SUMMARY

• A Seasoned SAP HCM (PY, TM, BN, OM, PA, ESS, MSS and ECM) consultant with 15 years of experience SAP Solution Architect, Implementation, Configuration and Project Management.
• Extensive Experience in US & CANADA Taxation, BSI, Payroll and the configuration steps of India and International, and Payroll Schema.
• Extensive experience in Time Configuration, Time Evaluation, Time Schema, CATS.
• Involved in integration of HR with FI modules and worked on ADP and Kronos interfaces.
• Good understanding in configuring and administering ESS and MSS.
• Experienced in Unit Testing, Parallel testing, Integration Testing & System Testing, writing Test Scripts, Test cases.
• Engaged in Corporate Strategy and IT ERP Global & Domestic Implementations from Hire to Retire as Solution Architect (TAKREER, SUCO and HP).
• Trained in Successfactors - Employee central.
• Performed business analysis activities as a Business Analyst (BA), consisting of requirements gathering, conducting workshops, delivering presentations, analyzing and documenting requirements for various projects.
• Excellent Communication, Client Interaction, Presentation and Problem solving Skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Illinois City, IL

SAP HCM Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Currently working as SAP HR Lead for the client
• Handling the production support activities for the client and the entire service delivery of HR for the client.
• Providing production support for Payroll (USA & CANADA), Time Management and CATS, Personnel Administration and Organizational Management.
• Handling weekly, monthly review status meetings with client.
• Design, validate and test Payroll Integration's between the external Payroll systems.
• Handling Unions on collective bargaining over wages, benefits and working conditions for both USA and CANADA.
• Had derived the Employee tax types and tax rates and was Involved in the Up-gradation of BSI Tax Factory 10.0
• Configured all payroll components for transfer to ADP and the integration with personnel administration, time and benefits sub modules.
• Worked on Data Migration from Legacy to SAP systems using LSMW. Mini Master Data Configuration & end user was given.
• Automating the data transfer from SAP to ADP on a daily basis for 27 payroll areas by creating SAP overnight background jobs
• Created/reviewed/updated new and existing work instructions for Benefits BPP's
• Provided requirements and defined business rules for Benefits Administration
• Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS) for employee entering data into Time sheets.
• Configured HR forms for Remuneration statement based on customer requirement.
• Taking care of all types of (sev1 - sev3) Incidents related to HR Policy Project.
• Modified CATS Profile for the absence type and also Wage type routing to IT 2010 for time entry without clock times and TM04 schema to evaluate the time.
• Used both clock times and Non clock times to capture the time. Used CATS to capture the attendances and absences.
• Regular status meeting within the team, weekly status meeting to the client.

Confidential -Billancourt, IL

SAP HCM Architect / Lead (PY, BN, TM, PA and OM)

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the W2 forms are generated accurately for all employees in time
• Maintenance of HR Forms such as Remuneration Statement & Payroll Journal Using HR Form Editor.
• Involved in complete life cycle of a data migration from DEV TO PROD using LSMW.
• Configuration and Design of Benefit Plan Types, Eligibility and Benefit Plans/Coverage/Costs accounting for domestic partner coverage premiums and recording of imputed income, out of area employee benefits, and executive benefit options
• Mapping Payroll Components to FI/CO ie., Posting With CATS.
• Collaborated with the ABAP developers and the QA team to develop and test new functionality and enhancements related to CATS.
• Handling client review meetings and status meetings.
• Taking part in Business Development activities like designing RFPs and involved in client meetings for new proposals.
• Configured the Mini Master values for all the required infotypes of personnel administration and time management.
• Designing and delivering solutions for problem related issues and ensured solution engineering activities align with the needs of the business and the program timeline.

Confidential, California City, CA

Support Lead (PY, TM, BN, PA, OM, ESS and MSS)

Responsibilities:

• Act as the business system process expert for the application systems of SAP/HR interfaces with ADP for Master Data extract.
• Coordinated with ADP for sending Tax data files for W2 processing.
• Involved in SAP / ADP Payroll Interface - Master Data .
• Year end closing support for W2 Printing and Tax Reporter.
• Involved in debugging the interface files for the outsourcing of Gross/Net payroll to ADP
• Techno Functional experience in Schema and Rules and BSI Tax Factory.
• Assisted with Open Enrollment and Benefit administration for retirees, including survivor information.
• Used both clock times and Non clock times to capture the time. Used CATS to capture the attendances and absences.
• Create Rule Groups for Time Sheet, set up Data Entry Profile and Field Selection, record/display working times of CATS Classic and generate the relevant reports
• Intense experience in using LSMW tool where a lot of interaction took place with end users in design and functional requirements.
• Configuration and Assignment of new Structural Profiles for Structural Authorizations.
• Configuration and Documentation of process to move Master Data from OM To the Go live Client from HR Mini Master.
• Defined Cost Variants and Cost Rules for the various health plans and assigned health plan attributes.
• Coordinate tax reimbursements, monitor host country labor laws and administer allowances
• Providing production support for Time Management, Personnel Administration, Organization Management and ESS/MSS.
• Handling client advisory role in terms of new projects execution.
• Handling weekly, monthly review status meetings with client.

Confidential

Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed business analysis activities consisting of requirements gathering, conducting workshops, delivering presentations, analyzing and documenting requirements for WINDOWS 7 SOE project.
• Planning, analyzing, and documenting requirements related to various projects.
• Assessing requirements and identifying limitations.
• Acting as a conduit between the business and technology during the entire life cycle of the project.

Confidential

SAP HCM Senior Functional Consultant (BN&TM)

Responsibilities:

• As a Functional Consultant, had handled Benefits concepts for MTSA Canada, a Merger and Acquisition Project.
• Gathering Requirements from Business.
• Configured work schedules, generate workschedule rules, genrate absence quotas, configure base entitlements and selection rules, worked on PCRs and Schemas for Negative Time recording.
• Setup and maintenance of Data entry Profiles for CATS Regular and CATS Classic
• Configured for negative time evaluation.Handled schemas & PCR’s for time evaluation.
• Defined public holiday calendar for personnel sub areas.
• Preparation of FSD’s for Time Interface, User Exits and Reports

Confidential, Pennsylvania Furnace, PA

SAP HCM Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project involved in implementation of Payroll module. Worked with business users and HR team to come up business requirements and putting together a blue print and mapping to SAP.
• Configuration of Payroll, Benefits, Garnishments, Deductions, Third Party Remittance and Taxes to streamline the payroll calculation process.
• Configuration of off-cycle work bench to run payroll for payroll adjustment, reverse payments, void payments, advance payment and for check replacement.
• Configured subsequent activities after payroll run which includes, GL Posting, Third party remittance, Reversal of payments, Reversal of Posting, Reversal of third party posting.
• Worked on holiday calendars based on province and modifying the personnel work schedules.
• Configured the IMG settings (work schedules, absences and quotas) required for Time management.
• Configuration of time management interfacing with an existing SAP payroll system. Wrote custom rules for unique quota accruals

Confidential, Wisconsin Dells, WI

SAP HCM Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work involved in implementation of Payroll, TM and Benefits sub modules.
• Extensive Experience in Year-End Tax Process and in US Payroll (Gross and Net), Taxation, and Time Management.
• Created the Process Model to define the sequence in which processing steps are to be performed in a payroll run and subsequent processing steps in off-cycle payroll.
• Worked on the benefits integration by creating custom wage types for the purpose of assigning those in the defined benefit plans and verified all the Benefit plans and wage types processing benefit deductions while integrating with payroll.
• Configured Public holiday calenders,work schedules, generate workschedule rules, genrate absence quotas, configure base entitlements and selection rules - Time recording.
• Worked within a team in defining the implementation process & documentation standards

Confidential, Virginia, VA

SAP HCM Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation of Payroll and Benefits module
• Configured and tested every configuration, working across other teams to ensure integration requirements are satisfied and developed to specifications.
• BSI and SAP Tax tables were maintained, different tax combinations of different tax types were created for different tax models.
• Conducted workshops detailing the Benefits Administration process in SAP.
• Provide guidance to the technical staff in developing interfaces for third party data transmission (benefit providers) in Benefits Administration for plans like Medical, Dental, Insurance and 401K Plans.
• Setup and configured plans relevant for COBRA administration and also administered the Flexible benefits schemes.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing.

Confidential, Illinois City, IL

SAP HR Functional Consultant ( PY& BN )

Responsibilities:

• My Initial project responsibilities involved in enhancements to Payroll and Benefits which involved additional functionality like adding new plans, Integrating the new plans with Payroll, Configuration required for 3rd party remittance, making enhancements
• Worked on TAX Levy’s in configuring and updating disposable amounts as per 668-W.
• Created custom ad-hoc reports for payroll and benefits which helped HR Mgmt team to track the plans.
• Configuration of Off cycle payroll reasons for Adjustments and Reverse payments.
• Worked with HR Supervisor in day-day basis in resolving end user issues

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

SAP HR Functional Consultant (PA&BN)

Responsibilities:

• SAP Project Upgrade from version 4.5B to 4.7 Enterprise
• Performed testing and verification for all cycles of upgrade process.
• Facilitated Integration of Benefits module with Inbound & Outbound Interfaces and assisted in PA Integration.
• Organized and facilitated problem-solving discussions with the clients, internal operations team and project managers.
• Configured vesting rules, investment options and catch-up contributions for benefits plans.
• Configuration of COBRA qualifying events and letter generation, as well as HIPAA s and the design of corresponding process for the Benefits department.
• Designed and documented functional and integration test scripts, run tests and document test results.

ABAP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Automatically deleting empty Handling Unit in delivery, in HUPAST and VL02N transactions.
• Interface to transfer data from SAP Everest to TPS in order to fulfill the Congo’s reporting where 19 RFCs were built in a predefined format.
• Display Packing Instruction on RF Gun where enhancements to TRM RF Screens were done.
• Implemented BADIs and User-exits were created