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Raghuraman - SAP HCM

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Location: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, USA

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Raghuraman Ramadurai Mail: [email protected] Mobile: (732)769 8916 Education Qualifications: MBA (HR) from SASTRA University, Thanjavur in 2004 B. Sc. (Computers) from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli in 2002 Summary Two decades of experience in designing and configuring HR, SAP Core HR and Payroll. Experience as a solution architect in global SAP implementation programs, responsible for architecting, designing, and owning the overall solution in at least 8 end to end HR transformation programs. Excellent understanding of Employee Life Cycle Management process in Global organizations. Knowledge in integration aspects with other modules and applications. Expertise in providing Consulting Services to the Global organizations in HCM Best Practices and help clients to migrate to SAP HCM solutions. Ability to translate Business requirements into System Configuration Objects and create Solution Design, Employee Management Solution in compliance with the Best Practices. Have experience in handle requirement gathering, blue printing, design, configuration, functional testing, data migration, test data setup for UAT etc. Real time experience of working in Agile methodology. Demonstrate thought leadership and drive decision making. Demonstrated ability and experience as an effective leader and communicator with strong interpersonal, leadership, analytical and relationship management skills, trouble-shooting and problem-solving skills. Ability to manage CXO level client stake holders. Experienced in working with a diverse team spread across locations. Good communication and interpersonal skills, able to effectively interact with the customer and project teams Skill Set SAP HCM modules: OM, PA, Time and Payroll Integration tools: Kronos, Leavelink, BSI Tax Factory, Business Solver Microsoft tools: Pivots, Data Analysis, and presentation Other tools: HP ALM, SOLMAN, BMC Tool, IBM Watson, PRISM 02/2024 till date Xceed Technologies Johnson and Johnson (Global Process Lead Time and Attendance) -Responsible for the successful evaluation, creation, implementation, and execution of time solutions in accordance with Johnson and Johnson paid time off and pay practices and policies. -Drive time & pay practice standardization, automation, and improvement. -Use data driven insights to provide strategic direction and expertise regarding the Time & Attendance function measuring and acting on KPIs, along with creating and driving short-term and long-term strategies for continuous improvement. -Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy of time & labor inputs, ensure process adherence for time & labor inputs into HRIS time & labor system. -Develop understanding of business performance drivers. Support development of dashboards and KPI tools to analyze time & pay historical data, create stories to provide to key stakeholders which will enable data-driven decision-making. -Review, design, develop, recommend, and implement updated time & payroll-related policies and procedures as needed. -Drive results on special projects, initiatives, and goals. -Responsible for ensuring SLAs are met on inquiries. -Manage and support 3rd party vendor partners. -Work along with 3rd party vendors for successful transition and implementation for Time & Attendance. 02/2021 01/2024 IBM Mexico (Full Time) & 01/2018 02/2021 IBM Mexico (on contract from Arte Informatica, Mexico) (SAP HCM Enablement Specialist) -US Payroll Process knowledge. -Extensive experience writing time and payroll schemas, calculation rules, and configuring payroll wage types -Experience setting up multi-state and regional tax models -Experience with evaluating, installing, and testing BSI Tax updates, LCPs, and support packages -Experience configuring SAP Benefits and designing benefits integrations between third party vendors. -Proficient and experienced in SAP Time Management including work schedules, time wage types, absences, attendance, quotas. -Knowledge of positive pay in SAP Time Evaluation -Experience with designing time integrations and writing functional design documents and data mapping -Ability to map the user requirements. -Good verbal and written communication skills. -Experience with designing Payroll -Benefits Integrations 08/2011 10/2017 at IBM India Pvt. Ltd., India (SAP HCM Enablement Specialist) Ericsson AB (SAP HCM Consultant) Responsibilities: -Apply a variety of techniques to elicit and gather business and user requirements from stakeholders. -Understand business issues, priorities and opportunities. -Analyze and define both the As Is and To Be business processes and perform a gap analysis. -Develop functional specifications and perform functional configuration. -Coordinate to gather business requirements and build consensus for requirements across the various user groups. -Develop diagrams and models and clearly document functional requirements and business rules to describe what the process must do in order to fulfil the business and user requirements. -Capture and document non-functional requirements that are important to the user community. -Perform requirements analysis to develop models, prioritize, organize, validate and verify requirements. -Complete application service requests, provide continual business application support, identify root causes as well as assist with upgrade and maintenance of applications. -Communicate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems to technical teams designing and implementing the solution. Assist with creating user guides and training. -Completed 6 implementation activity successfully. OM & PA -Created a new Enterprise Structure according to the business requirements-Maintained new Personnel Structure from the Administrative and Organizational Perspective -Added Payscale-related Structure, Payscale Group, Payscale Levels -Performed various personnel actions, specifically, hiring employees, performing organizational reassignment, change in pay -Configured Personnel Area Groupings and Employee Groupings. Assigned Personnel Area to Company Code -Configuration of Employee/Personnel Groupings for Personnel Calculation Rule -Developed Infotypes for Disciplinary actions, Sports information of the Employee -Configured Personnel Administration and Payroll Accounts for applicants to manage the master and time data -Developed and modified Infotypes -Set up dynamic actions to generate system default information based on business requirements Time Management -Worked on holiday calendars based on province and modifying the personnel work schedules. -Configured work schedules, absences and quotas required for Time management. -Defined the leave quotas based on employee group and employee subgroup by using the Infotype 2006 (Absence Quota). -Defined public holiday calendar for personnel sub areas. -Configured work schedules as daily work schedule with break schedule and period work schedule. -Defined absence types for different personal sub area groupings. -Defined employee groups (EG) and subgroups (ESG) with respect to time management: subgroup grouping for work schedule rules. -Work on critical development of both standard and customized PCR and Schemas -Implemented End-to-End Time for a Finland client Payroll -Worked on Payroll Infotypes 0008, 0015, 0014 -Defined Payroll periods and pay dates for different payroll area. -Maintained wage types according to the requirements specified. British American Tobacco (Success Factors and SAP Consultant) Responsibilities: -Analyze issues from Success Factors environment for root cause and provide solutions to fix the same. -Incident Management - L1 analysis of Incidents, assigning to respective queue for work start (managed 3000+ incidents). -Work on Success Factors and SAP integration issues, find root cause and fix the same. -Connect with clients directly in handling escalated / high priority incidents analysis, fix and closure. -Handled incidents from OM and PA. Johnson & Johnson (PA & OM Consultant and HR Specialist - Cognitive POC) Responsibilities: -Analyze issues for root cause and provide solutions to fix the same. -Work on configuration and support for OM and PA tickets. -Maintained Pay scale and Pay grade according to the requirements specified. -Work along with IBM Watson cognitive tool team to prepare a POC for Robotic Automation of tasks and Cognitive customer support. -Connect with business on requirements and prepare flow diagrams for process. -Explain process flow and specifications to Cognitive team and verify requirements are being fulfilled. -Provide design specifications for UI development and verify requirements are being fulfilled. -Test the flow of the UI and the process flow through Watson. -Interlock with Blue PRISM team and Golden Bridge team -Provide process flow for Blue PRISM to automate the process and verify requirements are being fulfilled. Israel Chemicals (SAP Time & Compensation Consultant) Responsibilities: -Analyze issues for their root cause and provide solutions to fix the same. -Work on configuration and support for Payroll and Benefits -Defined Payroll periods and pay dates for different payroll area. -Maintained wage types according to the requirements specified. IBM Internal HRMS Project (SAP Testing and Support) Responsibilities: -Support the development of the test strategy and test plans. -Prepare Test Plan, Test Case, and Test Data after understanding business need. -Perform Unit Testing, Integration Testing, UAT, Regression Testing. -Ensure traceability of requirements back to business need as well as through to solution and testing. -Validate the solution meets the business need and verify it conforms to specifications. -Prepare dashboards and reports to analyze and present testing results to management. -Managed small test groups to achieve test results, expediting testing process, follow-up of defect closure with development team and reporting the finding to project manager. -Analyze notes during the service pack upgrades from SAP. 03/2008 - 01/2011 at Trane Design Centre (an Ingersoll Rand company) Assistant Manager HR -Ramp up headcount-Manage a sourcing team (3 members) -Interact with L1 & L2 Leadership Team -Develop / Customize process & standards -Organization Development and Learning -AOP Review, Leadership Skills Review -Performance Appraisal, PMP, Goal Setting -Exit Interviews -Talent Movement / Retention -Compensation and Benefits Management 01/2007 - 03/2008 at Ma Foi Global Search Service Limited (Research Analyst) -Building a network of top management connects -Head hunting / sourcing prospects for required positions with clients-Liaison with clients on day-to-day affairs on the progress of recruitment and possible solutions -Understanding the market and looking at increasing the client base by seizing suitable opportunities -Discuss business options with company heads (usually CEO / COO / MD) 06/2004 - 12/2006 at Altius Infosystems (Senior HR Executive-HR) -Assess the standard HR process and customize them for maximum employee engagement -Introduce new process in alignment with the management -Ramp up the head count for the Client -Develop feedback systems for process fine tuning -Engage training partners to deliver necessary training for the employee -Handle employee exits -Handle negotiation and retention Keywords: user interface information technology hewlett packard Maryland Massachusetts Pennsylvania South Carolina