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Workday Functional Lead Consultant Resume

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SUMMARY

  • An IT professional with 4.5 years of experience in Workday Core HCM, business process configuration, security configurations, report development, extensive testing of data conversions, and system functionality
  • 3 years of hands - on experience as a Workday Integration Consultant with expert level experience in all phases of Workday implementation lifecycle, namely - Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, and Testing Experience in conducting discovery sessions for Workday Integrations
  • Hands-on experience in inbound/ outbound integrations using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports
  • Analyzing and documenting business processes within Workday HCM systems, analyzing system functionality with customers, and identify gaps. Support and configure HRMS systems to meet the business requirements
  • Designed and built both inbound and outbound EIB integrations in various segments of Workday system and worked with Core Connector, Cloud Connector, Report Writer, Data Conversions loads, XML, XSLT, SOAP, and REST web services
  • Performed in full life cycle implementations with extensive functional experience in core HCM, Compensation, Security, Business Process Flows, Reporting, and employee Self-Service modules
  • Experienced in Workday Reporting with thorough knowledge in building industry-standard reports including List Reports, Matrix Reports, Calculated Fields, Conditions, and Eligibility Rules that apply to the parameters of the report and provided generated Custom Reports and Custom fields for data retrieving used in EIB
  • Partner with the vendor and internal infrastructure department to ensure proper configuration, maintenance, and ongoing support of the core infrastructure and associated services required for application operations
  • Ability to self-manage and work independently, work to tight deadlines, prioritize workloads and work with related internal business functions such as commercial, legal, and finance
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem-solving abilities, effective in working independently, and an exceptional team player
  • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a fast-paced problem-solving environment, by taking the initiative and proactively improving processes with alignment from the key stakeholders

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Workday Functional Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for set-up, configuration, testing, and supporting day-to-day systems and production issues
  • Provided tier 1 support per best practice recommendations, responsible for knowledge transfer, and troubleshooting in Core HCM
  • Involved in the full life cycle implementation, conversion, configuration, testing, and production support of core financial modules
  • Developed integrations using Workday Studio tool and EIB, Core connector and deploying it into workday tenant
  • Built an integration to send existing, new, and changed job requisitions to external vendor applicant tracking systems.
  • Build Core HR-related integrations to send employee, position, and cost centers data
  • Developed inbound Integration to bring in results to Workday after payroll run is complete
  • Proficient in transforming the data by using XSLT
  • Developed custom reports using Workday report writer tool and deploying it into Workday tenant
  • Created calculated fields based on the requirement from the client and used in custom reports
  • Tested integrations and supported post productions support for reports and integrations.
  • Experience working on all types of data sources and all Workers, Supervisory Organization, Cost Centers, Location and its Hierarchies, Position Management, Indexed Workers
  • Configured Workday functionality including grades, grade profiles, eligibility rules, allowance plans, bonuses, and compensation plans
  • Worked on creating multiple custom reports for Simple, Advanced reports, Matrix Reports, Composite reports
  • Worked the business process for bonus plan, merit plan, salary plan, and hourly plan
  • Collecting the requirements of Reporting from business and end-user clients
  • Conducted unit testing, and provide production support on an ongoing basis, functional point of contact between other functional departments and IT/HR leaders to gather requirements on new configuration and triage production breaks.
  • Devise and document a general system design based on the client's anticipated requirements. Negotiate options with the client
  • Gathering, analyzing, and identifying business requirements, collected, and researched specific client requirements for projects; identified and documents functional requirements; gathers workflow data and basic system specifications.
  • Created solution requirements and distributed working drafts for review and final team approval, provided recommendations around functional design and configurations.
  • Reviewed and approved use cases, business requirements, test cases, materials, and support requirements for the Manufacturing module and its Integration with other modules
  • Assist with data clean-up efforts, resolving data issues that are currently preventing the finalization of procurement transactions
  • Support of technology implementations from a technical perspective, including experience with cloud-based technologies, data cleansing and conversions, interface design/development, systems development life cycle

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for tier 1 support, best practice recommendations, knowledge transfer, and troubleshooting in Core HCM, Compensation, and Reporting
  • Worked closely with clients to identify business needs and the costs and benefits of implementing a computing solution, construct IT definitions based on identified needs, work with other IT experts to address strategies
  • Build Custom Integrations (Inbound/Outbound) via Core Connectors and EIBs
  • Worked on Custom reports, Calculated Fields, Custom Integration Documents Delivery, Business Process configuration
  • Developed complex XSLT using Studio to generate a customer-specified output format
  • Coordinated with Onshore on requirements gathering, implementation, testing, and enhancement of Integration
  • Worked with the client to help convert legacy data into Workday Test Conversions to third party systems
  • Migrated integrations and calculated fields using iLoads and OX transporter
  • Implemented and supported HR systems, configuring and implementing Workday HCM
  • Worked on Workday configuration, business processes, and security set-up.
  • Created Supervisory Organizations, Subordinate Supervisory Orgs, Reorganizations, Company, Position, Locations, Cost center, and Organizational Hierarchies
  • Configured and Tested Business Process and notifications in core HR: Hire, Job Change, Termination, Create Positions, Requisitions, Termination, & Contract Contingent.
  • Creating Job Profiles, Job Families and Job Family Groups, Compensation grades, and profiles for North America and global countries in foreign currencies
  • Built industry-standard reports including Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Calculated Fields, Conditions and Eligibility Rules that apply to the parameters of the report
  • Designed, Built, Tested, and Deployed Integration and Reporting solutions associated with Workday Object Management Systems like Role-Based Security, User-Based Security, Job-Based Security groups
  • Translated business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization, manages changes to such specifications and educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
  • Worked on a basic understanding of data used by businesses for marketing or decision making and industry issues facing companies in the business of selling data
  • Facilitated gathering of requirements.
  • Documents and verifies business and user requirements for technology solutions
  • Involved in the design phase and prototyping for further discussions with the client.
  • Help the team in functional configuration and technical Integration of the Workday application.
  • Worked on resolving service tickets on workday issues.
  • Maintain tools and templates for each Workday update

Confidential

Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Served as a Subject matter expert and provided functional support for Workday configuration in HCM, Time and Absence, Security, Talent, Recruiting, and Learning
  • Led the data extract project from ERP to Workday. This involved extracting data out of ERP initially to help configure all the required hierarchy organizational data required in Workday prior to extracting the employee transactional data
  • Worked on the following integration configurations: technical components required to support the business process, including effort estimates and resource management experience. System design and testing concepts, Workday Studio Development, Workday EIB, RaaS, Web Services, and Integration design and testing concepts
  • Worked on the data extract for Workday HCM, and led the team on providing the data extract from ERP data for load into their new module Cornerstone, scheduled to go live simultaneously with the new Workday system
  • Assisted with the generation of Workday Advanced Custom Reports and Integrations EIB
  • Mapped current processes against the planned Workday/ADP integration, and developed recommendations on Integration best practices.
  • Assessed HR business requirements and understood new strategies to optimize systems to meet evolving business needs.
  • Utilized EIBs to make mass updates in Workday for compensation updates, job changes
  • Made security assignments in accordance with Workday operation procedures and configure system fixes/enhancements in production. Tested documented procedures, maintain and update as needed.
  • Lead the troubleshooting process to understand errors encountered by end-users and supported the implementation of additional Workday functionality as required
  • Managed testing and documentation for weekly and semi-annual releases and enhancements/initiatives and reporting
  • Created and maintained reports using standard formats to address short and long-term business needs, utilized Workday community to research and network with other users to brainstorm system solutions.
  • Propose solutions or designs to meet business needs leveraging Workday HCM knowledge and experience, Research Workday Community, and network with other resources/customers as needed.
  • Develop Business Requirements Documentation (BRD) for Workday online configuration, report, and integration changes.
  • Participated in all aspects of testing, including the development of test strategy documentation, write test scripts, coordinate testing resources, compile test completion metrics, and test script execution.
  • Configured security, process flows, and notifications for Business Processes within Workday system

Confidential, Fort Pierce, FL

Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Provide workday functional consulting services by configuring Workday functionality including core HCM and by leading clients through the entire system development lifecycle
  • Assisted clients in fully integrating the Workday system into their current business environments and provided input on best practices of Workday
  • Assisted in the requirement gathering of the set-up of the system, security groups, business process configurations, performance management, and the organization structure
  • Moving custom reports & security set-up within different workday tenants and validated data in all tenants through various EIBs and I-Loads
  • Assisted with the generation of Workday Advanced Custom Reports and Integrations EIB Enterprise Integration Builder, EIB is a tool used in Workday to handle inbound files to Workday or outbound files from Workday to vendors or Web Services
  • Maintaining Security within Workday application - Adding/Removing users within the security groups. Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties
  • Tested Workday Security configuration, objects including Management Hierarchies, Regions, Locations, edited Domain and Business Process Security Policies for few security groups, audited Tenant set-up
  • Experience working on all types of data sources, and all Workers, Supervisory Organization, Cost Centers, Location and its Hierarchies, Position Management, Indexed Workers
  • Responsible for Tracking and preparing the report of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, required resources, and defect triage
  • Configured Workday functionality, including grades, grade profiles, eligibility rules, allowance plans, bonuses, and compensation plans.
  • Configure the Workday system to meet each client's unique business requirements
  • Gathered information about the organization's works processes and information flows.
  • Documented existing process in a technical model format in order to evaluate and define new IT solutions and implementation processes
  • Responsible for the successful implementation of the workday system for several clients and acted as a liaison between the support team and the client to provide solutions to new fixes and integrations
Junior Workday Analyst

Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

  • Gather business requirements through design partner sessions with customers
  • Define business requirements for enhancements and feature
  • Supports HR technology projects involving Workday HCM
  • Configuration responsibilities include modifications to business processes, compensation set-up, security configuration, condition rules, and notifications, payroll earnings/ deduction codes, and reports
  • Involved in configuring and testing Workday business processes for HCM including Hire, Change Job, Request Compensation, Job Application, and Termination
  • Set-up custom security roles and set-up the security process flow according to business requirements
  • Configure Workday HCM, Time Tracking processes including validation rules, calculated fields, and other components
  • Designed business flow diagrams and processes, which included processes in Staffing, job benefits, Advance compensation grades, and packages
  • Maintained awareness of current trends in HRMS with a focus on product development, delivery, and support.
  • Provided direction, mentoring, and guidance to other team members for areas of Workday expertise, document processes, and generate concise and understandable business requirements for non-technical audiences and partner sign off.

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