payroll, Garnishment for child support, alimony, BSI Tax Updates, Pay Statement, Post Payroll Processes, Compliance, Wage Type Reporter, Payroll Reconciliation Report, and Payroll Journal. Integrated SAP Payroll with SAP Finance, third party benefits providers, time and attendance systems.
• Supported year-end activities, break/fix for new and emerging business needs.
• Set up Benefits (Benefit Groupings, Health Plans, Insurance Plans, 401K Savings & Catch Up, Flexible Spending Accounts), Benefits Enrollment and Reports.
• Integrated SAP Benefits with SAP HR Personnel Administration for New Hire and life event changes. Interfaced SAP Benefits with third party providers.
• Set up Time Management (Holiday Calendar, Groupings, Planned working time, Work Schedules (standard and condensed), Absence Types (paid and unpaid), Attendance Types (Regular, Extra Hours Worked, Training, Travel), Time Schemas and Rules (for generating wage types, premiums and absence quotas, processing paid absences and overtime compensation) and Time Reports (for unapproved time, missing time entry), CATS (for data entry profiles).
• Integrated SAP Time Management with SAP HR Personnel Administration and SAP Payroll. Interfaced SAP with third party time and attendance systems as well as time recording systems.
• Run SAP Time Evaluation and Spinifex reports to automate time reporting.
• Set up Personnel Administration (New Hire thru Separation and Legacy system conversions, Dynamic action to capture important personnel events, screen modifications, number ranges for internal and external numbering of employees). Integrated SAP HR Personnel Administration with SAP Organizational Management. Interfaced employee demographic information to third party benefits providers. Interfaced SAP master data with third party learning solution system (SumTotal for Course Catalog, Course to Competency mapping, mapping employees to Learning activities, Employee Certificate, Employee Course Completion Status update) and talent management system (SuccessFactors for Goals and Appraisals).
• Set up Organizational Management (Number Range for objects, Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan reporting). Integrated SAP HR Org Management with Personnel Administration and Training & Event Management. Set up Spinifex report for workers compensation reporting.
• Set up Budget Structure in compensation planning. Created, released and review budget model. Established budget process flow, loaded budget & target data and pay delivery calculation model into SAP. Set up merit pool process in SAP for annual merit increase.
• Designed SAP HR Structural Authorization (for assignment of security rights and privileges to HR data).
• Set up Training and Event Management (Business Event Groups, Business Event Types, Business Events, Attendee List and Training completion). Converted legacy system employee training history in to SAP.
• Created Legacy System Migration Work Bench Program and Templates (LSMW for converting global employee master data from PeopleSoft and legacy systems in to SAP HR Infotypes - Actions, Org Assignment, Personal Data, Address, Planned Working Time, Basic Pay, Bank Details, Recurring Pay & Deductions, Additional Payments, Family Details, Education, Employment, Objects On Loan, Union Dues, Additional Personal Data, Communication, Personnel Ids, Training, Tax and Benefits).
• Tested ESS Functionalities (for Employee Personal Data, Address, Bank Details, Time Entry and Pay Slip).
• Written Functional Detail Design Specification (for RICEFW objects), blueprint document, unit and integration test scripts.
• Run Panaya Test Scripts for testing SAP HR/HCM system for new functionalities and changes related to Work Week, Time Recording, Approval, Time Transfer, Time Evaluation, Payroll, Benefits, Remuneration Statement, and post payroll activities like posting payments to G/L accounts and third party remittance.
• Used EPI-USE for copying master data and payroll data from Production client to Test client for testing new functionalities.
• Guided end-users during integration testing.
• Mentored a team of up to 5 junior consultants.
• Run SAP HR Transactions like:
• SPRO / IMG Menu Path for configuring the system.
• PA40 for testing personnel actions, PA30 for recording upload programs and master data changes, PA20 for display, PA70 for mass upload of certain HR master data, PU12 for master data extraction.
• CAT2 for CATS time entry for test purpose and CAT6 for time transfer, PT60 for testing time evaluation.
• PC00 Mnn CALC SIMU for Payroll Simulation (nn - for country versions), PC00 Mnn CALC (payroll driver where nn stands for country version), Release Control Record for Corrections and Running Payroll, Exit Payroll, Subsequent Activities of Off-cycle payroll, Posting documents. Ran payroll using Process Model transaction as well. Run payroll reporting transactions. PU19 for tax reporting.
• HRBEN transactions for testing Benefits Enrollment and Reports.
• Run SAP HR Security authorization transactions for accessing tables and run SUIM for security reporting and validation.
• SE16 for access SAP HR PA and PD infotype tables and structures as well as SAP HR transparent tables.
• SE38 for Abap Programs for troubleshooting custom reports and programs.
• SM37 for Job status.
• LSMW for creating data upload programs and data conversion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: SharePoint, ShareNet, LiveLink, Vantive, TWS, Lotus Notes.

OFFICE PRODUCTS: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows NT/2000/Windows XP/Windows Vista.

RDBMS: Oracle 10, 8i, 8.x.

HARDWARE: All IBM Compatibles PC's, Compaq.

SOFTWARE PROGAMMING LANGUAGES: ABAP, Visual Basic, Java/J2EE, C, C++.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Systems Project Leader - SAP HR

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• SAP HR/Payroll systems redesigned. New payroll schemas/rules for UK, US and Middle East Regions were set up that run payroll in SAP.
• New Enterprise structure, pay structure, work schedules (standard and condensed work week), uplift premium, Norway differential, Scottish Widow Pension, Employee NIC, Tax, Pay slip, US, GEC and ME Payroll process model were set up.
• Writing functional design specification for SAP Payroll and Tax Wage Types for Stock Dividend, Foreign Service Premiums, Uplift Premiums as per new/emerging business needs.
• Tax and Garnishment were outsourced to ADP and supported in the data conversion/transfer from SAP to ADP and vis versa by collaborating with ADP.
• Running Panaya test scripts for testing SAP HR/HCM system for new functionalities and changes related to Work Week, Time Recording, Approval, Time Transfer, Time Evaluation, Payroll, Benefits, Remuneration Statement, and post payroll activities like posting payments to G/L accounts and third party remittance.
• Running monthly and periodic Spinifix Reports for Payroll, Tax and Cost Center Reports.
• Act as a liaison between internal and external customers and stake holders to oversee and resolve on going production break/fix in SAP HR/HCM and Payroll systems.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0, Panaya Testscripts, Spinifix Easy Reporter and Easy Help Desk, Service Requests, Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, Wisconsin

Systems Project Leader - SAP HR IT

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements identification of core SAP HR functions for global implementation.
• Set up new enterprise structure elements.
• Written functional specification for custom reports.
• Created unit and integration test plans.
• Designed and developed data load programs using LSMW for employee master data.
• Have maintain access to all of the reports you run today in SAP.
• Have access to all associates you are responsible for (regardless of geographic location, organizational or business diversity); COEs will maintain global or regional access, as required.
• Should not be able to see your manager, business leader or your own potential and compensation data.
• You should not be able to see your HR peers’ information
• Launch of this new security design will also allow Confidential Company to empower local HR with the ability to access and run their own SAP HR reports with confidence and ease.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0, Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point), Worksite MP, RPM.

Senior Consultant

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison between third party vendor and client stake holders to oversee and resolve day to day operational issues in SAP HCM as per SLA metrics.
• Redesigned and established the business process models within SAP HR for headcount and management reporting.
• Set up data entry profiles for time entry.
• Advised best practice for security roles and authorizations.
• Prepared weekly status report.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0, Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, Dallas

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with SWA’s HR and Payroll Administrators, Development Manager and HR business users in understanding the production issues within SAP HCM.
• Resolved year end SAP payroll issues and 401k savings employer match issues as per SLA metrics.
• Provided business users with the third party remittance posting and wage type reports.
• Done support pack testing and impact analysis.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0 (with Enhancement Pack 4), Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System, Citrix, Change Control Form, Remedy, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, Maumee, OH

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Dana’s Payroll Administrator, Development Manager and HR business users in designing the SAP Payroll Process Model. And integrated SAP HR with SAP Finance (FI).
• Designed and Configured Work Schedules, Payroll Organization, Wage Types, Pay Statement, Payroll Journal for union and non-union employees.
• Set up SAP in compliance to work with BSI TaxFactory 9.0 and worked on BSI reciprocal tax engine and tax calculator.
• Downloaded BSI TUBs and corresponding OSS notes from SAP to update the system and made both systems be in sync.
• Written SAP Payroll Schema and Rule for automating union dues calculation for 3 unions - USW, UAW and IAM.
• Designed and Configured Benefits - Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Savings Plans (401K and Catch up) and FSA.
• Written interface functional specs for - ACS (Health & Welfare), Vanguard (Savings Plans), ADP (eTime).

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0 (with Enhancement Pack 4),BSI, Microsoft Windows 2000, IBM Lotus Notes, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, Fort Smith, AR

Responsibilities:

• Developed project roadmap, devised strategy, prepared project plan and advised best practices.
• Collaborated with Baldor’s Payroll Administrator, Development Manager and HR business users in designing the Organizational Structure in Organizational Management (OM), Enterprise Structure, Pay Structure. Integrated SAP HR with SAP Finance (FI) and ADP Payroll.
• Configured Global Personnel Actions (Hire thru Separation) and Infogroups in Personnel Administration (PA).
• Guided the end user during User Acceptance Testing and fixed issues identified to complete the UAT and signoff.
• Ensured successful roll-out of Australia, Canada and Mexico; met qualitative and quantitative objectives.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0 (with Enhancement Pack 4), Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Office Communicator, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Designed project plan, advised best practices and approach for setting up global SAP HR system.
• Collaborated with Nucor’s product group coordinators in designing global Org Structure, Enterprise Structure and Personnel Administration. And interfaced SAP with ADP.
• Prepared Blueprint, Configuration Document and Functional specs for RICEFW.
• Created LSMW conversion templates for Initial conversion and Current conversion to upload employee master data infotypes.
• Ensured successful go-live of HR Synergy Project and met its qualitative and quantitative objectives.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0 (with Enhancement Pack 4), Microsoft Windows 2000, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with production support manager, business users and security team to resolve tickets as per SLA metrics.
• Configured US Compliance Reporting within Organizational Management.
• Developed Functional Specification for compliance reporting on EEO, Vets-100, AAP and Non-exempt and Exempt employees.
• Created LSMW program to update infotypes.
• Prepared TAF (Test Analyze and Fix) documents on fixing Workforce Administration issues.
• Prepared configuration document on Maintain Text on infotypes.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0, Service Center, Citrix, Sharepoint, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed project roadmap, devised strategy, prepared project plan and advised best practices.
• Collaborated with site implementation manager and client business users and in defining organizational elements in Organizational Management (OM), enterprise structure, union and non-union pay rules and Benefits. And integrated SAP HR with SAP Finance.
• Configured Personnel Actions (New Hire thru Retire) and Infogroups in Personnel Administration (PA). Set up Dynamic Action to capture important dates like Hire, Rehire, Termination, Adjusted Service Dates.
• Collaborated with interface design and data conversion teams and Interfaced SAP HR (New Hire info, Regular & Overtime hours) to ADP for Gross & Net Payroll processing.
• Prepared Business Process Procedure, Integration Test scripts, UAT scripts, Solution Document and Interface Functional spec for ADP.
• Ensured smooth transitioning of HR Processes and data to SAP HR from TimeTrack.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0, Dashboard, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).

Confidential, Midland, TX

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with site implementation manager and client business users and in defining organizational elements in Organizational Management (OM), enterprise structure, union and non-union pay rules and Benefits. And Integrated SAP HR with SAP Finance.
• Configured Organization Structure by creating Org Units, Jobs, Positions and Relationships with Cost Centers.
• Configured Personnel Actions (New Hire thru Retire) in Personnel Administration (PA).
• Created Functional Specs for third party vendors like Hewitt and ADP and tested of interfaces.
• Ensured smooth transition of HR Programme and met its qualitative objectives.

Environment: SAP HCM version ECC6.0, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Office products (word, excel, power point).