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Rajendar - Workday consultant

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Location: Waukegan, Illinois, USA

Relocation: YES

Visa: H1B

Professional Summary: Over 9+ years of extensive experience with Software Development, Design, Analysis, and testing of Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) - Workday. Experience in implementation of Workday HCM for various HR modules which includes Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent Management, Change Management, Compensation, Time tracking, and Leave/Absence Management. Expertise in analysis of client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation, Payroll, Benefits, Security, Pay Planning, Performance Management/Talent Management, Time Tracking / Onboarding (Hire). Expertise in the Workday product suite, specializing and deepening skillset within the Talent Management and HCM Functional area. Hands-On Experience in creating and configuring Custom reports, Calculated Fields, XpressO, Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connector, Cloud Connector, PICOF, PECI, Report Design, Business form Layout, Solution Manager, Learning module, Object transporter. Experience in Workday Human Resource including Workday Payroll, Business Analysis, Business Process Flows, Security, Reporting, and Integration. Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework. Proficient in Simple, Advanced, Composite, and Matrix Reporting, dashboard development. Provided continuous HR Reporting & Analytic support for: Cost Centers, Payroll Earnings and Deductions, Compensation, Time Tracking and 401(K) auditing. Developed configuration items in Time & Attendance like Labor Level entries, Pay rules, Display Profiles, Access profiles, Accruals, Comments, Employee group and LL transfer sets. Experience in various technologies involved in Integration development (XML, XPath, XSLT, XSD, Web Services). Experience working on Workday HCM Global roll out and implementation which includes configuring Security, Roles, Business Processes, Reports, Data migration, and Upgrades. Involved in System testing, Regression testing, QA/Testing processes like User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and System Integration Testing (SIT). Developed and built custom reports related to Workday Financials. Good knowledge in using the JIRA & Zendesk tool for bug tracking, issue tracking & project management. Experience in analyzing and preparing Project Deliverables such as Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Requirement Traceability Matrix, and proposed changes for process improvement. Technical Skills: Software Products Workday, JIRA, & Zendesk Ticketing System Workday Technical Workday Integrations - Core Connector, EIB Inbound and Outbound, Workday Studio, PECI, PICOF, Workday Custom Reports, BIRT Design, XSLT Document Transformations, Calculated Fields, Business Object, and Security Workday Functional Workday HCM - HR, Payroll, Recruiting, Staffing, Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management., Workday Financial - Budgets, Cash Management, Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, Expenses, Inventory, Procurement, Projects Educational Details: Master of Science in Information and Technology Management (MSITM) Campbellsville University, KY | August 2017 - February 2019 Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology (GRIET), Telangana, India | June 2008 - July 2012. Professional Experience: Client: Abbott November 2022 - Present Role: Workday Reporting Consultant Location: Lake bluff, Chicago, Illinois Modules Worked: HCM, Payroll, Core and Advanced Compensation, Absence, Benefits, Time-tracking & Talent Development (Reporting Only) Involved in the entire development cycle of building reports such as, requirement gathering, analyzing the functional specifications, choosing, and creating the necessary kind of report (simple, advanced, matrix & composite etc.) and its corresponding data sources, filters, prompts, security groups & authorized users etc. in populating the desired output to the end users. Supported Zendesk tickets, and was involved in various tasks like building new reports including any break-fix, enhancements etc. to the users on different functional Areas like HCM, Time Tracking, Talent, Performance Management, Payroll etc. Developed, tested, and migrated a few time-tracking reports to production as part of Ireland Time-tracking & MD time-tracking project (Future TOR report, Approved Cal Tags (over 100) etc.) Was an exclusive resource in launching and assisting both bonus and merit processes reports for this calendar year. Worked on approximately around 25-30 existing compensation reports on tasks like; fixing errored calculated fields that go with a process period end date, increasing the report performances, updating prompts with the on- going bonus/merit processes, migrating those changes to production, and then sharing them with the appropriate security groups within the compliance of the company policies. Created quick links. And added those links including few reports into the requested compensation dashboards for both the HR and manager. Excluded a few newly configured leave-types in some of the benefits and talent development reports. Worked extensively on Benefit Program Indicator - Exceptions Report , for things like; updating it with both the CSI and ALERE acquisitions and introducing a logic that does not show any discrepancies for all the Canada employees who pertain to the Green BPI color. Chose required nest of calculated fields to get the desired columns of data onto the report. Also paid attention to copying calculated fields precisely without disturbing the core logic of fields and their corresponding reports. Occasionally navigated the users to retain access to a specific security group which helped them either in running the reports or even enabled them to see few report fields of data. Keen in terms of to whom certain sensitive data or a report must be shared. For example, be it; employee personal details, job history, base salary, contribution tier, time-off details, business process transactions like hire, termination, transfer etc. Manage confidentiality of data by following established security/confidentiality standards. Requested C-206 form and its necessary approvals from a user if they are required to see sensitive information that doesn t come under their role-based security profile. Scheduled the reports to the end users depending on the required frequencies (daily, weekly, monthly etc.) when their assignable roles don t comply with certain security groups. Was also part of recertifying them at the end of every year. Monitored in preparing documents like Functional Design Development (FDD), testing the reports aggressively, getting the User-Acceptance Testing (UAT) approved and then migrating the reports to Production after obtaining the necessary approvals. Investigated, analyzed, and produced a list of all the reports, where a certain calculated field/condition rule is being used (impact analysis). Involved in doing impact analysis whenever there exists a need of creating a new division by taking all the FDD (Functional Design Document) reports into consideration by both creating a report that uses the fields referenced in pulling the divisions and going through each report s filters and prompts etc. Client: 3M Co, Brownwood, TX April 2020 - October 2022 Role: Workday Functional Consultant Modules Worked: Recruitment, HCM, Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, Absence & Data migrations. Worked in full life cycle implementation of Workday HCM in modules such as HR, Benefits, Total Compensation, Payroll, absence, and recruitment modules. Participated and lead the Discovery, Design call with business process owners, Subject matter experts (SME) and Security Audit team for requirements gathering. Created Supervisory Organizations, Subordinate Supervisory Orgs, Reorganizations, Company, Position, Locations, Cost centre and Organizational Hierarchies. Developed multiple time-off plans from scratch to align with client requirements. Managed complex time-off calculations to ensure accurate tracking and reporting. Built multiple time off plans Sick, PTO, Study leave, Childcare leaves, Accommodation leaves, Marriage leaves, Lieu Time off plans etc. Updating Holiday Calendars for various countries using EIBs. 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. Assist in maintenance of Workday system for Human Capital Management (HCM), Recruiting, and Talent Management. To automate USA Taxation setup for, Federal withholding taxes, State withholding taxes, Local withholding taxes, County taxes, School district taxes, Supplemental state taxes, tax reciprocities, Medicare, Social Security in Workday. To automate the calculation of various retirement contributions like 401(k) Pre-Tax deduction, Roth Post-Tax deduction, Employer matchup deduction. To define the FLSA calendars and to enable the FLSA rates in the workday to calculate the overtime as per the FLSA rates. To gather, understand and analyzed the various customer Pay components and to set up them in the system to have the appropriate Net impacts while withholding the various Employee and employer taxes. To setup the Ongoing Multi work jurisdiction in Workday to account and withheld the taxes as per the state guidelines without changing the employee records. To develop various Payroll advanced reports for the ease of end users. Client: SovTech, Miami, FL March 2019 March 2020 Role: Workday Integration Consultant Modules Worked: HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Absence, Talent pool, Payroll, Financials, Data Migrations, E2E Testing. Designed and built integrations to multiple third-party vendors. Creating roadmaps and timing of upgrades and maintenance for development environment. Subject Matter Expert for design, development, testing of Interfaces or the use of components to workday applications identified during the project with the appropriate technical developer or team. Analyzed, communicated, and validated requirements to optimally supported the implementation of Integrations, reporting, business processes and policies. Developed and built inbound and outbound Integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors and Document Transformations. Developed integrations using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT, BIRT on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound, inbound/outbound, Active Directory inbound, and UDW inbound/outbound. Scheduled all the integrations and custom reports based on the client requirements. Provided reporting dashboards through Business intelligence tools. Participated in Workday HCM projects involving strategy, implementation support, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) optimization related to Information Technology (IT) operations, business processes, security, and data integrity for the Workday applications. Managed the daily queue for additional business metrics, report enhancements, and dashboards. Ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes. Expertise in developing Payroll interfaces using PICOF with the help of Workday Studio and Document Transformation to meet client's complex payroll requirements. Provided on-ongoing support to maintain business process and resolve issues regarding integrations. Experience on creating/maintaining advance reports using Workday Studio/BIRT for reports/letters like customized new hire letter etc. Various Dashboard reports/analytics in workforce planning, Benefit, Payroll, Time and Absence Management. Worked on Document Transformations and applied XSLT transformations. Participated in implementation in Talent Management and Recruiting modules. Performed data validations before loading into Workday Interface. Acted as key liaison between business users and technical team to analyzed business functional requirements and evaluate HR functionality to meet business needs. Worked on Reports to create custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR and Payroll application report consumer groups. Documented and facilitated communication and troubleshooting of issues, bugs, changes. Facilitated defect analysis and ensures that all requirements are covered in scripts and tested properly in all phases. Assisted team in implementation of Workday. Worked with consulting partners on conversions. Client: Intecrowd LLC, Bangalore, India January 2016 May 2017 Role: Workday Functional Consultant Modules Worked: HCM, Compensation, External Payroll, Data Migrations Workday maintenance: build and maintain custom organizations, companies, locations, supervisory orgs, business units, cost centres. Configuration of business processes in accordance with requirements defined by principal consultants. Worked on creating the advanced custom reports. Modified the existing reports as per the business requirements. Worked on Workday EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) in exporting data from Workday to third party vendors. Configuring the external earnings with the benefit plans, Compensation plans and time offs. Defining the Pay Groups and Pay group assignment rules. Supporting integration team in setting up the payroll integrations. Configuring and testing the assignment rules. Requirements gathering from business owners on business needs, integrations, and reports. Analyzed client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and supported development of new business processes and a future state design. Involve in UAT testing along with Business users and support them with Workday functionalities. Testing of data for accuracy against of hundreds of Employees HR data that has been converted from PeopleSoft to Workday. Creating custom Workday reports (Advanced, Simple reports) and modify/troubleshoot existing custom reports. Client: Kakatiya Solutions, India January 2013 December 2015 Role: Workday Consultant Duration: Worked in full life cycle implementations Workday HCM using modules such as HR, Benefits, Total Compensation, Base Compensation, Variable Compensation, Position Management, Profile Management, Payroll, and manager and Employee self-service modules. Understand and document workday business processes, workflows, and their relationships to current and future states of processes and solutions. Created Functional and Technical design documents from business requirements. Involved in the meeting with business process owners, Subject matter experts (SME) and Security Audit team for requirements gathering. Created Supervisory Organizations, Subordinate Supervisory Orgs, Reorganizations, Company, Position, Locations, Cost centre and Organizational Hierarchies Configured and Tested Business Process and notifications in core HR: Hire, Job Change, Termination, Create Positions, Requisitions, Termination, & Contract Contingent Designed and configured workday HCM & Security configuration objects like Organizations, subordinate organization, Management Hierarchies, Position, Security groups, Functional area, Domain and Business Process Security Policies and Tenant setup. Keywords: cprogramm quality analyst information technology golang Colorado Florida Kentucky Maryland Texas