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Neeharika - Workday Consultant/HCM

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Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Relocation: Yes

Visa: H1B

Workday Consultant Neeharika Professional Summary: Techno-Functional professional with 8+ years of experience as HCM and HRIS Consultant with extensive experience in implementing, configuring, and supporting ERP systems across multiple platforms including Workday, SAP, and PeopleSoft. Detailed understanding of all aspects of HR processes, comprising the life cycle of an employee such as recruiting, hiring, employee record maintenance, payroll and other benefits. 3+ years of experience on Full Life Cycle Implementation, Workday studio, and Production Support of Workday HCM such as Workday s Core HR (HCM),Benefits, Compensation (Basic and Advanced), Talent and Performance Management, Absence, ESS/MSS, Recruiting, Time Tracking, Payroll. Core hands-on SAP HR experience on Payroll Administration, Organization Management, performance Management, Payroll and Time Management. Experience with PeopleSoft HCM environment, including setup, maintenance and troubleshooting. Exceptional experience in setting up core HCM, integration related activities, generating custom reports(Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Transposed Reports, Composite Reports, nBOX reports), creating dashboards, configuring and automating business processes, security policies and managing report scheduling. Created and modified PeopleSoft objects such as Menus, Components, Pages, and Records using Application Designer, and developed new SQRs and customized existing ones. Supported the implementation of new client on the workday platform by defining, documenting and testing functional business process HCM including core HR, Recruiting, Talent and Performance management and Periodic Compensation. Hands-on experience in creating Time Tracking Rules, Templates, Time-off and Absence Plans, Eligibility rules for Compensation Plans, Benefit Groups, Bonus plans, Enrollment Plans. Proven expertise in Business Process Framework, EIB Inbound/Outbound Integrations, Core Connector, Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Document Transformations. Experience in Workday Reporting by Monitoring Business Processes (i.e. hiring), Time Clock Monitoring / Audits, Position Management, Compensation, Time Tracking, Workforce Planning and Labor Analysis in Workday Report Writer, BIRT, and creating complex calculated fields. Designed and implemented real-time interfaces and data migration solutions using ABAP, with a focus on integrating SAP with other systems and handling interface issues. Hands-on expertise with working on Role-based, User-based, Intersection, segment and Job-based security groups. Created Version Upgrade Plans, executed and reviewed Compare Reports, applied Upgrade Application steps, fixes and patches for the upgrade process. Configuring HR dashboards and its contents add/remove worklets, profile, profile group, report as worklet, give access to workers based on their security groups. Involved in QA/Testing processes like User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and System Integration Testing (SIT). Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements. Involved in implementation and post-production support activities. Extensively worked on Workday data conversion, I Loads and Workday integrations. Maintenance and creation of Supervisory Organizations, Locations, Positions, Cost Center, Cost Center Hierarchies. Good Knowledge on Compensation Plans like Salary, Unit Salary, Hourly, Allowance, One Time Payment, Merit, Bonus, Commission, Stock and worked on Compensation Grades, Grade Profiles, and Compensation Eligibility Rules. Good experience in developing technical solutions for the Workday platform Report Builder, RaaS and Web Services. Skills related to GAP, SWOT, Cost-benefit and Feasibility Analyses. Knowledge in Workday Functional HCM with responsibilities Supervisory organizations, Staffing Models, Job and Positions, Defining Business Process and security Groups, Customized Report Generation. Worked on HPQC, ITSM, Solutions manager, Service Now, Share point and other tools to collect and track the defects during Integration and pre - production testing. Experience with creating Staffing models for Supervisory Orgs, Reorganizations and business process framework, Organization Types, Organization Hierarchies. Good Knowledge of SDLC process that is used for all major Workday application deployments. Education: Master s in Information Technology, University of Cincinnati, USA. Technical Skills: ERP Systems Workday, SAP, PeopleSoft Functional Modules Core HCM, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, Talent and Performance, Payroll, Payroll interface, Time Tracking and Absence Management Configuration Tools Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder(EIB), Business Process Framework, SAP GUI, SAP Transaction Codes, ABAP Workbench, SAP Project Reference Object(SPRO), PeopleCode, SQR, Integration Broker Requirement Management Tools JIRA, Requisite Pro Database Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server, MS Access, SAS Web Services XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSD, REST Languages SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, HTML, XML, XSLT. Reporting Tools Workday Report Writer, BIRT(Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool), Custom reports(Simple, Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reports), Workday Calculated Fields, ABAP Reports, PeopleSoft Report Manager, Business objects (BOXI) R3 with Crystal Report, Cognos Version Control Tools TFS, GIT, Rational Clear Case, SharePoint Operating Systems Windows, UNIX/Linux, Oracle Solaris SDLC process Agile Methodologies. Waterfall Document Processing MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Web, MS Excel Professional Experience: Athena Health, MA Feb 2023 - Present Workday HCM Technical Consultant Responsible for Requirement Gathering, analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and workday configurations. Maintain and day to day support of Workday HCM Business processes e.g. Compensation, Hiring, Performance, Security and talent management. Designed, configured and automate business processes to enhance the current application systems for HCM including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, Termination etc. Gathered requirements for several integrations and scoped out the list for the workday implementation for Core HCM, Benefits and Payroll. Designed and developed integrations simple and secure integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and web services SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday cloud platform. Created test cases and assisted customer in testing. Configured business process for Hire, Create Requisition, Propose compensation, Assign Organizations and created web service in the integrations to replicate the BP automatically. Designed integration architecture for all integrations for seamless experience to the customer. Used EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) for integrating location of employees, Performance ratings, Assigning organizations and updating payroll IDs Developed custom integrations using Workday Studio and Cloud connectors Created new integrations to pull new hire information using core connector worker and delivered using document transformation, which uses core connector XML outputs as its data source input Developed Core connector and Document Transformation integrations to get changes file of CSV format from XML Output. Developed inbound integration to bring in result to workday after payroll run in complete. Developed outbound integrations using EIB, Web Services SOAP, WSDL, XML, and XSLT Document Transformation for several integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems and provided necessary security for related functional area to launch the EIB. Worked with Workday Studio to fix integration related issues. Created advanced reports and attached to the dashboards in the workday. Built custom studio integration with ADP to send employee information including job, personal, employment, and compensation data (Full and Changes) from Workday. Created reports that extract Workday data and manipulate the data in other formats for various needs. Generate different kinds of reports Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports to meet client requirements within the workday tenant defining columns, business objects, fields, columns heading overriding, multiple sorting techniques, sorting by secondary objects. Developed the custom reports using workday report writer tool to meet the business needs of HR, Finance and Payroll application report consumer groups and deploying it into workday tenant. Worked on setting up scheduling of reports and understanding the required permissions for security report sharing, performing specific authentications on reports. Developed reports with Workday Report Writer and created custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB). Design Business form layouts using Studio Reporting tool called BIRT Configured Domain Security Policies and merged them with Security Groups. Configured Business Process Security Policies for Business Processes like Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Unions and workforce planning. CGI Solutions, Mumbai, India Mar 2020 Dec 2022 Workday HRIS Consultant Configured Business Process Security Policies for Business Processes like Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Unions and workforce planning. Responsible for understanding and documenting workday business processes, workflows and their relationships to current and future states of processes and solutions. Created comprehensive Use Cases based on Business and Functional Requirements to include all possible scenarios. Configured Merit and Bonus Grids as a part of Annual Merit & Bonus processes. Involved in Design and configuration of Initiate Merit and Bonus Business Processes by configuring complex approval workflow and validation condition rules. Created Supervisory Organizations, Subordinate Supervisory Orgs, and Reorganizations, Company, Position, Locations, Cost center and Organizational Hierarchies. 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. Developed and provided detailed metrics, reporting and analytics to senior management. Built industry standard reports like Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Calculated Fields, Conditions and Eligibility Rules that applies to the parameters of the report. Creating and maintaining custom dash boards and Work-lets. Managing security set-ups for users and roles. Worked on creating several Adhoc custom advanced reports as a part of data validation and testing. Collaborated with HR, Payroll, other internal departments and third party vendors and developed test plans and test scenarios for Functional, End to End, System integration, User Acceptance and Parallel Acceptance testing Performed along functional configuration and technical integration of the Workday application. Cognizant Technical Solutions, Chennai, India February 2018 Feb 2020 SAP HR Functional Consultant Involved in the documentation,upgrade,configuration, testing and post Go Live production support for HCM Modules Responsible for high level client interactions and work with business to take initiative and plan/propose for enhancements in HR System.Post production support and end user training Involved in configuration of ECM module Budgeting, Compensation Plans Merit, Bonus, Equity, Eligibility rules, guidelines, and program groupings Involved in configuration of Organizational and Performance Management ,Organizational Structure, and Appraisals Worked on Customer specific Wage Types from the Model Wage types, Assignment of wage types to relevant wage type groups, and assigning different payroll areas, pay scale types and levels for different employee groups and subgroups. Worked on payroll area, generated payroll periods using payroll and date modifiers, and assigned a control record to each payroll accounting area. Created and documented Off-cycle Payroll test scripts and test scenarios. Performed all the Off-cycle payroll tests in unit, integration and parallel testing. Reviewed and analyzed Off-cycle Payroll results. Wrote training material and prepared manuals for Off-cycle payroll, regular payroll and HR. Documented and prepared procedures for ongoing user references for Off-cycle, HR and Payroll Configured new tax authorities, tax models and tax combos. Researched, analyzed, tested and applied new BSI cyclic bulletins and TUBs to update SAP tax tables. For interface development, discussed with client for requirement gathering, designing real time interfaces, preparing detailed functional specs, working with ABAP resource during programming, interface testing, monitoring/maintaining batch input jobs related to data migration from SAP to various other systems and also from other interfaces to SAP and handling issues while interface failure. Understanding of the complex ABAP reports and work closely with the technical team in the design and development of Z-reports.Development of functional requirements for any reports requiring ABAP/4 development Worked extensively on year end activities like applying the year end notes in SAP and working on the issues related to year end generation. Provided Payroll Production Support. Researched, analyzed, and fixed SAP Payroll production problems. Communicated with SAP Support and SAP Developers. Monitored all Payroll jobs, from the loading of time files to Payroll jobs and Post-Payroll Job runs. Troubleshooted all issues with these jobs and fixed them. Logged issues with SAP (OSS) & implementing OSS Notes Implemented various user parameters for Time sheet, customized data entry screen, and customized reports to display time sheet data. Implemented various user parameters for Time sheet, customized data entry screen, and customized reports to display time sheet data. Created Benefit area, plan attributes(plan types, plan status), benefit plan(health Plan, Savings Plan, insurance Plan, Miscellaneous Plans). Also created options, cost formulas, calculation/coverage rules for health plans and insurance plans, Employee and employer Contribution rules and variants for Savings plans, Investments, Retirement Service Plans, Company car data maintenance LSMW Recording and Bulk data loads using LSMW and BDC HR Master Data maintenance and ensure flawless data in the system Applied knowledge in authorizations - Maintaining user profiles, Structural and General Authorizations and roles Global Payments, Mumbai, India July 2016 January 2018 Peoplesoft HCM Technical Consultant: Worked on modules HR, Payroll, Benefits Analysis of the functional Requirements and converting them into Technical Design Specifications. Documented and designed the technical specifications for interfaces/data conversion and validation Conducted gap analysis and created functional and technical specs Involved in Project Planning, design, develop, and schedule all activities and exercises related to system and application testing for the PeopleSoft modules and Campus Solutions module. Responsible for creating new PeopleSoft objects such as Menus, Components, Pages, and Records using Application Designer and modified the existing objects like Components, Pages, Records and Menu definitions. Involved in creation and maintenance of Roles and Permission list for all account users in the HR/Payroll system. Created new SQRs and Customized existing SQRs as per the requirement. Developed Run control Pages as per corporate requirements and attached to menus to run the SQRs online through Process Scheduler server. Developed customized SQR process to read data from flat files and process Employee Transfers, Terminations, Promotions and New hires. Worked on integration of Application Engine Delinquency process with XML Publisher to generate Delinquency reports Involved in customizing the BI invoice report using XML publisher Generated error reports/files during data conversion as a part of the conversion process to handle the errors and send them to the users for cleaning/evaluation purposes Developed and modified the production control reports which help in identifying the data integrity in the PeopleSoft tables Created and scheduled jobs for Inbound/Outbound and Interfaces and tied them with PS delivered App Engine process to complete import, and export process as a batch Involved in integrating PeopleSoft Payables with other applications such as General ledger, Receivables, Billing, and Asset Management An enhancement for Mass update from Master Files to Vendor and Customer Tables. Tools used are component interface, Application Engine and File Layout Preparation of Unit Test Cases and Test Plan along with customer support. Keywords: quality analyst business intelligence information technology golang microsoft procedural language Massachusetts