Senior SAP HCM consultant

Certified Solution Consultant in HCM ECC 5.0

Summary

·  9+ years of IT experience with comprehensive background in SAP HCM.

·  Expertise in E-Recruitment, Personnel Administration, Organization Management, Time Management, Payroll, ESS/MSS, and HR Administrative services Adobe Forms & Processes.

·  Excellent Project management skills with pproven ability in handling implementation, postproduction support, upgrades, enhancements and rollout projects in SAP HCM Arena.

·  Hands on expertise in SAP HR components.

·  Extensive configuration and working knowledge on 4.6C and 4.7, ECC 5.0 & 6.0 with EHP4.

·  Excellent skills in Pre Sales, Solutions, RFP’s, POC’s, Customer Demo’s

·  Highly proficient at determining business requirements, prioritizing, coordinating projects, hyper care and production support.

·  Excellent team building and mentoring skills

·  Able to train and mentor technical personnel and end users

·  Having strong functional experience in entire gamut of HR and a rounded understanding & insight into the processes of HR adopted in SAP.

·  Excellent leadership skills with presentation and communication skills.

Technical Skills

ERP

/ SAP R/3 4.6C/4.7,ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 SAP-HR PA, PD, Organizational Management, Recruitment, Payroll (Australia, India, US), ECM and Time Modules, ESS & MSS, HR Adobe Processes & forms ,SOLMAN ,SCM,CRM(Org Structure and workflow –External Rep’s, BP’s, Internal Reps),

OS

/ Windows 9x/ NT /2000 / XP, Sun Solaris 9.0, Unix

Languages

/ C, C++, COBOL

Databases

/ ORACLE, MYSQL

Tools

/ SAP Solution Manager, Remedy, Sport, Solve, SAP LSMW, HP Quality Center,Test Director,MS Project, Visio

ABAP Expertise

/ -Data Dictionary Objects,ABAP/4 Reports (Classical and Interactive),ALV Reports
-Batch Data Communication (BDC), LSMW
-Batch Dialog Programming/Module Pool Programming
-Function Modules, SAP Scripts, Smart Forms,- BAPI, User Exits/Enhancements
-LDB, BADI, Applying OSS Notes, ABAP Objects. LE, IDOCS

Projects Profile

SanDisk Inc., Milpitas, CA

OCT2009-TillDate
Role: Senior HCM Consultant

Project Description

SanDisk Inc a global leader in USB flash drives, Flash memory cards, Card Readers, Music & video players, SSD. Headquartered in Milpitas, CA SanDisk Inc. is driving the convergence of secure portable storage, authentication and virtualization through its Enterprise Division to create a comprehensive solution for mobile professionals in enterprises and government agencies.

Contribution

·  Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple HR projects directed toward strategic business and organizational objectives.

·  Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.

·  Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.

·  Present periodic Status reports on the current projects, future opportunities and client open issues.

·  Integration of Brass ring system and Bizflow to SAP for Applicant tracking and hiring process.

·  Project Lead for ADP Upgrade from ADP PayExpert to Payforce.

·  Conducting workshops and mapping sessions with payroll, FI team and ADP team

·  Responsible for Project Plans, Resource mapping and delivery on time within budget.

·  Design the FS’ and process flows for the Upgrade Project

·  Co-coordinating with ABAP team to activate change pointers according to Business Requirements

·  Designing the Test cases for Unit Testing as well as Business Testing

·  Testing end to end using Quality Centre

·  Ensure the test scripts are as per the Business cycles of testing.

·  Solution approach for automation of payroll control record according to Business pay cycles

·  Extensive Usage of message type HROT_USM.

·  Extensive Usage of PU12 interface.

·  Support Lead role for all Global Regions of SanDisk Inc.

·  Responsible for Successful Implementation of ESS & MSS with Adobe Forms & Processes including CATS for hourly employees and Leave Approval process for Regular Employees.

·  Worked on TM04 and Good understanding of Schemas and PCR’s.

·  Configured PH Calendar, Work Schedules, Groupings, Absences and Attendances, Day variants and Time types.

·  Defined CATS profile for different roles.

·  Designing a custom solution on CATS via user-exits to capture time from Kronos

·  Worked on Attendance and Absence reports

·  Expertise in both Negative and Positive Time Management

·  Responsible for Delivery of New projects and CR’s.

·  Extensive support for OM, PA, Benefits, ECM, ESS& MSS Modules.

·  Extensive Integration and Interfacing of HR data to internal and external Apps( IDM, AD, People Directory, Bizflow, Sharepoint, Digital River, Concur, Success Factors, ADP Pay Force.

·  RFC’s to SRM, CRM

·  Responsible for Org structures in SRM & CRM systems

·  Day to Day resolution of incidents with in SLA

·  End user training and documentation

·  Improving the process gaps and suggesting best practices.

·  GRC-- Hands on Experience with SAP Access Control Suite 5.3 with SP5 which includes Access Enforcer, Compliance Calibrator, Firefighter and Role Expert.

·  System transactions to trace user activity and transactions verify authorizations and display user authorizations.

·  Extensively worked with User Information System with respect to Authorization object, Roles and Users

·  Extensively worked on Structural profiles, Eval paths, Function modules and Authorizations’ to support MSS business processes.

·  Concurrent Employment & Global Employment with EHP4.

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Philips Medical Systems, Andover

Oct 2007 – Sep 2009

Senior SAP-HR

Project Description

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a global leader in healthcare, lifestyle and technology, delivering products, services and solutions. Headquartered in The Netherlands, Philips Medical Systems, the healthcare arm of the group, is today rated one of the top three medical equipment providers in the world and offers a robust portfolio of medical systems. Philips product line includes best-in-class technologies in X-ray, ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, PET, radiation oncology systems, patient monitoring, and information management and resuscitation products

Contribution

·  Responsible for entire delivery of HR Support and Projects onsite and offshore.

·  Responsible for Functional Design Documents for new Change Requests.

·  Resolving incidents within SLA.

·  Responsible for New Interfaces Design, Data migration Projects.

·  Responsible for Successful Implementation of ESS & MSS with Adobe Forms & Processes

·  Extensive support for CS modules, Integration of CS with HR

·  Interfacing HR data between R/3 systems and WOMPA, CLARIFY, CLICK, ONESTAR etc.

·  PTMW roll outs to Business units of Philips.

·  Expertise in Time Management component (both Positive and Negative timekeeping in centralized and decentralized environments)- Customized the time evaluation (RPTIME00)

·  Interfacing of Time data to costing and work Oder management systems

·  Expertise in Solution Manager (SOLMAN) usage during support engagements.

·  Designing of new Interfaces to update the master data in central production system.

·  Extensive usage of Idocs, Message types

·  Creating of work centers and integration to HR data

·  Refreshing of work centers in Click

·  Net weaver Mobile client for Performance Assurance of Work Order data.

·  Designing the unit test cases, regression test cases and perform the testing using HP Quality Centre.

·  Responsible for End to End testing cycles for each functionality.

·  Customized the regular CAT9 tcode to ZCAT9 for approvals and mapping the customer order date to costing.

·  CATS Integration with CS, project systems, Finance and HR

·  Designed interfaces to upload qualification data of Employees from External training system to R/3 which is intern used to schedule the employees for the site assignments.

·  HR assignment with respect to logistics work centers

·  Modified the Basic settings of Payroll like Period modifier, Date modifier & Generated Payroll periods.

·  Created Wage types for 0008, 0014, 0015, 0057, 2010 Info-types and modifying the characteristics to suit the client needs.

·  Created Employee subgroup grouping and Personnel sub area groupings and used the groupings to restrict the required wage types for only those groupings.

·  Created wage type classes to create limits and enforce then while calculating Union Dues and some Recurring deductions.

·  Modified PCRs to calculate Overtime & Union dues & changed the schemas for tax calculation rules.

·  Defined the HR creditors, linked the wage types to the vendors to calculate the amount to be paid.

·  Created Tax models, Tax combos and also created new entries for PRCL 71 to accommodate the new tax combos and assigned those tax combos to the wage types.

·  Created Payroll Info types to report the payroll results i.e. wage type amount and number values and their monthly, quarterly and yearly accumulations.

·  Tested the Payroll part of the Configuration thoroughly in Unit testing, Integration Testing and System testing. Created the test scripts to help the users test the system.

·  Maintained tax relevant employee master data, such as Info-types 0207, 0208 and 0209.

·  Maintained tax related schemas and rules, defined Tax authorities and Tax types, maintained tax areas and defined Tax models.

·  Defined Tax forms (W-2, 940, 940c, 941 etc.) for configuring Tax Reporter and generated as well.

·  Defined Tax Company and assigned to each personnel area/sub area of the enterprise.

INDIABULLS, GURGOAN

Feb 2007-Sep 2007

Role: SAP HR Project Lead

Project Description

Indiabulls is India’s leading Financial Services and Real Estate Company having over 640 branches all over India. Indiabulls serves the financial needs of more than 4,50,000 customers with its wide range of financial services and products from securities, derivatives trading, depositary services, research & advisory services, consumer secured & unsecured credit, loan against shares and mortgage & housing finance. With around 4000 Relationship Managers, Indiabulls helps its clients to satisfy their customized financial goals. Indiabulls through its group companies has entered Indian Real Estate business in 2005.

Contribution

·  Responsible for entire delivery of the project right from kick off till Go-Live.

·  Responsible for Project Plan and Execution within the timelines.

·  Single point of contact for team members, core team members and business process owners.

·  Responsible for coordinating all status meetings with in the team and as well as participating in Steering Committee Meetings every fortnight.

·  Preparation of Blue prints, process flows documents for all modules in scope i.e. OM, PA, Recruitment, Time Management, Payroll, ESS & MSS.

·  Aggressive involvement in preparing BBP for Payroll. & Time Management Modules

·  Configuration of India Payroll, Time Management as per BBP.

·  Worked extensively on HR/FI integration, Payroll & Time integration aspects

·  Preparation of Test Scripts, Config documents, Functional specs, Training Manuals & End User Manuals.

·  Responsible for delivery of all BDC’s and LSMW’s for legacy data upload in co-ordination with ABAP team.

·  Hands on in all cutover activities for parallel run and reconciliation with GL’s

Engen, Capetown, South Africa

Dec 2006- Feb 2007

Role: Senior SAP HR

Project Description

Engen Petroleum limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Engen Ltd. Engen is represented in 13 countries outside south Africa- Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, the democratic republic of Congo and Ghana. Engen’s core business is refining of crude oil, marketing of all the petroleum products and the provision of convenience services through the retail network of over 1230 service stations and more than 530 quick shops and convenience centers. Engen is head quartered in CAPETOWN in South Africa.

Responsibilities:

·  Prepared the project charter for the HR upgrade project from 4.6c to ECC 6.0.

·  Involved in due diligence study for the entire HR upgrade project.

·  Resource mapping for onsite and offshore, infrastructure mapping in co-ordination with other teams in the project

·  Working with business to identify and define best business practices and project/enhancement requirements.

·  Prepared the project plan using MPP, analyzing the risks and issues involved in the upgrade process.

·  Preparation of BBP and FDD’s for the Upgrade.

·  Understanding of Engen business processes define in the scope and the delta configuration for designing the Blue Print in sync with ECC 6.0

·  Responsible for entire delivery of the project.

·  Analysis of Unicode impact on the systems

·  Analysis of SPAU objects during upgrade

·  Correcting the objects with out impacting the existing Zobjects.

·  Responsible for entire integration and regression testing cycles.

KMD Denmark

May 2006- Nov 2006

Role: SAP HR

Project Description:

KMD is one of the largest Danish-owned information technology enterprises. KMD provides the public and private sectors with Information Technology and consultancy services and considers the creation of real value for its customers. KMD is the market leading competence centre e-government. The solutions provided by KMD enable public sector employees to handle current legislation efficiently.

Responsibilities:

·  Working with business to identify and define best business practices and project/enhancement requirements.

·  Conducting workshop with all the business stake holders and user community.

·  Understanding of business processes Involved in the creation of the Blue Print structure for the KMD business processes and gathered the business data requirement from the client.

·  Preparation of BBP and Functional Spec’s

·  Responsible for delivery of the entire functional and technical team.

·  CATS solution implementation to different municipalities in Denmark

·  Integration of CATS with project systems for resource billing.

·  Custom solutions basing on the different leave policies for each county

·  Defining the diffent leave types and vacation rules

·  Quotas and quota generation rules

Telstra, Australia

May 2005 – May 2006

Role: SAP HR

Project Description:

Hr-Pay is one of the critical Applications of Telstra. This Application is used to process the Payroll for all Telstra Award employees and contractors. The pay run is a batch process, which runs every fortnight. The open issues raised by Users are solved according to the SLA process.

Responsibilities:

·  Resolving dockets in NDS and Configurations in DS

·  Developed Requirement Definition Documents based on client Requirement

·  Created FS and TS for the necessary requirements

Time Management:

·  Configuration of PSA grouping for Work schedule, Daily Work Schedule, Substitution Types, Absence/Attendance Types, Time Quotas, Time Quotas Counting, Availability Types, Time Quota permissibility, Time Recording.