SUMMARY

• Workday Business System Analyst with more than 8 years of experience in understanding the Business Process Flows, Case Tools, and Business Analysis.
• Ability to work cross - functionally with various stakeholders and team members.
• Strategic Competencies to support complex Business Analysis
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment
• Strong working knowledge in software development methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall across the span of various projects
• Skilled at performing GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and Feasibility Analysis
• Ability to analyze Request for Proposal, Progress Reports, Project Charter, and Business Case.
• Understanding High Level requirement by using SIPOC Diagram via MS. Visio 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.
• Assisted in the transition of the customer from professional services to Workday customer support.
• Worked on translating customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents.
• Created test cases for integrations testing and performed various kinds of integration and functional testing. Business Requirement Document (BRD), User Requirement Specification (URS) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD)/ SRS and proposed changes for process improvement
• Manage customer centric operations &ensure customer satisfaction by achieving quality service delivery, set expectations accordingly and timely escalations status reporting.
• Exposure to Software prototyping techniques like Incremental/ Evolutionary Prototyping
• Skilled in Object Oriented Analysis and Design with experience in creating Use Cases and Swim Lane Diagrams
• Interact with users, other portfolios, and vendors for full life cycle of project.
• Troubleshoot, coordinate, and maintain production systems/programs/applications, as needed.
• Produce scheduled and ad hoc reports as necessary.
• Excellent Team player with Result-oriented, Fast learner, Excellent communication skills
• Ability to exhibit Sound judgment and Decision-making skills along with exemplary leadership in constructing Strategic vision, Generating Financial success, and Delivering positive results across multiple organizational functions.
• Provide user support and coordinate resolution of issues to include change management, root cause analysis, and appropriate escalation as needed.
• Develop use cases and functional specifications and coordinate the capture of process models and functional testing, ensuring system is functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well integrated.
• Develop and manage user acceptance criteria.
• Analytical exposure of UML such as Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram and Entity Diagram.
• Ability to gather requirement through Wish list and User Stories.
• Support the team with Product Backlog grooming activities and Practical knowledge of Scrum Meetings.
• Ability to do prepare Business Model and Use Case Descriptive and have Project management experience includes Client management, Customer interaction, Scope definition, Project planning, and Change control, Integration and Release management.
• Sound understanding SQL queries and reporting the results to the business team.
• Project management experience includes Client management, Customer interaction, Scope definition, Project planning, and Change control, Integration and Release management.
• Sound understanding SQL queries and reporting the results to the business team.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment with working knowledge in software development methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall across the span of various projects
• Well versed in technical skills, management skill and good interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000. 2003, XP, Seven, Vista.

Databases & Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, and MS Access.

Languages: SQL, Java J2EE and UML.

Internet Technologies: HTML

Document Processing: MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Web, MS Excel.

Multimedia: Adobe Photoshop, Dream Viewer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raleigh NC

Workday HR System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined Personnel Sub-Area Groupings (PSG) and Employee Subgroup Groupings for Work Schedules.
• Date types for date monitoring, date specifications, Info types for hire date, service dates and termination date.
• Defined Daily Work Schedules, Periodic Work Schedules.
• Configured Info type menus in the master data screens (PA30) as per the customer’s requirements.
• Capable of handling Production support and transition.
• Created tasks and assigned them to the jobs and positions.
• Defined different Payroll Areas, Pay Scale Types, Pay Scale Groups and Levels for different Employee Groups and Subgroups.
• Set up features of LGMST and ABKRS.
• Requirement gathering and blueprint preparation
• Prepared Functional specification documents for PCRs for MSS
• Prepared Functional specification documents for custom development for ECM, Benefits, and PM.
• Configuration of customized Benefits for both US and India.
• Created LSMW programs for data conversion of PA, OM and ECM Infotypes /custom tables during and after cutover

Confidential, Irving TX

Workday HR/HCM System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed built and executed data Conversion from PeopleSoft to Workday HCM for 91 countries worldwide.
• Converted and validated North American Payrolls for USA and Canada.
• Designed and built cross application conversion and parallel validation processes.
• Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage
• Wrote Use Cases and produce Activity diagrams, Develop requirements specifications and Documentations for Business Process Management.
• Responsible for architecture of multiple projects in FAME program
• Work on all phases of Workday implementation
• Help team in functional configuration and technical integration of the Workday application
• Design Workday HCM data conversion process.
• Work on Workday conversion processes and tools like iTool, EBI, Workday Studio etc.
• Integrate Workday with external vendor software.
• Experience leading project teams in all phases of the Workday implementation lifecycle.
• Participate in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers
• Develop impact and preliminary analyses in SDLC, and participate actively in their implementation.
• Daily Matrices report creation based on application usage across the Organization, Create the project support related documents, Update and Maintain Project Cycle Management (PCM)
• Observe the standards and procedures established by the project office and Track business needs during development phases in Business Life cycle.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Work Day HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Perform configuration work as needed to support new and existing functionality.
• Supports the implementation of Workday HRIS system and post-implementation HyperCare.
• Uses knowledge of HR business functions and involves the key players to identify and assessing operating needs and issues, and suggest IT solutions (possibly cross-functional or global) for one or more business function.
• Setup business process steps, such as Action, Approval, Approval Chain and Checklist, and how they work and integrate with security groups.
• Worked on the creation of benefit plans, job profiles, and job families.
• Configuration of Workday’s business process framework, configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
• Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Implemented Workday performance management including goal setting, midyear, and year end processes.
• Configured absence management including vacation, parental leave and other LOA types.
• Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.
• Perform system, UAT, and regression testing, throughout the life of the implementation.
• Created functional document for script development, testing execution, defect tracking and resolution.
• Perform regression testing efforts to support release management and phased rollouts in different geographic regions. Configuration of Workday’s business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
• Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Implemented Workday performance management including goal setting, midyear, and year end processes.
• Perform regression testing efforts to support release management and phased rollouts in different geographic regions.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Workday HCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Observe the standards and procedures established by the project office and Track business needs during development phases in Business Life cycle.
• Help team in functional configuration and technical integration of the Workday application
• Worked on Workday HCM data conversion process
• Participate in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers.
• Custom report creation based on application usage across the organization
• Create the project support related documents, Update and Maintain Project Cycle Management (PCM)
• Worked on Compensation Components.
• Created Compensation plans that specify compensation elements.
• Formed Eligibility rules to define each employee’s association with the different compensation plans.
• Worked on creating Salary plans, Hourly plans and Allowance plans.
• Configured various earnings and deductions related to benefits, compensation, time tracking and absence. Responsibilities include the accurate and timely administration & processing of semi-monthly and bi-weekly payroll.
• Created Compensation Grades to create a standard compensation range for a given job level or a job profile.
• Generated Compensation Grade profiles to divide the grades into functional tasks, geographic regions and the required sub-categories for the business.
• Worked on creating Compensation Packages to group together the compensation guidelines and compensation plans that could be assigned to an employee all at once.
• Worked on Compensation Eligibility rules to set the required criteria so that there is automatic association of a group of employees with the selected compensation elements.
• Performed various personnel actions, specifically, hiring employees, performing organizational reassignment, change in pay.
• Implementation of system enhancements and conversions which included developing detailed documentation for training and testing
• Analyzed change and update requests, Coordinated the execution of tests and integration within the module.
• Draft job aids and FAQs for system integration and workflow for Performance Management and Compensation module.
• Managed job description and workflow of employee data for compensation module including job families, pay ranges, bonus scales, grading and supervisor setup.

Confidential

SAP HR Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created enterprise structure by defining the personnel areas, sub areas, sub area groupings, Employee group and subgroup groupings.
• I was responsible for identifying and researching differences between the SAP releases. Responsible for ensuring that all relevant objects in SAP HR and Payroll are included in test scripts.
• Assisting the team lead in assigning tasks to resources and managing the project plan.
• Customized different Personal action reasons for various actions while creating actions menus based on user groups.
• Defined Personnel Sub-Area Groupings (PSG) and Employee Subgroup Groupings for Work Schedules.
• Date types for date monitoring, date specifications, Info types for hire date, service dates and termination date.
• Defined Daily Work Schedules, Periodic Work Schedules.
• Defined different Payroll Areas, Pay Scale Types, Pay Scale Groups and Levels for different Employee Groups and Subgroups.
• Created meaningful weekly and monthly sales reports capturing various financial and operational metrics.
• Configured various Compensation plans, Reviews, Review Item Attributes, Eligibility rules, Guidelines and Program groupings.
• Designed the functional specifications for “updating custom columns with salary survey data used during Merit increase process” on the portal.
• Designed Functional specification for “sending notifications to managers” during various stages of compensation planning process.
• Involved in development of Outbound/Inbound Interfaces for Stock option providers.
• Involved in development of custom programs and custom Info type to handle LTI administration process.