SUMMARY:

• SAP HCM/HR FunctionalConsultant over 9+ years of Experience in IT industry with primary focus in SAP HCM/HR Functionalspecialization in SAP Payroll PA and OM involved in all phases of Requirement Gathering, Business Blue Print, Implementation, Testing and Go-Live support in SAP R/3 (4.6B/C, 4.7C, ECC 5 & 6) across USA and UK.
• Extensive ExperienceinSAP HR Sub-modules PA, OM, TM and BN in Integration aspects with PY in Manufacturing, Health Care, Pharmaceutical and Oil and gas Industries.
• Completed three life cycle SAP Payroll implementations successfully involving requirement analysis and gathering, designing business blue-print, Configuration, testing and production support.
• As a Functional Lead interacted effectively with business and IT users to understand the AS-IS current process based on which the new TO-BE process needs to be modeled.
• Performed Gap analysis and processed work around with the help of ABAPer's using ABAP Programs, exits, and BADI's
• Worked on implementation using SAP Best practices for various sub modules.
• Extensive experience in configuring in Garnishment, Posting, US Payroll schemas sub-schemas, Personnel Calculation Rules, Off-cycle Payroll, Retro Calculation, month end Accruals, Process Models, overpayments and claims, Tax, 940, 941, SUI, W2 and Year End Activities.
• Expertise in END-END integration process in SAP/BSI interfacing to calculate Net Payroll.
• Strong experience in various phases of SAP testing including unit testing, system testing, integration testing and parallel testing.
• Involvedincreating cut-over plan and check list for End to End Payroll process.
• Provided functional support on a 24/7 basis for critical SAP applications including Tax, Garnishments and other deductions.
• Experience in SAP upgradation projects, provided support for basis and resolved various functional issues.
• Understanding on SAP HCM Portal ESS and MSS.
• 2+ years of experience in SAP ABAP technical and non-SAP areas related to Analysis, Design, Implementation, Integration and Testing.
• Involvedin migration from Legacy system to SAP system to centralize all HR payroll related data one single system.
• Special emphasis on Data Migration with BDCs, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW), for data migration and data conversion for various SAP Projects.

Education

• MS (Software Systems).
• B.E (Electrical and Electronic Engineering).

Technical Skills

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6, R/3 ECC 6.0.

SAP HR Functional Skills: SAP [HR]: HR Processes, Personnel Administration PA, Organization Management OM, Payroll, Time Management, Benefits.
SAP Fuctional SkillsSAP [FI]: GL, Assets, Receivables, and Payables.
SAP [MM]: Processing of PR, RFQ, Quotation and PR.
SAP [SD]: Processing of Sales order, Shipping and Billing.
SAP R/3 Technical Skills: ABAP Reports, BDC, LSMW, ALE, IDOC, BAPIs & RFC's,.
RDBMS: Oracle 8, SQL-Server 7.0/2000 /OLAB Services.
Programming Languages: ABAP, C, C++.
Internet Applications: JAVA, J2EE.
Web Services: SOAP, WSDL , UDDI , XML
Software Development & Project Management Tools: MS Office, MS VISIO, Rational Rose, MS Visual Source Safe, MS project.
Design Methodologies: OOAD, UML
Operating Systems: Windows 95, Windows NT/ Windows 2000 Server/XP.
Cross Applications: BAPI, RFC, LSMW

Professional SAP Experience

Confidential, Beaverton, OR. Oct 2011 - Present
Role: Senior HR Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Payroll:

• Involved in designing, configuring, mapping of Nike business process and creating documentation to validate various sub modules of SAP HR that includes Personnel Administration, Organizational management and Payroll.
• Engaged with the different Info types required to run payroll (IT0008, 0009, 0011, 0014 and 0015).
• Configured Third-party Remittance and FI posting and coordinated with FI Team to make sure successful FI Posting
• Reviewed current business requirements to configure and process garnishment orders as per state guidelines, court orders and company policies.
• Configured steps required to process employee off cycle payments to process payroll adjustments, reverse payments, and void payments and for check replacements as per client requirements.
• Generated the payroll area, payroll periods using period and date modifiers Maintained the features ABKRS to default payroll area, LGMST to default wage types, and TARIF to default pay-scale data
• Created wage types, wage type groups for recurring payments and deductions, additional payments Info types, and wage type permissibility for all ESG, PSG groups
• Configured wage types for basic pay, additional payments and recurring payments
• Configured TAX Reporter to generate W2's and FUTA & FICA reports for year end.
• Closely worked with business users and QA team members during functional testing and UAT.
• Supported go-live. Resolved production support issues related to processing of Garnishments, claims, Benefit enrollment issues.

Personnel Administration:

• Created personnel areas and personnel subareas according to business requirement and assigned to respective company code.
• Configured wage type from 1000-1099 for Basic pay infotype (IT8), 1100-1199 for Recurring payments and deduction (IT14), 1200 -1299 for Additional payments (IT15).
• Customized personnel actions and the reasons for change in personnel actions.
• Defined Info groups and assigned them to personnel actions to enter structured information of employees in the system.
• Worked on screen modification based on the variable key and organizational key -certain fields based on the client requirement were supposed to be hidden based on the employee subgroups.
• Defined new Organization Key for master data authorization checks usingVDSK1 feature in IMG

Organizational Management

• Configured the Enterprise Structure and Personnel Structure for PA, PSA, EG and ESG
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub areas for the primary wage type
• Configured Actions: Hire, Re-hire, Change of pay, Transfer, Retire and Terminate
• Created Organizational Units, Jobs, Positions and Maintained Relationships
• Configured Employee Qualifications Catalog
• Trained HR Users to maintain employee master data

Confidential, Pennsylvania Jan 2010 - Jul 2010
Role: Senior HR Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Microsoft Visio, SAP PI 7.0

Payroll:

• As a SAP HR lead carried out implementation on SAP ECC 6.0 in Pharmaceutical Company with over 5,000 employees. Company aimed to
  on of business requirements to a production ready functional solution to meet Shire Business demands.
• Finalization of Business Blueprints with Client and carried out an in depth study of the AS-IS Shire business processes related to Payroll and implemented them to TO-BE SAP processes.
• Involved in designing Functional documents for End to End Payroll Process which involves configuring Deductions, Garnishments, Tax, Schemas and Benefit Integration for different employee sub groups like hourly/salaried employees.
• Set up for all US employees for Weekly/bi-weekly/salaried/semi-monthly employee's subsequent activities FI Posting and 3rd party Remittance.
• Act as a Liaison for Shire SAP Payroll Implementation for multiple state garnishments and Conducted meetings and discussion with Shire Business Super users, End users and Technical Team members.
• Analyzed the Company policy for standard deductions, configured using IT0014, 0015 and Deduction model WT's.
• Involved in configuring Tax models for all employees based on Tax Authority (FED, State, local) Tax Types (Withholding, Social Security, Medicare, SUI), Tax class (PC 71), for various states based on Residing and Wok Tax Area.
• Involved in analyzing Payroll results for employees for year end Adjustments.
• Analyzed the payroll results and generated claim report in-order to clear claims for employees using, Off-cycle payroll, IT 221 and IT 267.
• Claims were cleared for employees (Active and Terminated) who was paid Overpayments (wrong taxable income) and configuration error.
• Involved in configuring Schemas and PCRS for Reimbursements and Deductions based on client requirement.
• Generated Reconciliation report to find any discrepancy between payroll results and Tax Reporter which was used for retroactivity and adjustment.
• Ensured the W2 forms are generated accurately for all employees in time.
• For SAP HCM Global Employee Management (GEM) Implementation Project developed functional design for outbound interfaces for US Based employees and International Assignees.
• Coordinated with ABAP and XI Team to extract Employee Census data from SAP HCM using ABAP Proxies and sent to Parente (Parente is Shire 3rd Party Benefits Provider handles all Benefits Administration and Ongoing Enrollments for all US based Benefit Eligible employees).
• Involved in SAP Integration testing, written test scripts for Business Process.
• Frequently interacted with stakeholders and business users for user acceptance testing and sign-off for Production moves.
• The Reporting component in SAP has been configured to provide Quarterly /Annual reports in accordance with statutory requirements.
• Parallel testing was carried out to find out the difference between the results generated from ADP and Shire SAP System.
• Extensively used Payroll Reconciliation Report for 4 payroll cycles to discover the discrepancies.
• Solved the Identified discrepancies raised between the systems and made the system up for consequent payroll run in SAP system.

PA/OM:

• Analyzed and configured Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure by defining personnel area, personnel sub-area, employee group and employee sub-group.
• Defined administrators for personnel areas using PINCH feature and NUMKAR feature to default number ranges for internal employees.
• Configured Personal Actions as per the requirements of the company.
• Created custom info-types in personal administration with two subtypes using transaction PM01.
• Worked with PFREQ feature for annual salary calculation.
• Configured new Infotype groups and Infotype menus in the Master data screens (PA30) as per the customer's requirements.
• Created and maintained the Organizational structure objects like organizational unit, jobs, positions and assigned cost centers to positions.
• Worked extensively in Simple Maintenance & Expert Mode to create organizational objects and for the cross reporting.

Confidential, Lynchburg VA Mar 2009 - Dec 2009
Role: HR Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Winshuttle, SAP Net Weaver, SAP XI 3.0, SAP EP 6.0, SAP Net Weaver Developer Studio, SAP R/3 4.7, SAP BIW 3.0, SAP CRM 4.0.

Areva Energy Service Company wanted to implement SAP ECC 5.0 to deliver efficient and cost effective Human Resources services that support and enhance Areva's operational and strategic objectives.

• As a Subject Matter Expert responsibilities included managing payroll and payroll accounting process and 8 payroll staff members with additional responsibilities included business process re-engineering, prototyping, configuration and implementation of SAP ECC.
• SAP HR Payroll Involved in Business Blue print and functional documentation preparation.
• Interacted with the user communities along on the As-is & Proposed Solutions for all assigned Implementations, Identify GAPs & document results /decisions of such findings in the Areva SharePoint in form of Status Reports.
• Implemented new HR capabilities including new Technology and Business process, Microsoft Visio was used to develop new Business cases.
• Configured end to end payroll process, Bank transfer and Payroll subsequent activities.
• Specially worked on business scenario, which involves Customized Schemas and created new rules for customer specific requirements in order to provide reimbursements for Areva employees based on employee subgroup grouping.
• Configured Off-cycle Payroll for Areva Service Award and customized the rules to outflow the Award for contribution towards 401k wages (/102) to the subsequent payroll run.
• Interacted with FI team members for FI posting based on Areva Company codes and employee levels when there is new Vendor Account number or change in Vendor assignment.
• Configured garnishment for multiple states based on state laws and configured for special cases like garnishment deduction from Off-cycle Bonus.
• Designed Tax Models for all employees to process tax calculation based on Residence, Unemployment and Work Tax Area.
• Defined Tax authorities, Tax Models, Tax Combinations based on Tax Types and maintained Tax model for corresponding employees.
• Extensive experience and understanding on end-end to Tax process (SAP - BSI), Payroll driver, Tax model and Tax Technical Wage types.
• Resolvedvarious issues involved in TAX deduction and calculation for multiple states.
• Maintained HR Payee for newly introduced Areva 3rd party Vision Benefit Providers.
• Worked on W2 to make sure employee's taxable earnings and state with holding tax is reflected in boxes 16 and 17.
• Configured HR forms for Remuneration statement based on customer requirement.
• Post Go-live Payroll Support for Time & Payroll issues included assisting Clients HR End Users in various processes such as Month End Accruals Postings, Garnishments, testing of Tax Reporter.
• Analyzes year end issues and adjusted payroll results using different (IT 221) subtypes like ADJT, TWEG, YANA and YAWA using year end adjustment workbench.
• Was involved in testing using parallel payroll runs between legacy system and SAP.

Confidential, Pilani, INDIA May 2007 - Mar 2009
Dissertation Work

• Completed Masters Degree in Software Engineering.
• As a part of SAP ERP Implantation, this dissertation focuses only to establish End-to-End Integration between their partners through SAP PI (Process Integration) system, which enable to fully automate the ordering process between their partners/suppliers using SAP ERP System. It allows sending and receiving order acknowledgements, change orders and invoices there by making the system quick and increases the Return on Investment.
• In addition case study was carried out on SAP Enterprise SOA is a blueprint for adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions, which brings immediate benefits to organization. Enterprise SOA allows evolving systems without having to "rip and replace" hardware or software, which helps to change infrastructure quickly as often as business model innovation demand

Confidential, INDIA May 2003 - May 2007

Confidential, US May 2006 - May 2007
Role: HR Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Weyerhaeuser aimed to enhances SAP HR functionalities to sustain and continuously improve HR process-level services to assure quality and to provide data analysis and forecasting to support business growth.

• Analyzing and understanding client Business Process model and identifying their requirement and provide functional leadership, document the functional and technicalrequirements of USA project and Implemented the various client requirement.
• Managing Task Executions, Participated in the design workshops to help define business requirements and areas of customization, reviewing and validating information.
• Responsible to coordinate and facilitate the Configuration for FI and HR Module Integration.
• Identified the To Be Process for the requirements to meet the business needs of Weyerhaeuser.
• Incorporated newly introduced State Tax law for employees by configuring tax model for employees.
• Configured the personnel calculation rules UMOT in the schema UTX0 for maintaining the taxability models.
• Configured taxability model using Tax Components such as Tax authorities, Tax class, Tax Types and Tax combinations.
• Maintained number ranges for pay date of taxes in the tax reporter.
• Created the regulatory report for federaland local agencies by using tax reporter.
• Involved in Year End Activities to generate W2 for Employees across US by accessing number of overpayments occurred for the current year to process back through claims, to clear out all deduction arrears as per Weyerhaeuser Payroll Policy.
• Assessed manual checks and third-party issued payroll checks to be entered on Info type 0221 to update the payroll balance in SAP.
• Generated Reconciliation report for year end Adjustment
• Configured required settings to process garnishment for multiple state, assigned priorities for multiple garnishment.
• Created rule for Non-Exempt based on each state rule.
• Created symbolic accounts and mapped to Vendors to post to Financial Accounting and maintained HR Payee and vendors for third-party remittances posting for tax, benefits and regular maintenance.
• Provided monthly payroll support and resolution for payroll related issues.
• Worked with ABAPer's and Exchange Integration (XI) specialist to send employee data to various 3rd parties.

Confidential, Irvine CA Apr 2005 - Apr 2006
Role: SAP Techno Functional HR Consultant
Environment SAP R/3 4.7c, XI

Personnel Administration:

• Configured personnel areas and personnel subareas according to business requirement and assigned to respective company code.
• Configured wage type for Basic pay infotype (IT8), Recurring payments and deduction (IT14), 1200 -1299 for Additional payments (IT15).
• Configured Payroll data for Basic Pay Infotype
• Customized personnel actions and the reasons for change in personnel actions.
• Configured the features NUMKR, ABKRS, TARIF, and LGMST.
• Defined Info groups and assigned them to personnel actions to enter structured information of employees in the system.
• Worked on screen modification based on the variable key and organizational key -certain fields based on the client requirement were supposed to be hidden based on the employee subgroups.
• Defined new Organization Key for master data authorization checks usingVDSK1 feature in IMG

Organizational Management:

• Created organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions, assigned the tasks to positions and integrated all of these into the enterprise's organizational plan using tables T527X and T528B.
• Assigned the various organizational units and positions to cost centers.
• Configured rule values to avoid positions to be over-occupied by defining planned working times for organizational units, positions, and work centers.
• Integrated Organizational Management with Personnel Administration by running the reports RHINTE 00, RHINTE10, RHINTE20, RHINTE30.

Payroll:

• Involved in interfacing between Allergan SAP HR system and Payroll system (Genesys).
• Created Functional document for Annual Bonus, Daily Bonus, Daily Hourly, Daily Salary, Daily Transfer and Name and Address Interfaces to send to GENESYS system to process Payroll.
• Created functional document to send weekly report to Allergan 3rd party Benefit Providers to capture all US Benefit and non Benefit Eligible Employees.
• As Part of SAP HR Globalization Project, Allergan was working closely with Concur for Employee Travel & Expense development Project. As a techno Functional Consultant was working on Complete Design and development for Outbound & Inbound Interface using SAP XI/PI (Process Integration) to transfer Employee & Accounting object data to Concur.
• HR Interface for interfacing the employee details, Employee changes, travel expenses, Employee expense reimbursement, eTime Hours worked, per deim from SAP to Genesys system.
• Written functional document to send employee reports such as Hourly New hires / Rehires
• Change of name and address, Individual Annual Salary / Hourly Rate changes, Employment Termination, Annual Salary Wage Increase.
• Helped technical team members in identifying employee's master data and transactional data from various Info-types tables by providing relevant info-type tables, corresponding field names and fields.
• Written Functional Design document and developed the Outbound Interface file for Fidelity 401K Demographics using SAP Exchange Integration (XI). Fidelity will use this file to change the employee mailing address, terminate employees or put their status as on-leave. When a new employee is hired, this file will contain their full record and will indicate to Fidelity that the employee is now eligible for participating in the 401k program.
• Coordinatedwith technical team in writing interfacing programming both inbound and outbound by providing appropriate Info types, field Names and other selection criteria.
• Written ALV report programming to extract all employee master data to provide client with Employee census information.

Confidential, UK and US Sep 2004 - Mar 2005
Role: SAP HR Functional Consultant
Environnent SAP R/3 4.6c

Payroll:

• Generated payroll accounting areas and their corresponding control records.
• Customized Pay scale reclassification using the reports RPITUM00 and RPIPSR00 and setup Standard Pay scale increase.
• Created custom processing and evaluation classes along with maintaining their specifications with the aid of the tables T52D1, T52D2, T52D3 and T52D4.
• Configured basic pay, recurring payments wage types, and cumulation wage types.
• Configured the wage types for garnishments.
• Customized garnishment documents for government remittance rule.
• Configured wages types for pre-tax (401k, medical) and post-tax deductions.
• Defined payment models for recurring payments and deductions and maintained the feature, MODDE for defaulting payment and deduction schedule.
• Created a payment model for deduction, defined deduction frequencies, set limits on deduction, included priorities and arrears processing for calculating deductions.
• Maintained number ranges for garnishment payees and vendor subgroups.

Confidential, UK Jan 2004 - Aug 2004
Role: HR Consultant
Environnent SAP R/3 4.7c

Personnel Administration:

• Explored, analyzed and implemented new SAP HR Functionalities to add value to the existing business processes.
• Involved in understanding and preparing the functional specifications for any new changes.
• Involved in configuring various dynamic action based on customer requirement.
• Created and customized info types to meet business requirement.
• Involved in Customization of Personnel actions.
• Created custom info-types in personal administration with two subtypes using transaction PM01.

Organizational Management (OM):

• Maintained organizational structure including organizational units, jobs, positions, cost center assignments etc
• Involved in integration with cost accounting and cost distribution
• Involved in setting up matrix organization and organizational plan, which defines the relationships existing between different organizational units.
• Involved in setting up the organizational key using the organizational structure to define additional authorization checks. Maintained feature VDSKI and table T527 to define the rules for creation of the organizational key.

Time Management:

• Configured daily work schedules and period work schedules for employees using the tables T508A, T550A and T551C and maintained the feature SCHKZ.
• Customized day types, planned working time, leave quotas, attendances, substitutions, overtime and availability using T533, T554S tables and feature LVNUM.
• Customized factoring and the average calculation for time wage types.
• Configured time wage type valuation and overtime compensation.
• Maintained the time schemas TM00 for time evaluation with clock times.
• Maintained Cross Application Time Sheets (CATS) and the database tables CATSDB and CATSHR tables for evaluating the time sheets.
• Configured absence valuation using T554C table, time wage type valuation and factoring.

Confidential, UK May 2003 - Dec 2003
Role: SAP HR Techno Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6B

• Good understanding in SAP HR modules PA, OM PY, TM and BN.
• Involved in understanding the Business process flow of SAP HR modules.
• Understand the integration of SAP HR module with other modules like FI.
• Acquired good knowledge in understanding Info types, Clusters, Logical Data base.
• Involved in customization of hiring, rehiring actions, maintained new features to default Reason codes.
• Identified the custom field required in Info types and written user exits to fit client requirement.
• Implemented various customization using field and user exits identifying available exits for PA, OM and PY modules.
• Good understanding and experience on BADI's to upload HR master data.
• Done report programming to display employee master data using LDB.
• Involved in writing various report programming to send report to 3rd part vendors.