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MADHU - SAP HCM PAYROLL LEAD

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Employer : [email protected]; [email protected]; (609) 778-4215 ext 1000 Madhu SAP SF/EC Payroll Lead consultant _________________________________________________________________________ Profile: As an SAP SF/EC Payroll Lead consultant at SPX Corporation and before this worked at Ernst & Young (EY) one of the world's leading professional services firms, I leverage my 17.2 years of experience in ERP software to deliver innovative and effective solutions for complex business and technology challenges. I direct a team of 20 staff who handle employee data, 300+ large complex programs, and 35+ vendor interfaces for various clients across industries, prior to this, I worked for Astellas Pharmaceutical and Eaton corporation, before that I was an SAP HCM Lead Consultant with Apple Inc., where we resolved over 12,000 problems and incidents, prior to that, I had a similar role at Target, the 7th largest retailer in the United States. Prior to this I worked as a PeopleSoft HCM Consultant and PeopleSoft Developer at the following companies Standard Life, PricewaterhouseCoopers Services Limited (PWC), IBM Daksh, and Birla Soft Ltd. Technical Skills: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP SF EC, SAP ECC, SAP HCM, HXM, LMS, PMGM, SAP EC Payroll, SAP US Payroll, SAP Fieldglass, SAP ABAP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP CPI, HCI, PI/PO, FI, CO, SD, MM, QM, WM, SAP Onboarding 1.0, Employee Central, Performance & Goal, Succession Planning, Time Off & Timesheet, Benefits, Compensation, Work Zone, NetWeaver, Learning, Kronos, Workforce, Microsoft Azure, Peoplesoft HCM/CRM, SQL Server, SSIS, SSMS, Oracle DB, Hadoop technologies, Kafka, Zookeeper, MySQL, and DB2 etc. Modules: Employee Central (EC), Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Performance & Goal Management, EC Payroll. Succession Planning, Onboarding 1.0, Time Management, Workforce Management (WFM), Time Off & Timesheet, Learning Management, Recruiting, Base Benefits, Employee Self-Service Payroll, EC Payroll, Succession Planning, Performance Management, and Compensation. Tools: Espresso, Jira, SNOW, IDT, EMAPI, POSTMAN, Control_M, Select_M, People Tools, Splunk. Microsoft Teams, MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. Third-party interfaces: Proficient on third-party interfaces such as WageWorks, Mercer, Alight, AON, Fidelity, Fragomen, Lincoln Finacle, Gympass, Sleepio, Lifecare, TBG West, Bright Horizon,401K, and ADP, etc. Career Profile: Client Name: SPX Corporation _______________________________________________________________________________ Title: SAP SF/EC Payroll Lead consultant Period: Jan 2024 to till date Location: USA. Responsibilities: Gather requirements for a new development, create Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD). Analysing the requirements and proposing a solution, Perform Code and configuration reviews, help with the team with code fixes and configuration. Analyse the incidents created and assign it to the team to fix the issue. Perform testing and provide UAT approvals, create change orders represent them in CAB meetings. Proficient in Agile and waterfall methodology, Project Implementation, and Lifecycle Management. Understanding the fundamental elements of US payroll, such as gross pay, deductions, and net pay calculations and Ensuring compliance with US payroll regulations and tax laws. familiarity with the end-to-end US payroll process, including time management, payroll runs, and financial postings and Managing employee master data for US payroll, including personnel actions like hires, terminations, and transfers, Integrating SAP payroll with other systems, such as SAP Personnel Administration and Benefits, as well as third-party products Experience in Effective stakeholder coordination, consensus building and productive agency, executive communication, and negotiation skills, and Employee Central module optimization. Run payroll simulations, view results, and perform checks and Automate payroll activities to reduce manual tasks in PCC and Provides visibility over the entire payroll process and seamlessly integrates with other SAP systems and third-party applications Skilled in project planning, monitoring deliverables, efficient issue resolution, and providing updates. Proficient at identifying early risks, escalating, providing solution proposals, and resolution of complex issues, and mentoring my team towards automating the process, and value additions. Understanding client business processes and configuring SAP modules to optimize workflows, data management, and reporting to achieve desired business outcomes. Monitoring system performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing solutions to enhance operational efficiency within the SAP system Maintaining open communication with clients, actively addressing concerns, and ensuring they are satisfied with the implementation and support provided. Setting up the system according to the designed specifications and making sure all configurations align with the company s operational goals. Coordinating various teams, managing timelines, and ensuring the project stays on track. It s about turning the configured SAP system into a functional, live environment. Creating transformative solutions that can significantly impact a client s business. It s about identifying inefficiencies, rethinking processes, and implementing strategies that drive improvement. Acting as the primary contact for the client, ensuring clear and effective communication. Conducting thorough investigations to understand the root cause of software issues. Analysing the issues to develop and implement effective solutions and developing and implementing necessary product modifications to meet client expectations and enhance software performance Day to day support to the business users on the production issues, reports, workshops, testing, Proficient in Simulation, pre-payroll, and post-payroll processes of payroll generation and integration of PCC, ECP, and EC and time schedules, benefits, and garnishments in SAP ECP. Participated in requirement-gathering sessions, documented EC payroll processes, and translated business requirements into functional specifications, developed and implemented payroll schemas, rules, and calculations to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing in EC Payroll. Expertise in pay cycles (Regular & Off cycle), configuration, Time evaluation, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCR), schemas, and understanding of payroll internal tables and clusters in EC Payroll. Worked on benefits integration with payroll and configured the necessary wage types for deductions. Proficient in testing payroll using different payroll areas and retro dates. Proficient in Simulation, pre-payroll, and post-payroll processes of payroll generation and integration of PCC, EC Payroll, and EC and time schedules, benefits, and garnishments. Experience in benefits of employee process such as Open enrolment, Life events, Configuration of Health, Insurance, Savings Credit Plans, Spending Accounts, Eligibility & Termination. Worked on benefits integration with EC payroll and configured the necessary wage types for deductions. Proficient in testing EC payroll using different payroll areas and retro dates. Collaborated with HR, payroll, and IT to integrate SAP Time Management with other modules Client Name: Ernst & Young (EY) _______________________________________________________________________________ Title: SAP SF/EC Payroll Lead consultant Period: July 2020 to Dec 2023 Location: Alpharetta GA. This is a project involving the implementation of SAP SuccessFactors. It includes the following tasks: experienced fit-gap analysis, field mapping, data migration from the legacy system to SAP, and data validation Modules worked: SAP SuccessFactors EC, PMGM, EC Payroll, SAP Recruiting, SAP Onboarding 1.0, Time management, Benefits, Compensation, ESS, and MSS. Responsibilities: Proficient in end-to-end implementation of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, including requirement gathering, design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support. Proficient in configuring and customizing the Succession data model, and country-specific succession data models for meeting the business requirements by using Business Configuration UI. Led the entire project lifecycle, including planning, execution, and delivery. This involves setting timelines, managing budgets, and ensuring the project stays on track Managing relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, team members, and third-party vendors. This includes regular communication and reporting on project status Leading and coordinating a team of consultants, developers, and other project resources. This includes assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and providing guidance and support Ensuring that all deliverables meet the required quality standards. This involves conducting regular reviews and testing to identify and address any issues. Analyzes and improves business processes by examining the steps, parties, information flows, and documents involved. The goal is to identify areas for optimization Evaluate existing processes and identify areas for improvement. Streamline workflows, reduce manual tasks, and enhance efficiency, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to HR and Payroll to measure success and identify areas for further optimization. Understanding current HR and Payroll processes, Identify pain points, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement. Ensure data consistency and integration across modules. Extensively worked on compensation, Employee profiles, job information portlets, and picklists. Configuration of foundation objects like legal entity, location, division, department, and Business unit. Personal, dependents, and employment portlet. National ID &Employee class type. Corporate Data Model for all foundation objects and maintenance of associations. Expertise in project management lifecycle and testing management lifecycle in SAP and ERP Projects. Execution of personnel actions such as hiring, promotions, salary changes, and terminations Experience in creating, modifying, and maintaining the organizational structure, including organizational units, positions, jobs, and reporting relationships in Organizational Management. Proficient in configuring and customizing the Succession data model, and country-specific succession data models for meeting the business requirements by using Business Configuration UI. Enabling Time Off, Configuring and setting up Timesheets, Absence Requests, Time Off, Attendance, Break, and On-Call Time Types, Approval UI, and Time Sheet Workbook. Experience in defining work schedules, Time Tracking, Time Off, time accounts, and time data management and defining time types such as standard and undefined absences. Worked on benefits integration with US payroll and configured the necessary wage types for deductions. Proficient in testing payroll using different payroll areas and retro dates. Configured US payroll schemas and rules to comply with Canadian payroll regulations and developed and executed data validation and reconciliation processes for the Canda. Conducted unit, integration, and UAT to ensure system functionality and accuracy, Identified and resolved issues during testing phases to ensure smooth implementation for US payroll. Experience in SAP US Payroll. Schema, Rules, US Taxation, BSI, and Tubs in EC Payroll. Experience in verifying US payroll processes comply with local legal and regulatory requirements, such as tax calculations and social insurance contributions SAP EC Payroll. Lead integration of acquisitions into organization's compensation structure and development of tools to promote understanding of compensation guidelines and processes. Loading Look up and conversion tables, load Employee Data Files, share reports with Business Users, launch forms, review field-based permissions, adjust Interfaces and schedule jobs, generate compensation statements, assist with rollout of new domain functionality. Enabling Time Off, Configuring and setting up Timesheets, Absence Requests, Time Off, Attendance, Break, and On-Call Time Types, Approval UI, and Time Sheet Workbook. Experience in defining work schedules, Time Tracking, Time Off, time accounts, and time data management and defining time types such as standard and undefined absences. Configure absence types such as vacation, sick leave in SF, define accrual rules (if applicable) for leave balances, create workflows for leave requests and approvals in time management Workflow configuration for submit leave requests via Employee Self-Service (ESS), Managers or HR personnel approve or reject requests in SAP SuccessFactors time management Ensure that employees are compensated accurately for all hours worked as pert Positive time. Experience in define and configure for Negative Time to Allows for more flexibility in managing work hours, which can be beneficial in roles where output is more important than hours worked, Reduces the need for detailed time tracking, which can save time and resources. Experience in Schemas, Rules, Operations, Functions, Features, Absence/Attendances, Time/Payroll Wage Types, Time Quotas, Work Schedule Rules, FMLA Workbench, FLSA Pay Calculations, Overtime Processing, ESS Timesheets, MSS Time Approval, CATS Integration Proficient in SAP EC, ECP, and PCC integration and configuration of US payroll process management and assignment, provisioning setup, SAML, Business and SAP node configuration, Batch user, Manager, and payroll administration, and role-based permission (RBP). Skilled in working with SFAPIs to facilitate seamless integration between SAP SuccessFactors and other systems, handling various data formats including, FTP, XML, and transforming data. Create mappings and transformations using the SAP CPI tool, Expertise in SAP CPI, PI/PO, and APIs. Experience in Configuring US payroll areas for monthly and bi-weekly and assigning the payroll areas to the relevant period parameters. Date modifier, pay periods, pay date, and fiscal year. Proficient in Simulation, pre-payroll, and post-payroll processes of payroll generation and integration of PCC, ECP, and EC and time schedules, benefits, and garnishments in SAP ECP. Participated in requirement-gathering sessions, documented EC payroll processes, and translated business requirements into functional specifications, developed and implemented payroll schemas, rules, and calculations to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing in EC Payroll. Experience in Basic pay info type configuration, pay scale structure maintenance, maintaining processing classes and evaluation classes, and wage type configuration. Expertise in pay cycles (Regular & Off cycle), configuration, Time evaluation, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCR), schemas, and understanding of payroll internal tables and clusters. Provided ongoing support and maintenance for SAP EC Payroll systems, addressing issues, performing system upgrades, and implementing enhancements in SAP EC Payroll. Conducting replication runs between EC and ECP and making sure the replication is successful. When there exist, errors coordinating with cross-functional and internal teams to fix the errors. Configuring Succession Data Model for all Portlets, Importing relevant picklist and Event-Reason. and setting up event-reason, Creating Workflow, and Setting up approval workflows. Extensively worked on MDF, foundation objects, associations, Business rules and workflows all the Data Models, templates and XML and provide Role Based permissions to users. Execution of personnel actions such as hiring, promotions, salary changes, and terminations Experience in employee data, personal information like name, address, contact details, identification numbers, employment data like job assignment, organizational unit, and position. Ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements by maintaining employee data and generating statutory reports as needed for the countries US Canada, Ireland, and other countries. Participated in the implementation of the SAP EC Payroll Application from end to end. Responsible for FI integration, Payroll configuration, and Replication of EC data to SAP ECP. Experience in SAP SF EC, Recruiting, Talent Management, Compensation, Benefits Administration, Succession Planning, Learning Management and Organization Management. Experience in SAP US Payroll. Schema, Rules, US Taxation, BSI, and Tubs in EC Payroll. Expertise in pay cycles (Regular & Off cycle), configuration, Time evaluation, Personnel Calculation Rules (PCR), schemas, and understanding of payroll internal tables and clusters in EC Payroll. Worked on benefits integration with payroll and configured the necessary wage types for deductions. Proficient in testing payroll using different payroll areas and retro dates. Proficient in Simulation, pre-payroll, and post-payroll processes of payroll generation and integration of PCC, EC Payroll, and EC and time schedules, benefits, and garnishments. Extensively worked on compensation in terms of employee/non-employee and their short-term incentives, Long-term Incentives, benefits, and Plan of merit for Salaried employees. Experience in ERP project management and effective programs, project change management, communication, training, planning, execution, regression testing, and assurance testing activities. Proficient in Agile and waterfall methodology, Project Implementation, and Lifecycle Management. Skilled in project planning, monitoring deliverables, issue resolution, and providing updates. Proficient at identifying early risks, escalating, providing solution proposals and complex issues, and mentoring my team towards automating the process, and value additions. Client Name: Astellas Pharmaceutical ________________________________________________________________________________ Title: Sr. SAP HCM/SF Consultant Period: May 2019 to June 2020 Responsible for the planning and coordination of the processes required for application change management, upgrades, application security and controls, and the provision of enhancements and new applications necessary for business operations. Expertise in project management lifecycle and testing management lifecycle in SAP and ERP Projects. Responsible for managing Payroll for 1000+ employees including Unions, exempt and non-exempt employees. Sync the BSI Regulatory Bulletin updates on SAP systems. Proficient in configuring and customizing the Succession data model, and country-specific succession data models for meeting the business requirements by using Business Configuration UI. Extensively worked on compensation, Employee profiles, job information portlets, and picklists. Configuration of foundation objects like legal entity, location, division, department, and Business unit. Personal, dependents, and employment portlet. National ID &Employee class type. Corporate Data Model for all foundation objects and maintenance of associations in SuccessFactors Conducted unit, integration, and UAT to ensure system functionality and accuracy, Identified and resolved issues during testing phases to ensure smooth implementation for Canada payroll. Stayed updated with the latest SAP HCM updates and Canadian payroll regulations to ensure ongoing compliance and Ensured compliance with Canadian payroll laws and regulations. Proficient in Simulation, pre-payroll, and post-payroll processes of payroll generation and integration of PCC, EC Payroll, and EC and time schedules, benefits, and garnishments. Worked with SAP Development team to design and test reports, interfaces, forms, and conversions; perform validation and reconciliation of data conversions. Extensively worked on compensation in terms of employee/non-employee and their short-term incentives, Long-term Incentives, benefits, and Plan of merit for Salaried employees. Proficient in configuring and customizing the Succession data model, and country-specific succession data models for meeting the business requirements by using Business Configuration UI. Extensively worked on compensation, Employee profiles, job information portlets, and picklists. Client Name: Eaton corporation _______________________________________________________________________________ Title: SAP SF Lead Consultant Period: Mar 2017 to April 2019 Proficient in configuring and customizing the Succession data model, and country-specific succession data models for meeting the business requirements by using Business Configuration UI. Extensively worked on compensation, Employee profiles, job information portlets, and picklists. Configuration of foundation objects like legal entity, location, division, department, and Business unit. Personal, dependents, and employment portlet. National ID &Employee class type. Corporate Data Model for all foundation objects and maintenance of associations. Lead integration of acquisitions into organization's compensation structure and development of tools to promote understanding of compensation guidelines and processes. Close defects for every testing cycle. Resolve missing data and statements not generated issues. Acts as internal SAP expert for the payroll domain in North America, Canada and Mexico. Participate in implementation and rollout of merging systems for North America and other countries including Germany, assist in providing user training during launch activities. Assist in functional tests, specifically during sites implementations, assist with rollout of new domain functionality, and Responsible for issues with Benefits enrolment and Affordable Care Act Forms. Client Name: Apple Inc ______________________________________________________________________________ Title: SAP HCM/SF Lead Consultant Period: May 2013 to March 2017 Participated in the implementation of the SAP EC Payroll Application from end to end. Responsible for FI integration, Payroll configuration, and Replication of EC data to SAP ECP. Defining and generating features such as ABKRS for default payroll area and maintaining feature NUMKR for default number ranges for personnel number. Experienced integrating SuccessFactors with other SAP products, SAP On-premises such as Finance 3rd Party systems using various protocols such as SOAP, REST, SFTP, OData, PI, IDocs, SFTP, tools. Client Name: Apple Inc _______________________________________________________________________________ Title: SAP HCM Consultant Period: May 2013 to March 2017 Supported ESS and MSS related issues. Maintained PA, OM, TM and Benefit related implementations Define and process payroll periods, period parameters, date modifier, fiscal year, both monthly and bi-weekly payrolls, and successfully directed the migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. Designed and configured personal actions like hiring, change of position, and change of pay. Designed and configured user-specific info-type menus as per the client s requirement SAP HCM and HR implementation experience with the sub modules PA, OM, PY, TM and Recruitment. SAP Payroll experience with implementation, support, QA lead and QA testing Proficient in SAP HCM end-to-end implementation projects and implementing SAP HCM. Configuring the SAP Compensation to align with the organization's compensation policies and structures and setting up salary bands, bonus plans, incentive programs, and other components. Worked on benefits integration with payroll and configured the necessary wage types for deductions. Designed an end-to-end architecture for Benefit Focus - Benefits Process Automation. Configured the schemas for different payroll business processes, and off-cycle processing as per the client's requirements, including wage types (salary components, deductions, benefits wage types) Client Name: PWC ______________________________________________________________________________ Title: PeopleSoft HCM Consultant Period: Feb 2013 to Apr 2013 Install and perform minor software changes in the UAT environment. Code changes have been implemented for emergency fixes to make quick changes. Client Name: Target Corporation ______________________________________________________________________________ Title: PeopleSoft Sr Consultant Period: Nov 2012 to Feb 2013 Maintained records of daily transactions, problems remedial actions taken, and installation activities via the ticketing tool. Client Name: Apple Inc _______________________________________________________________________________ Title: PeopleSoft Sr Consultant Period: Dec 2011 to Oct 2012 Interact with Apple for day-to-day activities concerning their Information systems and develop a detailed understanding of issues of the operation to meet Apple requirements. Client Name: IBM Daksh ______________________________________________________________________________ Title: PeopleSoft consultant Period: July 2010 to Des 2011 Created SQR report for Rehire check automation and list of nonperson profile employees. Client Name: Standard Life _____________________________________________________________________________ Title: PeopleSoft Developer Period: February 2008 to July 2010 Configured the earnings, and deductions, for NA Payroll as per business requirements. Validation of earnings and deductions in the employee paychecks and direct deposit advice. Client Name: BirlaSoft Ltd ______________________________________________________________________________ Title: PeopleSoft Developer Period: July 2007 to Feb 2008 Involved in implementation for uploading the data in setup tables by using file layout, component interface, and application engine. Education: Bachelor of Engineering with specialization in Civil Engineering from Osmania University Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India in 2006. Certifications: Have active SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors employee central (EC). SAP S/4hana Enterprise Management - Human Capital Management-Foundation. Keywords: quality analyst user interface materials management business intelligence database information technology golang purchase order microsoft Colorado Georgia Idaho Pennsylvania South Dakota