Manager Project

Experience Summary

HR and Compensation Consulting and Operations experience of 10 years in a

problem solving and strategic environment. Skills include providing

solutions to ERP implementation (PeopleSoft and SAP), Compensation Planning

Benefits administration and HR Processes, Reporting and Analytics. Natural

problem-solver with exceptional ability to innovative solutions to match

customer requirements, while ensuring that costs do not outweigh benefits.

Looking for an opportunity to bring in my strategic and execution skills

along with my project management skills for rolling out Corporate level

Compensation solutions to clients.

Compensation Experience supporting End clients @ Hewitt Associates:

Have worked on 7 large scale HR Outsourcing (HRO) implementations out of

which lead 4 large compensation implementations, providing expert solutions

to various client requirements to roll out web solutions. I have provided

Compensation solutions for for their Executive/Management group for their

base compensation, incentive/benefit plan compensation as well as Long Term

Incentive compensation. Also worked on a special compensation based

modeling project for their hourly workforce comprising of simulating

compensation data using various numerical methodologies for Marriott

International Inc, Medco health Solutions Inc, Sony Electronics as a part

of rolling out HR Outsourcing products through my client As a part of

managing the projects I have successfully executed Jobcode consolidations,

Organization structure for rolling out compensation cycles, coming up with

common dates for merit/equity adjustments, short term incentives and long

term incentives, conducting performance reviews, coming up with guide lines

for performance ratings defining salary structures in compliance with FLSA

at jobcode level based on job evaluation data for every merit cycle. Also

designed compensation statements and carried out Compensation surveys. Have

also played a key role in designing a Total Rewards Forecasting tool for

Marriott which comprises of capturing the total cost and gives the

flexibility for manager to forecast future costs that helps in future

budgeting and planning purposes. I have also gained significant experience

in managing Compensation Operations and Service Center activities to

support the Compensation cycles. Have also played key roles in preparing

training material to the user communities (managers and HR generalists)

while they are making compensation decisions. As a Senior Compensation

Specialist I have been the point contact for the Senior Compensation

leadership team at clients place and have been participating in re-

engineering and enhancements and process improvements in Compensation space

from cycle to cycle. I have also gained experience on SAS70 audit

compliance procedures

Prior to HRO implementations I have been involved at Internal Systems

supporting the PeopleSoft

Financials (7.5x) in Accounts Payables and PO modules for about 20 months

and has strong

PeopleSoft back ground on Accounts Payables and PO modules with the same

client.

Have been a Certified PeopleSoft Implementation Champion (Human Capital

Management) and is also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP )

An active team player and a go getter with strong communication and

interpersonal skills

Computer Skills

Applications (ERP) : PeopleSoft 7.5/8.4/8.8/8.9/9.0 (HCM), PeopleSoft 7.5

Financials (AP/PO)

Languages : Java,

Database : DB2, Informix, MS Access, Oracle 10G

Reporting Tools : COGNOS IMPROMPTU, SAS

Systems : Windows XP, Windows NT, UNIX, DOS

Other Tools : MS - Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Cognos 7

series, Mercury Quality Center

(MQC),Rational - Clear Quest, Maestro,

Quest Central, Advanced query tool,

Bug Tracker, Lotus Notes

Engagement Overview

1) Implementation of Employee and Manager Self Service at Pfizer Inc., a

Leading global healthcare services firm

Project Duration - Aug'09 till May'10

Project Role - Lead HR Functional Analyst

The client is one of the leading healthcare services firm dedicated to

better health and greater access to people and their valued animals.

Pfizer Corporate IT and HR want to manage and support their primary

PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 instance. Pfizer currently has PeopleSoft HCM databases

servicing 110,000 employees across 91 countries in 16 languages

Have been working as a Lead Functional analyst to support their primary

PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 instance. The objective of the project is to develop a

portal based solution to implement PeopleSoft HCM v9.0 Manager Self Service

to enable the managers to directly perform core HR transactions on their

direct reports. In the current state, Managers have to submit a request to

the Global Service Center following which Global Service Center Associate

would perform the HR transaction. Manager Self Service implementation will

enable the manager to directly perform the HR transaction resulting in

reduced operational cost. Project also includes implementing Employee Self

Service modules to enable employees to directly perform updates to their

Personal, Contact and Bank details

Focus :

. Strategic project Planning

. Coordinating with business users for business requirements

. Responsible for Functional designs and sign off

. Cross functional coordination with other teams like IT and other HR

teams

. Responsible for Test Strategy and Build process

.

Hardware : 4 Tier Internet Architecture with Sun Solaris, including

Application server and Web server in PeopleSoft

Software : PeopleSoft ERP Application (HCM 9.0) with PeopleTools,

PeopleCode, SQR, HTML, Flex, COBOL, and Crystal on Oracle

database, Toad, Citrix, Weblogic and Tuxedo

2) Implementation of Total Rewards Planning Tool for Marriott

International Inc., a Leading International Hospitality Chain

Project Duration - April'04 till July'09

Project Role - Senior Compensation Analyst

The client is one of the leading HR Management Consultants and also

provides Total Benefits

Administration to most the Fortune 500 companies across US and World over.

The turnover of the

client is approx. $ 2.5 Billions and has approx.16000 employees with

approx.40 offices.

Have been working as a Compensation Lead from CSC - Compensation Planning

Tool is an automated

tool which will help the managers to plan for employees Merit, Bonus and

Long term incentives based

on the employee's performance rating, business rules and client's company

guide lines built- in within

the application.

Focus :

. Actively involved in Developing and Implementing Total Rewards

Planning tool for their Executive stuff (Management population)

comprising of Annual Merit increases, Annual/Semi Annual /Quarterly

bonuses and Long term incentives for about 25000 employees

. Job code consolidation and restructure across various business units

. Conduct compensation surveys, job evaluations on career ladder at job

code level based on market data and come up with salary structures

that get loaded to salary grade table

. Worked on designing Organization structure for the compensation cycles

. Defining Merit Matrices and Managing Budgets for rolling out

compensation cycles

. Actively involved in providing the functional/system designing of

Incentive plans comprising of complex bonus calculations to provide a

web solution from excels/access/manual way of doing their variable

compensation piece

. Involved in Designing outbound interfaces like loading the approved

recommendations back into Clients HR Systems (PeopleSoft), Payroll and

proprietary information stored within clients accesses databases (like

labor market data etc)

. Actively involved in analyzing compensation data and market reference

data to incorporate the best compensation trends in the market

. Reporting and Analytics

. Testing - System, Integration and User acceptance testing. Also

involved in Performance testing

. Effort estimation, meeting schedules as per the Project Plan,

Management Reporting

. Prioritizing the tasks and coordinating with Executive Compensation

Team to get decisions/ clarifications on clients questions that arise

during the development phase

. Responsible for Release and Configuration management

. Coordinating with the content management team for developing proto

types, wire frames and content for enabling users to be able to easily

access the web application while performing transactions

. Actively involved on the efforts to define Communications and

conducting training sessions, preparing training materials like

Documentation, job aids/power point presentations to the users

(Managers, HR Generalists as well as compensation team)

. Actively Involved in designing Total Rewards Statements for the

managers to have conversations with their employees

. Leading the Compensation Operations teams as well as Service Center

teams so as to provide support for smooth administration of

compensation programs on an ongoing basis

. Tracking audit tables and generating Audit Reports based on client

requests for their Auditors

. Have been the systems point of contact for compliance with SAS70

external audits for the application

. Participate in Compensation forums to discuss with the latest trends

on Compensation prevailing in the market

Hardware : Unix Server, Pentium PC

Software : JAVA 1.4.x, JSP, XML, Apache Web server, ORACLE 10G,

PeopleSoft 8.8, COGNOS EP 7 SERIES, INFORMATICA 7.x, UNIX,

WINDOWS NT, Windows XP, Maestro and Bug Tracking tool, MS Visio,

MS Access, MS Office Suite

3) Implementation of Compensation Modeling Tool for Marriott International

Inc (the End Client) - is a Leading International Hospitality Chain.

Project Duration - May'08 till date

Project Role - Senior Compensation Analyst

The client is one of the leading HR Management Consultants and also

provides Total Benefits

Administration to most the Fortune 500 companies across US and World over.

The turnover of the client

is approx. $ 2.0 Billions and has approx.16000 employees with approx.40

offices.

Modeling Tool is developing a web portal which enhances the human capital

Management. This product has the functionality for the Compensation

Managers to create,

Manipulate, cost and effect future total compensation scenarios. This

happens through a plan, set of user inputs about proposed future

compensation changes. The plan is combined with a system of algorithms to

predict the future cost hence coming up a Model. The Model operates on

current actual compensation data, provides feedback on proposed

compensation changes for the overall plan. The interactive process of

working with a model to develop a strategy is known as Modeling.

Focus:

. Analyze Compensation data relating to workers compensation to perform

modeling with PeopleSoft HRMS system, Benefits system, Clients Access

database for Market labor data etc

. Design Interfaces between the clients systems like PeopleSoft HR

system (8.8), Benefits Administration Data from Main frames, and other

employee related data that is being maintained in legacy systems like

access to Vendors Database to feed the application

. Documented in detail process workflows, use cases and functional/

technical specifications following RUP methodology

. Design outbound interfaces back to PeopleSoft to reflect the approved

hourly rate changes post modeling to the affected employees

. To define new roles and set up those roles and populate the roles with

data within PeopleSoft security tables and to feed the application to

build a work flow and to establish security

. Performing the data extraction via writing SQL scripts

. Coordinating with ITS team for scheduling and sending the files via

secured FTP

. Testing the Interfaces

. Performing End to End testing from the source system until the

Modeling application to make sure that data has been imported and fed

to the application correctly

. Defect resolution and configuration management

. Effort estimation, meeting schedules as per the Project Plan,

Management Reporting

. Scheduling client meetings to bring all

. Prioritizing the tasks and coordinating with development team and

Vendor

Prioritizing the tasks and coordinating with Onsite and interacting

with Client questions.

Hardware : Unix Server, Pentium PC

Software : JAVA 1.4.x, JSP, XML, Apache Web server, ORACLE 10G,

PeopleSoft 8.8, SAS, UNIX,

Windows XP, MS Visio, MS Project, Maestro and Bug

Tracking tool

4) Implementation of PeopleSoft HRe - (Human Resource Effectiveness) for

end clients of Leading HR Management Consultants

End clients include - a) Sony Electronics - A leading electronics

manufacturer of electronic products

b) Medco Health Care - A leading

health care service provider

c) State Street - Product

developed but not implemented - A reputed Bank

Project Duration - Jan'02 till April'04

Project Role - Lead HR Analyst

The client is one of the leading HR Management Consultants and also

provides Total Benefits

Administration to most the Fortune 500 companies across US and World over.

The turnover of the

client is approx. $ 2.0 Billions and has approx.16000 employees with

approx.40 offices.

Have worked as People Soft Customization Team Lead - People Soft ver 8.3

HRMS for HRe.

Developing a Web Portal which enhances human capital management. This

product has the functionality to perform self-service transactions by

different roles in the organization and enhances the delivered

functionality of People Soft HRMS modules. It allows the HR department to

maintain and produce reports on demand. This is achieved by customizing the

People Soft Product. Users will have the capability to generate reports

through Web Portal by roles so as to build the capability of Self Service

Transactions (Manager Self Service and Employee Self - Service).

This Product is centralized and integrated customer service for employees,

managers and HR representatives of the company. Some of core modules

involving the People Soft customization include Workforce administration,

Benefits Administration, Leave of Absence, Payroll, Time and

Administration, E-Recruit (Recruit Workforce), Succession Planning and

Talent Management. Also have implemented Salary Planning customizing

PeopleSoft delivered Compensation module for Sony and Medco clients.

Focus :

. Actively involved in design, development of Customizing People soft

Applications with respect to the requirements, technical

specifications and carrying out development for HRe Product and Salary

Planning Tool

. Actively involved in Conversion data from PS 5.0 to PS 8.x

. Identified client-specific fit-gaps vis- -vis PeopleSoft 8.3 delivered

functionality

. Configuring PeopleSoft set up tables within HRMS for each client

. Defined product development strategy, priorities and roadmaps,

conducted competitive analysis, prepared business cases, and presented

recommendations to key stakeholders. Prepared revenue and expense

projections relating to product development

. Defined project scope, developed project requirements, prepared

project plans to meet agreed-upon product release dates

. Possess thorough knowledge on preparing test plans, reviewing test

scripts, coordinate with developers for bug fixes

. Involved in Design, development and testing of Custom Event manager

tool which has later taken by PeopleSoft to include that functionality

within the subsequent releases

. Involved in development and testing Custom Audit functionality

. Testing - Performing Unit and system testing including Integration,

Regression and Performance testing.

. Review of Delivery to ensure adherence to standards and quality.

. Prioritizing the tasks and coordinating with Onsite and interacting

with the Client for the deliverables. Managed teams of 8 analysts at

onsite and approx.20 analysts offshore

. Prepared end-user training materials

. Provided service delivery support to clients

. Maintaining the Quality Standards as per CMM Level 5 procedures and

also standards given by the client while Customization

Hardware : Unix Server, Pentium PC

Software : PeopleSoft 8.3 HRMS, People Tools 8.18,COGNOS & series, Unix,

Windows NT, DB2, Rational Clear Quest, Reqpro

5) PeopleSoft Accounts Payable and Purchasing Module

Project Duration - Aug'00 till Jan'02

Project Role - Business Analyst

I have worked as a Team member - People Soft Financials ver 7.5x for a HR

consulting firm incorporated in USA (the above mentioned client).He has

been actively involved in changing business rules in PO and carrying out

Patch analysis. I was also actively involved in successful completion of HR

interface and helped billing team for AZ Report conversion while preparing

specifications and generating impromptu reporting. I was also involved in

Batch Monitoring and production support from offshore.

Focus:

. Change request handling related to new reports and enhancement of

People Soft application

. Functional / Technical understanding of client's business

. Batch Job Monitoring of Accounts Payable module

. Issue Analysis/Resolution

. Unit / System Testing

. Review of Delivery to ensure adherence to standards and quality

. Actively involved in design, development and testing of the

application and reports

. Taking care of all the CMM process and procedures for the application

Hardware : Unix Server, Pentium PC

Software : PeopleSoft 7.5x Finacials, PeopleTools 7.5,COGNOS & series,

Informatica, Unix, Windows NT, Informix, Citrix

Professional Activities, Certifications and Training

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified PeopleSoft HCM - Online certification

Training on Mercury Quality Center

Training on CMM level 5

Outside Training

Pursued Training in SAP - HR

Achievements

Received Recognition Award on completing 5 years of service from the COE -

CSC Covansys Corporation upon completion of 5 years of service in Jan'08.

Job Title History

Sr.Manager August 2008 onwards

Manager August 2004 - July 2008

Senior Consultant January 2003 - December - 2004

Senior Business Analyst October 2001 - January 2003

Business Analyst August 2000 - September 2001

Education

Master of Business Administration - 1998, Passed with Ist division from

Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad - 431004,

Maharastra, India

Degree Emphasis: Marketing

Bachelor of Engineering - 1994, Passed with Ist division from

Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad - 431004,

Maharashtra, India

Degree Emphasis: Mechanical

References available upon request

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