SUMMARY

• Highly skilled IT professional with 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst in HR, Telecom, Financial/Banking, Pharmaceuticals and Engineering technology fields.
• More than 2 years of experience as a Workday consultant as a HCM business end user experience.
• Worked with creation of Supervisory Organizations, Reorganizations, Subordinate Supervisory Orgs and Organizational Hierarchies.
• Created Companies and assignments on supervisory organizations.
• Understanding the client requirements and involved in preparing the functional and Non - functional (Technical) specifications document.
• Worked with different staffing models, defining Hire restrictions to Job Management, Position Management.
• Experience in creating Job Profiles, Job Families and Job Family Groups.
• Worked with creation of Position and Headcount Groups.
• Expertise in creating Compensation rules, Compensation components and setting up compensation segment security features.
• Worked with business process framework, well verged with multiple configuration options in staffing, compensation, benefit events, time off/leave events, Talent Management Events.
• Worked on the Object Management Systems like Role Based Security, User Based Security, Job Based Security groups.
• Maintenance and creation of Workday Supervisory Organizations, Locations, Positions, Cost center, Cost center hierarchies.
• Experience in generating Custom reports for data retrieving used in EIBs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile and Scrum

System: Salesforce and workday

Business Analysis Tools: MS Visio

Applications: MS Project 2003, MS Share Point 2010, Lotus notes, Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint), MS Share Point.

Database: Oracle, UDB DB2, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, BETHLEHEM, PA

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• ConfiguredRecruitmentand Hire to Retire Modules End to End and assist in HCM Functional Process Areas.
• Worked on entire Recruitment Workflow fromCandidate AssessmenttoReady to Hirestage with configuration of different stages and associated Business Processes.
• ConfiguredJob ApplicationBusiness Processes with all the recruitment stages on Dynamic Action label.
• Worked onJob Requisitionfor the Open Positions under Manager’ Organization.
• Configured Roles for therecruitment stagesby accessing Maintain Assignable Roles.
• Worked on variousBusiness processto handle actions related to cancel, rescind and mass cancellation or enrollment of positions.
• ConfiguredRecruitingandTerminationQuestionnaires and added to the associated Business Processes.
• Creating the new business processes and notifications in the tenant based on the designed business requirements.
• Worked withSimpleandAdvanced Reports, defining columns, business objects, fields, columns heading overriding, multiple sorting techniques, sorting by secondary objects.
• Worked on testing the data andsecurityissues with the data from the reporting prospective.
• Performtestingafter each prototype as part of quality assurance prior to market validation testing.
• Troubleshoot, fix and participate in Change Requests during all phases of the project.
• Environment:Workday 27/28, Recruiting,On boarding, Workday Business Process Framework, Workday Report Writer.

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configure and implement processes related to HCM, Compensation, Benefits and Performance Management.
• Involved in requirements gathering, Gap analysis with the configurations.
• Excellent experience on configuring all the business processes in workday such as Hire, Termination, Job changes, Create position, create applicant etc.
• Creating new custom notifications in hire business process and modifying the existing notifications and pushing them to a specific security groups.
• Creating reorganizations events depending upon the request.
• Experience in creating Eligibility rules, grades, grade profiles, plans and allowances and grouping them together in Compensation package.
• Creating Role based security groups and assigning the particular roles and modified existing role based security groups. Assigning users to the user based security groups.
• Enable and setup Business process security domain to access new business processes for specific role based security groups.
• Create custom advanced and matrix reports on different data sources within different business objects. Some of the custom reports include New hires, Active employees till a specific period, Benefits reports, Performance evolution completion status report, Goals completed, Terminated employees by using filters, Prompts and customized outputs.
• Involved in the project management for Workday Implementation.
• Collaborate with Senior Leadership and internal business partners to establish consistent HR practices and processes.
• Consistently provides complete and timely communication of project information to and from stakeholders and Management.
• Track issues/ project deliverables and drive tasks to completion.
• Develop and implement recommendations for re-engineering and/or improvements to process, policy, or procedure.
• Facilitate brainstorming, planning and status meetings; track issues and deliverables and drive to completion.
• Monitor and control risks throughout the project life cycle.
• Implementing performance and development process at client place. Setting up the goals templates, performance evaluation templates. Assigning push notifications for midterm and annual reviews.
• Aligning the PDP (Performance and Development Process) to the existing appraisals process.
• Training all the HR Coordinators on each business process, organizational hierarchy and cost center hierarchy.
• Involved in change management process for all the major business changes with business users.
• Experience on project change and release management process.
• Create Change management strategy, and do the impact analysis. Preparing the training documents for managers and employees on changes.
• Communicate the change management strategy to all the stake holders.
• Align the organization culture to the changes happening on the business.
• Resolving process related issues.
• SPOC for all the Workday related tasks and issues.
• Training all the PDP managers and employees on the new process.
• Creating custom reports specific to PDP and display as dashboard.
• Building inbound integrations through EIB for deploying mass loads data.
• Experience in handling Core Connectors for Integrations.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE (GAP Analysis) workflow scenarios.
• Designed new process flows and documented the business process and various business scenarios and activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level and prepared Business Workflow models.
• Interviewed SMEs and Managers in Investment, Trading, Equity and Financial Analysts conducting JAD sessions.
• Conducted thorough questioning to understand and record the requirements as user stories and created visual models or wire-frames that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical personnel.
• Primary Intermediary between the Subject Matter Experts such as Portfolio Managers and Relationship Managers to understand and identify the Business needs, Rules, Processes & Interface Specifications.
• Documented Business Overview and Business Requirement Document (BRD) using Agile Methodology.
• Created Use Case Scenarios and maintained the Textual Use Cases (Business User stories) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Business Flow Diagrams.
• Revised functional specifications and other core materials throughout the SDLC, making all necessary revisions for defect correction and requirement clarification /refinement.
• Performed GAP Analysis for the modules in production, conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.
• Collaborated with the QA team to perform UAT, develop the test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, SQL, MS Office, MS Visio, HTML, XML, ASP, Win Runner, Load Runner

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, and analyzed the requirements using Visio, Requisite-Pro.
• Developed business requirements document with the project team. Extracted, discussed and refined business requirements from the users.
• Developed functional requirements documents by interacting with the IT personnel and the Business users.
• Involved in requirements discussions with business units, ensuring all business requirements were satisfactorily met accordingly to the user requirements.
• Performed extensive requirement analysis including Data analysis, Gap analysis.
• Communicated with account management, project owners, and development and QA partners on all issues in a timely manner to ensure successful delivery of benefit messaging.
• Developed coded, variable, information into user-friendly sentences via specific software tools.
• Developed business requirement specification documents using UML technologies.
• Clarified QA team issues and reviewed test plans and test scripts developed by the development team and QA team to make sure all requirements have been covered in scripts and tested properly.
• Organized and conducted UAT with clients and worked as a part of the support team for Benefit Messaging.
• Translated requirements to the developers and guided the team when issues arise related to the business requirements.
• Attended JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions and gathered requirements for all outstanding issues.
• Researched, analyzed and resolved any tickets/ECs (Escalations).

Environment: Agile SDLC Methodology, MS Project, Microsoft Visio, C++, MS SQL server, JAD, UAT, Blueprint.