Summary

• 8+ years’ experience as a PeopleSoft Payroll, HCM and HRIS Techno-Functional Consultant in the area of Core HR, Recruitment, Base Benefit and Benefits Administration, People Code, Absence Management, E-performance, PS Protal.
• Worked on re-implementation with HCM 9.1, upgrade projects with HCM 9.0, two new implementations and conversion & maintenance projects handling a key lead role in project implementations & support in payroll and TAM, HP Quality Centre.
• Functioned on TAM (Talent Acquisition Manager) to complete, integrated system that enables organizations to effectively manage workforce acquisition across all employment categories, as well as ideally suited to meet organizations needs in hiring conditions, applicants screened, interviewed, and hired quickly and efficiently.
• Strong PeopleSoft Functional experience in PeopleSoft (PS) HCM 9.1, 9.0, 8.x - Core HR, Workforce Administration, Talent Acquisition Management (TAM), Candidate Gateway (CG),PS Reports, PS Query, PS Security, PS Workflow, Employee Self Service, (ESS), Manager Self Service (MSS), e-Recruit, e-Pay, e-Performance, e-Compensation, and Tree Manager.
• As well as Payroll, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Time & Labor, Administer Workforce, Variable Compensation, & Employee Self Service modules, People Tools, e-Profile, e-Benefits, etc.
• Involved in PeopleSoft Testing, Upgrading, Requirement Gathering, PeopleSoft 8.8 and 9.1, CRM 8.1 and 9.1.
• Project Management – Currently leading a project of size 7. Prepare Project scope, plan, status reports, conduct meetings and coordinate between Onsite & Offshore
• Professional consulting experience includes all phases of project initiation, planning, architecture, requirements gathering & analysis, process reengineering & mapping, functional design,development & configuration, testing, Online Pages, implementation, UAT activities & error resolution, user training and post-Go-Live support.
• Excellent Project Management experience in resource management, budget and time management, project status communication to stake holders, quality assurance and delivery management.
• Strong knowledge in PeopleSoft RDBMS, XML Publisher, SQL, Crystal Report, PS Query and PS tools Application Engine, Fit-Gap Analysis, Integration Broker, Data Mover.
• Operating systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP (2003 &2007) Accounting Software experience using QuickBooks, ADP and Paychecks, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio.
• Skilled trainer, mentor and project leader; able to communicate effectively with management, business users, vendors and team; adept at creating and maintaining project schedules delivering presentations, demos & briefing to executives and in facilitating with users and multi-faceted team meetings.

Experience Highlights

• People Tools & PeopleSoft HRMS
• Payroll, Payroll interface, ESS & MSS
• Workforce planning & Administration
• Risk Analysis & Management
• ERP Project Management
• Garnishment
• Payroll Interface
• Recruiting & staffing
• E- performance management
• Process Scheduler
• Tree Manager, PS Workflow
• Project Tracking & Reporting
• PeopleSoft Implementation & Upgrades
• Base Benefits & Ben Admin
• Compensation & Benefits
• Requirements & Fit-Gap Sessions
• PeopleSoft HCM
• Software Development Life Cycle
• TAM, SLA Document
• Position Management
• PM Methodology
• Project Scope, Planning, Management
• Employee learning & development
• Change Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA April-2012 – Present
Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst
Project Overview: Creating test cases according to business requirement, Documentation, Data gathering, developing Business Process, Helped in Production Issues, Handle PS Change Control, Help Workday BSA to Data moving , testing, Payroll, Tax Updates, TAM, Benefit billing, Benefit Admin
Environment: 
PeopleSoft 8.9 Payroll, GL2, Budget, Benefits Admin., Tree Manager, Pension, Benefit Billing, Process Scheduler, TAM, Data Mover, People Tools, Compensation, Application Engine & Designer, PS Query, Integration Broker, crystal report, People Code, Tax Update, ADP Reporting. 
Responsibilities: (Key Projects)

• Annual Payroll Archive Process: - Move the last years’ paycheck, paychecks summary, tables and balance history. Weekend would work best for scheduling the Annual Payroll Archive Process. Weekend overnight and or a maintenance window option.
• 2012 Annual Budget File (Clarity):- Created the necessary files to assist the Corporate Accounting Department in the Completion 2011-2012 Annual Budget Process.
• 2012 Annual TLP Budget File: Provide Financial Reporting with employee information used to assist with completion of 2012 Transamerica Life & Protection Budget Projections.
• ADP Benefit Billing Interface: - Implement a new outbound interface to ADP for contracted services to provide Benefits Billing administration for TESC. This service is to provide overall administration and collection of directly remitted Benefits Premiums (non-payroll deducted). This population is largely Retirees and LTDs
• Tax Updates 12 C and 12-D (Current Working on it)
• Annual Workers Compensation Reports: AEGON need to run the annual job to produce the workers compensation reports for the Risk Management area. There are four reports that are run – a detailed report for all companies excluding TA Finance companies, a summary report for all companies excluding TA Finance companies, a detailed report for TA Finance companies, and a summary report for TA Finance companies. Business User Risk Management works with the summary reports.
• Payroll Upload Modifications: Make the Payroll Upload process more automated and efficient.
• Create a Data Snapshot Program for Timesheet/Payroll Issues: To help track and troubleshoot payroll and timesheet load issues, we will be creating a data snapshot program to capture Payline and earnings information before and after the paycalcs and timesheet load programs run.
• Remove Payroll Processing Security Customizations: The administration and processing of the Mon Life Agents payroll is moving from Baltimore to Cedar Rapids. Currently there is custom code that prevents the Mon Life agent payroll users from adding or updating pay sheets to the other payrolls and vice versa. Also there is custom logic that prevented a pay calendar from being modified between the pay groups and that prevented run controls from being added.
• Q3 2012 ADP Tax Reporting Update: ADP will be implementing system changes to support reporting mandates for New Mexico SUI and New York SIT. (Current working on it)
• Salary (Payroll) Accrual Program Modification: Salary Accrual data is used by divisions for awareness of their payroll expenses. Business need for new earnings code inclusion is to ensure that data is as accurate as possible for expense awareness/management. Business need for company addition is for the prevention of expenses being routed to a suspense account that should be booked elsewhere.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL Feb 2011 – Jan 2012
Project HR Techno-Functional Analyst 
Project Overviews: Project planning, Developing and testing to deals with the various aspects PeopleSoft payroll, employees’ profile and takes care of the Benefits, compensation, CRM, Time and Labor, TAM, deals with Garnishments, Online Pages. 
Environment: 
PeopleSoft 9.1 HR, Tree Manager, Payroll, GL2, Benefits Admin., XML Publisher, Absence Management, ERP, Process Scheduler, TAM & Candidate Gateway, People Tools, Data Mover, Application Engine & Designer, PS Query, Time and Labor, Integration Broker, crystal report, People Code.
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leadership and implementation of all customers facing compensation including base pay, quality, and variable programs for non-executives.
• Accomplishment Requirement gathering, Fit/Gap Analysis, impact Analysis, functional and configuration design spec preparation and integration testing for PeopleSoft HR, Benefits Admin, Absence Management, E-performance and North America Payroll module.
• Created the technical design specifications which detail the design changes required using People Tools, People Code, SQR’s, Crystal report and Application Engine.
• Creating several reconciliation analysis reports for coordination between PeopleSoft HCM (9.1) development team, Mainframe team, PeopleSoft financials team and various point solutions.
• Leads team to create structure directing on policy practice development and records, process improvement and documentation and restructuring of current process associating with other HR Functions.
• Involved in Project Management such as Project Planning, Execution, Preparing all QA related documents like Productivity & Utilization metrics, Defect Review Metrics, Test Execution Metrics etc.
• Serve as compensation thought leader and strategist to HR Generalist partners and Business Unit Leaders, responsible for development of business unit compensation philosophies and strategies.
• Generate new salaried structure program under development for all exempt position to be followed the consolidation of several nonexempt payroll structures across Sears’ and Kmart formats.
• Design leader for base pay programs and will collaborate closely with peer variable pay leader on business unit bonus and commission plan.
• Participates in development of business HR strategies and initiatives as assigned by the HR Director, including project planning, development, process testing in field or store environment, fact based analysis and feedback, change management recommendations and implementation supports.
• Design complex interfaces between PeopleSoft and other point solutions(8.9), such as interface from the recruitment system to PeopleSoft using Component Interface to process data load of new hires, rehires and internal transfer’s employees.
• Scope of the Program included implementation of the entire suite of PeopleSoft HCM (Talent Acquisition Management, Candidate Gateway, Core-HR, Base Benefits, e-Compensation, e-Profile, e-Pay, and Payroll, Payroll GL2) and a reporting solution to go along with the transactional system.

Confidential, Wheeling, IL June 2010- Jan 2011
PeopleSoft HR Professional (PS Upgrade/Re-implementation)
Project Overview: Confidential utilized PeopleSoft HCM for providing services for HR, Benefits, Payroll operations, E- Compensation, a techno/functional systems lead, managed the technical and functional aspects of the HR, Benefits and NA payroll modules implementation and coordination with the above individual applications, Crystal Report, People Code, n Vision, Integration Broker, Online Pages.
Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1 HRIS and HRIM, Payroll, Time & labor, GL2, Benefits Admin., TAM &HCM, People Tools, Process Scheduler, XNL Publisher, PS Query, Position Management, Absence Management, Application Engine & Designer, CRM, E-performance, Tree Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Supported Director, Management Compensation and Staff Manager, Payroll GL02, Administrative Compensation on respective clients to develop individual pay recommendations for newly hired or appointed executives or Investments professionals.
• Assisted in pay benchmarking projects for specific clients including job evaluation, internal and external analysis and recommendations.
• Supported in the implementation, communication, and administration of either the annual or long term incentive plan for all eligible employees, ensuring alignment with business objectives and shareholder interests.
• Accomplished in the development of meeting materials for the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, including competitive data and plan design alternatives and implications.
• Skilled in the research, analysis and design of specific core executive compensation initiatives including pay mix, incentive leverage, salary ranges, perquisites, etc.,
• Assisted Staff Manager on the annual proxy circular and other state filings to provide compensation information that is disclosed in accordance with SEC and state regulations.
• Maintained Director, Executive Compensation and Staff Manager, Executive Compensation on respective clients to develop individual pay recommendations for newly hired or appointed executives or Investments experts.
• Supported vendor relationship management and Responsible for the completion of executive compensation surveys.
• Maintained with adequate to complex projects covering key areas of executive compensation including changes to regulatory provisions, employee communication regarding executive and incentive compensation programs, analyzing effectiveness of current incentive plans, ad-hoc report and analysis applications.
• Established effective relationships with accounting, finance, HR, legal and the Company such that the impact of projected changes to executive compensation programs are fully understood and articulated to Senior Management in advance.
• Accompanied job analysis to determine appropriate salary level according to job leveling guidelines, maintained documentation processing including job descriptions, Payroll, E-performance, Payroll GL02, FLSA classifications and other relevant supporting data.(8.9)
• Maintained in the design of complex compensation reports, determined considerate of the requirements data elements to create reports which restructure and support compensation programs as well as Created PS Queries and written record level People Code.

Confidential Nov. 2008–Jan 2010
PeopleSoft Functional Analyst
Project Overview: PeopleSoft ERP application to provide a centralize human resources and management system and upgrade PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 depend of organization requirements. This was a system upgrade, maintenance and support project in PS 9.1, and was upgraded to PS 8.3 including TAM, Candidate Gateway, and Fit-Gap Analysis, Integration Broker, People Code. 
Environment: PeopleSoft HRIS and HRIM 8.8 and 9.1, Crystal Report, SDLC, Process Scheduler, MQ series, Payroll, GL2, Application Engine & Designer, XML Publisher, CRM, Data Mover, PS Query, E-performance, Import Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the production & support and upgrade of the PeopleSoft HCM 8.8(HR, Benefits and Benefits Administration, Payroll, E-performance, Time & Labor) modules based on organizational needs and requirements.
• Controlled on Global setup of the manager and employee self-service based on the job codes, salary plan admin and grade for various countries. These also include their payroll currently setup and pre-retirement or termination reimbursement criteria.
• Performed the Fit –Gap analysis and the Upgrade lab sessions to sort out the new functionalities to be added to the existing system. (9.1)
• Involved in the business process meetings along with Functional resources to identify the customizations.
• Extensively worked on Tax Updates in functional implementation parts and involved in year-end tasks particularly by applying payroll tax updates for running the payroll as expected.
• Worked on payroll process such as Pay Sheets, Pay calculation, Pay confirmation and created Paycheck for the employees on off cycle and on cycle basis.
• Applied Engine, People Code Fix Packs, Maintenance Packs, Service Packs and Tax Updates, as well as regular tax updates, patches & bundles to all relevant instances applied the Bundles, patches Tax Updates and resolved issues related to year-end processing.
• Designed screens and setting up for the Talent Acquisition, Candidate Gateway, e-Recruit for End Users, and assisted training manager in designingHRMSend-user training documents and prepared Standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Identified all the Business Process, Desktop reports and evaluated the required Business processes reports in Core HR.
• Improved the Absence Approval page in Manager Self-service in order to update or delete the approved absence and established up the Absence Data and Developed Report for Employee Absence and Track Vacations.
• Designed and implemented Real-time Integration of Best of the Breed Applicant tracking system (Monsterindia.com, naukari.com, timesjob.com) with PeopleSoft ERP system and application reduced Time to hire measure by 50%.

Confidential Feb 2006 – July 2008 
PeopleSoft Administrator
Project Overview: Confidential is the leading HR Services Provider in the area of HR, Payroll, Time Keeping and Taxes. Hi-Tech achieves services Hiring Process, HCM, Payroll Check printing, Garnishment Administration, Taxes filing and all legal aspects of HR for various clients. The project is initially designed for 8.3 and 8.17 and later adopting to all PS versions, Integration Version. People Code, Online Pages.
Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3, People Tools, GL, Time & Labor, Career Planning, Position Management, Absence Management, Data Mover, Crystal Report, XML Publisher and Application Engine, Import Manager, Security Administrator, PS Query, Object Security.

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the process managers in redesigning the business process by introducing Self Service pages to the employees and workflow that will reduce the workload and streamline the process.
• Responsible for formulating the Upgrade guide lines for the development team to upgrade the various PeopleSoft objects. Moreover, accompanied various workshops for the developers to understand the upgrade process and procedures.
• Organized hourly or non-exempt hiring process (recruit, interview, recommend candidates, extend offers, handle pre-employment testing) in conjunction with the HR Manager and Recruiting team as applicable.
• Directed management on appropriate resolution of issues related to staffing, employee performance, training and development, organizational structure, compensation, Absence Management etc.
• Partner with other HR departments to develop policies and programs which meet current and future business requirements.
• Recommended new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of department and services performed.
• Facilitated the annual compensation planning, succession planning, and other human capital management processes.
• Ensured new hire, promotion, salary increase, and organizational decisions provide competitive and equitable compensation and reward performance.
• Provided application support for HR, Benefits, Payroll and various Interfaces to and from various Internal & External systems, like Application Engine, People Code, PS Query.
• Evaluated the employee’s pay summary from data available in People soft and CRM cases to validate if the overpayment request was applicable.
• Processed overpayment letters for employees who have been overpaid by Payroll due to various upstream errors. Sent the letter and the template to the employees and respective business HR.
• Created various reconciliation analysis reports for coordination between PeopleSoft HCM development team, Mainframe team, PeopleSoft financials team and various point solutions.
• Managed multiple individual projects and new developments to the existing system and handled multiple assignments with changing priorities and ensured the deliverables was on time with high quality.

Confidential June 2003 - Jan 2006
PeopleSoft Associated Consultant
Project Overview: Confidential had to Implemented human resource functions processed in PeopleSoft HRMS. The project key operations were improvement & CRM support in PS modules Monitor Absence, Self Service, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration and HR, People Code, Online pages.
Environment: UNIX & Windows 2000, DB2, HRMS 8.2, Tools 8.01, ERP, PS Query, GL, People Tools, Application Engine, Workforce planning & Administration, Security Administrator, Employee learning & development, Object Security, Import Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Managed the day-to-day operation support activities with a team of 8, resolved user queries by analyzing the requests and querying PS tables, prepared the daily issues report, defect analysis report from the issue tracking tool and was responsible for planning and remediation of the concerns reported.
• Processed employee benefit elections using PeopleSoft Benefits Administration module.
• Managed multiple special projects and new enhancements to the existing system and handled multiple assignments with changing priorities and ensured the deliverables was on time with high quality.
• Responsible for leading and participating in the activities associated with identifying and analyzing user requirements to develop functional design specifications including development of User Interface Design, Reporting Design, Application Engine, People Code and Business Logic, and any other analysis modeling sessions.
• Designed functional and technical solutions for PeopleSoft HCM, Benefits Administration and spearheaded the implementation of a Bolton portal solution for all HR content.
• Executed formulating the Upgrade guide lines for the development team to upgrade the various PeopleSoft objects. Also, conducted various workshops for the developers to understand the upgrade process and procedures.
• Organized and presented project plans and status reports to organizational leadership, steering committee and various stake holders.
• Established and implemented Project team communication strategy through independent team meetings and integrated team meetings.

EDUCATION

MBA- Project Management, 
MBA- Finance Management, 
Bachelor- HR & Finance, 
Diploma- Information Technology,