RAJ THILAK MANIKAVASAGAM

415-***-****

ab6jk7@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

• Senior Business/Functional Consultant with 8 years of rich experience in Analysis, Design, Configuration and

implementation of SAP HR R/3 and ECC systems.

• Expertized and experience in configuration and implementation of SAP HR modules in the areas of Personnel

Administration, Organization Management, Payroll, Time Management and Benefits .

• Expertise in Payroll module (Gross and Net), Year end process, BSI, Tax reporter.

• Expertise in SAP HR ABAP technical skills and highly proficient in debugging.

• Experience in Global Implementations and Support environments.

• Ability to bridge the gap between Technical and Functional teams in IT / SAP HR projects.

• Involved in Blueprint designing, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live and support Phases in SAP.

• Experienced in working on integration of payroll with third party software like ADP & BSI.

• Proficient in conversion of business requirements into functional specifications and technical specifications for solution

development, unit and integration testing and other aspects of software development lifecycle.

• Very good knowledge in Recruitment, Personnel Development and Compensation Management.

• Good understanding and experience of all Payroll and Time Management Schemas & rules and has a good experience on

BSI Interfaces.

• Good Knowledge of ASAP methodology, Business Process model, end user training, and documentation.

• Worked on ALE Distribution Model, IDOC technology for creating the interface program, which sent the HR master data from

SAP system to other receiving system.

• Data Migration Worked on the Legacy System Migration Workbench ( LSMW) tool of SAP R/3 for data migration.

• Data Migration Extensive experience in data mapping and conversion from Legacy data to SAP data structures.

• Experience in generating reports using adhoc queries according to the client’s requirements.

• Experienced in Unit testing, Functional testing, End to End testing, Integration testing & User Acceptance testing, writing Test

Scripts, Test cases and used Quality Centre for testing external tools.

• Expertise in handling internal business product(s)/process consultant responsible for communicating detailed technical

information and providing technical assistance to customers, systems, management and/or external sources.

• Help clients in leveraging the SAP systems by designing and implementing proper Reporting strategy and reporting

architecture.

• Excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal skills, strong analytical ability and problem solving capability.

• Very Good Experience of Managing Project team and meeting deadlines.

PROFESSIONAL SKILL SET

SAP R/3 7 ECC Versions 4.6C, 4.7, 5.0 & ECC 6.0,EHP4

SAP HR Modules PA, OM, Payroll, Time Management & Benefits.

Interfaces BAPI, ALE, IDOC, LSMW, Workflows, BDC

Programming Languages ABAP,HR ABAP, C, C++, Visual Basic 6.0,JAVA

RDBMS SQL Server 2000, DB2, Oracle 7/8.0/9i

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EDUCATIONAL DETAILS

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, Anna University, India.

Underwent Training at Infosys, India in ERP packages (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client : Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), CA Feb 2012 – Till date

Role : Payroll/HR Lead Consultant

Project : Payroll Baseline and HCM support

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, issue resolution, Scope interpretation, Process design/improvement,

Functional Design documents, Configuration documents, Production support, enhancements to existing functionality.

• Configuration related to PA, OM and Payroll.

• Support activities involved support to everyday issues, defect resolution, and data maintenance,

reporting in the areas of PA, OM and Payroll.

• Worked on internal projects with various teams to implement the consolidation of Personal

Areas/Company codes involving Creation of new PAs, Org units, Positions, Mass data changes, creation of new PA.

• Helped in Root cause Analysis, providing solution to fix the root cause, configuring, developing,

testing, and implementing the changes related to PA, HR Forms, OM issues.

• Resolved issues related to Wage types, Deductions, Taxation, FI posting and year end activities.

• Worked on Service Requests (defects) related to PA, OM and Payroll.

• Worked on Reporting, interfaces and data loading.

• Creation of new Org units, Positions, Jobs, Locations and all attributes pertaining to these objects.

• Configured Basic Wage types, Recurring Payment Wage types, Cumulating Wage types and

Wage types for Garnishments.

• Created symbolic accounts and linked them to GL Accounts based on employee groups.

• Configured Pay Increases and defined payment model for deduction and customized arrears

processing for calculating deductions.

• Post upgrade activities on executing and analysis of process model from payroll, DME processing,

FI posting and validation.

• Worked on integration of SAP payroll with BSI Tax factory.

• Involved in the Year end Process and Year end upgrade with the application of HR Support packs,

OSS Notes, BSI TUB’S and Validation, Data Testing of W 2 form configuration in SAP.

• Compared the W 2s State Mag media format with SAP format.

• Involved in the W 2 box mapping configuration verification and W 2 box mapping data validation.

• Involved in the Process of running W 2s in Test Run and Production Runs.

• Modified PCR’s to calculate Overtime & Union dues & changed the schemas for tax calculation

rules.

• Payroll schema and rule configuration for Incentive premium using standard Tips wage /010.

• Configuration and analysis on Supplemental taxation issue for Pension population and

coordination with SAP for BSI correction.

• Configuration to fix issues with negative /5py deductions.

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• Reporting and analysis for /552 – Overpayment scenarios for retro and current payroll periods for

business users.

• Created notional wages and looped them through custom payroll rules and schemas for pension

employees for vendor outsourcing.

• Configuration to limit wages to specific company codes for business feasibility.

• IRS federal levy analysis and configuration of limits for 2014 and documentation and testing of

Federal garnishment and validation against the /G03 garnishment deduction.

• Configured PCR Z0014 to remove duplicated incentive premium records during OCR and PCR

process.

• Updated periodically BSI Tax Update Bulletins.

• Created the reporting for Posting Payroll Results to Accounting and prepared the basic settings for

posting to Accounting.

• Created LSMW for payroll check voids using FCH9 transaction.

• Developed customized CATDO reporting for payroll business to fetch CATS data using

Organizational or Cost Centre information.

• Enhancements and corrections to Payroll Accuracy reporting for quarterly analysis.

• ESS Bank information customizing changes to handle automated updating using client

requirements.

• Integration of Business objects to workflows for automated mail generations and pushing work

items to different approval levels.

• Custom PCR operation creation to handle cumulation class filters.

• Development of stand alone classes for OCR/PCR and assistance classes for webdynpro

components.

• Technical Design of OCR/PCR summary reports for tracking.

• Review of offshore deliverables and responsible for UAT.

• Extensive knowledge on transport management using CHARM process for monthly deliverables

and go live.

• Post Go live support.

Client : Southern California Edison (SCE), CA Nov 2010 – Jan 2012

Role : HCM Onsite Lead/Consultant

Project : CCI – HCM project

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and writing Functional/Technical Specifications, Business Processes and

Blueprinting. Develops test scripts and coordinates testing and Training.

• Responsible for Time management configuration including with Unions, Time Evaluation

(including Time Schemas, rules), quotas and Time recording (CATS).

• Provided functional system analysis and technical support in SAP Payroll and Time management

functions and Schema PCR, and Configuring additional wage types as required by the client based on business requirements and

debugging the payroll schema and PCR’s

• Responsible for changes to the Payroll and Time Schema based on collective bargaining changes

and/or changes to the benefits of management employees.

• Integrated employee groups and Subgroups with payroll modules in various groupings Employee

sub group grouping for PCR/CAP & wage type permissibility 0008, 0014 0015 info types etc.

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• Revising PCR’s based on additional configuration.

• Responsible for design, documentation and build of enhancements.

• Additional activities include support pack testing, end user training, and business representation

for additional SAP upgrades.

• Create OSS messages and liaison with SAP in resolving issues

• Implemented custom workflow for creating, modifying and deleting OM objects like Org unit,

Position, Job. OM related Data conversion, Data cleansing, Data mapping, Data Error resolution, OM and PA related Functional Unit

Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, UAT

• Extensively worked in Defect resolution/Break fix of PA/OM, Payroll and Time issues

• Redesign, development and support of CAT6 time entries posting to CATSPM.

• Redesign, development and support of CAT7 time entries posting to CATCO.

• Redesign configuration and development of Outbound ALE Idoc for HR system to third party

vendors (TIVOLI) for User id and Email id creations on new hires.

• Defined Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure, Pay scale Structure and Wage Type Structure.

• Configured Organization structure using various interfaces.

• Assigned relationships between objects like org org, org position & position tasks.

• Development of enhancements in CAT6 and CAT7 posting for custom break up of time schedules

involving time reversals, shift premiums (Day/Night/Swing) and meal time.

• Design of Workflow and Idoc monitoring tools to generate automated mails for quick resolution.

• Design and development of ALV reports for PA, OM, Time and Payroll objects and HR feed for

Offline telephone directory.

• Development of Batch Input program (BDC) to update authorization parameters for roles in PFCG

and mass marking of CATSPM 803 rows as transferred.

• Worked on Integration with the PA Module by using the RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE30,

RHINTE20 reports.

• Designed and Developed complete Reporting strategy and reporting needs by using standard

delivered SAP Reports, Custom Reports and Ad hoc Query.

• Design, development and testing support for portal transactions and portal screens involving

employment data and Personal data like Address Bank details, Benefits data, Family members dependent data,

• Designed and built Statutory and other various Non Statutory reports.

• Mass data changes involving loading of time data, Payroll related data, PA OM Payroll and

Benefits transactional data etc during Critical care stage of the project and have extensively worked in Defect resolution/Breakfix of

PA/OM, Payroll and Time issues.

• Involved in SPAU/SPDD adjustments post upgrade and validation of SAP notes to fix post

upgrade issues.

• Production support of all HCM objects and root cause analysis.

Client : Syngenta Crops, North Carolina Aug 2009 – Oct 2010

Role : SAP HR Consultant

Project : CCI – HCM project

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, Blueprinting, Gap analysis, Scope Interpretation, Process design,

Functional Design documents, Configuration documents, Improvements to existing Business processes. Production support,

enhancements to existing functionality.

• Customized Payroll Schemas and modified few of Personal calculation rules using rule editor

according to Company rules and created wage types and assigning various processing and evaluation classes.

• Execute baseline testing for core HR, Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service.

• Perform Integration and Unit Testing for HR, Payroll and FI configuration

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• Created symbolic accounts and assigned them to GL accounts created by Finance team for

smooth flow of payroll postings.

• Developed BDC programmes, transaction for PA40–Initial Load and PA30 Maintain HR Master

Data for most of the common PA infotypes.

• Development of customer specific screens in reports for automated mail generations during

annual enrolment

• Development of ALV reports display participants at various levels of medical/Dental/vision, Cobra

plans with rates and premiums.

• Development of customer specific infotypes and automated update of subtypes.

• Minor enhancements of Bank (IT 0009) and personal (IT0002) information in ESS/MSS

components as per client requirements.

• Created organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions, assigned the tasks to positions and integrated all of these into the

enterprises organizational plan.

• Created the number ranges intervals and assigned them to different employee subgroups through NUMKR feature.

• Created the personnel action like hiring, transfer, organization reassignment and separation.

• Developed Dynamic actions during hiring process to update custom infotypes for plan benefits.

• Supported the Production issues & Tickets which are raised in issue tracker tool Solution Manager

• Supported Org Management & Personnel Administration Modules

• Regular interaction with on site client team, core users and On Site Manager to stream line the business process

• Prepared test cases, conducted unit testing within HR module to ensure all components fit

together properly.

Client : Nissan Motors Nov 2008 – Jun 2009

Role : SAP HR Consultant

Project : Nissan Motors HR SAP implementation

• Responsible for business requirement gathering workshops with business analyst and client.

• Participated in blueprint design and blueprint presentation sessions for PA, OM and compensation

modules.

• Technically leading the team from design to development.

• Design and developments of custom infotype to store pay rise information.

• Functional design of Smart Forms for client communication and sending individual mails to

employees with PDF attachments to their inbox.

• Development of Function module to extract Organizational level reporting.

• Configured screen modifications to show the necessary data of the employee in all infotypes

screen including PA30 and PA40.

• Running consistent RHINTEE Reports to make sure Integration points are established.

• Worked on Info groups and Info group modifiers

• Configured Number range intervals (PA04), and Configured NUMKR to default the Internal

Number range for new hires in SAP system.

• Extensively, configured dynamic actions to populate info type 0041, IT0021 for certain actions and

calling routines in Dynamic Actions.

• Customized info types using PM01 and customized the reason for change in personnel actions.

• Used RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE20, and RHINTE30 reports to integrate Personnel

Administration with the Organizational Management.

• Developed functional specifications for conversion programs and coordinated with the ABAP team

for data field mappings and to ensure the smooth functioning of the same.

• Responsible for providing documentation and knowledge transfer to super user.

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Client : Infosys Technologies Limited Mar 2007 – May 2008

Role : Senior Software Engineer

Project : In-house SAP implementation project

• Involved in integration with the personnel administration by using the RHINTE reports.

• Maintained the number ranges for organizational units.

• Assigning relationships between different objects like one organizational unit to another organizational units, Positions to

Organizational units, Jobs to position.

• Maintained various plan versions and different structures at each plan version.

• Developed Enterprise structure and Personnel Structure to fit company needs including personnel area, personnel sub area,

employee group and employee sub group.

• Maintained master data using transactions PA30 and PA40 for hiring a person, pay change, transfer, retirement, termination

and Rehire.

• Created personnel action and reasons for actions as per the Enterprise Requirement.

• Configuration of user defined infotype menus in maintenance of HR master data and creation of HR master data.

• Development of ALV report for Org Management to display Person, position, Job and Org related information

• Developed Dynamic action to update custom infotype in background during Hiring and Separation action.

• Developed Qualification and Communication report for Infosys and Subsidiaries for displaying wage type split up information,

current designation and personal data information for one stop HR reporting.

• Enhancements to existing smart forms to generate yearly Compensation and Role Change letters to employees.

• Developed of Batch Input program for ITL subsidiary Hiring process.

• Developed Custom tables, data elements, domains for storing customer infotype information.

• Prepared User Manuals, Test Scripts for Client Testing and User Acceptance Testing

• Provided Training mauls to the Core Team Members (Super Users) and End users.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Languages Known : English and Tamil.

Date of Birth : 09th January 1985.

Visa Type : H1 B

Preferred location : California

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