SUMMARY

• 8 years of consultancy experience including in PeopleSoft HCM,Global Payroll,Business Analysis, Project Planning & implementation of complex information technology projects in different sectors.
• Experience in Requirement Gathering, JAD sessions, Writing Specifications, Testing, UAT, Implementation, Change Management, Defect Management, Issue Resolution and Support.
• Excellent understanding of the software methodologies such as Agile, waterfall and RUP.
• Coordinate and supervise the progress of all phases of the project, those of Strategy, Planning, Structure, Construct, Transition and Deploy.
• Extensive knowledge about the concepts of PeopleSoft Time and Labor.
• Excellent communication, team building and project management skills.
• Implementation of PeopleSoft HCM and Global Payroll version 9.0.
• Supporting NA Payroll, Time & Labor, Benefits administration.
• Configuring Global Payroll to Work with Time and Labor, absence management .
• Checking and validation of requirements in conjunction with the stakeholders.
• Conducted Cost Benefit analysis and SWOT analysis, and offered solutions.
• Acted as a liaison between the client and technical teams. Ensured that the business requirements were clearly and unambiguously communicated to the IT team.
• Proficient in using SQL for data analysis, data validation, generating mock - ups and ad hoc reports.
• Created and managed the change requests using Change Management Process and conducted feasibility analysis for those changes.
• Great problem solving skills - ability to think out of box and give solutions that are feasible under circumstances. Detail-oriented and good documentation and process management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM: Workforce Administration, Organization (Position Management), eRecruitment, Talent acquisition Benefits Administration, Compensations, Competency Management, Time and Labor, Absence Management.

PeopleSoft Global Payroll & Payroll for North America: Payee Data, Absence and Payroll Processing, Taxes, Year-End Processes, Time and Labor delivered integration with payroll, Elements (Earnings, Deductions, Accumulators ), Absence Elements, Payslips, Reports,Pension plans.

PeopleSoft Application Releases: 8.8, 9.0,9.1

Strong in using PeopleTools: like Workflow, Application Designer, Application Engine, Crystal Reports, component interface,database validation using SQL scripts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New jersey

PeopleSoft HCM / HRMS Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Making of the initial project plan with activities by phases, key milestones and deliverables according to the scope of the RFP.
• Participating in meetings with members of the board notifying progress and proposing solutions for some problems within the project.
• Co-ordination with multiple teams and integration architects, in performing analysis for issues regarding speed and stability.
• Conducted JAD sessions with Management, SMEs (Subject Matter Expertise), Vendors, Users and other Stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements, as system requirements, that were included while developing the software.
• Support NA Payroll, Time & Labor, Benefits administration.
• Setting Up Earnings, General Deductions, Benefit Deductions
• Setting up federal tax, state tax.
• Generating & viewing payslips using epay.
• Year end processing includes tax forms, W-2 company, updating retirement plan.
• Integration of payroll with benefits.
• Setting up benefit plans.
• Managing FMLA and savings plans.
• Extensively used SQL and Excel for Data Analysis.
• Prepared Use Cases, Business Process Models and Data flow diagrams, User Interface models.
• Extracted the Business Requirements during various sessions with business leads and tagged all requirements, tracing them all the way to the stakeholder requirements.
• Extensively involved in performing Gap Analysis in the upgrade of the existing Processing system and highlighting related issues.
• Responsible for weekly project dashboards, issue escalations and resolutions, Change Request Management and Defect Management.
• Extensively involved in performing the SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing of new system.
• Ensures the tasks is delivered on time and produces high quality deliverables.

Environment: Application Release 9.1 Tools 8.48,8.49,Microsoft Office Tools,MS Project, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HCM / HRMS Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements and formalized them through requirements walk through sessions.
• Developed Process Flow Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams, and Use Cases using MS Visio.
• Developed Traceability Matrix, Data mapping and Data flow diagrams.
• Planned & implemented the Testing cycle schedules, timelines, test plan, Test cases & test data sets for system testing.
• Implementation of PeopleSoft HCM and Global Payroll version 9.0
• Coordinate and support the analysis, design, and develop phases of the project.
• Coordinated daily activities with the IT Developers, QA and Product teams along with the project management group.
• Working with payee data data retrieval from PeopleSoft HR, and payroll system and pay group assignments for a payee, adding a person .
• Processing payrolls iteratively, creating group lists for payroll processing.
• Integrating Absences Management with Global Payroll.
• Configuration of PeopleSoft Absence Management.
• Schedules for part time and full time employees.
• Entitlements and accruals for vacations.
• Absences types (Leave of absence, unjustified, vacations, PTO)
• Takes (defining rules for each absence type)
• Entry, approval (self-service functionality)
• Absence elements (element types, calculation elements)
• Effectively conducted Change Request Management and assigned priority on each change.
• Prepared UAT test strategy, test plans, reviewed QA test plans for appropriate test coverage.
• Conducted JAD Sessions with various stakeholders and project team.
• Managed Change Request Management and Defect Management.
• Conducted gap analysis of current processes and developed new process flow, data flow and work flow models.

Environment: Application Release PS HRMS 8.8,Peopletools - 8.46,Microsoft Office Tools,MS Project,Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HCM / HRMS Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and supervise the progress of all phases of the project, those of Strategy, Planning, Structure, Construct, Transition and Deploy.
• Worked with specialists (SME) in the field of development, users and customers, produce goal and target specifications and was responsible to solve any conflicts that arise and minimise potential risks.
• Participating in meetings with members of the board notifying progress and proposing solutions for some problems within the project.
• Organise employee groups, create schedules, workgroups.
• Report time,manage the reported time,process payable time.
• Approvals of reported time and payable time.
• Integration of time and labour with base benefits,global payroll.
• Working with payee data,data retrieval from PeopleSoft HR, and payroll system and pay group assignments for a payee, adding a person
• Processing Payroll iteratively, creating group lists for payroll processing.
• Viewing and Finalizing Payroll Results
• Configuring & managing Off Cycle Transactions
• Understanding How to Compensate Employees in Global Payroll for Time Reported Through Time and Labor
• Configuring Global Payroll to Work with Time and Labor
• Managed Change Request Management and Defect Management.
• Managed UAT testing and developed test strategies, test plans, reviewed QA test plans for appropriate test coverage.
• Tracked the defects in legacy reports as per end users. Compared the results and tracked the differences in excel.

Environment: app version is 8.8, Tool ver- 8.46