Rakesh Kumar
SAP HR/Travel Consultant
Cell: +1-312-***-**** 6318 Apt #3F North Mozart
St.
Email: **************@*****.*** Chicago, IL 60659
SAP HR with PA and Travel Management
Summary of Experience
• Rakesh Kumar is a SAP HR/Travel Management Consultant. Currently working in the Human Resource
Transformation Practice of Deloitte.
• Involved in SAP implementations and his current responsibilities include Requirements Gathering and Solution
designing Workshops as well as As-Is Analysis, business blueprinting with Industry Print-5 & ARIS process
flows, System configuration, SOLMAN, documentations and testing.
• 6 years of experience SAP HR including travel management, plays the role of an HR Consultant across
projects in Deloitte. His previous experience is with Accenture.
• 4 End to End project implementation experience with 3 Post implementation support and 2 rollouts.
• Rakesh has extensive experience for configuration and implement SAP HR comprising of Personnel
Administration, Time Management, Travel management at many instances including in the largest Mining and
Petroleum Company and the largest Retail Company.
• Worked extensively on Travel management including HR Mini Master with Personnel Administration, HR
data interface with third party, Travel Plan, Integration of travel plan with Third party travel booking
system Saber, GetThere, Travel Request, Cash Advance, Credit Card interface, Travel and FI integration,
Vendor master data creation, Workflows, Cutover activity, Travel Expense with per diems, Travel and
expense Reporting system, ESS and MSS configuration.
Professional Experience and SAP Projects
Company : Deloitte Consulting LLP (USA)
Period : From 01/08/2012 to Date
#1 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. branded as Walmart, is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of
large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's third largest public corporation,
according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2012, the biggest private employer in the world with over two million
employees, and is the largest retailer in the world.
Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation
Role and Responsibility:-
• Primarily responsible for handling HR Mini Master & Travel Planning, Travel Expense, Travel and FI integration
and ESS Portal. Define HR structure for Time management implementation and involve in design phase.
• Performed ‘AS - IS’ process study, ‘TO – BE’ system design and Gap Analysis before configuration of the
application
• Conducted client meetings for study and assessment of process re-engineering & customization
requirements.
• Performed scenario mapping & conceptual design for the implementation of HR & Travel Management.
• Solution for system integration with legacy HR system
• Configuration of ESS for integration with HR Mini Master and Travel Management.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting functional specification from the client and advising process
improvement areas
• Conducted Conference Room Pilot &Responsible for process mapping, solution design and configuration
changes.
• Responsible for process mapping, solution design and configuration changes.
• Provided the business better practice regarding SAP Implementation.
• Assisting my manager in quality control and related processes.
• Data validation and test scenario preparation Performing Unit Testing & System Integration Testing
• Providing assistance in User Acceptance Testing Data cleansing & migration to SAP system
• Data cleansing & migration to SAP system
• Responsible for tracking the day to day progress and reporting
• Assistance to Technical Team with custom object and functional specification.
• Configure Personnel area, Personnel subarea, employee grouping, Employee subgrouping, action type, user grope,
dynamic actions Travel planning with third party portal, Expense types, Credit card interface, symbolic account,
wage type, Account determination, Vendor creation and update, complete HR configuration for Travel
Management and Launchpad configuration for ESS/MSS portal.
#2 International Game Technology is a Nevada based company specializing in the design, development, manufacturing,
sales and distribution of gaming machines and network system products internationally, as well as online
and mobile gaming solutions for regulated markets.
Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation
Role and Responsibility:-
• Primarily responsible for customize HR process in Industry Print 5 as per client business need.
• Primarily responsible for handling HR Mini Master & Travel Planning, Travel Expense, Travel and FI integration
and ESS Portal. Define HR structure for Time management implementation and involve in design phase.
• Performed ‘AS - IS’ process study and proposed ‘To-Be Design
• Conducted client meetings to study HR process.
• Performed scenario mapping & conceptual design for the implementation of HR module.
• Analysis of Country Specific Infotypes and configure dynamic actions.
• Data validation and test scenario preparation Performing Unit Testing & System Integration Testing
• Write functional Specification for technical team
• End to End implementation of Time management with Payroll integration.
• Configure Personnel area, Personnel subarea, employee grouping, Employee subgrouping, action type, user grope,
dynamic actions and Launchpad configuration for ESS/MSS portal.
Company: Deloitte and Touché Consulting India Pvt.
Ltd.
Period : From 07/06/2010 to 01/07/2012
#3 Hindustan Insecticides Limited, a Govt. of India Enterprise, under the Dept. of Chemicals & Petrochemicals,
Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt. of India, was incorporated in March, 1954 for supplying DDT for National
Malaria Eradication Program launched by the Govt. of India. Subsequently, the company diversified into agro pesticides
to meet the requirements of agriculture sector. Company has also entered into the field of safe and eco-friendly botanical
and bio-pesticides for public health and plant protection. The product range includes Insecticides, Herbicides, Weedicides,
and Fungicides etc.
• Performed ‘AS - IS’ process study, ‘TO – BE’ system design and Gap Analysis before configuration of the
application
• Primarily responsible for handling HR & Payroll modules of Human Capital Management with India Localization
functions affecting the same
• Conducted client meetings for study and assessment of process re-engineering & customization requirements
• Performed scenario mapping & conceptual design for the implementation of HR & Payroll modules
• Performed HR – implementation including sub modules of Personnel Administration, Organization Management,
Positive Time Management, Payroll, Personnel Development, Recruitment, and Training & Event
Management. Written PCR and Schema for time and Payroll.
• Solution for system integration with legacy attendance recording system
• Provided assistance in configuration of ESS / MSS for integration with HR sub modules.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting functional specification from the client and advising process
improvement areas
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot
• Responsible for process mapping, solution design and configuration changes.
• Provided the business better practice regarding SAP Implementation.
• Assisting my manager in quality control and related processes.
• Provided training to key user and end user.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting functional specification from the client and advising process
improvement areas
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot, Data validation and test scenario preparation
• Performing Unit Testing & System Integration Testing, Providing assistance in User Acceptance Testing.
• Data cleansing & migration to SAP system. Preparation/review of End User Documents and Conduct User
Training session.
• Responsible for tracking the day to day progress and reporting
• Assistance to Technical Team for Custom Objects
#4 International Centre for Automotive Technology (iCAT), Manesar in the Northern region is a division of NATIS
(NATRiP Implementation Society), an independent registered society and an Apex body for implementation of National
Automotive Testing and R& D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP), Govt. of India. It is the largest and one of the most
significant initiatives in automotive sector represents a unique joining of hands between the Government of India, a
number of State Governments and Indian Automotive Industry to create a state of the art Testing, Validation and R&D
infrastructure in the country.
Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation
Role and Responsibility:-
• Primarily responsible for handling HR & travel management modules of Human Capital Management with India
Localization functions affecting the same
• Performed ‘AS - IS’ process study, ‘TO – BE’ system design and Gap Analysis before configuration of the
application
• Conducted client meetings for study and assessment of process re-engineering & customization requirements
• Performed scenario mapping & conceptual design for the implementation of HR & Payroll modules
• Performed HR – PY implementation including sub modules of Personnel Administration, Organization
Management, Time Management, Payroll, Personnel Development, Recruitment, and Training & Event
Management. Written PCR and Schema for time and payroll.
• Solution for system integration with legacy attendance recording system
• Provided assistance in configuration of ESS / MSS for integration with HR sub modules.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting functional specification from the client and advising process
improvement areas
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot
• Responsible for process mapping, solution design and configuration changes.
• Provided the business better practice regarding SAP Implementation.
• Assisting my manager in quality control and related processes.
#4 Synthite Industries Ltd (Synthite) is the largest oleoresin extraction firm in the world, supplying
ingredients to the major food, fragrance and flavor houses. Synthite contributes 50 per cent of India's exports
in the spice oleoresin market. They have a portfolio of over 500 products - from fresh & dried spices to
oleoresins, added value products and application oriented solutions.
Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation
Role and Responsibility:-
• Primarily responsible for handling HR & Travel modules of Human Capital Management with India Localization
functions affecting the same
• Performed ‘AS - IS’ process study, ‘TO – BE’ system design and Gap Analysis before configuration of the
application
• Conducted client meetings for study and assessment of process re-engineering & customization requirements
• Performed scenario mapping & conceptual design for the implementation of HR & Payroll modules
• Performed Implementation of Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Time Management, Payroll
and Travel management.
• Solution for system integration with legacy attendance recording system
• Provided assistance in configuration of ESS / MSS for integration with HR sub modules.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting functional specification from the client and advising process
improvement areas
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot, Data validation and test scenario preparation
• Performing Unit Testing & System Integration Testing, Providing assistance in User Acceptance Testing.
• Data cleansing & migration to SAP system. Preparation/review of End User Documents and Conduct User
Training session.
• Responsible for tracking the day to day progress and reporting
• Assistance to Technical Team for Custom Objects development and Integration Issues
• Assisting in processing the payroll, yearend activity, tax calculation and annual Statutory form .
Company : Accenture Services Pvt ltd
Period : From 08/16/2007 to 05/28/2010
#5 BHP Billiton (Headquartered at Melbourne, Australia) is the world's largest mining company. It was
created in 2001 by the merger of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) and the UK's Billiton,
which had a Dutch and South African background. The result is a dual-listed company with head offices in
Melbourne and London. BHP Billiton is into businesses, including aluminum, energy coal and metallurgical
coal, copper, manganese, iron ore, uranium, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, and have substantial interests
in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.
Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation
Role and Responsibility:-
• Evaluate and Asses GCR (Governed change Requests) raised by business users
• Prime responsible for configuration and design of Personnel Administration, Time Management and
Travel Management.
• Weekly discussion with OE HCM.
• Interaction with business users and testers for requirement gathering.
• Prepare the detailed design and send it across to Application Management Support (AMO) team for
build.
• Evaluation of build and check in and check out of required documentation.
• Evaluating cross functional GCRs and provide impact analysis for them.
• Provide business process details for ARIS team for any change in process.
• Besides GCRs also responsible to evaluate all HR changing moving to PRD environment via Pre
Approved, NGCI (Non Governed Configurable Items) and Incidents
• Deeply involve as GSAP Integration functional consultant to build 1SAP system. (System
Integration HR and FILO)
• Responsible for analyzing the impact of new 1SAP system. Identification of gaps and doing
corresponding design changes in GSAP.
• Single point of contact for HR data transformation and enrichment.
• Develop data migration and extraction tools. (LSMW and Extraction programs)
• Cutover planning and reporting.
• Data loading, execution and validation during cutover simulations and actual cutover.
• Good understanding of distributed systems (Finance cross company code posting) and ALE
IDOC.
• Coordinating UT, IT and UAT for HR.
• As SME, responsible for critical payroll and time issue (High Severity TT’s and SR’s)
• Currently deeply involve as GSAP Integration functional consultant to build 1SAP system.
• Responsible for analyzing the impact of new 1SAP system and identifying and doing
corresponding config changes in GSAP.
• Implemented automatic leave encashment issue for USA. Also handled critical
Australian Off cycle tax issue, South African leaves encashment.
• Implemented the new leave policy i.e. Parental Leave globally. (R/3, ESS & TMWP)
• Post incident review (PIR) for High severity calls and Root cause analysis (RCA) for repeated
calls, if required.
• Understanding the Business Processes and interface with SAP on Various 3rd party systems
like, MERCER (USA), ANZ (AUS) and VANGUARD (USA).
• Earlier as a lead of enhancement team, responsible for allocation of task, estimation and
timely delivery of different releases.
• Responsible for process mapping, solution design and configuration changes.
• Providing solution to users for each incident in a Global Environment to avoid escalations.
• Providing support on the issues of the client by strictly following SLA’s.
• Resposible for month and year end activities for South African and Australian payroll.
• Writing PCR’s. Good understanding of operations and function.
• Preparing Functional Specification as per the requirement.
• Involved in creating Test Plan and Test cases.
• Responsible for unit testing and integration testing.
• Transporting requests in sequence within Development Client, and also preparing transport
Request for the same for QAS, Mirror and PRD Servers as per SOX compliance.
• Updates configuration and end-user documentation regarding change requests and bug-fixes.
• Coordination with ABAP HR team.
• Working on tools i.e. SMS, ITSM, Quality Center, and Transport Express.
System, Tools and Methodology Experience
• Software / Products: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP ECC 5.0, SAP ECC 6.0
• Method coach in Industry print-5 (ARIS flows)
• Method coach for Enterprise Value Delivery methodology (EVD- ASAP methodology as per various disciplines)
• Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Word Document
• Expert in uPerform, SMS, ITSM, Quality Center, and Transport Express.
• Basic Knowledge of SAP ABAP Language.
Education
• Bachelor of Engineering from R.V College of Engineering Bangalore
- EXCELLENT REFERENCES CAN BE FURNISHED UPON REQUEST -